Experiencing Freedom from Shame (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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There is hope and freedom in Christ for all who carry shame. Using Scripture, Dr. Erwin Lutzer helps you as a believer to overcome shame, replacing it with the beauty of God’s grace through Jesus’ death on the cross. Learn about overcoming secondhand guilt and the five steps to clearing your conscience in this spiritually uplifting conversation.

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0:00.0	In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote that conscience does make cowards of us all.
0:12.7	This is focused on the family with Jim Daly, and today we'll be talking with Dr. Erwin Lutzer
0:17.3	about keeping a clear conscience with God and others. I'm John Fuller.
0:22.9	John, Satan loves when he can neutralize us as believers and discourage us and, you know,
0:30.4	really play on the despair that is in most human hearts because we aren't perfect people.
0:35.2	We are sinners saved by grace.
0:46.7	And Christians need not be held captive to that sin, riddled with guilt, because God wants us to live with freedom and joy and peace of mind.
0:54.0	And I know our discussion with Dr. Lutzer today will help ease so many burdens that you may be carrying today. I want you to lean in
0:55.4	with us. This is not going to be the milk. It'll be the meat of the word today. So let's get into it
1:01.7	and start talking to our great guest. Yeah. And Dr. Lutzer is a very popular author and speaker,
1:06.3	Pastor Emeritus of Moody Church in Chicago and served as senior pastor there for 36 years. Of the books he's
1:13.1	written, the one that really forms the foundation for today's conversation, is the power of a
1:18.2	clear conscience. Let God free you from your past. Look for the details about our guest and his book
1:24.9	in the program description. Dr. Lutzer, it is so good to have you back here at Focus on the Family. Welcome.
1:30.7	I'm so glad to be back, and I thank God for this ministry, and thank you, John, and thank you, Jim.
1:36.2	Great to be with you again.
1:38.0	It's so stimulating. You know, the listeners and the viewers love it when you're here,
1:43.0	because you do give them the meat of the word.
1:45.8	And people respond.
1:47.3	Every time you're on, it's one of our most popular shows.
1:50.1	So thank you for the effort to get here and to be part of this.
1:54.0	Let me start this idea of conscience.
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