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Oct 20, 2024

Hope and Healing for Guilt and Condemnation

Hope and Healing for Guilt and Condemnation

Passage: John 8:1-12

Preacher: Dr. Steve Brown

Series: Emotions

Detail:

 

KALA: How have you enjoyed the cooler mornings we’ve been having?

Prayer: 2 Thes. 3:3

Message:

John 8:1–12  

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1. Jesus can feel your feelings of condemnation.

  

2. Jesus can forgive & free you from your feelings of condemnation.

1 John 1:9  

 

“God, I have deeply hurt you and ____________ by my _________. These things were wrong of me. I ask You to forgive me for how I have hurt you and others. Thank You for Your forgiveness.”

 

Express Your Heart to Jesus

 

“God, thank You for being a God of compassion who loves me and forgives me.”

 

 

3. Jesus can free you from other’s feelings of condemnation.
2 Corinthians 7:10  

 

The emotion of godly grief leads to a Spirit-prompted confession.

James 5:16  

 

How to make an effective confession:

  • BE SPECIFIC: “I know I’ve hurt you deeply by…..”
  • ADMIT WRONG: “It was wrong of me to …. “
  • DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING: “I can imagine you must have felt…..” 
  • ASK FOR FURTHER CLARIFICATION: Is there anything else about this you would like me to know?
  • REQUEST FORGIVENESS: “Will you for forgive me?”

 

Romans 10:9-10

Matthew 10:32–33