his own “free will,” will never make a decision for Christ. Even our blessed Lord bluntly says: “Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life” (John 5:40). Why does our Lord say this? Because the will of unregenerate man is bound by the bands of sin and death to the god of the spiritually dead. They are, as Paul said to Timothy, in the “snare of the devil” and “taken captive by [Satan] at his will” (cf. 2 Tim. 2:26). Total depravity means that the natural man is completely incapable of discerning