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

Where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

My voice is going.

I feel great.

I'm a little tired.

I had a two hour pick of all session this morning with the boys. That was a blast, but I don't know where my voice is going. So I do apologize if it sounds a little broken as I read the devotional, but you guys know no days off.

We're devoting ourselves to the Lord daily.

This is a commitment and it's a worthy commitment.

So as always, we're back in New Morning Mercies

and I'm just gonna take from here.

It says this, perhaps all good

theology is meant to be both humbling and comforting at the same time. Why is this?

God did not intend the theology of the Bible to be an end in itself, as if theological knowledge

were the goal of grace. No, every part of the Bible's teaching is designed to be a means to an end and that end is

radically transformed life. Having said this, the theology of the Holy Spirit in

the New Testament is particularly humbling.

Why doesn't God just save me in the beginning, welcome me into his presence in the end,

and leave me to myself in between?

Why is the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit presented as an

absolute gift of necessity for every believer? The answer is because of the

utter gravity of my condition as a sinner.

You see justification deals with the guilt of sin and final glorification with the ultimate defeat

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