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Have you ever been sitting in a dimly lit room, straining to work on something, when someone else comes in and turns the light on? It's an immediate transformation, all made possible because someone else flipped a switch for you. You could've stood up and done it, but you didn't, for whatever reason. You sat there in the dark, and it was someone else who illuminated you.
The Gospel is similar to that. Finding our way out of sin isn't something we do on our own. If it required us to change our location on our own, we'd never find the way -- we'd be fumbling around in the dark, looking for a light switch that we're unable to find. Instead, what happens is that God walks into the room and throws a switch, immediately transforming our condition, not due to our own efforts, but due to God's efforts. We don't have to physically move from light to dark through deeds, but we do so through an act of faith, confessing our sins to the one who is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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