But God did something. We deserved nothing.
It is a great mystery, but God says to us who have been saved, ‘Speak to the dead, preach the Gospel to them. Tell them about Christ. Magnify and exalt him. Tell them about Calvary.’ I must do so in obedience to God’s command. I must speak to spiritual corpses, who cannot hear and cannot feel and cannot respond. So what is the point? But God, who is rich in mercy, quickens and brings to life. Suddenly I hear. I am a corpse spiritually but I can hear and I can feel and I can recognise and see Christ and what he has done for a needy sinner like me, and I feel the burden of my sin and I long for forgiveness and cleansing.