God is our friend. Guilt, Shame and Condemnation are not.

God is our friend.  

Jesus heals woman - catacombs painting

Who is the friend of God? 
This is the time of grace.  By grace we are saved.  The gift is given by grace through faith. 
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Rom 8:1) There is a law loose in Christ Jesus called the "Law of the Spirit of Life" (Rom 8:2) that sets us free.  This law is a law of life and hope and salvation. 

The Father has established through the Son Jesus Christ an eternal priesthood.  Jesus himself in his perfect worship and work is the High Priest of that tabernacle.  Forever there stand in the Father's heart a witness of perfect worship and love.   This witness and work of Jesus is exploding into the world we know with an invitation to abide in his presence, live in his power and rest in his peace. 

Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.  Heb 7:26

 Through Christ we are free to run with confidence before the throne of grace.  Free to call Father God our "Abba".  We receive the inheritance of Jesus and all the blessings of his relationship with the Father by faith.   We receive every work of Christ Jesus, perfect and powerful, in the fulness of God's grace and mercy. (Eph 1:9)  We are called sons and daughters. (Heb 2;10)  We are adopted children. 

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to son-ship, the redemption of our bodies. Rom 8:23

 That groaning and longing for things to be as the Kingdom reveals in the heart of the Father, through the work of Jesus by the Spirit of grace and power, is from the Spirit.  It flows out of the wide open relationship of son-ship, adoption, and the blessings of running free in the presence of our Father.   

Our Father is for us, as demonstrated in Jesus through the sacrifice of the cross, ?  (Rom 8:31)  Not only is he for us he has provided for us through his divine power

"everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." 2Pe 1:3

Punishment and condemnation are gone for those who place their faith in Jesus Christ.  We pass from death to life. (Col 3:1-3)  

God is our friend.  Our Father.  Our Abba.  Our Papa.  Our Daddy.  

Are we abiding in the fulness of the work of Jesus Christ?  Are we free in the presence of the Father?   

What tears us out of all this?

 It is vitally important that we understand, NOTHING CAN TEAR US OUT OF HIS HAND.

 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. (John 10:27,28)

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  (Rom 8:38-39)

Our God is able to keep us in all circumstances and to make those situations turn into redeemed glory and grace in us.  (Rom 8:28-29)

Nothing can tear us away from the Love of God.   
The truth is all the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus are our inheritance as Sons and Daughter.   

So it is more about access, more about the heart, more about taking hold of that for which Christ took hold of us.  

There are three packages the enemy wants to deliver to us that will destroy our ability to run freely in all the Jesus has done for us.  

Guilt
Shame 
Condemnation 

Important key: All three of these are the "talk of the flesh" and flow from the mind of the flesh. (Rom 8:6) 

Guilt is easily dealt with.  If we have the Holy Spirit and sin or continue in a way of sin for a time we will be miserable.  The Holy Spirit in you will not let you go on sinning or continue in a way that destroys the Father's work in you.  He comes after us.   Be grateful.  Before you were saved you had no idea that such things could be wrong.  The presence of godly guilt for acts with lead to death is the blessing of his presence working the righteousness of Christ in us.  Embrace the reality that you cannot save yourself.  Yes.  You may have let Jesus down again, but his grace is sufficient to swallow the sins of the whole world.   Let go of your self and fall into Christ Jesus.  Let go of the thinking that you can achieve anything without the perfect work of Jesus Christ activated by faith in your. (Gal 1:6-8)  

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9)



Shame tags along after guilt.  It is the enemies second ploy.  It is more subtle and clings to us like swamp moss.   Shame continues on the path of the mind of the flesh saying....
How can God love me when I am such a poor follower of Jesus?   Shame rehearses the why's of the mind of the flesh.   How could I have let down those around me that I love?   How could I have made such a mistake?   Shame is the the mind of the flesh enacting death on us.   Rather than partnering with the Father in the perfect work of Jesus we partner with our dead flesh in the work of destroying ourselves.   
Jesus took the shame of the cross and destroyed it.   The hope of his glory is preached right through the worlds' understanding of shame.  And he crucifies it and then rises to life.   Shame is a mindset of self destruction and possibly rooted in self righteousness.   

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Col 3:5

Condemnation is the chief fruit of continuing on the path of guilt and shame.

There is no condemnation for those abiding in Christ Jesus.  Those who by faith are living in the resurrection life of Jesus and the victory of the cross.   Condemnation is destructive enemy presence.  It weighs on us and drives into us the focus on the flesh.  Reject it in the power of Jesus and welcome his blood to cover you with mercy and forgiveness.  

We have to put to death all three of these to walk in the fulness and freedom of the Father's heart.  

How?   Encounter Jesus and his love. (Eph 1:18)  We need an enlightened heart full of the revelation of wisdom and knowledge of Jesus.  


Prayer and Ministry
1) Embrace the blood of the Son.  Go after the work of Christ in faith. His blood cleanses us from ALL unrighteousness.  ALL.   ALL.  Confess and repent and come into the streams of grace.   
2) Embrace the Love of the Father.  Everything Jesus did flowed from the Father's heart of love for us.  The Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Jesus, now continues to reveal to us that same love and pour grace on us.  

3) Embrace the hope of new life in the resurrection of Jesus.  (Rom 8:11)  

Get in a quiet place.  Quiet your heart and remember.  Remember who you are.  Remember the love poured into you.  Remember the love you have for Jesus.   Open your heart to his love again.  Let him wash over all your wounds.  Let him cleanse you in grace and mercy.  

Cry out in Spirit and Truth to your Abba Father.   Tell him the truth on your heart.    


You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11"Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders? 12"You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.… Ex 15:11


Email me if you need more help moving out of guilt, shame or condemnation. 
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com  


Comments?  Ideas?  Testimonies?  
I always want to hear from you.  


Brother Jeff
Jeff Reynolds. Sr. Leader
Capstone Christian Fellowship
www.jeffreynoldsministries.com 
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