I began by asking what the remedy is when our very capacity to respond to God shuts down. Now the answer is clear. The remedy for our deadness to God’s grace is more grace. The remedy is the touch of God himself, as the truth of the gospel breaks upon us with clarity. If God triumphs over us by his grace, we will live. If he doesn’t, nothing in us will suffice, because our whole problem is our incapacity for self-renewal. This is how radically we need God. God is fed up with Isaiah’s generation