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2 Corinthians chapter 7 verse 10.

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret,

whereas worldly grief produces death.

This is really interesting to think about grieving over sin in different ways.

There's a godly way to do that and there's a worldly way to do that.

Oh godly way to grieve and a worldly way to grieve. So what's the difference?

Well godly grief produces repentance that leads to salvation. So get the picture of godly grief here.

It's acknowledging sin, it's feeling sorrow over sin,

like grieving over sin.

Think Psalm 51, when David has committed adultery with Bathsheba,

and he is grieving over his sin. He's crying out for God's mercy because he knows he has

sinned not just against this woman and her husband but against God.

Against you, you only have I sinned, he says in Psalm 51.

So he acknowledges his sin, he grieves over his sin, and it produces a repentance that leads to salvation.

He turns from his sin because he knows he needs salvation, he knows what he has done is not right, and so his grieving leads to action, his grieving leads to a

mercy of God in salvation. That's Godly grief.

Worldly grief, though, is different.

Worldly grief may acknowledge sin

and may even feel sorrow over sin,

but it's not sorrow over hurting someone else and ultimately sorrow over

disobeying God. Maybe it's sorrow over getting caught. Maybe it's sorrow over getting caught.

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