He offers me salvation. He does not oblige me to accept it. We cannot achieve it by our own efforts, but we must receive it from God if we are to possess it. To be quite direct and personal, if I am to benefit from Christ's death, I must take three simple steps, of which the first two are preliminary and the third so final that to take it will make me a Christian. The reader should consider these steps very carefully, looking up the verses mentioned.
All men are sinners indiscriminately.
This statement includes me. I have continually disobeyed God's commandments and fallen short of what I should have been. Moreover, I am helpless to remedy the situation. No amount of good deeds on my part can win God's favor. I am a hopeless, helpless sinner.