Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Do you realize that God has made you like no other person in the entire world?

That he has gifted you and prepared you to do a good work, a specific purpose that no one can fulfill just like you. Today, you'll learn how

to discover that. Stay with me. I'm Dave Dry, and today on Living on the Edge,

Chip Ingram continues our series called The New You,

Claiming Your Birthright as a Child of God.

And he's addressing something that quietly poisons more lives than almost anything else, guilt.

Chip will draw a critical distinction between condemnation and conviction. Explain why

God obliterated your guilt at the cross and show you what it means to be God's workmanship,

his poem, his masterpiece. If you have your Bible, open now to Ephesians Chapter 2 starting at

verse 8, here's Chip with today's message titled, You Are Beautiful.

So much of what you deal with, we deal with, so many of the relational issues, the struggles,

and the challenges, their root cause is guilt. There's true guilt, false guilt. There's guilt feelings.

There's theological guilt, what's true of all of us. So on the front of your notes, let's define guilt before we get to the

solution. The literal meaning is it's a state, circle the word state, of having committed

an offense. In other words, guilt in and of itself is you actually did something wrong. You violated

a standard. In more common usage today, the psychological definition of guilt is an emotional

response to the perception that we've broken a prohibition or fallen short of a standard.

Circle the word emotional.

By contrast, the opposite is true.

Theologically, guilt is the moral and legal condition of all people prior to salvation.

It's our personal accountability and the just condemnation for sin

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