Today, we return to the core problem of humanity: we are natural-born sinners. Scripture describes this as our total depravity—not that we are as bad as we could possibly be, but that nothing within us naturally moves us toward God. Left to ourselves, we do not drift upward. We drift away. Our sinfulness is the very reason Jesus came. If sin is never named, a Saviour is never needed. We are not sinners because we sin; we sin because we are sinners—broken at the root, not just at the branches. But the glorious hope of the gospel is this: in Christ we are rescued, reborn, and called into a holy and righteous life. When a culture celebrates what destroys us and rejects what heals us, it is already collapsing. The gospel does not say, “You’re basically fine—just try harder.” The gospel declares, “You are lost—but deeply loved. Come and be made new.”