What if you could wake up tomorrow morning completely free from the crushing weight of guilt?

Imagine living without that nagging voice that whispers, you're not good enough, or you've blown it again.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reveals the

beautiful outcome when we stop groveling in guilt and start resting in God's magnificent grace.

It's not Chuck's idea. The doctrine of grace is clearly spelled out for us in Paul's letter to

the Romans chapter 5. You see, grace doesn't merely forgive, it transforms,

liberates, and charms us into righteousness in ways legalism never could.

Romans 512 takes us far back in time to a place called the Garden of Eden.

That's where God placed the first man he created and shortly thereafter placed the woman alongside him.

And he made it clear to Adam and Eve that everything in the garden

they were to enjoy.

How gracious is that?

But the tree of the knowledge of good and evil don't eat of it.

The day you eat of it, dying, you will die, literally.

Dying physically, that will kick in, you will die

instantly, spiritually. There will be a gap between your relationship with me as soon as you eat.

To make matters worse, you will open a sewage pipe that will pollute the stream of humanity the rest of time.

Don't eat.

Don't take of the tree.

You and I know that Adam ate, and as a result, theologians tell us he acted as our federal head.

And because he ate and sinned,

so we have the same pollution in our system. It's impossible to bring a child into this world free of sin because there's never been a parent free of sin, who came from parents who were sinful.

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