St. Paul's Lutheran Church - Alexandria, MN

Fact of original sin also means we're unable then to do anything for our salvation. We can't decide to accept Christ. We can't begin to make a move toward God. And by nature, we were dead blind enemies of God who want nothing to do with him. Again, how totally miserable our natural spiritual condition is, how completely hopeless our natural spiritual condition is. Now as we begin to understand original sin, as we begin to understand just how terribly and thoroughly sinful we are, We begin to understand how great a need we have for a savior, and we begin as well to grasp just how high and deep and great god's grace is.