Daily Truth host addresses the burden of guilt by rejecting cultural denial and crushing self-condemnation as futile paths. He contrasts these with the blasphemous lie of claiming innocence against God's word, ultimately presenting salvation through grace and faith in Christ as the only resolution. This theological framework challenges listeners to stop reinterpreting their pasts or drowning in anxiety, instead finding true relief by trusting Jesus as their sole guilt bearer. [Automatically generated summary]
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Trusting Jesus to Bear Guilt00:03:30
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Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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The late, great R.C. Sproul said this.
When he was speaking with unbelievers, he would debate the reliability of the Bible.
He would talk about the proof of the resurrection.
He would talk about the nature of the triune God, all these different things, but eventually it would boil down to one question What do you do with your guilt?
The way I see it, there's only three options.
You convince yourself that you have no guilt because you have no sin.
You do what many in our culture do today, especially in California, especially Hollywood, especially the media.
You reinterpret all of your past through a new narrative.
And turns out, you actually never did anything wrong.
Turns out, all of your worst mistakes were actually just really reasonable and justified reactions to the reality of living around a bunch of wretched people.
You're not bad.
It's just everybody else in your life is bad.
And you've actually never done anything wrong.
And innately, deep down inside, you're actually a really good person.
And if God, you know, He'll take intentions into account.
And although your actions might have looked wrong, they're really reasonable given the circumstances, given the lay of the land, all the.
All the ridiculous people in your life, you've always been a victim, you've always been innocent, and everything you've done is justified.
That's one way to deal with your guilt.
But at the end of the day, you know you're still guilty.
And even if you don't, that's not the mercy, but rather the judgment of God, that He would allow you to so deceive yourself that you would feel guilt free, and then one day stand before Him and your guilt comes rushing back in.
Second thing you can do with your guilt is you can sit underneath it and be crushed by the weight of your guilt.
And for those of you who fit this category, I feel for you.
This whole week, I have been praying for you.
Some of you, you're not trying to pretend that you're innocent.
You know you're guilty.
And for years, you felt condemnation.
For years, you felt depression and anxiety.
You know you don't measure up.
You know you made mistakes in parenting.
You know you messed up your kids' life and all that.
You feel guilty for all these things.
I have so much, by God's grace and by His Spirit, I have pastoral concern and care for you.
I have.
Very little for that first category.
I have far less concern for those who are lying about God by saying they're not guilty.
God says you're guilty.
You say you're not, you're making God out to be a liar.
So I have less concern for the blasphemer and the person who's calling God a liar.
I have much concern for those who acknowledge and have given assent.
See, the problem is that you haven't yet implicitly trusted Jesus to be the guilt bearer for you.
The first option, you tell yourself you have no guilt.
The second option, you sit crushed underneath your guilt.
The third option, You're saved by grace through faith in Christ.
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