• Do we ever do things we just do not understand why we are doing them?
• Have we ever committed an action, “doing the very thing” we hate?
• Do we ever act and then scratch our heads, thinking:  Now why did I do that?

Quite possibly, we need to remember the original fall of man.

The flesh is not good in itself, even though we like to think of ourselves as ‘good’ people.  Truly, we are not good, for those ‘good’ things we could do, we don’t do, & those ‘evil’ things we do not wish to do, we do anyway.  Why do we do that?

Quite possibly, we need to remember the original fall of man recorded in Genesis, for it was the beginning of humanity’s fall from grace.  From the beginning, we desperately needed a Savior, but we only had the Law separating the ‘Good’ from everything else.

We do not wish to admit it, but we are sinners by birth.  The Bible tells us so!  We have a grandson, a precious little one.  Perfect in every way, and beautiful too.  Maybe you too have a child or a grandchild, and as difficult as it is to recognize, to admit, their tiny bodies were conceived to be that which we must recognize. Every Person Alive, We Each Are from our Birth—Sinners in need of a Savior. 

By choice, we sin.  By practice, we sin.

We are born into it, and we choose to continue to walk within it.

Throughout each day of our lives, we elect to tell lies, to covet what others have, to allow outbursts of anger, to react in unkind ways, to not help others, to not serve them—to sin.

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Throughout each week, month, and year, we practice our sinful behavior, becoming better at the act of sinfulness.  Each time we yield to our sinful nature, then the easier it becomes—to sin.  This action (of sin) does not begin when a person does something wrong; it begins when the idea takes root in our heart.  We choose to entertain the idea, toy with it, contemplate it, and then be carried away by it—SIN.

We are lustful, jealous, prideful, hateful, and we cover it up with deceitful actions, attempting to ‘show’ the world how ‘good’ we are.  Really we are not—good at all.  Once this temptation—to sin is enticed, and once it has been conceived deep within us, then it gives birth, and it accomplishes what SIN can only bring—DEATH & SEPARATION FROM GOD.

The Bible tells us so!

• We do not wish to admit it, but we are wretched.
• We do not like to proclaim it so, but we are sinful from the moment we are conceived.

We do not hurry to raise our hands whenever the question comes:  Raise your hand if you are a sinner.  Truly, our hands stay at our sides as we conjure up all the ‘good’ deeds we have done inside our minds.  Yes, we (the peoples of the earth) are Sinners in need of a Savior.

The Bible tells us so!

GOD IS HUGE!

HE HOLDS THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN THE PALM OF HIS ENORMOUS HANDS!

GOD LOVES US TOO MUCH TO LEAVE US AS WE ARE—Sinners in need of a Savior.

• The grace of God’s riches came at the cost, the expense of Jesus.
• The law has done its job; the law points us (mankind) to Jesus.
• The Father offers us His salvation, His redemption, His justification, His forgiveness—through His only Son, the SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!

It is the only way, for mankind to receive God’s grace.

It is the only way, for we are truly Sinners in need of a Savior.