Maybe we don't realize how dead we are. It's one of the most hated doctrines of the Christian faith. The total depravity of man, the desperate wickedness of the heart, the alienation of man against God. And that we need God to instigate salvation and to save us and to pass by us when we're in our blood and to bid us live. And it needs that power of God to awaken the dead. Ezekiel was shown a vision and it was a vision of dry bones that were very dry and they're very scattered, very many in the valley. And he was asked, can these bones live? And he said, Thou knowest. And he was bid then to prophesy or preach. And those bones began to come together. And then there was put sinews on them and flesh on them, but there was no life in them. Then he was told to prophesy again, to breathe upon those bones. And life came into them, breath came into them. they stood up an exceeding great army.