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Bringing the Bib!e to Life
Guilt & Repentance Part 2
Track V.10
Kent Kloter Pastor of Biblical Counseling
Biblical Counseling Workshops
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A FACT declared by the law.
Guilt is a Position
Guilt is NOT 1st & primarily a feeling
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
(Romans 3:19 ESV)
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
Guilt Repentance
Forgiveness
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Guilt is a Position
Culpability for sin in four
dimensions
Omission
(Neglecting the law)
Commission (Breaking the law)
Presumptuous (Willful / Rebellious)
I know, but I don’t want to
obey
I know I shouldn’t, but I break God’s law
Ignorant (Not knowing the law)
Don’t know; don’t obey
Don’t know; Break God’s law
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
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Guilt Repentance
Forgiveness
NOT 1st & primarily a feeling
Discerning Guilt Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt Dealing with Guilt
Conscience Rom.2:15
Guilt Repentance
Forgiveness
God’s Word Rom. 3:19
Holy Spirit Jn.16:8-9
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Creation Rom.1:19-21
Guilt Repentance
Forgiveness
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Believer’s Conscience
n Clear (good) conscience - biblically informed
n Defiled - soiled, polluted, stained or contaminated by sin (1 Cor. 8:7)
n Weak n uninformed of biblical Truth n Un-exercised (Rom. 14:1-5, 23)
n Calloused - repeated exposure to sin and repeated failure to “walk in the light
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt Dealing with Guilt
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Biblically Informed Conscience
Rigid, Cruel Uninformed Conscience
Unexersized Conscience
Calloused Conscience
1) Defines an objective standard, i.e. the mountain (major premise)
2) Measures oneself against that standard, i.e. the flight-path (minor premise)
3) Conclude if the standard was kept or violated. (i.e. we’re on collision-course and therefore “guilty” before God)
(i.e. we’re not on collision-course and therefore “not guilty before God)
How Does the Conscience Work?
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
Guilt Repentance
Forgiveness
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Godly vs. Worldly Sorrow he [Titus] told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for
me, so that I rejoiced still more. 8For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 10For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 11For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. (2 Cor.7:7-11)
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Reason Remember
Repent
Consideration Conviction Contrition
Confession Commitment
Change
Mind Will
Emotions
In thinking 1st
H.S.
True Repentance involves…
Reason Remember
Repent Reject Renew
Re-clothe Rejoice
Man’s Way
“take guilt out of the equation” (ignore)
Label it “False Guilt”
Forgive yourself
Guilt
Repentance Forgiveness
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
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Man’s Way - Ignore
Ignoring a state of guilt is dangerous – A BLINDFOLD WON’T STOP A GUILLOTINE
Ignoring emotions is folly.
Guilt or innocence must be established OBJECTIVELY
Guilt
Repentance Forgiveness
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
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Man’s Way- False Guilt
a “feeling-oriented” and man-centered belief-system. “rejecting feelings” is dangerous; fails to judge by God’s standard & must be repented of. Technically, “false guilt” describes false value-systems and false or inaccurate comparisons of morality [personal actions] and ethics [standards of behavior which are NOT biblical]. Matt. 4:4 [Deut. 4:2 (see also Prov. 30:6; Gal. 3:15; Rev. 22:18-19) 2 Cor. 7:10b …
Guilt
Repentance Forgiveness
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
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Man’s Way- Forgive Self
• not taught in the Bible • Inability or unwillingness to grasp and accept forgiveness • fails to see God’s righteousness and the sinfulness of sin (the ONLY hope for forgiveness is the judicial granting of forgiveness from God. (1 Jn.1:9) • Fails to see the power of the Blood • Fails to take thoughts captive 2 Cor. 10:3-4 • Fails to acknowledge the depth of one’s sin-nature • Prideful “I can’t accept that I was that bad”
Guilt
Repentance Forgiveness
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
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Guilt is a Call to Repentance & Reconciliation
1. Assume an attitude of humility
2. Address only those involved
3. Admit specific sins, don’t generalize
4. Accept responsibility
5. Avoid excuses, “if”, “but”, “maybe”
Guilt
Repentance Forgiveness
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
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6. Apologize (express genuine regret)
7. Ask for forgiveness, allow time
8. Accept consequences
9. Alter your behavior
10. Abort the temptation to hold others to your standards
Guilt
Repentance Forgiveness
Why Guilt?
Defining Guilt
Discerning Guilt
Dealing with Guilt
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Guilt is a Call to Repentance & Reconciliation
Homework
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Summarize your main take-aways from tonight.
Review communication & conflict resolution class notes.
Ask yourself if there are any relationships you have that may have unresolved conflicts. Go through the processes you’ve learned, pray, reflect, repent, begin the process of reconciliation.
Going D"eper
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(add same stuff from conflict resolution)
Bringing the Bib!e to Life
March 12, 2012
Kent Kloter
508-1755
Biblical Counseling Workshops
