Let Freedom Reign! say what?

This class, yet another by Arthur Meintjes, is really eye opening!


Arthur Meintjes-Let Freedom Reign Lesson 7

Living Life Guilt Free II

John 8, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
Its all about being set free from a law mentality and a law basis on which you live your Christian life. Guilt has been a part of Mans make-up, mans Psyche, since the first man. We have been under the “do to be tree” as in, do this so that you can be this, rather than, you are this, so doing this comes naturally. Aka, the difference between law and grace.
Romans 8:3, “For God has done what the law could not do, (its power) being weakened by the flesh. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, condemned sin in the flesh (Subdued, overcame, deprived of its power over all who accept that sacrifice).
Now guilt is a very powerful motivator! But guilt is not God’s form of motivation!
But a healthy guilt is a sense of knowing that your behavior has been wrong or unacceptable in dealing with your relationships and a healthy society.
Now, when we say we should live free from guilt, we are not saying that we should not have at least this healthy “guilt” so that we can know how to live in society! If you don’t have at least some understanding of how to live correctly, you are a psychopath!
Without Jesus we are all condemned! But you know, we are not without Jesus! Jesus took all of God’s wrath on Himself, we are not to feel guilty toward God anymore! We are not to be motivated to do good by guilt, that is not of God.
Guilt is the most destructive emotion you can ever have as a believer toward God. It should not be a part of your relationship with God! A guilty conscience towards God has the wrong focus! If you notice that you feel condemned before God, having shame, and a fearful expectation of God not coming through for you, or whatever it is in your life because of it, this should be an Alarm Bell telling you that at some point, you are trying to serve God based on the law.
A guilty conscience means that your focus is wrong, it is not on the finished work of Jesus Christ, but instead it is on ourselves, on our own efforts and our own failures. It causes us to believe something that is opposed to, or opposite to,  the Gospel! Do not live in fear, do not live with the expectation that the worst will happen!

Reading back over this now, it is rather scatter brained... but I was trying to write it in more, my writing style rather than just notes, I'm not sure if it worked or not!

Let me know!

Till next time,

God doesn't see you as guilty!

-Ben Heath