Let me tell you what, folks, religion will eventually wear off. Religion will eventually wear off. And you know what happens when it wears off? Everybody that it wears off with, you know what happens? They immediately fall away. You know what? That's what's wrong with our churches in America today. Talk to pastor after pastor after pastor on the telephone. Talk to them on messenger, on Facebook. What's going on in our land and country? What's going on? Boy, we've got 47 that ain't coming to church no more. They must have lost their salvation. That's where you guided God's sheep wrong because God's sheep will never lose their salvation. It's not their free will that saved them, it's the sovereign, divine will of Almighty God that regenerated them by His grace and God changed their will. Dead man, no. He don't understand, he can't do good, and he don't seek after God. How dead? How dead were you when you were lost? We'll go back to Ezekiel 37. This is how dead you were. You say, well, Doug, this Old Testament. Well, let me tell you, Church, it's all the Word of God. And the Old Testament points to Christ and what He's going to do. And the New Testament points forward to what He's still yet to do. Amen? But look at Ezekiel chapter 37 and verse number 1. Let me just read this right quick and let me expound on this and then we got about 14 other passages to go to. I want to show you. Folks, we're dead outside of the grace of God. And if you're dead, that means your will's dead. Look at Ezekiel 37 verse 1. The hand of the Lord was upon me and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones. You say, Brother Doug, now come on now. Come on. This is a picture of Israel. This is a typology of the nation of Israel and what God would do to the nation of Israel. Yes, you're absolutely right. And so is the New Covenant. You're not in the New Covenant. God never made the New Covenant with the Gentiles. We've just been brought in by the spirit of adoption. But this is for the Jews. So if I'm in, this is what God did for me too. Amen. This is the exact same work He did for me. Look at verse number two. He calls me to pass by them round about, and behold, they were very many in the open valley, and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered and said, O Lord God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, prophesy. What's another word for prophesy? Come on, help me preach. Hey, man! He said preach! What did Jesus tell Nicodemus in John chapter 3 and verse number 5? Unless you're born of the water and of the Spirit. What's the water? Well, I tell you what, it ain't baptism. Baptism's a work. It ain't natural birth, because natural birth don't play in anywhere at all with the spiritual birth. What's the water? The water's the Word. The waters, the gospel, you're born again, you're regenerated, you're sanctified by the washing and the renewing of the regeneration of the Word of God. He said, Ezekiel, preach to those dead bones. Prophesy upon these bones and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones. Behold, I will. There's your free will right there. God's got it, amen. God's got it. God said, I will. And what else did God say? He said, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. Amen. And I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. God said, I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live. Now, wait a minute. Mark your place there. Ezekiel 37 time. Look up here at me. Pay attention to this. Jesus said, Nicodemus, don't you know you must be born again? How is it so, Lord? Can I enter into my mother's womb a second time and be born when I'm old? Nicodemus said that to Jesus, and Jesus said, No, Nicodemus, no. That which is born of flesh is flesh. That which is born of water or spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I say to you, You must be born again. Nicodemus was still puzzled. Nicodemus probably sitting back there scratching his head in the dark underneath the tree with the moonlight glaring. Jesus looked at him and Jesus knew exactly what he was thinking. Didn't even have to wonder. He said, Nicodemus, the wind bloweth where it wills. Thou knowest not whence it comes or whether it goes, but you hear the sound thereof. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. You say, how does it happen? The wind blows. You don't know where it comes from. You don't know where it's going. But you can see the effects of it, amen. Why? Go back to verse 5 of Ezekiel 37. And saith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold, I'll cause the wind to enter into you. He said, I'll breathe upon you the Holy Spirit of God, the same spirit that moved upon the darkness of the waters on the face of the deep in the very, very beginning, the same spirit that raised the Messiah from the dead, the same spirit that moved prophets of old to write the Word of God. The same Spirit of God doesn't care about your will. He breathes on God's elect. He changes their will. And God told the Son, let's sit on my right hand until I make all thy enemies thy footstool. And oh, by the way, 110 verse 3 in the Psalm, your people will be willing if a day of your power, son, because you're a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. It don't matter about your will, because if you're his, God will change your will. You say, well, what's all this stuff about Jesus? I find no beauty in that. I find no pleasure in the Christian life. Exactly, because you're still dead. There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He's just calm and just like everybody else. Oh, but once the wind blows and changes your will, You know what the Holy Spirit of God does? He draws you to the Son. The Son reveals Himself unto you. I showed them that verse last night. Brother Paul, they almost done somersaults. Where Jesus said, even so the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth those that He wills. So the Son likewise quickens whosoever He wills. Then I ask them the question, who can Jesus save? Whosoever he wills. And I said, you really want to know who he can save? Turn to John 17, verse number three. No, I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to the person I was talking to last night. You guys are going to get the quick version of it. They got it with both barrels. All right. I'm just giving you the 22 tonight. I'm not giving you the 12 gauge. Listen to me. Who can Jesus save? Al has given him power. over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given me." That's what the Lord said now.