Introduction--It is possible for NATURAL people to give great EFFORT in religious activity while they are still dead in their sins.-It is possible to be sincere, careful, exacting, disciplined, principled, consistent - and be far from God, and outside the kingdom of God. Blind to your true problem. Blind to the true solution. Knowing nothing in your experience except what the flesh can produce.-That was the life of Martin Luther before the Lord saved him.-That is the life of many religious people in our own day and age.-THEY COME TO CHURCH, THEY READ THE BIBLE, THEY SAY PRAYERS, THEY SING SONGS, THEY SPEND TIME IN THE COMPANY OF GOD'S PEOPLE, BUT THEY DO NOT SHARE THE SAME LIFE. -THEY ARE STRANGERS TO THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT THAT IS THE NEW BIRTH AND PRODUCES THE NEW NATURE.