Contact with God is made first of all at the point of believing the gospel. Our God has removed the wall which once separated every human being from Himself. This wall was made up of several distinct blocks. It included the fact that everybody is a captive in the slave market of sin; that everybody is under the penalty of spiritual death; that everyone is born physically with an old sin nature; and thus separated from God; that we are in a state of sin that violates the holiness of God so that His justice and His righteousness condemn us; and, we find ourselves in the sight of God in the position that the Bible calls “in Adam” which is the position of eternal death and separation from God.