Chandler Christian Church Sermon Notes

The Pressure Of Damaged Emotions

Part III of …

 

Contents Under Pressure

September 1-2, 2001

 

“… He restores my soul.” Ps. 23:3

 

LET GOD Remove MY Guilt 

 

“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.”

Ps. 38:4,6 [New International Version]

 

2 BIG problems with guilt

 

  1. We all have plenty of reasons to feel guilty

 

  1. We keep guilt trapped in our Mind

 

“The Lord gave us a mind and a conscience; we cannot hide from ourselves.”

Pr. 20:27 [Today’s English Version]

 

BAD options for dealing with guilt

 

·        You can deny it!

·        You can bury it!

·        You can minimize it!

·        You can compromise it!

·        You can rationalize it!

·        You can blame other people for it!

·        You can beat yourself up!

 

“Rationalize” means to RATION-LIES.

 

“All of us have sinned … yet God declares us ‘not guilty’ if we trust in Jesus Christ, who in mercy freely takes away our sins.”

Romans 3:23-34 [LB]

 

“You were at one time spiritually dead because of your sins … but God has now brought you to life with Christ.  God forgave us all our sins; he cancelled the unfavorable record of our debts with its binding rules and did away with it completely be nailing it to the cross.”

Col 2:13-14 [TEV]

 

The ONLY way to remove guilt is through God !