Ephesians 2:12 (NLT)

¹²In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope. 

1. We can’t live without Jesus
   

John 15:3 – 5 (KJV)

³Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 

⁴Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 

⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 

John 15:5 (NLT)

⁵“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. 

2. We can’t be saved without the shed blood of Jesus
   

Hebrews 9:22 (NLT)

²²In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. 

Hebrews 9:22 (KJV)

²²And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

3. We can’t live without faith in Jesus
   

Hebrews 11:6 (KJV)

⁶But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 

Faith defined: Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

¹Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 

James 2:20 (KJV)

²⁰But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 

Footnote: More things…..

Jesus’ sinlessness: He was “in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15).
Our Holiness: “holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14).
Our chastisement: “if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye…not sons” (Hebrews 12:8).