The Guilt is Gone

Welcoming you to victory today. I'm going to share with you a message that operates recently operated, it will be a blessing. More information you can always go to our website. That's victory Taft.org or call us your church office 80478881. Let's go to that service right now where God is moving by his spirit to turn your Bible with me to Romans chapter 8 I'm reading the first four verses and I'll be reading from the living Bible, so there is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus for the power of the life-giving spirit in this power is mine. Through Christ Jesus has freed me from the vicious circle of standing there, we are saved from sin's grasp.

By knowing the commandments of God because we can't and don't keep them.

But God put into effect a different plan to save us.

He sent his own son in a human body like ours except that honors are simple and destroyed Satan's control over us by giving himself as a sacrifice for our sins. So now we can obey God's laws. If we follow after the Holy Spirit and no longer obey the evil nature within us. When Adam and Eve sin in the Garden of Eden. It impacted the entire human race.

Here we are the 21st-century and man has been plunged into degradation spiritually and morally. We are bankrupt. I believe that the most powerful weapon that Satan has in his arsenal is a guilty conscience numbers 32, 23, declares the show your sin will find you out years ago a beautiful young woman who lived in a small town in what just outside of Douglas Georgia where my wife is from went missing. They didn't know what happened.

In fact, her story has been told over some of these the dramatized versions of events that you see like a unsolved mysteries and for years nobody ever knew what happened to she and our niece who lives in Douglas Georgia were contestants in the Miss Georgia passion badge years ago. So we have some knowledge of this young lady indirectly through her and it was the talk of South Georgia for years and nobody can ever find out what happened will a few weeks ago and I've heard it on the news a few weeks ago there was a young man that confessed to the police. He and a friend of his were seniors in high school where this young woman talk and they abducted her and raped her and horribly and brutally killed her and burned her body up for years. There wasn't a trace. And finally, one young man broke down and confessed his crime. Now why did he do it when they asked him why now, after all these years.

He says every day and every night. My conscience torments me. The Bible says the wicked flee when no man pursues know what that means is a guilty conscience can make you paranoid a guilty conscience can devastate you in your emotions and ruin your life and make you miserable. Somebody say a man, but when the Bible talks about a guilty conscience.

It just simply says that it doesn't apply to the born-again child of God see through the blood of Jesus for what Christ did for us all. The cross of Calvary 2000 years ago, we could be totally free from a guilty conscience describing the death of Jesus in Hebrews 914 the writer said, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God for your contents are buzzing conscience, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Now Romans eight verse one says there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

I want to ask you three questions this morning and I believe that in these three questions you're going to find the answer to a lot of life perplexing questions about deal. The first of these questions is this when does God clear your conscience of deal wealth is right there in the Scripture says there is therefore now everybody sleep now is always now. And God lives in the eternal now. That's what Hebrews 11 once is now faith is God lives in the eternal now and the very moment all about to get excited. The very moment you receive Jesus Christ as your Savior, God clears your record the very moment you ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart and sit on the throne of your heart and be the Lord of your life. You are free from a guilty conscience somebody knows what I'm talking about Stella.

Big event. Ephesians doing this is by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast. Titus revises not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, Jesus, and not given them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Romans chapter 10 verse nine is a very familiar passage all about his says.

In verse nine that if we confess our sins, that he's faithful to forgive us and save us and then in verse 13 it says that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. So if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God is raising from the dead, you shall be. Say hallelujah that when you are born again child of God.

God removes from you a guilty conscience. Aren't you glad about that. That would be a great place for you. Just to give God praise a man that not only at that moment is the guilt goal but the guilt is gone forever. Somebody say forever. I don't know why people want to keep dredging the pastor don't I will.

This is what I used to do.

This is what happened to me and this is wild in the mess on the and it seems like the day Christians want to delve deep into their past and even talk about regressing to the one I don't know what you did wrong in your womb, but shame on me. Whatever it was. I mean, how ridiculous is that the Vatican regress into the world. I'll find out why I'm so jacked up I did what I've learned watching this little grandbaby and I had to figure way to get her in the sermon you're some but I think and what does an eight week old baby have a laugh about. I believe that when God formed her and her mother's womb that she spent not much in the dark with God and I believe that if you and I could go back maybe it remember the things that we knew when we were born I guess my because there are times when not doing my best to get her attention and upright in her facial she's doing to get those pretty blue eyes and she's looking off to the side and something in every map and her lips will just curl up in a smile and then she'll look over there on that side and all of a sudden it occurred to me. I'm competing with angels trying to get her attention, making funny faces and there's an angel over there somewhere. Sleep I love you God loves you.

You're special and she's been thinking that that's cool Lindsay, looking over there and and Paul) to make her laugh. You know, I believe all my heart that God created you for a reason and that reason was not to be miserable and it wasn't to go God's knowledge. You because he wanted to he wants you to know that you can walk with him. John Brown had so not see it in Micah chapter 7 verse 90 I will have compassion upon you would subdue your iniquities, and I will cast your sins into the depths of the sea in another place he said that he would put our sins between his shoulder blades try to look at anything between usual and then he said I'll remove your sins from you as far as darkness is from light as far as the east is from the with you when I was a boy I try to figure that one out. Why did they say north from south. He said east from west because you can go waste and you're always going with Easter never going West and the thing is that he said I'm going to place your sins number one where I can see the and number two never run into again.

Somebody say praise God so it feels good to be forgiven. Know what David said, blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven, and whose transgressions are covered. That means peaceful or happy you're happy today because you know you say hallelujah hello so when does it happen now. How does it happen sacred is 517 says BMN is in Christ, he is a new creation.

Old things are passed away. All things are new on the some help purchase him as well get some of these preachers over here come up here rich and Pastor Shannon and pastor Eric come up. And yesterday, by the way, how many of you got to go to our prime timers saying what it fun that was great.

That was great and I had to pay $100 to get pastor Eric and pastor want to sing with did not pay up Johnny. I paid update and and it was worth it to do a better job know this and I don't want anybody leave, for you are going to be spirit. Aren't you the spirit in you going to be sold snappier. So you will be the body is different than your opponents. There you the body. Okay RX spirit soul and body.

When God made us aside made us spirit, soul and body. The Bible says that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. So you have the presence of the Lord you in John IV chapter Jesus that God is Spirit King James was the article a but he said literally. God is spirit so when God made us he made us preeminently and predominantly spirit okay and then you have a soldier possesses all your soul is the seat of your emotions and your intellect, and by the way this guy is neutral. Okay and down here you got the body or the flesh, and there's a lot of inflation and subtracting okay.

I want to what happened when Anthony seen they became freaks and something happen RX body come up if you will take the place that you stay there so spirit to come down here take the place of the body. I want this. This is what happened.

This is the unregenerate man today. This is why people think that you're weird is that I got saved and all my friends that I was weird on the same you are not the same. He the Bible says sacred is 517 if any man in his in Christ, he is a new creation. That's what you used to be. This is the unregenerate man and now God wants to restore you to what he is original plan for your life. So now what God did in the new birth is he changed to Adam and Eve hid from God because they had become monsters in this garden that God created for the and they went and hid themselves. By the way, you know what the answer was God asked Adam what was going on here is that woman will now nothing is ever changed as we still blame and that woman is it is that woman doesn't know I'm not buying that you use it with your eyes wide open. You have a direct revelation and you were told not to touch that trait because it represented my sovereignty as it is an Apple travel. What country was the point was that it just represented the sovereignty of God. You might call it the time. Three women go but anyway don't touch that belongs to me know what is God's went and found them and he said I'm going restore you, but not now you're going to suffer a while, but there's coming a day when this moment. That's a biological impossibility was atonement. Isaiah 740 therefore the Lord himself shall be designed to build a virgin shall conceive and bear a son said he didn't have Adams inherit sand like we do he start out with a clean slate not he was tempted in all pauses like we are without sin. But he did not start out with Adam sin so he was the seat of the one is that when the signal gets here. He will crush the head of the tempter going to go now I sit today because of the new birth. I am not body, soul and spirit. No, sir. I've been changed to myself and change don't think that's what people like this never seen a liquor store go out of business. You won't because this is the makeup of the average person that you made on your body soul and spirit like us in this guys neutral. He's the this is the seed of emotions in this is that your intellect and will follow whoever's in the driver seat so the reason a lot of people like go to church and they talk about what well I guess the roof of all in like your some got a big shot VIP center you think that because gases drive in the car. The flash flash is all about the flesh is all about Tuesday and so what happens in the new birth when you become a new creation is not that you just started going to church and you preach that shook the preachers and and you you you signed up to be a church member. Now you go to try to turn over new leaf. That's not a know it's a new life in Christ so went supernaturally when you were born again is what happened to back up your spirit where you belong spirit, soul and body.

That's who you are and that's God's plan for you and that's what happens in the new birth somebody say praise God, thank you. Good job to be five, the father you great job know what this is what's important. How did that happen. If you go down to verse 21 he who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God through faith in Christ say I am the righteousness of God is hard to say. But God said it, he said through Christ through the blood of Christ, you no longer under condemnation, you're no longer under this burden of a guilty conscience but you are the very righteousness of God. And God declared you righteous for what he did. Ezekiel 3623 2627 says our new heart wanted a new heart also will I give you a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I'll give you an heart of flesh, and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them. You know why I'm here today because I wanted to be here. Do you know why I didn't run around with a while woman this week course that but trying to get that woman in the house for 46 years so I don't need to run after another one would you know why didn't they want to know what is smoke a cigar this week did want to get a lot this week didn't want to, you know why I came here today wanting to know I want to go to prayer is unchanged. You might want to go to Wednesday night because of change. That's why I'm a new creation in Christ Jesus. And if you find your self habitually and continually living a lifestyle of sin, you have not been born again, but once you pass from death on the line you are lying to your home this morning so you can be free from guilt, but you keep your home it takes God to do it. God wants to do that in your life and make a new creature out of you know what happens when the guilt is gone it's because you are in Christ. It was it was towards incorrect to hundred and 50 times in the in the New Testament you have that expression in Christ or in him in Christ died with him so that I can live with him. They the Christ crucified the flesh with the affections and lessons applicable think it would be did with him.

We shall also live with him.

Also in Galatians 2 and 20 I am crucified with Christ.

Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth to make in the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 12 12 I beseech you therefore, brother Bob Mercer got that you present your bodies know what a living sacrifice what happens to a sacrifice it's dad it guys you present your bodies as a living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

The only way you can keep them big conformer squeezable list world is to become transformed through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says in Colossians chapter 3 if you did reason Christ, seek those things which are before Christ is on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above another things on the earth for your dad in your life is hid with Christ in God.

Bible says in Ephesians 4.verse 22 that you put off concerning the former conversation that means life, stop the old man, which is corrupt according to deceitful us and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man was a new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

I am not what I am going to be blood now in the sons of God… We shall bake but I am not what I used to be.

I am a child of God's up 1/2. I was on my sandwich.

What is my part in living guilt free life.

Turn with me in your Bible to Galatians chapter 5 Galatians chapter 5 watch this now, go verse 19 but when you follow your own wrong inclinations. Your lives will produce these evil results. Importantly, what they are these of the works of the flesh. But explain something to even though I'm a new creation, even though I've been born again even though I passed from death unto life, even though I am a child of God and my name is written in heaven because I'm tabernacle in flesh.

I am still subject to temptation by was the first greatest and third thing. There is no temptation taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful to not allow you or something to be tipped above that you're able, but will with that temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear. If you're not being tempted you are not alive hello you Stalemate That this wasn't well, I don't. This is about that. What about money. What about control. Some people it's all about control and manipulate other people there a lot of serums I don't have anything to do with sleep around them all now.

So you gonna make You find that have a great guy all your life as long as you are tabernacle in this way, you'll be tempted. That's not the good news is the good news is, again, with a special prayer for you.

I pray today that God will bless you and encourage you and that what you've heard today will stay with you and you'll be able to walk out your thank you so much for being a part of victory today for more information.

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