Collection: Dead Men Don't Grab

There’s nothing God saw in you that rose up above the rest. The answer is: “But God”. You’re dead! I don’t care how many times you’ve heard the illustration: you’re sinking, you’re drowning, you’re about to go down for the last time and God throws you a life preserver. But you gotta grab it. Dead men don’t grab. You are a rotting corpse. You were not almost dead, you were not nearly dead, you’re dead, which means that the only hope is the grace of God.

You were dead, but now you are alive together with Christ. This is important. This is the doctrine of regeneration. This is God making us alive, making us born again. No matter how many times we hear out there in popular evangelicalism that we sort of born ourselves again, you can no more born yourself again than you “born” yourself the first time. Being born again is an act of God. It is a supernatural act. It is something you don’t ask for, or you don’t have sense enough to ask for — you were dead! — Voddie Baucham

"And you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all also formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace, you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God" - Ephesians 2:1-8