The Lord's Prayer, Day 25

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Most people avoid guilt at all costs. Adults go to counseling to get rid of it. Parents try to keep their kids from it.

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0:00.0	Gilt can be good if it leads us to repentance. Here's Nancy DeMoss Wogglemouth.
0:06.9	Guilt is something that God has given as a, it's an engine light that goes on on the dashboard of our hearts that says there is something wrong in the engine.
0:16.7	There's something wrong in your heart. There is some way that you have responded to this person or this circumstance or this situation
0:23.5	that has made you feel guilty.
0:25.9	Now, that's not to say that we have to take responsibility for what others have done to us.
0:30.3	We're not responsible for that.
0:32.4	But if we want to be forgiven to have a clear conscience, we do have to take responsibility for our sense. Forgive us
0:41.8	our sins. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, September 6th, 2016. It's tempting to take guilt lightly, talking about guilty pleasures or thinking of guilt only in terms of diet and desserts.
1:07.0	But guilt is powerful. It can lead you to great condemnation or great freedom. It depends on how you deal with it. Nancy will explain continuing in a series called the Lord's Prayer. Jesse Jacobs is a college student who has made it possible to apologize without actually talking to the person that you've offended.
1:30.2	If your conscience is bothering you, but you're not really comfortable going and dealing with it in person,
1:35.4	you can call an apology hotline and leave an apology on an answering machine.
1:41.4	And apparently this hotline receives dozens of calls every week. People calling and
1:46.7	leaving apologies for everything from adultery to embezzlement. It's an amazing thing. Jacobs, who
1:54.9	created the hotline, says, it offers participants a chance to alleviate their guilt and to some
2:00.6	degree to own up to their
2:01.9	misdeeds.
2:03.0	He says, I'm just hoping that these people will feel better just by getting whatever's been
2:07.0	bothering them off their chest.
2:09.3	One caller said, I hope this apology will cleanse me and purify my soul.
2:14.6	God knows I need it.
2:17.3	Now, that caller, that who called into that hotline,
2:20.3	has tapped into and identified one of the deepest needs and longings of the human heart.
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