In addition, the hole is full of poisonous snakes. You are there because of sin. You have broken God s law, you have failed to measure up to His standards, and He is angry with you. You are hopeless, and you are in a hopeless situation. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
Dead men are hopeless men.
They have no ability to give themselves life, or to repair their dead bodies. Second, to understand the gospel, we must understand that we were not able to decide for Jesus. It is not even a question of whether we decided for Jesus, but rather a question of whether Jesus decided for us. The evidence that Jesus has decided for us is that we have been born again. As sinners apart from God, we needed to be born again.