Guilt and the Ghost of Christmas Past

White Horse Inn

Sola Media

Grace, Scripture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, God, Knowledge, Christ, Gospel, Jesus, Faith, Belief, Religion, Christian, History, Theology, Bible, Reformation, Horton, Discipleship

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” In this special episode, Bob Hiller shares how the Ghost of Christmas Past in Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' teaches us about guilt, the law, and how we are freed from its condemnation through Christ.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It always seems to come right when I am on the cusp of sleep. The warmth I have found in my bed is replaced
0:16.4	with the icy chill of the past. Memories of former sins howl in my thoughts, the cold hard facts of history past, as clear
0:27.4	and as bright as they are judgmental and dark. The devil comes to my conscience, just like Scrooge's ghost of Christmas past, using my history against me.
0:39.0	The comfort of my bed is replaced with the cold winter of guilt.
0:44.3	Ebenezer Scrooge knew this winter.
0:47.0	He was undone by his past.
0:49.6	Even the pleasant memories so full of warmth and joy, laughter and merriment, only served to shed further
0:56.4	light on how far he had fallen.
1:00.1	He was a shell of his former self.
1:03.2	Old Fezywig was the picture of success and happiness
1:06.3	everything young Ebenezer would aspire to be.
1:09.8	But youthful aspirations towards success and become the stinging cold chains of greed, which bound
1:15.7	him and from which he could not be free.
1:21.0	His love for money had turned his heart to stone. He rejected love for money.
1:26.5	And he saw it all so clearly. The blistering winds of the past continued to how.
1:38.0	Scrooge cried out against the ghost of Christmas past. Leave me.
1:39.5	Take me back.
1:41.5	Hunting no longer! But the ghost? back. See you cannot change the past.
1:55.0	The ghost of Christmas Pass is much like that Satan of old, the devil whose name means accuser.
2:04.0	He loves to haunt us in the dark of night with our past sins,
2:07.0	to present our lives as hopeless to our consciences.
2:10.0	He loves to use your past to remove your hope.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sola Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sola Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.