Emotions: Guilt & Shame

1. We must realize that God has given us

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   in order to bless us and not harm us.

2. GUILT is the bad feeling when we have done something

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   , and SHAME is the bad feeling of regret for being an
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   person.

3. Even though both guilt and shame produce feelings of hurt:
   GUILT is about what we

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   .
   SHAME is about WHO we
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   .

4. Regret is sorry it got caught but does

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   produce true repentance.

5. It is possible to be guilty of an act and yet feel

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   shame, and it is also possible to feel shame, even when we’re
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   guilty!

6. Sometimes things happen that we

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   feel guilty about, but because of ignorance or a seared conscience, we fail to feel appropriately.

7. Satan tries to make us feel no guilt when we really should; other times he tries to make us feel so much guilt that it cripples us and causes us to

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   God’s love and forgiveness.

8. One man said, “The devil is our Accuser and Prosecutor, but God is our

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   and Jesus is our
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   .”

9. I am so grateful that God has recorded the

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   of our ancestors and His forgiveness of them, in order to encourage us to go forward, come what may.

10. Whenever we’re assaulted with guilt and shame, we must

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    whose voice we will listen to: either the voice of our emotions, or the voice of God’s Word!