How do we know God is the one who creates our need for salvation?

The sermon emphasizes that our realization of need begins with God's active work in our hearts. Romans 9:15 indicates that God is sovereign in His compassion, deciding on whom He will have mercy. This means that unless God opens our eyes to our spiritual condition, we cannot know our need for salvation. We all start in a state of ignorance about our true condition before God, and it is only through divine revelation that we come to understand our deep need for Christ's redemptive work. Such understanding propels us toward faith and repentance, for without this God-given need, we will not seek Him.