MINNESOTA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION

Restoring the Joy of Salvation!

by Dr. Lance T. Ketchum, MBA State Missionary

Acknowledge our Fallen Condition

I. We need to acknowledge our fallen condition

"Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man" (Psalm 43:1).

Yes the world is full of "deceitful and unjust" men. However the one we need to be delivered from the most frequently is the one staring back at us in the mirror every morning.

"⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? ¹⁰ I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings" (Jeremiah 17:9-10).