The Value of Shame

Shame Defined “a negative emotion that combines feelings of dishonor, unworthiness, and embarrassment”- Encarta Dictionary

Shame Can Be a Powerful Tool For the Lord! What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:21-23 NKJV)

Man Designed With a Conscience But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. "Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?" This they said, testing Him, that they…

Man Designed With a Conscience might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. (John 8:1-9 NKJV)

Reasons We Feel Shame 2. Because Others Know Of Our Wrongdoing 1. When we know right from wrong. 2. Because Others Know Of Our Wrongdoing 3. The Knowledge of God

The Importance of Study We will not always learn the appropriate attitude from the world. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight! (Isaiah 5:20-21 NKJV)

The Importance of Study We need the scriptures to tell us right from wrong. Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Romans 3:20 NKJV)

The Importance of Study We need the scriptures to tell us right from wrong. Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. …

The Importance of Study We need the scriptures to tell us right from wrong. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner…

The Importance of Study We need the scriptures to tell us right from wrong. What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to…

The Importance of Study We need the scriptures to tell us right from wrong. be clear in this matter. Therefore, although I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you. (2 Corinthians 7:9-12 NKJV)

The Importance of Study We need the scriptures to help us grow in the right direction. But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. (2 Peter 1:5-7 NKJV)

How do some not feel shame? By continuing doing wrong. …gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. (1 Timothy 5:13 NKJV) Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. (James 3:10 NKJV) But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. And their message will spread like cancer… (2 Timothy 2:16-17 NKJV)

How do some not feel shame? By continuing doing wrong. Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, (1 Timothy 4:1-2 NKJV)

How do some not feel shame? By sinking deeper into sin. speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, (1 Timothy 4:2 NKJV) who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. (Ephesians 4:19 NKJV)

How do some not feel shame? By refusing to listen to God . "And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.' (Matthew 13:14-15 NKJV)

The Danger of Not Feeling Shame It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife! And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged…

The Danger of Not Feeling Shame (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:1-6 NKJV)

The Danger of Not Feeling Shame “Then they said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!" (Ex. 32:4)

The Danger of Not Feeling Shame You know the people, that they are set on evil. For they said to me, 'Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' And I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.” (Ex. 32:22-23)

The Danger of Not Feeling Shame “Now when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aaron had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies)” (Exodus 32:25 NKJV)

The Danger of Not Feeling Shame It may affect your dress. in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works. (1 Timothy 2:9-10 NKJV) Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. (Genesis 3:21 NKJV)

The Danger of Not Feeling Shame It may affect how you speak and your actions . But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. (2 Peter 2:12-14 NKJV)