Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We're devoted ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We're picking back up with new morning mercies,

and I'm just gonna take it from here.

It says this.

They're the two essential parts of redemption, rescue and restoration. And you and

I can't do either one for ourselves. But it's hard to admit that we have a problem that we cannot solve.

We like to convince ourselves that our anger tells us more about the flawed people we live near

than it tells us about ourselves.

We like to think that our impatience is more about our poor planning or character

of the people we have to deal with every day. We like to think that our sin can be blamed

on the temptations of the fallen world around us.

When we do or say what is wrong, we tend to point to a boss, a spouse, one of our children,

a friend, a difficult situation, a busy day, the fact that we aren't feeling

well, bad parents, some injustice, or a long catalog of other excuses.

But the Bible is quite clear.

We all suffer from the same terminal disease.

None of us have escaped it.

It's not caused by the people or situations around us.

We brought this destroyer into the world with us.

David says it this way in Psalm 51 verse 5.

Behold I was brought forth in in iniqu, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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