There is not a Greek scholar on earth that can challenge that statement I mean, and back it up with proof. It is the same Greek word that is used in John 21 when they drew the net to the land full of fishes. They had to pull with all their might, for it was full of fishes. They had to DRAG it. Yes, my friend, and that is how you were brought to Christ.
Man is lost, and man is dead in trespasses and sin by nature.
That is the gospel I believe in, and I do not preach the gospel because I believe the sinner has power in himself to respond to it. I will tell you. Christ told him to do a thing that was impossible in himself. The man could not do it of himself. If you think that he could, you are ready for the lunatic asylum, I do not care who you are.