Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the masters who devoted themselves to the Lord daily with you.

It's just me again today, folks, but I do think Tori's going to be back very, very soon, maybe even as soon as tomorrow.

So say prayer for her continued recovery. Thanks for all your love on welcoming our sweet baby boy into the world.

But without further ado, we're going to round out with day five of our, can I really overcome sin and temptation devotion?

The Bible app, there's a link to that in the description of the podcast if you guys want to fall along.

And just like the previous days, there's so much scripture in this actual devotional, we're just going to start with it.

And it says, what if I've already given into temptation?

What if it's too late? You fought temptation in your strength and lost.

Now you're staying guilty before the Holy Lord of the universe. We've all been there.

First John chapter one verse eight says, if we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

Here's what we do, verse nine continues, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us of our sins and purify us.

So take your sin to your father, admit you were wrong, repent of your failure and ask for his merciful forgiveness.

Claim his promise to forgive your mistakes and sins to wipe the slate clean and remember your failures no more.

I'm going to read that again, claim his promise that he will forgive your mistakes and he will forgive your sins.

He will wipe the slate clean and he will remember your failures no more.

Does God's forgiveness mean that we can simply sin and confess than sin and confess more?

Not without consequence. I can drive a nail into wood and you can pull it out, but the whole remains.

God forgives, but the pain of our sins still hurts ourselves as well as others.

Nonetheless, we can be forgiven by the one whose son died in our place to pay our debt.

Romans chapter five verse eight says, God demonstrates his own love for us in this while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

Guilt is not of God. Our father loves every member of his family and we are still his children even though we don't always act like it.

Grace is getting what we don't deserve. Mercy is not getting what we do deserve. I'm going to also read that one again.

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