Back to Course
Forgiven, Forgiving and Free
-
The Pipe Cleaner1 Digging Deeper
-
That Big Pencil Without an Eraser1 Digging Deeper
-
RUN, Spot, R-U-N1 Digging Deeper
-
Give God Your G-U-I-L-T1 Digging Deeper
-
Bustin’ Up Boulders1 Digging Deeper
-
Stoned!1 Digging Deeper
-
Forgiveness Starts With the Heart1 Digging Deeper
-
Downright Difficult1 Digging Deeper
-
Living Inside Another’s Skin1 Digging Deeper
-
When I Cry and Want to Know Why1 Digging Deeper
-
The “Blame” Game1 Digging Deeper
-
No Pain, Now What…?1 Digging Deeper
-
Group Progress
Group Progress
Lesson 5,
Digging Deeper 1
In Progress
Bustin’ Up Boulders
Have you ever felt like you needed to punish yourself because of your past? Does this fix our past or help us stop making the same mistake in the future?
Colossians 2:23
23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
What was Paul’s focus when he was confronted with the guilt of his past?
1 Corinthians 15:9-11
9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
1 Timothy 1:13-16
13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. 16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
How can focusing on God’s grace remove the boulders of guilt in our life?
Romans 8:37
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.