Guilt and shame

Guilt and Shame

Guilt and shame are the results of Adam's sin. Guilt is an accusing memories that creates a total lack of peace. Our conscience accuses us of violation of God's commands. Our guilt leads to a person hiding from God. The Lord says: "There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked." (Isaiah 48:22) The wicked have a lot of guilt; therefore, they experience no peace in their hearts.

A sensitive conscience is God's moniter as it alerts us to the moral quality of what we do or plan to do; forbids lawlessness and irresponsibility, and makes us feel guilt, shame, and fear of the future retribution that it tells us we deserve, when we have allowed ourselves to defy its restraints. Our conscience is the soul's automatic warning system regarding the boundaries of sins.

Our shame affects our self-image. It is no longer that I did a bad thing, but I feel like a bad person. People are consumed with toxic shame, because they have violated all the laws of God. Their guilt and shame condemns and accuses them. Therefore, they experience a lot of self-rejection and their self-image is smeared with toxic shame.

In the Garden of Eden, God covered their nakedness (they felt naked because of their guilt and shame) by shedding the blood of an innocent lamb and covering them with the skin of the lamb. It was an object lesson teaching that it was the blood that makes an atonment (appeasement or satisfaction) for the soul (Leviticus 17:11).

When John the Baptist saw Jesus Christ, he declared: ".....Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." (John 1:29). In the book of Hebrews 9:14, the Word of God declares: "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offer Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God." In the book of Romans 5:9, the Word of God declares: "Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him." His blood saves us from the wrath of God!

It is the blood of Christ that gives us access to God in order that we can be forgiven moment by moment as we walk in the light of His presence.
If we do one thing; then God will do three things. The thing that we must do is to acknowledge (admit or owe up to it our sin) then God will do three things: FORGIVE-FORGET-FREED US FROM OUR GUILT AND SHAME. "If we confess our sins, then He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (I John 1:9).

Yes, He will forgive those who abort their baby and now live under the weight of condemnation, guilt and shame. He forgave King David, who committ adultery and murder!

Every time that we sin against God we can expect three immediate consquences: Guilt-Shame-Unhealthy fear of God (fear of retribution or punishment) that causes us to hide from Him. Therefore, our moral health will determine our emotional and mental health.
A lot of people have serious emotional and mental health issues because their guilt accuse and torment them; then causes them to have a lot of self-rejection.

You can try to run from God, but you cannot run from your guilt and shame! They are the Hounds of Heaven.

Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture:

1. What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?

2. What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

3. What is virtue?

3. What is the gravest sin in the Church

4. What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

5. What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a). It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd? In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares: Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church. It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience. Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground. When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy. Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)

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