How to Spot and Let Go of Shame

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Jackie Hill Perry, Jasmine Holmes, and Melissa Kruger discuss how the Bible views shame, how to identify it, and when and how we should let go of it.

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0:00.0	shame isolates and repentance restores. So back to Adam and Eve, repentance of their guilt would
0:08.0	have been, we hear God walking in the garden and we're like, God, help us. We ate the fruit and now
0:15.2	we look down and we're naked. And I don't do what, what do we do? Like, what do we do to be made
0:19.6	right? And then when God asks, what did you do? Adam is not like, well, it was this woman and he's
0:23.2	not like, it was the serpent. It's like, no, it was me. And I'm trapped and I meet you and whatever
0:27.9	the consequences, it's better than the alternative. That's what shame does. It drives us to hide.
0:38.4	Hey y'all and welcome to Let's Talk, a podcast from the Gospel Coalition podcast network where we seek
0:44.4	to apply biblical wisdom to everyday life. My name is Jackie Hulperi and I am here with my
0:50.4	buddies, AKA my buckles, Melissa Krueger and Jasmine Holmes. Melissa, what are we going to talk about
0:57.3	today? Today we are going to be talking about shame, which I think is something that we all experience
1:04.9	at some level. But it's also complicated. And so I think the place we can start is kind of how do
1:12.6	we distinguish between shame and guilt? Because the Bible talks about both. It does. A lot.
1:19.7	Actually, quite a lot. I mean, the whole sacrificial system in some sense is built around the
1:26.2	concept of there's guilt out there. Right. So how do we look at the difference between shame and guilt?
1:35.6	I think that the most important thing is to start at the beginning. So where we're shame and guilt
1:41.9	both born and that's the garden. Adam and Eve sinned. God told them not to do something. They did
1:49.3	it. And the thing about guilt is that you don't have to feel guilt in order to be guilty of something.
1:54.1	Like, like even if you're a sociopath and you go on an ax murdering spray, your guilt is not
1:59.5	determined by how bad you feel about what you did. It's determined by the fact that what you did
2:04.0	is against the law. Yeah. And so Adam and Eve sinned. They went against the law of God. But
2:11.1	that sin came with a feeling of shame and a feeling of needing to cover up their nakedness before God.
2:18.7	And so at first, Adam and Eve were like naked and unashamed in the garden living their married
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