How to Handle Guilt
Rex Yancey
Psalm 32
Guilt raises its ugly head for the first time in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve deliberately sinned against God and their conscience. They knew what was right and did wrong anyway. When God came walking in the garden as he did every day, they were hiding among the trees. They played the blame game and offered up excuses. But God would have none of it. They were accountable for their sin.
William Woodsworth said, ''From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.''
Seneca said, ''Every guilty person is his own hangman.'' What you did put a noose around your neck and leads you to the gallows every day of your life.
Guilt is a symptom of a greater problem. The only way to eradicate the guilt is to confess the sin to God. There is nothing settled until it is settled right. There is nothing settled right until it is settled with God.
Numbers 32:23 ''Be sure your sins will find you out.'' Moses told the tribes of Rueben and Gad if they stayed on that side of the river and fail to fight for their brothers their sins will find them out.
He is talking about the sin of omission. If they failed to do the right thing it would be sin.
The right thing to do with sin is to confess it. Psalm 32 is a companion Psalm with Psalm 51. In Psalm 51 David is eaten up with his guilt because of his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah. Psalm 51 was written first. In Psalm 32 he confesses his sin to God and gets forgiveness for it. His conscience is cleansed from the guilt.
Guilt is an inside job that needs outside help. ''There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins and sinners plunge beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains.
The worse trip you can take is a guilt trip. If we want to know how to live, we will have to learn to handle our guilt rather than our guilt handling us.
Let's look at this text and draw lessons from it.
1.DAVID WAS A BUFRDENED MAN ...
Rex Yancey
Psalm 32
Guilt raises its ugly head for the first time in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve deliberately sinned against God and their conscience. They knew what was right and did wrong anyway. When God came walking in the garden as he did every day, they were hiding among the trees. They played the blame game and offered up excuses. But God would have none of it. They were accountable for their sin.
William Woodsworth said, ''From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.''
Seneca said, ''Every guilty person is his own hangman.'' What you did put a noose around your neck and leads you to the gallows every day of your life.
Guilt is a symptom of a greater problem. The only way to eradicate the guilt is to confess the sin to God. There is nothing settled until it is settled right. There is nothing settled right until it is settled with God.
Numbers 32:23 ''Be sure your sins will find you out.'' Moses told the tribes of Rueben and Gad if they stayed on that side of the river and fail to fight for their brothers their sins will find them out.
He is talking about the sin of omission. If they failed to do the right thing it would be sin.
The right thing to do with sin is to confess it. Psalm 32 is a companion Psalm with Psalm 51. In Psalm 51 David is eaten up with his guilt because of his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah. Psalm 51 was written first. In Psalm 32 he confesses his sin to God and gets forgiveness for it. His conscience is cleansed from the guilt.
Guilt is an inside job that needs outside help. ''There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins and sinners plunge beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains.
The worse trip you can take is a guilt trip. If we want to know how to live, we will have to learn to handle our guilt rather than our guilt handling us.
Let's look at this text and draw lessons from it.
1.DAVID WAS A BUFRDENED MAN ...
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