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

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

We are picking back up with your morning mercies,

and I'm just going to take from here.

It says this, if you have quit being defensive and are now willingly and humbly

approachable you know that transforming grace has visited you. It all

started in the Garden of Eden and we have been committed to it ever

since. We all point the finger of blame and we all work to convince ourselves that the

party to blame is not us.

Adam pointed the finger at Eve, and Eve pointed the finger at the serpent.

Neither one of them accepted blame.

Yes, it is true. There have been generations and

generations of finger pointers ever since. You see when you've done something wrong

it's not natural to look inside yourself for the cause. Sin makes us all shockingly self-righteous. It makes

us all committed self-excusers. Somehow, some way, we all bind to the delusion that our biggest problems live outside of us, not inside us.

We all have very active inner lawyers who rise to our defense in the face of any accusation of wrong.

We are all very skilled at presenting the logic of the argument that what we have done says

more about the flawed people and dysfunctional things around us than it does about us.

When our consciousnesses bother us because of the faithful convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit,

we are all tempted to dodge blame by locating the cause elsewhere.

We all tend to be much more concerned about the sin of others than we are about our own.

But John says in 1 John, chapter 1, verse 8,

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