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 if not

returned to in perhaps months or maybe a matter of years, how many would you say I still feel shamed

but even though I have repented from the sin, then something has gone theologically wrong

in the reality of our belief system. When you might 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 only required

of us, was it we would turn from it and we did but we still somehow feel shamed but 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 shamed.

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 or I don't

have the substance or I don't have the addiction. I mean if I'm going to be in the shame anyway,

I might as well just go back to the sin. Is that making any sense to anybody? So do you see what the

enemy has to gain? If even though you repented, you still feel caught in a net made of shame.

He has a tremendous gain, a tremendous gain at stake there. I've jotted this down in my notes and

I don't know if it can stand up in court but I'm just thinking it through. I jotted down in my

notes. Shame is Satan's laughter morphed into human emotion. It's his laughter. It's when we live

in this net of shame. I mean we have just like swallowed down the laughter of the enemy and I'm

talking of course I metaphorically there. I want you to see verse two again and I want you to hear

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