Ephesians 2:4-5

Ephesians 2:4-5. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

"By grace ye are saved." I know that you feel that it is so. Our quickening out of our death in sin must have been by grace; and as God has done it, unto him must be ascribed all the glory of it. There can be no merit in those who are dead in sin that they should be quickened out of their sin; this must be the work of the Lord alone, and unto him be all the praise. He "hath quickened us together with Christ," so that our life is mystically linked with the life of Christ, as he said to his disciples, "Because I live, ye shall live also." Until he can die, those who are one with him cannot die.