Ephesians 2:1

Ephesians 2:1. And you hath he quickened,

You, who were by nature dead are now made alive unto God by the holy Spirit. If you had nothing else to think of, all day long, but just these five words, they might suffice to lift you up to the very heights of grateful adoration of your quickening Lord: "And you hath he quickened,"-

Ephesians 2:1. Who were dead in trespasses and sins;

These were your grave clothes, or the charnel-house in which you would have continued to lie if the quickening power of God the Holy Spirit had not brought you out into newness of life.