EP. 20 Self-Forgiveness: Can you forgive yourself?
In this episode, the hosts discuss the popularly cultured disposition of "Self-forgiveness", can you forgive yourself? Is there a biblical category for this idea? People who use this statement are truly going through something, but does the statement arti
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (media.transistor.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Episode Notes:
◎ Self Forgiveness: Can you forgive yourself?
◎ In order to have forgiveness, there needs to be an offender and a victim.
◎ People who use this statement are really dealing with something, but this isn't a correct articulation or rendering of what one is working out.
◎ 2 Cor. 7.8-10 is a text that does speak to grief; worldly grief vs. godly grief.
◎ Godly grief produces life and worldly grief produces death.
◎ they need to move through worldly grief, over sin, to godly grief over sin to life and freedom.
◎ We cannot remove or renounce God’s judgment, and pronounce ourselves as judge….we need to humble ourselves and let God be God.
◎ It’s not self-forgiveness, but rather, receiving the full measure of grace that Christ accomplished on the cross.
◎ It's not self-forgiveness, but embracing God’s grace.
◎ Self-forgiveness is emotively based.
◎ The object of godly grief was not to alleviate the grief, but that it would produce something beautiful in a person, an effort to change one’s life.
Episode Resources
- Piper Audio from DesiringGod
- Gospel Coalition Article
- Robert D. Jones Book - I can't forgive myself