It is God's purpose to display us in the ages to come as an example of what He can do to deliver a human life from the bondage of sin. We are a part of God's eternal purpose in Christ Jesus. We are examples of what God can do to impart His divine, supernatural life. For someone to be on death row and to be pardoned and made President of the United States would be no greater contrast than the one we have just witnessed. What we see here described is nothing less than the power of God.
Conversion is a work comparable to the making of a world.
He only who fashioned the heavens and the earth could create a new nature. It is a work indeed. He has totally transformed us at the core of our being by giving us a new nature. However moral and upright we might have been before we surrendered to Christ, we were trapped in a prison of spiritual death which separated us from God and made us unresponsive to His love. But God did something that only God could do.