I want you to turn in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 12, open your

Bibles to Hebrew 12 and then if you want to put a marker at Genesis 25. So we're going to begin in Hebrew 12 and then we'll turn to

Genesis 25 later in the message. I am extremely excited about this series. I don't know if you were here last

weekend but it was a very good message. If you weren't here it was very good.

The reason I say that is because good messages surprise me too, so I'm

excited. Same with today. So we're in a series called Root Cause. What's the root cause of this fruit in my life? Some people constantly have

financial struggles. Is there a root cause of your financial struggles? Is there a root cause of your financial struggles other than simply

maybe not managing well or a low-paying job or something like that? What's the root cause? Some people go from one bad relationship to another.

What's the root cause of that? Some people make bad decisions. Some people have health issues.

Some people just lose jobs and they never seem to be able to

hold a steady job. Is there a root cause? Some people have continuous problems with addiction or fear or insecurity or

anger. Is there a root cause of the anger that you have? Well I'm going to share with

you today what I believe is the root cause of all

root causes. That's how good this message is. This is phenomenal.

And here, the title of this message is

bitter roots.

Bitter roots.

Bitter roots.

Now before you simply think about bitterness and unforgiveness, let me explain.

This goes much farther than that and much deeper than this.

And this is probably the root that's named

several places in the Bible that is the root of many roots. The fruit of a bitter roots. The fruit of a bitter root can be many different fruits. Addiction,

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