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When I worked in Hospitals… we caught a thief who had been robbing the Dr offices.
when they told him that he took $4,000 from an office, he retorted… I only took 1500 …
What do you do when you are driving and a police car pulls up behind you?
Slow dow… even of you are going the speed limit… right?
The truth is that all of us, at some point in our lives need to stop and say, I did it.
I have struggled with this or that… we all have.
None of us keeps all of the laws all the time.
Now we know there are different types of guilt.
When you do the crime, be ready to do the time.
But tonight we will look at Guilt and Grace from God’s perspective.
When we commit sin, even one little one, we are guilty.
All of us have done this so we are all in the same boat.
Let’s look at what guilt really is...
What is guilt?
We all know what it feels like.
David reminds us in Psalm 38…
Many of us know what that feels like… to be burdened and overwhelmed.
We have felt the feeling of… wow, I hope no one ever finds out this…
Is that what guilt is?
Is it some kind of punishment God sends into your life because you did something you should not have done?
No… it’s not.
The purpose of guilt is NOT to make you feel bad.
It’s far more than that.
Guilt is a warning light
warning light on car… friend’s daughter who had her car lock up…
You don’t break the light because it comes on.
You know that something needs to be fixed.
Picture this, You and your wife are driving down the road and she says, "What was that?
I heard a sound in the engine.
Sounds like something's wrong."
You say, "I didn't hear anything."
She's got a pretty good ear.
She's usually hearing that something actually is wrong.
But you know if something's wrong, you’re going to have to fix it, so you "don't hear anything"!
For me, the engine has to actually fall out before I admit that something is actually wrong.
It’s not hot and I’m not here.
Thats the way too many of us deal with guilt.
We ignore it and pretend it’s not there.
But the truth is that if something is wrong, it needs to be fixed.
When it comes to a car, I could try to fix it myself or take it to the manufacturer who knows what needs to be done.
That’s what we need to do with our lives.
That’s what the warning light is saying.
You need to spend more time with the Lord.
You need God to heal this…
Before we look at the difference between how we deal with guilt and how God deals with guilt, I want to discuss the difference between guilt and shame.
There are two kinds of guilt
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There is genuine guilt
Genuine guilt that comes from the fact that we've all done wrong things that have hurt ourselves, hurt others, and hurt the heart of God.
2. There is false guilt or shame
This is like when the light comes on the dashboard, instead of fixing the car, you worry about what people with think about you because the light came on.
If you're dealing with false guilt you're probably sending yourself a lot of mental e-mail.
And they read something like this, "You think that's enough...
You call that acceptable .... Look at all the things you haven't gotten finished.
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You have disappointed the people that are around you." That's the kinds of things you're hearing a lot if you're dealing with false guilt
A lot of the time, people who struggle with false guilt struggle with it because of someone else’s sin.
Maybe a parent or friend of family abused you… maybe you grew up in a home where your parents manipulated you...
There are also times we can’t get past the false guilt because of our past.
We just can’t get past what we did.
You may say, I’v asked God to forgive me a thousand times, but I just don’t feel forgiven.
Paul addresses people who struggle with not doing enough for God… they try to make themselves feel better by doing a lot for the Lord.
That happens.
We start out good but then we fall back into old habits of trying to make God love us more because we do soooo much for the Lord.
How can you tell the difference between the two kinds of guilt?
let me give you some tests…
Is the focus on people or God?
False guilt comes from the judgements of others.
True guilt comes from divine judgement of what God thinks
If you're struggling with false guilt, you're going to find yourself striving a lot for approval.
You need other people’s approval to feel good about yourself.
You will need it every day and you will need more and more of it every day.
The real problem is that when you struggle with false guilt, you are worn out.
Why?
Because you are killing yourself trying to live up to other people’s expectations.
Is it vague or specific?
People will say, it’s like a cloud or a fog of guilt that they don’t know how to get rid of.
If I were to ask you what it is about, you would have trouble telling me because it’s too vague.
Almost all the time when it's the vague, foggy feeling of guilt, it's Satan talking to you and not God
When God tells you that you have done something wrong, it’s not vague.
He tells you want you did so he can help you get it right.
God is not vague.
He pinpoints the issue and helps you correct it.
So if it’s a vague feeling, it’s not from God.
If it’s specific, it’s God.
Is it based on rules or relationship?
When you struggle with false guilt, the feeling is that you broke the rules.
Genuine guilt makes you feel… I hurt someone.
David was concerned that he hurt God’s feelings.
He didn’t want to hurt his relationship with the Lord.
That’s the difference.
When rules become more important than relationship and it can become a religion instead of a relationship with God.
Church becomes more about duty than desire.
False guilt blinds us to the miraculous work God is doing all around us and it ties us to rules made up by men and not God.
Whatever kind of guilt it is, true or false guilt, we have ways of dealing with it and God has ways of dealing with it.
Our ways of Handling Guilt: Shame, Hiding, Blaming
Remember guilt is a warning light.
What are you going to do when that light goes off?
How do you handle it?
we come up with some crazy ways of doing that and they date back to Adam and Eve.
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We respond with shame
We feel bad about it.
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