Amen, amen. How are doing, church? Everybody good? You got your Bibles grabbing. We're going to be in Luke

Chapter 7. Luke chapter 7. We're continuing in the series called Bridges. And we are diving in deep.

Today we're going to talk about that Jesus bridges over our shame. How many of you have ever heard this phrase, or maybe somebody

told you this phrase, shame on you. You may have heard that, been told that? I can remember

I was in the first grade, and I didn't like first grade. I didn't like all the other grades I went to

either, but I didn't like that one especially. And my elementary school was two blocks from my house, and so I would jump the fence and just go home

whenever something didn't go my way, all right? And so we had to have this little parent-teacher

situation, and we sat down with Miss Lucius, and she looked at me from leaving school, and she said,

you should be ashamed of yourself. And she told my mom, with me sitting right there,

I doubt he'll ever make it out of elementary school. And I was like, I make it out every day I won't.

I don't know what you're talking about. So anyway, and she said that, shame on you. And in fact,

when I graduated high school, I sent her an invitation to my graduation and college and with my master's degree.

All right, but whatever.

But the crazy thing is, the crazy thing is that in school, whenever I got in trouble or especially when I made bad grades, and there was plenty of both of those, I began to think about the words of my first grade teacher and think maybe she is right.

You see, there's a difference between guilt and shame.

Guilt is about something that you have done.

Shame is about who you are.

And sometimes we can confuse our activity with our identity.

And here's what I know.

I know that people walk into church, especially church,

week after week after week, and with you, you bring a whole bunch of shame because of your past,

because of what you've done, because you're a Tennessee or a Florida State fan, whatever it is.

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