And you were dead in your trespasses and sins…
Ephesians 2:1

For the wages of sin is death…
Romans 6:23

Sin is not an

but a

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.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions, 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…
Ephesians 2:4-6

Jesus didn’t merely die

us, he died

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of us.

¹³ You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. ¹⁴ He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.
Colossians 2:13,14

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; ⁹ not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:8,9

I am made

by faith in Christ and His

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In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…
I Peter 1:3b

Easter isn’t simply a message of how bad people become good; it’s the power by which dead people come to life.

For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.
Luke 15:24

To all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God…
John 1:12

Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life—no longer at sin’s every beck and call! What we believe is this: If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That’s what Jesus did.
Romans 6:6-11