Hey there, I'm so glad you stopped by for this podcast.

We hope so much we can serve you today.

I want to ask you a question.

I want you to be honest with me and put up your hand over this one.

How many of you still feel shamed over an area of sin that you flat out turned from and have not

returned to in perhaps months or maybe a matter of years?

How many would you say, I still feel shamed by it, even though I have repented from the sin, then something

has gone theologically wrong in the reality of our belief system.

Would anybody agree with that?

Because if we've been freed from it, but we're still standing in the shame of it, if we

repented, and that's all he required of

us, was that we would turn from it, and we did, but we still somehow feel shame by it.

Something has gone theologically wrong with us, because shame keeps us embedded in that sin

long after repentance.

And listen, here's what the enemy is hoping.

If we stay here, say that we repented, we have not turned back to that sin in a very long time,

but we still feel that same shame.

Do you know what happens eventually?

Why not go back?

I mean, at least it was a comfort.

At least it was some immediate gratification. I mean, at least got something from it. All I've

got right here is that I have shame, but I don't have the action, or I don't have the behavior,

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