Overcoming Guilt, Regret, and Shame: Embrace GOD’s Grace | Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hey, are you in a place of guilt? Are you

0:52 Speaker 2: letting regret run your life? Can I tell you something?

0:56 Speaker 2: You're in the right place. I just want to encourage

0:58 Speaker 2: you today that yes, we all make mistakes, and you

1:02 Speaker 2: might have made miss some mistakes, maybe things you did

1:05 Speaker 2: deliberately in spite of the fact that people want you

1:08 Speaker 2: not to do this. But now you're in a place

1:10 Speaker 2: where you're dealing with the consequence of those mistakes, consequence

1:14 Speaker 2: of those sins, consequence of doing things that you're not

1:17 Speaker 2: supposed to do or not doing things that you're supposed

1:20 Speaker 2: to do. But whatever p it today, if you're listening

1:24 Speaker 2: to this, it's not by chance, it's not by accident.

1:27 Speaker 2: It's because God wants to remind you of this important truth. Yes,

1:30 Speaker 2: you made some mistakes, Yes you went off track. Yes

1:33 Speaker 2: you did things that you're not supposed to do. But

1:36 Speaker 2: I want you to understand that God still loves you.

1:38 Speaker 2: Jesus died on the cross even though that you and

1:41 Speaker 2: I are still sinners. The scripture says, while we were

1:44 Speaker 2: yet sinners, Christ died for us. He loves you in

1:47 Speaker 2: spite of the fact that you made a mistake. Now listen,

1:50 Speaker 2: I'm not saying continue in sin I'm not saying continue

1:54 Speaker 2: in the wrong doing. I'm not saying this is the

1:56 Speaker 2: way for you to do because that's how you're made.

1:59 Speaker 2: But what I'm saying the saying is even though you

2:01 Speaker 2: made the mistake, even though you messed up, even though

2:05 Speaker 2: you fell short of God's glory, I want you to

2:07 Speaker 2: understand that God still has a plan. God still has

2:10 Speaker 2: a way out for you. God still has a way

2:12 Speaker 2: to take you out and get you back on track.

2:15 Speaker 2: I want you to understand. The Bible says that if

2:18 Speaker 2: we just confess our sins. He is faithful and just

2:21 Speaker 2: to forgive us and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Jesus

2:25 Speaker 2: took all the sins on the cross of Calvary so

2:27 Speaker 2: that today you and I can receive His mercy and

2:31 Speaker 2: his grace for free, so that we can receive the

2:34 Speaker 2: help of the Holy Spirit to help us get back

2:37 Speaker 2: on track.

2:38 Speaker 1: Today.

2:38 Speaker 2: I want you to understand you don't have to live

2:40 Speaker 2: in guilt. You don't have to live in fear, you

2:43 Speaker 2: don't have to live in that sense of regret over

2:46 Speaker 2: the things in the past, because this is a new day.

2:49 Speaker 2: When you come to your senses and say I want

2:52 Speaker 2: to get back on track, I want to tell you

2:54 Speaker 2: the scripture says, as far as the heasts from the west,

2:57 Speaker 2: God has removed our transgressions from us, that he has

3:01 Speaker 2: forgiven us, that he has cleansed us. And today you

3:04 Speaker 2: can boldly go to the throne of grace and say, God,

3:07 Speaker 2: I receive your mercy, I receive your grace. I want

3:10 Speaker 2: you to help me to live the kind of life

3:13 Speaker 2: that you want me to live. You may say, John,

3:15 Speaker 2: that sounds nice, but the problem is I'm still living

3:18 Speaker 2: in the consequence of my sin. I have to endure

3:21 Speaker 2: this because of what I did. I know I shouldn't

3:24 Speaker 2: have done this, but I have no other choice. Yes,

3:27 Speaker 2: I'm not saying that we can escape all the consequence

3:30 Speaker 2: of sins. Yes, God forgives us, and because of his forgiveness,

3:35 Speaker 2: we are having the hope of eternal life, There's no

3:37 Speaker 2: doubt about it. But the truth is, because of the sin,

3:41 Speaker 2: there may be moments when you and I are still

3:45 Speaker 2: dwelling in the fallout of sin, fall out of our

3:48 Speaker 2: consequences because of the choices we made. We can't escape

3:51 Speaker 2: all of that. Like if you committed a crime, right,

3:54 Speaker 2: you can escape the law. You can't say God forgive

3:57 Speaker 2: me and take me out of the No, maybe you

3:59 Speaker 2: need to and sometime in the prison or behind virus

4:03 Speaker 2: or you know, things like that. There are certain consequences

4:06 Speaker 2: for sin. In Joshua chapter two, there's a moment when

4:10 Speaker 2: there are spies who are going in to visit the

4:13 Speaker 2: Promised Land and see before the children of Israel can

4:16 Speaker 2: take over the Promised Land. And there was a prostitute

4:19 Speaker 2: in the Promised Land called Rehab. Now here's the thing

4:23 Speaker 2: I want you to understand. Rehab was a prostitute. This

4:26 Speaker 2: was morally incorrect. This was not the kind of lifestyle

4:30 Speaker 2: that God intends for us to live. Now, think about

4:33 Speaker 2: this for a minute. If you think of prostitutes or

4:37 Speaker 2: mafia or people who are doing something illegal, will they

4:42 Speaker 2: have their center or their house in the city center.

4:46 Speaker 2: Will they have it on the prime location of the

4:49 Speaker 2: city or will they have their house adjacent to the

4:53 Speaker 2: edge of the city. Will they have it in the

4:56 Speaker 2: outskirts of the city, far away from the novel people,

5:00 Speaker 2: far away from all the businesses that are done in

5:04 Speaker 2: the proper way. Right, here's the thing I want you

5:07 Speaker 2: to understand. The fact that this lady was a prostitute

5:12 Speaker 2: is seen in where her house was. A house was

5:15 Speaker 2: not in the city center, the Bible says in Joshua

5:18 Speaker 2: two fifteen. Since Rehab's house was built into the city wall,

5:24 Speaker 2: the town wall, she was able to let the rope

5:28 Speaker 2: down and help the spies to escape. Why was her

5:32 Speaker 2: house at the edge of the town Why was it

5:35 Speaker 2: adjacent to the city wall? Why wasn't it near the

5:39 Speaker 2: city center? Because of a profession, Because she was doing

5:44 Speaker 2: something that was not supposed to be kosher, She was

5:47 Speaker 2: not doing the right thing. She was doing something in sin.

5:52 Speaker 2: Here's the thing I wanted to understand the choice of

5:55 Speaker 2: buying that house came from a place of sin. But

5:59 Speaker 2: when she committed that to God and she said, I'm

6:02 Speaker 2: going to honor the true living God. I'm going to

6:05 Speaker 2: do what is right. When she turned around and repented,

6:08 Speaker 2: what happened. That very choice she made in sin was

6:13 Speaker 2: the choice that helped her and the family to get said,

6:16 Speaker 2: when the children of Israel enter the Promised Land, what

6:19 Speaker 2: I want you to understand is today you may be saying,

6:22 Speaker 2: I'm dealing with the consequence of the sin. This lady's

6:24 Speaker 2: house was in the city wall, adjacent to the city

6:28 Speaker 2: wall because of her sin. It was because of the

6:31 Speaker 2: consequence of her sin. But when she committed that into

6:35 Speaker 2: God's hands, God brought out something beautiful through that negative thing,

6:39 Speaker 2: through that sin. Today, I want to tell you don't

6:42 Speaker 2: have to live with that guilt the rest of your life.

6:44 Speaker 2: You don't have to live with that fear, the regret

6:47 Speaker 2: the rest of your life when you recommit your life

6:50 Speaker 2: to God. When you say, God, I messed up. I

6:52 Speaker 2: did things I'm not supposed to do. I went off

6:55 Speaker 2: track with God. Here I am help me, God, Here

6:58 Speaker 2: I am take me here I am. Receive me when

7:02 Speaker 2: you have that heart. I'm telling you, just like this lady,

7:05 Speaker 2: God brought out a beautiful miracle out of a mistake.

7:09 Speaker 2: I'm telling you God is going to bring out something

7:11 Speaker 2: awesome out of the sin, out of that consequence, out

7:14 Speaker 2: of the very bad choice that you made in and

7:17 Speaker 2: through your life. God, I pray that this world will

7:19 Speaker 2: go in the name of Jesus and encourage each and

7:22 Speaker 2: everyone under the sound of my voice. If they're dealing

7:24 Speaker 2: with some area of regret guilt, I pray that today

7:28 Speaker 2: they will experience that breakthrough, experience that freedom, experience, that

7:33 Speaker 2: knowing without a shadow of that that they are forgiven

7:37 Speaker 2: and that you have a new plan for their life,

7:39 Speaker 2: and You're going to do something awesome and spectacular in

7:42 Speaker 2: and through their life. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.

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