The new birth is quickening from ____ in trespasses and sins.

• A. Ignorance
• B. Sin
• C. Worldly desires
• D. Death

Answer: (D)

The main idea here is that the new birth brings life to someone who was spiritually dead because of sin. In Scripture, being “dead in trespasses and sins” describes a state of separation from God and inability to respond to Him on our own. To be quickened means to be made alive, so the thing from which the new birth delivers us is death—spiritual death. Thus, the word that fits is death, since the grace of God raises us from that dead condition into new life in Him.

Ignorance, worldly desires, or sin describe aspects of the fallen condition or it’s what we struggle with, but they are not the state from which the new birth rescues us. The critical point is that we are dead in sin and God’s work of new birth brings us to life in Him.