So for them to say, well, you know, they're totally depraved.
And here's the thing, if you ask them, you ask them,
how is that?
They'll say this, well, look, just think about it.
Can a dead man believe?
They'll say that.
I've heard that before.
Can a dead man do anything?
Does a dead man have any emotions?
Can a dead man walk?
Can a dead man talk?
And they'll say, well, people are dead
and they're trespasses and sins.
It's like, ooh, dang, he got me.
Well, here's the thing, yes, dead men can believe.
By the way, do you remember John chapter 11,
when Jesus Christ calls Lazarus out of the tomb?
Well, it was Lazarus, he was dead.
So yeah, he can.
And he came out of the grave, and yes, he was hearing.
Why?
Because the Word of God is quick and powerful,
sharper than any two-edged sword.
And faith cometh in hearing by the Word of God.
So the fact that someone is dead and their trespasses and sin
does not negate their ability to believe.
Yeah, it negates their ability to have their own righteousness.
They don't have their own righteousness before God.
Their righteousness are as filthy rags as the Bible says.
But that does not negate the ability
to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nor in the Bible does it say that.
And here's the thing, go to Ephesians chapter 2.
Here's the funny thing about this.
Calvinists are notorious, just like anybody else,
just getting one verse and just basing off their doctrine
off of that one verse.
Because they get this whole, can a dead man believe?
They get that from Ephesians 2, where
it says that we're dead and our trespasses and sin.
Well, I think they neglect to read verse 4.
Because look what Ephesians 2, 4 says.
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 are you saved.
Yeah, I do think that.
The Bible says it right there.
Even when we were dead in trespasses and sin.
Trespasses and sin is what he's talking about in verse number
1 and 2.
And here in verse number 4, making the same correlation
to verse number 2 and 1, he says, we were quickened together.
I mean, what do you have to say about that?