The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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What I'd like to do now, Lord willing, is to move with some dispatch through the passages

on total depravity because I spent longer than I thought I would

on that little introductory page and I think I've set the tone that I really wanted

to set and now what's remained what remains to be

done as far as my concerns for you is that the word total gets some biblical

meaning and not just any old meaning.

Because usually when you hear that somebody believes in total depravity,

you ask them, so you believe we are we are as bad as we can possibly be

that what total means in other words I don't I do the maximum evil I could do and they deep down are saying I could show you

that I could do more evil than I do and so we don't we don't mean that a

person is doing all the evil that they could possibly do.

So what do we mean when we say that our depravity as human beings is total.

Maybe the word doesn't even need to be used.

Could be pervasive or profound or deep or horrible. or in which I mean it. And there are five of these senses. Number one,

depravity is total in that it affects every human being.

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

There is no man who does not sin,

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