Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.

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

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Good morning, you guys.

Good morning indeed.

We're picking back up with New Morning Mercies, and Tori's just going to take it from here. Let's do it. This is what it says.

Yes, change is possible. Not because you have wisdom and strength, but because you've been

blessed with the grace of Jesus. You're not stuck. You're not encased in concrete. Your life is not a dead end. The possibility of

change has not slipped through your fingers. Change is possible for you and me, even in the places

where change seems most hopeless. Why? Because the giver of transformative grace has made you and me the place where he dwells.

If you were to ask what God is doing, what he is working on between the already of your justification and the not yet of your sanctification, the answer could be given in one word.

Change. First, there is that work of personal growth and change the theologians call progressive sanctification. It is God's lifelong commitment

to actually make me what he declared me to be in justification. Righteousness. In every situation, location, and relationship of

my life, God is employing people, places, and things as his tools of transformative grace.

He is not resting. He does not leave the work of his hands. He takes no breaks. He is relentlessly

working to change me into all of the things that his grace makes it possible for me to be. He will not be content for me to be a little bit better. He will work by grace until I am finally and totally free of sin that is molded into the image of his perfectly righteous son. This zealous savior is also

a dissatisfied creator. He is not content to leave this world in its present sin-scarred condition.

So there will come a day when he will make all things new. He will return his world to the condition

it was in before sin left it so damaged. Change really is the zeal of your Redeemer. Personal change in

Titus 2.11 through 14 and environmental change in Revelation 21 1 through 5 are his holy zeal. When you are disappointed in yourself,

grieved at the sin in your relationships, are upset with the condition of your world, and you cry out

for change. You are crying out for something that hits right at the center of the zeal of your

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