Dead in Trespasses and Sins – Ephesians 2:1-2a
In Ephesians 2:1–2a, Paul begins to show why God’s resurrection power is necessary for salvation by reminding believers what they were apart from Christ: “dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked.” After spending chapter 1 glorying in God’s eternal plan, Christ’s redeeming work, the sealing of the Spirit, and the exaltation of Christ as head over the church, Paul now turns to the condition from which God saved His people. Sin is not merely weakness, dysfunction, poor choices, immaturity, or a small mistake needing a little help. Sin is rebellion against a holy God, and the natural condition of every person apart from Christ is spiritual death. Dead sinners cannot raise themselves, reason themselves into salvation, or discipline themselves into spiritual life. They must be made alive by God.
Paul also reminds believers that this death was seen in “trespasses and sins” in which they once walked. Trespasses involve crossing the line God has forbidden, and sins involve falling short of His holy standard. This includes both original sin in Adam and actual sins committed in thought, desire, word, and deed. Before Christ, this was the believer’s former way of life. But Paul says “once walked,” meaning that is no longer who Christians are. Remembering our past should not drive believers into condemnation, but into humility, gratitude, worship, compassion toward sinners, and seriousness about sin. Christians did not raise themselves; God made them alive. Therefore, those who are in Christ must not return to the old way of life, and those who are still dead in sin do not merely need self-improvement. They need life, which is found only in Jesus Christ.
FULL SERMON TEXT:
If you will, go ahead and turn in your copy of God’s Word to Ephesians chapter 2.
For those of you who are guests or are wondering why everybody went, “Ooh,” our practice in our church is we preach, we teach, verse by verse through books of the Bible. And so for the last six months, we have been in chapter 1 just about. Yeah, we started in January. I know it seems like it’s been a lot longer, which is great. It’s wonderful.
But last week we finished verses 22 and 23 of chapter 1, which brings us to the next chapter this morning.
This is one of my favorite passages we’re coming to. Chapter 2:1–10 is one long section. It all goes together, but as we do, we’ll walk our way through it little by little and make sure we mine out all of the wonderful truths that God has for us.
This is again one of my favorite passages. Maybe some of the earliest memory verses I can remember learning as a little kid were Ephesians 2:8 and 9. And even before I really understood grace, even before I understood how God really worked in our lives and salvation, those verses have been a constant, continual presence in my life.
And knowing the full context of verses 1–10 makes those verses even more wonderful.
Funny enough, the youth pastor this week preached from this passage in one sermon, chapter 2:1–13. You’re not getting that this week. We will be in verse—I was going to do one and two. It’s going to be one and 2a, and we’ll get the rest of two next week.
Christian, beloved, you were a far worse sinner than you think you were.
Christian, beloved, you are a far worse sinner than you think you are.
But Christian, Christ is a far greater Savior than you will ever fully realize.
Now, those first two statements were not meant to discourage you. I simply meant to express to you the truth. If we are going to understand the gospel of grace rightly, then we have to be willing to hear the truth about ourselves.
Now remember where we are in Ephesians. We just finished chapter 1. And in chapter 1, this wonderful doxology and this wonderful prayer of thanksgiving from Paul talking about the great salvation that God worked in us, His eternal plan, the redeeming work of Christ Jesus, the sealing of the Holy Spirit, the immeasurable greatness of God’s power, all of these things that we’ve learned so much about in this first chapter are wonderful and great.
Paul has shown us the power of God in raising Christ from the dead, seating Him at His right hand, putting all things under His feet, and giving Him as head to the church. That’s where we ended last week.
Oftentimes, what happens when people just pick and choose where they’re going to preach from, we might start in chapter 2, which is wonderful and great. I love chapter 2, verses 1–10, as I just mentioned. But oftentimes we remove it from its context, so we don’t understand why we are talking about this.
But you all do. Well, if you’ve been here. Some of you are guests.
But knowing where we just came from, that we just talked about the fact that God gave us Christ as head over the church, what did we say last week?
A body without a head is dead.
That’s why he brings up this very next verse.
So now in chapter 2, Paul is going to show us why that same resurrection power that he just talked about is necessary for our salvation.
So if you will, stand with me for the reading of God’s Word.
You’re going to have to have your Bible with you again. Oh, did we get it? My wife is awesome. I was going to say we need a Donna back. We still need Donna back. Don’t get me wrong. But I’ve got a good wife back there who’s copied and pasted really fast, so we’re good to go.
Except I’m going to read all 10 verses because I want to read it all together just like we did with verses 3 through 14. It all goes together, and it is a wonderful truth that we keep together on purpose.
So here we go.
2 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Father, this morning as we look at this next chapter in this wonderful letter of Ephesians, Lord, we have spent the entire first chapter in awe of your great salvation. But Lord, if we’re going to remember your great salvation rightly, we need to remember what you saved us from.
And so, Father, as we go through this next passage over these coming weeks, would you help us to see these things not in a way that brings condemnation towards those who are believers, but in a way that humbles us, that reminds us of just how great a salvation you have given.
So Lord, this morning do as you always do with your inspired Word. Teach us, reprove us, correct us, and train us in righteousness so that we may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Do this by your Spirit at work within us and for the glory of Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen.
Would you be seated?
Beloved, I am convinced that one of the reasons people have such small views of grace is that they have a small view of sin.
If sin is just a little mistake, well, then grace is just a little help.
If sin is just a weakness that humans have, then grace is just there to encourage you.
And if sin is just a dysfunction of the human body or spirit or existence or life, then grace is just a therapy with Bible verses.
But that’s not the way that Paul describes the human problem here at the beginning of Ephesians chapter 2.
He doesn’t say, “And you were confused.”
He doesn’t say, “And you were at a disadvantage in life because of where you’re from.”
He doesn’t say, “And you were pretty good people who just needed to be loved into a better direction.”
He says, “And you were dead.”
So Paul in the previous verses is moving from God’s power in Christ Jesus as the head to God’s power in salvation, in bringing us the salvation that we just talked about in chapter 1.
Ephesians 2 shows how God’s divine power is absolutely necessary in salvation. It’s not that He just had to be stronger than us. The problem is deeper than that.
We were dead.
He doesn’t talk about man’s potential and how you worked your way there, that you were wise enough and smart enough to figure it out, that we’re all just really searching for God and eventually some of us make it there.
No, he begins with every man’s, every woman’s dreadful condition by nature: death.
That sounds strange. We’re not saying that everybody is born stillborn. Obviously, there would be no people. We’re not talking about a physical death. We are talking about a spiritual death.
We’ve talked about death before in here. It’s nothing to be scared of. It’s a reality. We need to understand it.
We’ve talked about physical death. It is the soul or the spirit of a person leaving the physical body. At that point, your physical body is physically dead.
But spiritual death is more than just physical death. These people that he’s talking to, all of us before we come to Christ, are physically alive. We are walking. We think. We choose. We desire. We worship. We live. We do all these things, but we are dead towards God.
Spiritual death means separation from God. It is the spirit separated from the life of God. And more than that, if you are spiritually dead, then that means you are unable to respond to God. You cannot respond to Him in saving faith apart from His work, from His grace in your life.
We were dead.
We were spiritually dead.
Physically alive. Spiritually dead.
Ephesians 4, we’ll get to next year, verse 18 says that unbelievers are alienated from the life of God. That’s the condition that all unbelievers are in, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart.
Over in Colossians chapter 2, Paul says something similar: “And you who were dead in your trespasses, God made alive.” He says this same similar passage over there in Colossians.
And in John chapter 5, Jesus tells His disciples that those who hear His word and believe have passed from death to life.
So this idea of spiritual death is not new to Paul. Paul didn’t make it up. Jesus Himself declares this: to believe is to go from spiritual death to spiritual life.
So what this phrase teaches us is man’s total inability.
What can a dead man do?
Nothing.
We talked about that last week. What can a body without a head do?
Nothing. It’s dead, right?
So if we are spiritually dead, what can we do spiritually?
Nothing.
So people by nature don’t just need your encouragement to be and live a better life. You can’t do it. Physically, you might be able to, but spiritually, you can’t do it.
You don’t need a spiritual guru or a coach to try to help you find inner peace. You don’t need the human philosophies of the day. You don’t need better self-esteem.
You don’t have any spiritual life.
You need life.
You’re dead.
God says apart from Him, you don’t need any of these other things. You need life.
But listen, if you’re dead, that means someone has to save you. Someone has to give you life in order for you to be saved, to not be dead anymore.
You don’t raise your hand as a dead person and go, “Please, help me.” You’re dead.
Dead sinners cannot raise themselves. They cannot work themselves into a better existence. They cannot reason their way into salvation. They can’t feel their way into a better spiritual life. They cannot decide or discipline themselves into some sort of spiritual resurrection.
They must be made alive by God.
That’s what we’re getting to here in a minute. But we’ve got to understand what our circumstance is before that is the case.
Dead men can’t save themselves. Dead men spiritually can’t raise themselves spiritually. Amen.
This is the doctrine of total depravity. Perhaps you’ve heard that term.
This doesn’t mean that every person is as bad of a sinner as they could possibly be. Praise the Lord for His restraining grace in that way.
But it does mean that every part of you is absolutely marred by sin. There is no part of you that’s left out of what we’re talking about here spiritually.
You’re not mostly dead spiritually. You are dead completely.
You cannot respond to God. You cannot respond spiritually. You cannot give yourself life.
So every part of you, every part of man has been affected by sin, and you are unable to come to God apart from His sovereign grace.
And listen, this applies not just to you who were saved, but to all mankind. Everyone is born in this condition.
Now he is talking to Christians here. So let me make that very clear.
Just because what we talked about in chapter 1 about being elected and predestined and chosen and adopted by God doesn’t mean you weren’t like this.
“Well, I’ve always believed in God. I’ve always followed Jesus. I’ve always—”
No, you haven’t.
You may have grown up in church. Praise the Lord. That’s a grace that protected you from certain kinds of evils and certain kind of depraved mind and thinking and stuff. But you were just as dead as everybody else is spiritually.
That “you all” refers to there. So it’s not just all. It’s not just you Christians. It’s all Christians too.
Again, even within the community of the church, there are some who grow up in the church, and then there’s others who come in 40 years later, and they’ve lived a hard life, a difficult life. They’ve lived a depraved life morally and all these ways, and that’s some of your testimony in here.
But all of us were dead. Not one of us was more alive or less dead. I’m not sure how you get that than anybody else in the church.
We all were dead.
Every person who is a Christian now was dead because that is the natural, unsaved, unregenerated state of all mankind.
Romans 8:8 says that those who are in the flesh, that is those who are not saved, cannot please God.
We were dead. We could not believe. We could not do anything spiritually.
So this should humble us. I think that’s pretty clear.
None of us are better Christians than anybody else. Nobody lived a better life than anybody else. You may have gone through more things, but you weren’t more dead in your sins. You weren’t less dead in your sins.
You were dead.
So, if you’re a Christian in this room, you’re not a Christian now because you figured it out. You’re not a Christian now because you were smarter, or you were wiser, or more spiritually sensitive than anybody else.
You were dead, and God made you alive.
But that also means in this room, if you are currently not a believer, you’re not a Christian, you need to recognize this is your position before God. I’m not giving you my opinion here. I’m not saying you were dead. I’m reading what God’s Word says.
Amen.
And you were dead.
If you are not a believer, if you are not a Christian, if you’ve not put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are dead in your sins.
And if you remain dead in your sins, you will go into that other definition of death, which is eternal death, eternal separation of the body and the spirit from God, from His goodness, under His wrath in a place called hell.
You need to repent and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for sinners, was buried, and rose again to justify you before God.
You put your faith on the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. Confess with your mouth that He is Lord, and you will be saved.
So that means for us Christians that should be our evangelism. That should be the message that is on our lips.
So we don’t go around going, “Dead!” You would get some attention. Well, you’re not probably going to get very far.
But that does mean we can’t manipulate people into some sort of fake kind of conversion. “Just please pray this prayer, and we’ll save you right now.”
They need to understand they’re a sinner.
“What do I need to be saved from?”
You’re dead in your trespasses and sins.
We can’t manipulate dead sinners into life. We don’t have that power. We can’t make dead people alive.
Jesus does that. God does that.
What we do is we call sinners to repentance and faith in the gospel. And then God will do what only He can do.
“And you were dead.”
We got the first four words.
Number two, “in the trespasses and sins.”
So here Paul then tells us our nature, tells us what the situation where we were, but he describes that a little bit better. He describes that realm in which we once lived.
He says we were dead in trespasses and sin.
Those two words, the word trespass and the word sin, are closely related. So together here he puts both of them in this phrase in order for us to get a bigger, better picture of human evil.
In other words, he wants us to understand he’s not leaving anything out. He’s not leaving any room for other kinds of ways of living that aren’t trespasses and sins.
It’s all you.
You were dead in trespasses and sins.
Trespasses is what it sounds like how we use the word trespass. It’s crossing the line. It’s falling away. It’s stepping into where God has forbidden. It’s going to the places and doing the things He says, “Don’t do that.”
And sin is disobeying the law of God. It’s missing the mark. It’s failing to live according to God’s holy standard.
So, putting those things together, he’s making sure that he’s not talking about one little isolated sin or mistake that we might have made. He’s saying that he’s describing the whole realm of the fallen human life.
Everything we were doing before Christ was marked by trespasses and sins.
We were going where we shouldn’t go. We were doing what we shouldn’t do. That was our entire life.
We were dead in trespasses and sins.
So, let’s dig into sin a little more.
Nobody’s awake. Let’s get sinful in here.
That’s not what I meant.
I want you to understand sin. There are some doctrinal, theological issues here that need to be understood.
Now I’m not saying you have to understand these things in order to be saved. But as a saved person, you should understand these things.
Why?
So that you can glory in the salvation that Christ has given you.
Sin is both original and actual.
For any of you who have picked up the book from David Miller, his sermons book, you will recognize some of these categories that I’m using here. But these are theological terms. These are doctrinal terms that refer to mankind’s position, our nature from the Scriptures before we were believers.
Sin, these trespasses and sins in which we once walked, are original and actual.
Original sin is the idea that because of the fall of Adam, we are all sinners by nature. We do not become sinners only after committing our first conscious act of disobedience. We sin because we are sinners.
Now, this doctrine is debated and is quite honestly hard to wrap our mind around.
Seems unfair.
“You mean I’m to blame for what Adam did?”
Yes.
“Well, how’s that fair?”
Well, let me tell you. God has made humanity in such a way that we can be represented by one person or one person can represent mankind, and Adam, being the first of all mankind, represents mankind.
So in the garden when he was given the one rule, “Don’t eat of that tree,” when he broke it, he didn’t just break it for him. He broke it for all of us.
So that from that point on, everyone born in Adam, meaning from his line, which is everybody, is born with a sin nature. So you are a sinner by nature because of the fall of Adam.
Okay, that’s why.
And again, you’re still saying, “That’s not fair. I don’t like that.”
Okay, hold on.
Adam messed up. Everybody’s a sinner. All right, that’s possible because God has made it so that one person can represent all.
So, I think you understand where I’m going with this.
Jesus in Romans chapter 5 is called the better Adam, the true and better Adam. We sing about the true and better Adam. This one man then can represent all who believe on Him for salvation.
Amen.
“Well, that’s not fair.”
Well, you don’t say that, do you?
Because that’s not fair. Not in the way we think of fair.
So, if you don’t like that you’re a sinner because of Adam, well, you shouldn’t like the fact that you’re a righteous saved person because of Jesus.
That’s how God made us to be able to be represented by one person.
In Adam, you’re dead in your trespasses and sins. And that’s true for every single human. That’s what original sin is referring to.
We sin then as we grow, as we are born and then we grow up. We don’t become sinners as we sin. We are sinners and therefore we sin.
You don’t have to teach a two-year-old to get angry and want what they want and do what they want to do and scream when they don’t get what they wanted, do you?
No.
Why?
Because they’re sinners.
Man, that pastor’s mean. He’s calling two-year-olds sinners.
I mean, any of you who are parents, you know that, so I don’t have to explain that to you.
So there is original sin. We are all sinners by nature, and we sin because we’re sinners.
But there is actual sin, too. He’s referring to both here.
The actual sin then refers to what we normally think of as sin. When we commit sin by either our thoughts, by words, by the desires we have, by the actions we take, it’s disobeying the law of God.
Whether a sin of omission or a sin of commission, meaning we disobey God when we do something He says don’t do. But we also disobey God when we don’t do something He says to do.
Those are actual sins.
So we are sinners because of original sin, and we’re sinners because we actually sin.
We’re talking about both realities. It’s all together. It’s all incorporated.
So Paul doesn’t leave any room for a way out of this. We are spiritually dead. And that death is seen in actual trespasses and sins.
Romans 3:23: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Titus 3:3 says, “For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures.”
That is the state. It is both of our sinful nature. It is both original and actual.
So then sin is not, as I mentioned earlier, just weakness or ignorance.
Sin is not just being broken, though sin leads to brokenness.
Sin is not just being immature, and so you just need to be more mature.
Sin isn’t just about making poor choices and that there’s better ones out there to make.
Sin is rebellion against a holy God.
Our people nowadays, man nowadays, our society nowadays wants to turn sin into something softer.
Don’t use that word. Let’s use different words. Let’s use sickness. Let’s use mistakes. Let’s use trauma. Let’s use our bad environments. Let’s use dysfunction.
Listen, I’m not saying any of those are not real things. Those things are involved in what it means to be a human and to suffer in this sinful world.
But Paul does not let us reduce sin to something less offensive to God.
“Well, I just messed up a little.”
Listen, you sinned against a holy God. Call it what it is.
“That’s so mean.”
Listen, you can’t repent of something that you don’t believe you have. And repentance is the only way to clean it.
John MacArthur said this today: “Sin is called sickness. So people think it requires therapy and not repentance.”
We don’t want to call sin sin. So when we don’t call sin sin, we don’t get the answers we need. We don’t get the solutions that we need for sin.
And there is one. It’s the only thing we have. It’s Christ.
We were dead in our trespasses and sins.
So this means that our biggest problem is not something outside of ourselves. Our deepest problem is not the circumstances that we find ourselves in.
It’s not our upbringing. It’s not our home growing up. It’s not the government where we live. It’s not the culture. It’s not a personality problem.
“Well, that’s just my personality.”
It’s not a financial problem.
“Well, if I grew up in a better circumstance financially, maybe I wouldn’t be making these choices.”
It’s not a relationship problem. Well, it is, but it’s between God and you. It’s not a relationship problem with other people.
Your biggest problem is sin within yourself.
And listen, when we misunderstand that, when we try to minimize that, we misdiagnose our greatest problem. We misdiagnose not even ourselves but everybody else too.
And if we misdiagnose the problem, then we will start looking for the wrong cure.
And the cure for spiritual death is not self-improvement.
It is regeneration.
It is spiritual resurrection.
“And you were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked.”
The dead do walk.
Again, pointing to the fact that we’re talking about a spiritual death here. You were still alive. You once walked in these sins. You once walked in your deadness.
You were dead and yet you walked.
This is how the Scriptures speak about spiritual death. The unbeliever, according to the Scriptures, is physically alive. They have moral responsibility. They are capable of religious activity. They are engaged in emotional kinds of decisions and have emotions that they work from. They can function intellectually. They can be very smart socially. They can be very active.
But they are dead towards God.
He walks, but we walk in trespasses and sins.
As we know from previous sermons and other places, when we talk about a walk, we’re talking about your pattern of life. It’s not literally the way you walk across the stage.
Walk is describing your pattern of living.
Ephesians 2:2 here talks about how we once walked in sins.
Ephesians 2:10 says believers are created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 4:1 will tell us that we should walk in a manner worthy of the calling.
Ephesians 5:8 says that we should walk as children of light.
So the walk here is the way you live your life.
Conversion, regeneration, being saved changes your walk.
Before Christ, before regeneration, before spiritual resurrection, we walked in sin. And then after Christ, we’re called to walk in the good works. We’re to walk in holiness, to walk in love, walk in the light, walk in wisdom.
There are lots of places in the Scriptures that talk about our walk.
And so what Paul is doing here is reminding us, reminding the Ephesian Christians and then us now 2,000 years later, of our past.
He’s not saying, “And you walk in sins and trespasses currently.”
He’s saying, “In which you once walked.”
That word “once” doesn’t mean one time. It means previously. That is the way you used to live.
And so Paul is saying here, that’s not who you are anymore. That was your former life. That’s what you used to be. That’s what you once were.
1 Corinthians chapter 6, another one of my favorite passages for different reasons. Verses 9 through 11. Verses 9 and 10 take up a big old long list of a bunch of different sins. And some people read through those two verses and they say, “Well, mine’s not in there, so I’m good.”
That’s not the point of his list. The point is to put everybody in there. If you don’t see your particular one, well, it’s probably in there. You may just not see it, but you can go ahead and add yours in there. Okay.
The point is to say this is the way people live their lives who are going to hell. Those who live like this, the kingdom of God is not for them.
Verses 9 and 10 are hard.
And then 11 comes and he says, “And such were some of you, but you were washed.”
And in the original, it also says “but” two more times: “But you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified.” Emphasizing the clear break between what you used to be and what you are now in Christ Jesus.
And that’s what Paul is emphasizing here in Ephesians chapter 2.
In the ways you once walked, you’re not that anymore.
You used to be dead in your sins and trespasses, but now you’re alive.
You used to walk in sin. That used to be all you thought about. All your thoughts, all your desires, all your actions, all your words was just sinful.
But now God has called you to walk in holiness.
You are no longer what you once were. But don’t forget that’s who you used to be.
Christians need to remember what we were, but not to live as if we still are.
What remembering our past is supposed to do is supposed to bring humility. It’s supposed to humble us. It’s supposed to magnify the grace and the glory of what Christ has done so that we will be grateful. So we will be thankful.
It’s meant to humble us in order that we might see other people not as wicked or evil necessarily, but with compassion.
Man, I used to be just like that. Your sin’s just different than mine was, but I was just as dead as you.
It’s meant to produce in us worship to God, to praise Him for His great salvation.
But it’s also meant to remind us that we should not keep walking in that way. That’s the old life. That’s who you once were. That’s not who you are anymore.
You were dead. You once walked that way, but spoiler alert, we’re a couple weeks away from it, but it’s in these verses: God made you alive.
So, believer, don’t go back to the way you once were.
So, in this verse and a half, Paul gives the diagnosis. We were dead in sins, walking in a way that led only to death. That’s who we were. That’s who all mankind is by nature.
That’s the true diagnosis of all mankind before redemption. Everybody falls under that category. He does not let anyone have a free pass or anyone give an excuse.
But again, remember, this is not to condemn you. This reminder of Paul is not to condemn the Ephesians. Again, that wouldn’t make sense considering all of chapter 1. It’s not so that you will be guilty and fall into shame, but it’s in order to humble us so that we will be grateful and so that we will take our sins seriously.
Believer, you did not raise yourself.
Dead sinners cannot raise themselves.
Dead sinners need life.
And that’s why what we’re going to get to in a couple of verses, that “but God,” is so glorious.
So don’t soften the truth of what we once were. Don’t soften the truth of human nature apart from Christ, especially as you’re sharing with other people.
Jesus Christ is a greater Savior than our sin could ever be.
If you are in Christ, the call here this morning is to remember what you were and to walk in the newness of life.
But if you’re in this room and you are not a Christian, if you’re not in Christ, you don’t need just to improve your life. You need life.
So come to Christ.
And if you are dead in your sin, but you hear His voice, come to Him. Confess Christ as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, and you will live.
Amen.