1. Grappling With GUILT
Romans 8:1
By David Dann

2. Grappling With GUILT
Guilt is a major problem.

3. Grappling With GUILT Ezra 9:6
6 And I said: "O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens."

4. Grappling With GUILT Romans 3:23
23 …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…

5. Grappling With GUILT
Guilt is a major problem.

6. Grappling With GUILT Guilt is a major problem.
It is easy for us to lose our balance when it comes to guilt

7. Grappling With GUILT Guilt
Defined objectively as “the state of one who has committed an offense” &
Defined subjectively as “a feeling of deserving blame for offenses” (

8. Grappling With GUILT 1 Timothy 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron…

9. Grappling With GUILT Proverbs 30:20
20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, "I have done no wickedness."

10. Grappling With GUILT Guilt is a major problem.
It is easy for us to lose our balance when it comes to guilt

11. Grappling With GUILT Guilt is a major problem.
It is easy for us to lose our balance when it comes to guilt
How can we make sure that we are properly handling our guilt?

12. Grappling With GUILT

13. Grappling With GUILT
Causes

14. Grappling With GUILT
Causes
Transgression

15. Grappling With GUILT Causes Ezekiel 18:20
20 "The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself."
Transgression

16. Grappling With GUILT Causes Transgression James 1:13-15
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Transgression

17. Grappling With GUILT Causes James 2:10
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
Transgression

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Causes
Training

19. Grappling With GUILT Causes Proverbs 22:6
6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Training

20. Grappling With GUILT Causes Romans 14:23
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.
Training

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22. Grappling With GUILT
Consequences

23. Grappling With GUILT
Consequences
Suppressed Productivity

24. Grappling With GUILT Consequences Suppressed Productivity
Strange Behavior

25. Grappling With GUILT Consequences Suppressed Productivity
Strange Behavior
Self-Destruction

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27. Grappling With GUILT
Cases

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Cases
Adam & Eve

29. Grappling With GUILT Cases Genesis 3:8
8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Adam & Eve

30. Grappling With GUILT
Cases
Esau

31. Grappling With GUILT Cases Hebrews 12:17
17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
Esau

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Cases
Saul

33. Grappling With GUILT Cases 1 Samuel 18:11
11 And Saul cast the spear, for he said, "I will pin David to the wall!" But David escaped his presence twice.
Saul

34. Grappling With GUILT Cases 1 Samuel 24:16-17
16 So it was, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
17 Then he said to David: "You are more righteous than I; for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil.
Saul

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Cases
David

36. Grappling With GUILT Cases 2 Samuel 12:13
13 So David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die."
David

37. Grappling With GUILT Cases Psalm 51:14
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
David

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Cases
Judas

39. Grappling With GUILT Cases Judas Matthew 27:3-5
3 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!"
5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Judas

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Cases
Peter

41. Grappling With GUILT Cases Luke 22:61-62
61 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times."
62 So Peter went out and wept bitterly.
Peter

42. Grappling With GUILT Cases John 21:15
15 So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Feed My lambs."
Peter

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Cases
Paul

44. Grappling With GUILT Cases Acts 8:3
3 As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.
Paul

45. Grappling With GUILT Cases Acts 9:1-2
1 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Paul

46. Grappling With GUILT Cases 1 Timothy 1:15
15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Paul

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Clearing

49. Grappling With GUILT
Clearing
Christ

50. Grappling With GUILT Clearing Romans 3:23
23 …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…
Christ

51. Grappling With GUILT Clearing John 8:24
24 "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."
Christ

52. Grappling With GUILT Clearing 1 Peter 1:18-19
18 …knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Christ

53. Grappling With GUILT Clearing 1 Peter 1:22-23
22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever…
Christ

54. Grappling With GUILT Clearing 1 Peter 3:21
21 There is also an antitype which now saves us -- baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ…
Christ

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Clearing
Confidence

56. Grappling With GUILT Clearing 1 John 3:20-21
20 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.
Confidence

57. Grappling With GUILT Clearing 1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Confidence

58. Grappling With GUILT Clearing Romans 8:1
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Confidence

59. Grappling With GUILT Clearing Hebrews 8:12
12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
Confidence

60. Grappling With GUILT Clearing 1 John 2:28
28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
Confidence

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Clearing
Comprehension

62. Grappling With GUILT Clearing 1 Corinthians 4:4
4 For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.
Comprehension

63. Grappling With GUILT Clearing Proverbs 28:13
13 He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
Comprehension

64. Jesus is the answer!!!