If I'm Forgiven Why Do I Feel So Guilty

• Why Do I Feel So Guilty?

• Genesis 42:8-21
• Genesis 42:8-21
• 21 Then they said to one another,"We are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; therefore this distress has come upon us."

• Genesis 42:8-21
• Genesis 42:28 Then their hearts failed them and they were afraid, saying to one another, "What is this that God has done to us?"
• Why Do I Feel So Guilty?

• Effect of Guilt

• Because we ARE guilty

• Sin produces guilt
• Genesis 3:8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool
• Psalm 32:1-4
• Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered…3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer.
• Conscience Accuses
• Romans 2:15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)

• Guilt can bring repentance
• 2 Corinthians 7:9-10 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.

• Because we’re trying to measure up to other people’s standards

• Mark 7:1-8
• 1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem.2 Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
• Playing cards evil?
• Study to know what the Bible says…
• Romans 14 – don’t bind own rules on others
– Respect what the Bible says, respect own conscience, but don’t put own opinions on others
• Because we haven’t accepted the forgiveness of God

• Philippians 3:6-13
• 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.
• Paul accepted God’s forgiveness
• 1 Timothy 1:15 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.
• 2 Timothy 4:8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, …
• God provides complete forgiveness
• Romans 3:24-26 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
• God’s grace is the answer
• Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

• True Nature of God
• God Delights in Mercy
• Micah 7:18 Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.
• Guilt comes in different forms
• From God and His Word
• From brethren who don’t understand everything about the word of God
• From the devil who wants to discourage us so you’ll quit