Even the very will to be saved by grace is not of ourselves, but is the gift of God (John 1:13). A man ought to believe in Christ; it is his duty to receive Him whom God has sent to be the propitiation for sins. But men will not believe in Christ; men prefer anything to faith in the Redeemer. Unless the Spirit of God convinces the judgment and constrains the will, man has no heart nor will to believe in Christ to eternal life. I ask any saved person to look back on your own conversion and tell me how it came about. You turned to Christ; you believed on His name. But who caused you to repent? to turn? to receive Christ? What power or force turned you from sin to righteousness? Do you attribute this powerful renewal to the existence of something better in you than is found in your unbelieving neighbor? No! You confess that unless the Lord opened your eyes and turned you to Christ, you would still be where your neighbor is now--lost!