Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning guys. Yes, good morning. We're picking

up with a new Bible plan called Freedom from Sin and there's a link to that in the description

of this podcast if you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm going to read

the scripture and then Tori's going to read the Devo. Let's do it. The scripture is Romans 3

verse 23 and it says this, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The devotional

is titled Missing the Mark and it starts with a quote from Charles Spurgeon that says,

there may be some sins of which a man cannot speak but there is no sin which the blood of Christ

cannot wash away. Sin. It's a word that Christians don't like to mention because it makes us feel

ashamed. We prefer to use words like struggle or mistake but dealing with sin honestly will help

us find victory from it in our future. Before we dive in let's answer a couple of questions that

many people have about sin. First, what is sin? Well if you look at the Greek the original language

of the New Testament. The word sin is homeronto and it means to be mistaken but the definition that most

scholars use is to miss the mark which refers to archery. If an arrow doesn't land in the center

of a target or the bullseye the arrow has missed the mark. Sin is like that. The mark is the standard

God gave us to follow. It's his perfect way and we've all missed it according to Romans 323.

Not one single human can claim perfection whether we miss the mark by a little or a lot it's a sin.

Two, where did sin come from? Sin entered the world because of the first humans Adam and Eve.

In the Old Testament book of Genesis we read that God told Adam and Eve that they could eat from

any tree of the Garden of Eden except one. The tree of knowledge of good and evil. But guess what?

They ate from that tree because of that one act all human beings are born with a depraved heart

and we sin the moment we have the ability to do so. We're all born with a sinful nature

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