Living FREE

Living FREE

James 3:1-2
2 We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. –NIV

This past Sunday I spoke on the subject of SHAME. How the devil loves to use shame to keep us from a loving God. Shame distorts our view of ourselves. Shame wrongly says that we ARE what we did. I haven’t made a mistake, I am a mistake. I haven’t done something wrong, I am wrong. I didn’t make a bad decision, I am bad. Shame tries to attach our identity to what has happened.

Shame goes beyond conviction and convinces us we do not deserve to be free. Shame leaves you feeling guilty, terrible, humiliated, embarrassed, unforgiveable, unwanted.

I have news for you today…YOU ARE NOT YOUR SIN! You are God’s Child and as such you are FORGIVABLE, CHANGEABLE, CAPABLE and MOLDABLE!

What is God’s solution to break shame off our life?

1 John 1:9-10
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. – NIV

COME CLEAN –
Fess up. No denying, no hiding, no blaming others. Fess up…to yourself, to God and to others if necessary. Accept the past. What is done is done. You can not change the past, but God can change the future.

RECEIVE FORGIVENESS
Yes, God loves us that much…more than you love yourself! Here is something else…God knows you are not perfect!. We serve a God that forgives sin

Ps 103:12
12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Christ came and died that we might be FORGIVEN. Now that is the Good News of the Gospel!

Blessings,
Darren