[MarDav]

“I might say, that God’s heart was moved towards us in that, he sent his son to die for us yet while we were sinners....”

Amen! And He did so while none were seeking after Him! No, not one! And, so, seeing we have a merciful God, who has loved us unto the shedding of blood (His Son’s), we can approach His throne with confidence and know that He inclines His ear to our prayers and, like Abraham of old, we may make petition for a wayward country (God being the same yesterday, today, and forever) and seek for His mercy on behalf of a nation that has earned His wrath.

Ultimately, God is at work controlling, from behind the scenes, the scenes He is behind. He is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all that we ask or think. He can restore America (though, today He seeks individuals, not nations to “Follow Me”). His people can move His heart with prayers of faith and He can choose to bring America to a place where, as in previous eras, she served more like an example of a shining city on a hill, than as she resembles now—the well-watered plain of Jordan.

[American Constitutionalist]

Key verse: " And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins " .... and in a few verses later, it says that he: raised us up .....
Has nothing to do with our own righteousness or " works " ... it was all of God's work and effort.
A man who does his works, and keeps the law, is still dead in his trespasses because it's only by the blood of Christ that can bring a new birth, salvation.

After the tabernacle was built in the wilderness, after the law was given, after the law books where recorded and records kept, after the 1st and 2nd Temples were built, they all still had to be dedicated and sprinkled with animals blood.
Every year, year after year, century after century until Christ came, and then, in 70 AD, there was a day in the year that there was a blood sacrifice for the priest's and the whole nation's sins.
After 70 AD, that sacrificial system stopped..