The Bible says in Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” No matter how much we may deny our sin nature, our sinful tendencies, or our sinful actions, we are all sinners in one way or another. We all “come short of the glory of God.” God cannot fellowship with sinful man, so we have no way to come to Him. It’s as if we are dead to God. In fact, the Bible says so much in Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death.” We are as the Bible says “dead in your trespasses and sin.” The hardest for an unbelieving person to do is to realize that they are spiritually dead – separated from God with no hope for reconciliation.

That would be a hopeless eternal state if we stopped with our simply being dead. Thankfully the Bible goes even further than simply defining God’s great love and man’s wicked sin. God demonstrated His great love in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God SO loved us that He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ to die in our place. God took on the form of sinful man making Him subject to the sin nature of mankind and yet He lived His life perfectly without sinning. He was the fulfillment of every Old Testament prophecy and picture and is the example for the believer’s daily living.