Facing Guilt In Inevitable Circumstances

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Preacher Huijun - 8 January 2015

Restoring A Gospelised Culture

Christian living is not merely positional, i.e. God doesn’t give us the full gospel and Holy Spirit indwelling just to secure ourselves a place heaven. The grace and love of God is not a direct entrance ticket to heaven when we leave this world. Deeper than this, God’s grace and love are always with us even today, so that we can always meet God in all our situations, propelling us to increasingly abandon our old ways, thinking and nature and start living in the power of gospel at where we are and in all that we’re doing. Christian living is an ongoing self-gospelization process centering on the promise of God and unstoppable help of the Holy Spirit. As we resolve into living out Christ in all of our areas, the full gospel we root ourselves on will also create in us a heart of indebtedness to others, so much so that our hearts are also expanded by this full gospel, and evangelising to our family, closed friends, right to the people who’re different than us. Remnants have to start living in the gospel we’ve listened repeatedly. Before we seek to confirm Lord’s word, they’ll remain theoretical and vague. But as we confirm the Word until it becomes our values and heartbeat, we’ll start to think, decide and act in Christ, bringing a gospel culture around us. The Lord will surely fulfil His Great Commission through the gospel culture we have and through the mutual edification of His children.

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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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Vincent serves as the President of The Blessed Run Church. He is also the Senior Pastor of The Life Church and Missions (Singapore) and is an ardent missionary to the Chinese World. He currently lives in Singapore with his wife, Qiufen, and has three kids, Mary, David, and Caleb.

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