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