Hope Community Church

The Struggle is Real: Guilt

Kevin Kollock

13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

COLOSSIANS 2:13–14 NASB

What is guilt?

5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

EPHESIANS 2:5 NASB

How does God defeat guilt?

11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. 12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

ROMANS 8:11–12 NASB

How do we move forward in victory after overcoming guilt?

19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

ROMANS 6:19 NASB
BOTTOM LINE

God defeated guilt so I can move forward and follow Him in faith!