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

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, indeed.

We're picking back up a new morning, mercies and Tori's just going to take it from here.

Yes, y'all, let's do it.

It says this.

Face it, your most brilliant act of righteousness

wouldn't measure up to God's standard.

That's why you've been given the grace of Jesus. The more you understand the

magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your

unrighteousness.

And the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness,

the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace. The person who is comfortable in his own righteousness

hasn't really understood grace and the person who is unimpressed by God's

grace hasn't really understood his sin. So let's talk about

the essentiality of God's grace. To talk about the essential nature of God's grace

means first talking about the disaster of

sin. Sin isn't primarily about acts of rebellion. Sin is first of all a condition

of the heart that results in acts of rebellion. You and I commit

sins because we are sinners. The condition of sin into which every person who has

ever lived was born renders each of us unable to live up to

God's standard. Sin leaves us without the desire, will, or ability to do perfectly what God declares is right.

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