03 Mar Facing Guilt In Inevitable Circumstances
Deacon Hui Zhen - 5 June 2014
The Covenant Of God, Foundation Of Our Faith
The reason why we always fall back on our own strength, wits and ways to live our lives is because we have not truly understood and confirmed that the God we claim to know is indeed a true and living God, one who creates us to love us. Yet it is a journey of repeated confirming through all things that are happening in our lives, because God is always constantly revealing Himself to us through our experiences, especially failures. God was always revealing to Abraham his entire lifetime, even when he was ignorant of God's covenant; similarly, God is also doing the same thing to us today, always revealing to us through our encounters, failures and people in our lives. When we continue to seek God's presence and see how He is always inscribing the covenant deeper and deeper into our hearts, only then we will be bound by Him and desire to follow Him and live by the Spirit.
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The problem of guilt exists in the human hearts since the fall of men. It is guilt that brings fear actually. Yet when unforeseen undesirable situation arises, causing some unintended consequences, how do we set ourselves free from guilt then? With the Coronavirus striking the churches and society today, we see people reacted with both guilt and fear. How do Christians overcome our inner struggles?
* Understanding Fear.
* Understanding Guilt.
Verses to Read: <1 Sam 30:1-8>
The Spiritual Overview
1. The inevitable circumstances befall!
2. The Lord did not forsake David and his men in their misfortune or desperation
* <1 Sam 30:6>: But David found strength in the Lord His God.
* <Ps 16:10>: You will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy one see decay.
3. David seek the counsel of the Lord
* <1 Sam 30:7-8>: “Bring me the ephod”… .and David inquired of the Lord…
4. The Lord spared David from the greater guilt of engaging Saul and the Israelites army in a war.
Qns: How to understand and deal with guilt in inevitable circumstances?
1. Guilt is something that we cannot shoulder.
⟹ Only our Lord Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection could bear all the guilt in this World.
⟹ By believing in Christ, we equally believe in God’s good sovereign will for us.
* <Php 1:12>: What has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel.
2. Guilt is the enemy’s way of weakening us.
⟹ Only the grace of God could remove the guilt and help us find strength in the Lord.
* <Ro 8:35-37>: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
3. Guilt distracts us from seeking God’s counsel.
⟹ Keep seeking the Lord’s counsel, submit to His leading and new ways will open up.
4. Guilt makes us selfish and propels us to pursue our own benefits over others.
* <1 Samuel 30:9-10,18-26>
⟹ Set our perspectives right to bless the churches of God in the COVID_19 saga, for that is the Lord’s heartbeat.
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