Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning, everyone.

And welcome back to another Mornings with the Masters.

We're devote ourselves to the Lord,

daily with you.

We were picking back up with new morning mercies.

And without further ado, I'm just going to take it from here. It says this, it is just so incredible, so counterintuitive, and so beyond anything else in our

experience that it is very hard for us to wrap our brains around its majesty. There is no human being

so creative and imaginative as to be able to pin such a story.

You can read the story in scripture and still not be blown away by its glory

because you just don't have categories to understand its depth and breath.

In fact, it takes what this story is about for you to fully understand what the story is about.

Only the gift of divine grace is able to help you grasp even a portion of the wonder of divine grace.

The expansiveness of God's initiative of grace is so beautiful and transformational

that it is the reason John Newton chose the best qualifying word, amazing, when he penned his

famous hymn about that grace. Think about it. No human being has ever kept God's law except Jesus. No one has ever given God the honor due his name. No one has lived the life of worship that is the duty and calling of everyone who's ever taken a breath. All people have not only rebelled against God, but they have written their own sets of self-oriented

rules. Everyone not only has failed to worship God, but has also worshipped false gods. Every human

being not only has failed to recognize the centrality of God in all things, but also has inserted

himself or herself in God's position.

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