The urgency of our problem with guilt is not that we feel miserable, but that God's

name has been blasphemed by every sin you've ever committed.

If that is our problem with guilt, how did Jesus deal with it?

That problem of guilt is what John Piper addresses from Romans 3, 1926 in this episode of

Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on February 21, 1982.

This is a universal experience.

Everybody at some time or other has had the bad feeling of not doing what he ought to have

done.

Even people who say that there is no such thing as right or wrong, wind up being trapped

by the law of God written on their hearts, they may set out to prove that all ethics are

relative and arbitrary, and nobody can say what's right or wrong, and then they wind

up telling you you better agree with them and think that what they have said is right.

And if you don't, then you're wrong.

No one has ever successfully erased the sense of ought that God has put in the soul of

every human being.

Our moral sensibilities may be so twisted that what we think is right is in fact the very

opposite of right, but every person who exists thinks that some things ought to be done,

and other things ought not to be done.

You've all felt what it's like to do things that you know you ought not to have done.

That failure to do what we know we ought to have done we call guilt, and those rotten, miserable

feelings that accompany that we call guilt feelings or a bad conscience.

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