Overcoming Condemnation
I. Condemnation is not the will
of God-Romans 8:1-2, 10:11
A.
If you are born again, God never designed for you to be condemned-Romans
8:1
1. God has not sentenced you to damnation, judged you worthy of punishment,
pronounced you utterly wrong, rejected you, disapproved of you, or pronounced
you guilty; in fact he’s done the opposite of all of that
2. Hebrews 2:11-Jesus is not ashamed to call be brethren
B.
When you sin, don’t focus on how you should
feel, but rather what do you believe and what should you do
1. People say you should feel bad when you sin, you should be ashamed, and
guilt is good sometimes-That’s a lie and it focuses on the wrong stuff
2. I don’t like to do things that displease/grieve my Master, my Father, or
the Holy Spirit
3. I believe what I did was wrong, I believe remission, cleansing, and
forgiveness is available through the blood and therefore I confess my sin and I
never take my feelings into account
C.
Yielding to feelings of guilt and
condemnation is a walk in the flesh; you’re opposing what the Word says; it’s
says there’s no condemnation and you say there is
D.
Conviction
Vs. Condemnation
1.
Conviction
says what you did was not right; condemnation says you’re not right because of
what you did
2.
Conviction
comes from the HS; convincing you that what you did is wrong-Jn 16:8
3.
Condemnation
comes from Satan; condemning YOU as wrong, guilty, unapproved
II. As a Christian God gave you
specific instructions to follow if you sin-1 John 1:9
A.
When you sin you need to confess your sin
1. It didn’t say cry about it, feel guilty for three days, he said confess
it
B.
Jesus is faithful-trustworthy,
reliable, loyal to forgive you of your sins
1. Jesus will forgive you and cleanse you every time you come to him
C.
Jesus is just-Approved
by God, right to forgive you and cleanse
1. He has been authorized by God to do it and therefore has a right to do
it
D.
Jesus will forgive-Cancelling a debt, to release, to forfeit the right to hold
captive because of wrong, disregard, not discuss
E.
Jesus will cleanse-Make clean, purify, to make clean from physical stains or
dirt
F.
The rob of righteousness we wear (Isaiah
61:10)
1. We can fall into sin and get that rob dirty and to forgive us of the sin
would mean that he won’t hold that stain against us, but the consciousness of
us falling for him and for us and would always be there
2. Jesus didn’t stop at forgiveness he went ahead and cleansed that rob of
the sin to remove so that neither he nor you would be conscious of it when you
came to him
III. He remembers your sin no
more
A.
Isaiah 43:25-26-He blotted your sin out for
his own sake
1. If He doesn’t want to remember your sins, then why are you remembering
them
a.
If He doesn’t want to be conscious of them
then why should you-Eph 5:1,2
2. Will-It’s His will to not remember my sins
3. Put him in remembrance of this; not how unrighteous you feel you are
B.
Colossians 2:14-Jesus didn’t just pay the
price for your sin, he erased all evidence that you ever committed any wrong
1. Romans 6:23-A price has to be paid for sin and you owed your life; there
was a note
2. Romans 4:4-5-Abraham was a sinner, who had righteousness credited to his
account
3. Romans 4:25-Jesus made my account balance by making me righteous
C.
Philippians 3:13-One thing I’ve done and that
is forgot
IV. You deal with feelings of
guilt and condemnation like you do any other feeling you have that doesn’t line
up with the Word; you fight it off with the word of God, faith in the word, and
the words of your mouth,
A.
You have
to make the decision that you’re going to believe the Word concerning your
right-standing with God
1.
The Word
says that God will remember your sins no more, you’ve been cleansed, forgiven,
you are right with God and have been absolved from all guilt-Rom 4:25
a.
Whether
you feel like those things are true or not they are
b.
My
feelings have nothing to do with rather I’m the righteousness of God
2.
If you
only believe you’re righteous when you feel like it you’re in trouble
B.
You have
to resist feelings guilt, just like you resist any other feeling that doesn’t
line up with the word of God
1.
Just
because you confess your sin and receive your forgiveness doesn’t mean that the
feelings of guilt and condemnation won’t be there
a.
My
feelings are not the meter whereby I gauge whether or not I’m forgiven; if you
confessed it he forgave you
2. Just because you feel guilty doesn’t mean you are
a.
We often
wrongly conclude that if we feel guilty, we are no longer in right-standing
with God; Our feelings cannot change the fundamental reality of our
righteousness in Christ;
3.
2
Corinthians 5:7-We are living are life by faith, not be feeling
C.
Yielding to condemnation is simply being more
conscious of sin that you’ve committed than you are the blood of Jesus and what
it has done in your life
1. You might feel condemned, but that doesn’t mean you are
V. To walk free from guilt and
condemnation you have to have faith in the blood (Rom 3:25)
A.
The Blood has justifying power---Ro 5:9 Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
B.
The blood has purchasing power---Ac 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the
Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath
purchased with his own blood.
C.
The blood has forgiving power---Eph 1:7 In
whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according
to the riches of his grace;
D.
The blood has access power---Eph 2:13 But now
in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ.
E.
The blood has purchasing power---Col 1:14 In
whom we have redemption through his blood, even
the forgiveness of sins:
F.
The blood has reconciling power---Col 1:20
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all
things unto himself; by him, I say,
whether they be things in earth, or
things in heaven.
G.
The blood has purging power---Heb 9:14 How
much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God?
H.
The blood has cleansing power---1Jo 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
I.
The blood has washing power---Re 1:5 And from
Jesus Christ, who is the faithful
witness, and the first begotten of
the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and
washed us from our sins in his own blood,
J.
The blood has take away power---Heb 10:4 For it is not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
K.
The blood has remitting power---Ro 3:25 Whom
God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
L.
The blood has boldness-giving power---Heb
10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus,
M. The blood has sanctifying power---Heb 13:12 Wherefore
Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered
without the gate.
N.
The blood has overcoming power---Re 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
O.
The blood has raising dead power and strengthenign power---Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, that
brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
P.
A big part of having faith in the blood is
agreeing with what it says (Hebrews 12:24)