Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We even devote ourselves to the Lord daily

even on Mother's Day. So happy first Mother's Day to Tori and a special Happy Mother's Day to all

of you who are mothers and all the mothers in your life but Tori and I are picking back up with

new morning mercies so we're just going to take it from here. Yes y'all let's do it. Today's

original says this. Never forget that what God required you couldn't do. Christ did it for you. His

grace is your hope. In some way it is true of all of us. We want to swindle ourselves into thinking

that we are righteous enough to be accepted in the eyes of God. Maybe for you it is. Look how much

I've given to charity. Look how hospitable I am. Look at the level of my theological knowledge. Look

how often I share the gospel with others. Look at what a good marriage I have. Look how successful

my business is. Look at how I've resisted pornography or adultery. Look at the fact that I homeschool

my children. Look at how I never curse or swear. Look at how many short-term mission trips I've

been on. Look at how consistent my personal devotions are. Look at my willingness to lead a small

group. You and I tend to want to point to anything we can to prove that we are not lawbreakers but

law keepers. Yet the whole argument of the Bible is that if we were able to keep the law with

perfection and consistency, Jesus would not have had to come. The sad reality is that alone none

of us is righteous. None of us measure up. None of us have any power whatsoever to keep the law so

consistently as to achieve acceptance by a completely holy God. So it was essential that Jesus

would come and live in a way that none of us could ever live to die the death that we all deserve

to die and to rise to feeding sin and death. Hope is never to be found in your performance

no matter what actions you are able to point to. Sin is your infection and without the grace of the

Lord Jesus Christ, it is your demise. It is inescapable and morally debilitating and it will lead

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