EP. 20 Self-Forgiveness: Can you forgive yourself?

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