False Standards

False Standards

People who grow up with unrealistic standards from their parents, the media, or culture often have an "ideal" person in their head to which they compare themselves, and the result is relentless guilt or shame!

Community gets us more in touch with reality and therefore with our false standards.  Community also helps us see failure as normal.

Disconnection From Grace

FEELING GUILTY??

Why?

Disconnection From Grace

JAKE NEEDED MORE GRACE FROM GOD'S PEOPLE

WHEN ALL OF OUR BADNESS IS KNOWN -- AND LOVED BY GRACE -- IT LOSES ITS POWER.  THE GOAL IS FOR GRACE TO KNOW ALL OF OUR BAD PARTS, AND CONFESSION TO GOD AND OTHERS ACHIEVES THAT.

THE RESULT IS THAT GUILT IS DISSOLVED.

James 5:16

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"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed."

Wrong Teaching

GUILTY ??

WRONG TEACHING OR INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS CAN KEEP US FROM FEELING FORGIVEN.

YOU MAY JUST NOT KNOW!

What Does The Bible Really Say About Forgiveness

And God's Grace:

Psalm 103:12

Romans 7:1

Romans 8:33-39

Hebrews 10:1-3

 BUT ALL OF THIS ASSUMES THAT A PERSON IS CONFESSING HIS SIN TO GOD AND ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS.  WE CAN ONLY RECEIVE GOD'S FORGIVENESS TO THE DEGREE WE ARE CONFESSING.  SO MAKE SURE CONFESSION IS TAKING PLACE.

  IF CONFESSION IS TAKING PLACE, GOD WILL CLEANSE AND PURIFY US!

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1 John 1:9

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"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."

1 Peter 1:5-16

Giving all diligence,

• add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
• to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance,
• to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness,
• and to brotherly kindness love.

For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.


Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease.

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

New King James Version (NKJV)
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Without Spot Or Wrinkle

... just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love -Ephesians 1:4


... that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world -Phillipians 2:15

I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing -1 Timothy 6:13-14

Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord -Hebrews 12:14

New King James Version (NKJV)

Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Hebrews 9:12-15 The Message

If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.

Think On These Things:

Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.


Philippians 3:18, 19d - For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. ...  Their mind is on earthly things.

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New International Version (NIV)

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