7/21/2019
Forgiveness Pt 3 – Psalm 51:1-2
GUILT!
WHAT WE USUALLY DO WITH OUR GUILT
1. We Bury It
Psalm 32:3-5 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Proverbs 28:13 He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
2. We Blame Others
Genesis 3:12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
Proverbs 19:3 A man’s own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
3. We Punish Ourselves
Psalm 38:4, 6 “My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear… I am bowed down and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.”
WHAT JESUS WANTS US TO DO WITH OUR GUILT
1. Admit It
Proverbs 20:27 “The Lord gave us a mind and a conscience. We cannot hide from ourselves.”
1 John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
Lamentations 3:40 “Let us examine our ways and test them . . .”
2. Accept Responsibility For It
Psalm 51:3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
James 5:16 Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
3. Ask For Forgiveness
1 John 1:9 (Ph) “If we freely admit that we have sinned, we find God utterly reliable… He forgives your sins and makes us thoroughly clean from all that is evil.”
Romans 3:23-24 …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
WHAT JESUS DOES WITH MY GUILT
1. He Forgives Me Fully
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly forgive.
2. He Forgives Me Completely
Colossians 2:13-14 “He has forgiven ALL your sins. He has utterly wiped out the evidence of broken commandments which always hung over our heads, and has completely annulled it by nailing it to the cross!”
3. He Forgives Me Repeatedly
Hebrews 7:25 “(Christ) . . . is always interceding on our behalf.”
4. He Forgives Me Freely
Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
Psalm 32:1-2 Happy the sinner whose fault is removed, whose sin is forgiven. Happy those to whom the LORD imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no deceit.