Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Chapter 2, verse 1.

And you, he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins.

Okay.

And now you're going to get your wish.

I'm going to pick on the Calvinists directly.

Because our Calvinist friends, this is one of their favorite verses.

Say Paul's going to repeat this in a few more verses too.

You're dead in trespasses and sins.

And they'll say, well, see, you're dead.

What can a dead person do?

A dead person can't do nothing.

Right?

You're dead.

And they'll often, when they're explaining this, they'll go to Lazarus, Christ's friend Lazarus, who was dead.

He was dead in the tomb, four days.

Just a dead body laying there.

Couldn't do anything.

Jesus comes and he raises him from the dead.

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