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Go, if you would, to Romans 10 for example. Now Romans 10 is a scripture that's talking about the unsaved, and specifically it's talking about the Jews that do not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. It says in Romans chapter 10 verse 1, "'Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.'" So here he's talking about Israel and he's saying they're putting forth a lot of effort. I mean they have zeal. They're putting forth a lot of energy and it makes me think of the Apostle Paul when he talked about in Galatians how before he was saved he profited in the Jews religion above many his equals of his own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of his fathers. I mean Paul was working very hard. He was striving to excel in the Jews religion. He studied, he worked, he was zealous, but he said later in Philippians 3 that he counted it all as dung. He said it was all dung. It was all a waste of time. He was beating his head against the wall, he was accomplishing nothing because his zeal was without knowledge and often times we could be working really hard and trying really hard and putting a lot of effort into it and our heart is in the right place, but because we lack wisdom and knowledge we are wasting our time. Just like you could waste your time with the wrong tool for three or four hours on a job before you finally break down, go to the hardware store, get the right tool, takes 30 seconds. And how many times have we been there? Here we see that the unsaved are often working hard and a lot of unsaved people think that they have to work their way to heaven. They don't understand that it's by faith. Here it says that they've not submitted themselves under the righteousness of God for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Being saved is so easy. It's just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Jesus did the hard part, but how many people today are working so hard to try to make it into heaven and their labor's in vain? Because they have zeal in many cases, but they don't have knowledge. They go through such hard work. Think about the people that one day are going to say to the Lord in Matthew 7, it records, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name done many wonderful works. I mean those people are working hard, putting forth effort. Then while I profess unto them, I never knew you, depart from me that work iniquity. He's saying your works are iniquity. Your righteousnesses are as filthy rags before me and they're not seeking salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ. They're seeking it through their own works. They're putting forth a lot of effort. They're accomplishing nothing.