The statement "Without Me you can do nothing" is not referring to potential ability, but to actual ability. This is because our imagination is a necessary force. In this verse, it is talking about going from inability to ability. When we are regenerated, we get a new will. The reason we need a new will is because our old will is dead to the things of God. We only have our 5 senses, which are dead to the things of God. Without a new will, we are dead people living on a dead earth. Dead people form physical gods with their 5 senses.The unregenerate person creates gods in their own image, according to their own understanding of reality. These gods are dead, lifeless idols that the unregenerate person worships out of their own desire. However, God looks down from heaven and sees the unregenerate person's desire to worship a dead god. In response, God says that He will make the unregenerate person like their dead gods. But for the righteous person, who has been regenerated and given new spiritual senses, they are able to understand what is of greater value. This is compared to feasting at a table full of the finest foods. When we are regenerated, we gain an understanding of what is truly of worth.The Holy Spirit prompts us to partake in feasting at the Lord's table, which is an abundance of the harvest of God's creation. We are sitting at a covenant table, and things are wonderful for us to imagine. We imagine through illumination by word and Spirit unto reality. We are not obsessively focused on physical needs but on spiritual nourishment for our souls.The physical needs of individuals are met within the covenantal relationship with God. However, the spiritual longings and desires of humans are not completely satisfied in this life. Thus, humans long to see and be in the presence of God and find comfort and pleasure in Him forevermore. They weep and the tears fall on God's scroll, which is sealed with seven seals. In the last days, this scroll will be opened and all of the suffering of the righteous at the hands of the wicked will be vindicated. According to God, vengeance is His to take, and He will do so in due time. There is still a final judgment to be carried out, beyond what happened in 70 AD. When we pray, it is like making an offering of the evening sacrifice. When the priests took the blood and applied it to the sacrifice, it was a sign that the curses for sin would not be carried out on God's chosen people. When they took the animal and put the knife to its throat, they were placing all the curses for sin on the animal, making it an object of curse. Breaking the law required a blood sacrifice, which served as payment for the sin.The price of the covenant demanded payment not only from those who were part of the covenant community, but also from those who were outside of it. When Moses came down from the mountain and saw the people worshiping idols, he commanded the people to take sides. The people who were part of the covenant then slew their own countrymen and their own family who had chosen the idols and were not part of the covenant community. This was the same act as when the priest took the knife to the throat of the animal.The priest was offering an object of satisfaction for sin and was cursing the enemies of God. More than the sorrow over sin, there was the desire for God to come and bring a deliverance. Since the priest did this day after day, it was the sweet smelling aroma of the fulfillment of the desire of Israel that the Messiah would come and take away sin. The priest protected the covenant community by slashing the throat of the animal. Christ as Deliverer was the desire of Israel. This whole sacrificial system was forward looking and it was not mainly about our sins. Sentimentalism is a gentile philosophy.