“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed” (Jeremiah 17:14)
“I have seen his ways, and will heal him” (Isaiah 57:18)

Everybody starts off spiritually dead. Adam was warned, “in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17), and ever since then, every human being is born with a spirit which is dead to God. But before the foundation of the world, God had a plan (Ephesians 1:4). “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The first Adam brought death, and the Second Adam brings life. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22).

The Apostle Paul warned sinners, “do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God”. But then he encourages saints: “And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).

Which are you? You stand looking over a precipice. Below there are two paths. “In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God” (1 John 3:10). “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? - unless indeed you are disqualified” (2 Corinthians 13:5).