Guilt is a nagging emotion that can ruin an otherwise good day.

For example, after consuming a big bowl of chocolate ice cream, sometimes we feel remorseful.

But it's nothing like the shame we feel after we've really blown it.

That crushing weight of failure whispers,

You'll never recover from this.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reveals why guilt usually wins over grace in our lives,

and how we can break free from its stranglehold.

In our study of Paul's letter to the Romans,

let's discover this magnificent truth together,

where sin abounds, grace super abounds.

Well, we're in a section of Romans that is challenging to say the least, but it is neither

confusing nor convoluted. It is just simply compressed. A lot of great thoughts surrounding

a very simple principle that we're going to unfold today that will help you understand

why we seem to live under such guilt and under such fear of death.

I'll be reading from Romans 5 beginning in verse 12 down through verse 21.

Romans 512.

Therefore, just as through one man, sin entered into the world and death through sin,

and so death spread to all men because all sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed. The word

means charged to the account of another. But sin is not charged to the account of another

when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the

likeness of the offense of Adam, who was a type of him who was to come. But the free gift is not

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