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Shame
We spent some time talking last week about the pervasive role that shame plays not only in our society, but also in our own lives.
We talked about the reality that Shame affects everyone we encounter.
We defined shame this way:
Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging.
We talked about the reality that shame doesn’t give us a pass to say that we’re all just fine the way we are and so we don’t have to care about the way we act.
We recognize that as followers of Jesus, we are always being called to die to ourselves and conform more to the likeness of Jesus.
That being said, we do believe that Jesus wants to set us free from the feeling that because we are flawed or broken, we can’t be accepted or loved and don’t belong.
So what we did is looked at the opening pages of Scripture to see how God designed things, but also how things went wrong.
The first humans were created good.
They had a purpose to rule and reign with God in taking the world somewhere.
We saw that this found its’ culmination in the phrase, ‘they were naked and felt no shame.’
The word naked meant exposed, bare, having no barrier between oneself and the outside world
In light of that, we see the crafty snake.
I didn’t touch on this last week, but the word naked and crafty sound almost exactly same in the Hebrew language.
It’s Arum and Aram.
SO what the author is trying to get our attention in was to say that the snake was crafty and was going to mess with the nakedness.
So we saw this play out in that the snake begins to question what God says, lies to the woman, which in turn caused them to sin which leads to the feeling of shame and causes them to hide.
What once was unexposed and bare and led the people to feel no shame was now something that led to them feeling the need to cover up and hide.
So we synthesized this into three statements about what shame does in us;
1.) Shame questions what God says.
2.) Shame distorts the truth.
3.) Shame causes us to hide.
This week we’re going to talk about how we can battle those things.
What we’re going to do tonight is continue the story in the Scripture and see more about how God wants us to address and deal with our shame.
As we read the Scripture, we see that the overwhelming reality is that God wants to set us free from shame.
Here were some of those statements:
What we’re going to do tonight is continue the story in the Scripture and see more about how God wants us to address and deal with our shame.
As we read the Scripture, we see that the overwhelming reality is that God wants to set us free from shame.
You are His child-
You are his workmanship-
You are a new creation-
1. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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2. God loved the world so much he gave His son.
3. I’m going to die for you even though you’re a sinner-
Live in the light-
Confession-
Experience Community-
What we’re going to do tonight is continue the story in the Scripture and see more about how God wants us to address and deal with our shame.
As we read the Scripture, we see that the overwhelming reality is that God wants to set us free from shame.
As we read the rest of the story, we’re going to see three things that God has done so that we can be free from shame.
Then we’ll talk about three things we can to partner with Him in fighting that in our own lives.
1.) God meets us in our sin.
2.) God saves us from our sin.
3.) God calls us His children.
4.) God calls us to be open with each other.
So let’s take these one by one as the story continues and work our way through.
Let’s pick it up in
We talked about this last week and about the reality that their nakedness was distorted and changed into something that led them to cover themselves.
Let’s keep going.
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1.) God meets us in our sin.
Ok so there’s a lot of things going on here that we need to talk about.
We need to zero in on a couple of things.
How many of your have heard the saying, ‘God can’t be in the presence of sin?’
That statement works until you read the Bible.
What do we see happening here in the garden?
The humans ate of the fruit, they’ve sinned.
As a result of their sin, they feel shame about their nakedness, cover themselves, they hear God coming and they hide.
What does God do with their sin?
He comes to them.
He meets them.
He calls to them.
Some of us need to hear that tonight.
Maybe you’re at a place where you feel so engulfed in a pattern of habitual sin, where you can’t seem to pull yourself out of it.
Maybe you’re absolutely addicted to pornography.
Maybe you can’t stop having sex with your boyfriend or girlfriend.
Maybe you can’t stop having sex with your boyfriend or girlfriend.
Maybe you can’t stop lying to your parents.
Maybe you can’t stop lying to your parents.
Maybe you feel like you can’t be forgiven for the things that go through your head.
Maybe you feel like you can’t be forgiven for the things that go through your head.
Maybe you’re hiding something that feel that if anyone knew about, they would disown you or wouldn’t talk to you.
Maybe you’re hiding something that feel that if anyone knew about, they would disown you or wouldn’t talk to you.
Wherever you are in the pattern of habitual sin, you need to take what God has just done to heart.
Rather than running away, he steps right in and calls to them.
This is really important to recognize because everything in us when we feel overwhelmed by shame wants to run and hide because we fear that what we’ve done or who we are might be exposed.
Regardless of that… God comes.
How does God want to free us from shame, He comes to us.
He meets us in our sin.
2.) God saves us from our sin.
Let’s keep reading.
Genesis 3:
This is a crucial part of the story here because if we just do a cursory reading, we could miss something huge.
So God deals with the snake.... that sneaky Nahash.
Then he talks about this enmity (or strife) that’s going to occur between the woman’s offspring.
That word offspring there means seed.
If we trace that word throughout the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures, we find that this theme continues to grow and develop.
God promises Abraham that he will bless the world through his family, through his descendants, which ultimately leads us to Jesus of Nazareth.
As we look at the Gospel of John, we read about what Jesus did.
Again, God doesn’t stay away from sin, but steps right in by sending His son.
Jesus lives the perfect Spirit-filled life, dies a horrendous death, and rises from the grave.
In Jesus, God has provided a way for us to be saved from our sin.
Romans 5:6-
Shame is an intense feeling that we are flawed and unlovable.
What’s God’s response to our sin and rebellion?
Coming and dying.
So what does this have to do how we respond to shame?
Let’s keep reading in Romans.
So this is so crucial for us as we think about shame because it attacks us at the core level of who we are.
So the voice of shame says, ‘There’s something wrong with you.
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