Have You Ever Been Ashamed (1 Peter 2:4-10)
Gary McManus, 03/01/2020Part of the Jesus Came to Restore series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
1 Peter 2:4-10
The purpose of Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.
Jesus confronted the Pharisees and other Jewish leaders because they forgot their own impurity. (Matthew 23:27, John 8:7)
Isaiah has not forgotten his uncleanness in God’s
presence. Adam sinned, was ashamed and hid.
Isaiah knew himself unclean but stood before God.
Experiencing the holiness of God in person will
certainly make you aware of your own unworthiness.
Guilt and shame often go together. They often go
together although they are not the same.
Guilt is for something we have done.
Shame is usually something we feel.
Shame often carries the sense that there is something wrong with us (rather than having DONE wrong).
Shame is optional for salvation.
Guilt is necessary for salvation.
Shame can come / be experienced when the conditions
are not our doing.
The Bible also knows of those who know NO SHAME
and they should know shame (Jeremiah 3:3, 6:15,
Zephaniah 3:5).
Shame represents a family of our experiences in sin.
The Bible uses other words interchangeably:
reproach
embarrassment
disgrace
derision
dishonor
contempt
sexual shame
(not what you might think) = being childless
One might feel shame because of defeat or failure.
We can feel ashamed as a violation of one’s honor and/or modesty.
We can feel shame as embarrassment or exposure.
We can feel shame simply as the result of disappointment :
We could feel shame in bad timing.
Shame, embarrassment, dishonor –we can feel these with or without God or without really sinning. . .
See Noah, Genesis Chapter 6.
Jesus on the cross was scoffed at, derided.
The early Christians were derided, falsely accused,
ridiculed--whoever heard of worshiping a criminal?!
Whoever heard of God who would allow His own son to be killed and for OUR sakes
The Apostle Paul will respond: Romans 1:16
2 Timothy 1:8, 1:16, 1 Peter 4:16.
The promise of the prophets and of Jesus is this:
our vindication is coming.(See Matthew 25,
Isaiah 61:7, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 45:17).
Jesus was obedient—Jesus trusted in the
Heavenly Father (Hebrews 12:2
Amen.
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