Should I Show Myself Grace?
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Too many people have been deceived into thinking they must forgive themselves if they are ever going to move on. The truth is you have no right to forgive yourself when you are the guilty party. However, God still freely offers forgiveness to all who humble himself before him. Trusting in God's forgiveness is how we truly move on from our past sins. On this episode of the Bible Bashed Podcast we will discuss why you can't forgive yourself and how to truly move on.
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Idea of like hey, there's all these sins that that I've committed.
There's all these things that I did that were bad and and sometimes they're very very bad things that God has forgiven.
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therefore forfeit any hope of salvation any hope of heaven.
The issue is that humanity is in sin and the wrath of Almighty
God.
Is.
Hanging over our head.
They will hear his words They will not act upon them and when the floods of divine judgment when the fires of wrath
come They will be consumed and they will perish.
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died on the cross for sin was resurrected on the third day Has ascended to the right
hand of the father where he sits now to make intercession for us.
Jesus is saying there is a group of people who will hear his words They will act upon them and when the floods
of divine judgment come in that final day their house will stand.
Welcome to Bible bash where we aim to equip the Saints for the works of ministry by answering the questions.
You're not allowed to ask.
We're your host Harrison Kerrigan pastor Tim mullet and today.
We'll answer the age -old question.
Should we show ourselves grace when we fail now Tim?
What Bible verse do you have related to this topic as we kick this episode off?
Yes.
So Psalm 54 or 51 for says against you you only have I sinned and done what is
evil in your sight so that you may be Justified in your words and blameless in your just your
judgment.
So this is David after he, you know, basically murders Uriah and commits adultery with
Bathsheba.
He's saying to the Lord against you and you alone.
Have I done this evil?
Have I sinned right?
So.
Yeah, so how does that how does that work when you when you kill someone?
Indirectly at least you go to God and you say against you alone.
Have I sinned?
How exactly is that working?
Yeah, I mean when you think about it, like there's.
You think about the narrative itself?
It's difficult to imagine who?
David sent against like who he didn't send against in that equation, right?
So I mean he's in there Scott.
He sent against his family's and against the nation.
He sent against Bathsheba.
He sent against Uriah.
You know, I mean sending gets everyone but then he's basically he basically at that point has the audacity to say it's only against God.
But then what he's what he's doing is he's saying something that's pretty profound and it's something that we ought to remember.
And that is that you know God ultimately is the judge and every sin that we commit whether it's against other
people or not I mean it's ultimately it's against God when you're living you were living in a time right now where we've blurred these
lines to the Point where we demand perfect judge justice in this life.
You know, there's no longer a presumption of innocence or anything else.
It's we're willing to throw as many people under the bus as possible just to get that one guilty.
Get get the one Guilty person, you know because we don't want the one guilty person to go free
at that point.
But when it comes right down to it.
Like we really think the real scandal of most of the sins that you can imagine is the fact
that we sin against another human being.
But in reality God ultimately he's the judge and it's like his standards first and foremost that are being
Violated when we sin we're sinning against him, you know.
Like in the first instance like he's the offended party, right and all ours like all our sins against him.
Like those are them like that's the most significant aspect of our sin and like to the extent to which we sin against other
people.
We're still fundamentally sinning against God.
So I mean like when we violate another person's rights.
Like it's God who gave them those rights like we're ultimately violating God's standards at
that point.
You know, there's a sense in which with with all the ways in which we sin against other people, you know.
It's very difficult to conceive of a purely, you know, innocent party and any of it like meaning we're all fundamentally
sinful.
We enter into the world with the inherited, you know guilt of our forefather Adam.
We come into the world, you know with that disposition towards sin and then in actual practice we
Violate God's standards ourselves.
I mean all of us are we're all guilty in one one way or another, you know in multiple ways.
Like we're guilty.
So like in like in reality in the real world God's the primary chief offended party
and we lose track of that.
Repeatedly, but yeah.
So when it comes to this idea.
Where well first where where has this idea come from in terms of hey, you know.
You need to show yourself grace.
What exactly?
What what do people mean when they say that and where did this come from?
Yeah, so.
Probably the biggest problem in the Christian world today is that we are antinomians.
Basically, so we refused.
In most churches, we refuse to basically hold ourself to any reasonable standard whatsoever.
So we.
You're living in a church culture right now that thinks that the primary sin like the most grievous sin that
a person can commit be The sin of legalism, you know.
And in their minds like legalism means like trying to do what the Bible says, right?
Yeah, like taking taking the Bible's command seriously treating them as if they're actually commands, right?
I think actually expects you to obey.
So in the minds of many people like you are like free from the law and what they mean by that is like you're.
Like you're free from all like all.
Obligation free to sin so that grace may abound, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can we continue us in the grace my bound?
Yes, like that's the evangelical answer.
Yes.
Yes, and amen.
You know, so what's what's happening is you have like a hyper grace kind of
thing.
Look on a cheap kind of grace that basically says that I got Jesus down on the cross.
Just you know, forgive you your sins so that you could just be free from Any expectation you ever have to obey him,
you know.
So in the minds of many people legalism is like the chief sin, you know, it would be it would be
like any attempt to obey the Bible in any kind of serious way.
Is Legalism in their mind, right?
So that that's kind of the world that we're living in right now.
That's the that's that's the environment you know, but then in in that kind of environment you have a lot of
people who are very lazy and who are not living up.
To.
The expectations of their parents and their grandparents and everything else.
So, I mean you do have a very lazy generation of people in both sides.
Like so men and women in both ways are very very lazy.
Low -performing kind of individuals.
A lot of that's just because you know, most of us are addicted to our phones.
So you have a bunch of phone addicts who?
You know are lost in virtual world whether I mean for guys.
It's like video games like for women.
It's like the social media accounts like there, you know online shopping TV, you know.
So for most, you know, most Christians today professing Christians are just really.
You know.
Really.
Entertainment addicts for sure in one form or another their entertainment addicts and then what's happening is like you're
living in a world like with such plenty and ease that all the jobs that it used to.
Take your parents and your grandparents hours and hours to do like you can just get get it immediately.
You're right.
I mean, you don't even have to go to the.
Here's the thing.
Like it used to be that if you were going to eat someone was going to have to spend hours and hours Cooking you
food, right?
That was the way it works.
I mean and even before that I mean it used to be that you would have to grow your own food.
Right in the ground and there was like a big long process to like trying to keep everyone from starving to death.
That involved a lot of work.
You know, but what's happened the post -industrial revolution is like, you know, what's happened now is that most of us are
consumers?
So we're living in a consumer economy.
Like instead of like doing all the work to can your food and grow your food and everything you go to the grocery store.
Right, but then I mean even in my lifetime I remember the difference that
it made when the microwave was invented, you know.
So, I mean before a microwave, you know, mom would that keep the spaghetti like the old spaghetti up on the stove, you know.
She couldn't just put it in the microwave, you know so now you're living in a society where you have.
In my lifetime like microwaves were invented and you can just heat up food really quick.
Then you have all the microwave meals, right?
And then like that assumes that you're even going to the grocery store, right?
And now you're living in a society where most people are probably eating out most of their meals.
It must yeah.
Absolutely, most people are broke today is because they're eating out most their meal.
But now you don't even have to like drive to go get your food.
You can just call uber eats to get your food.
So like the kind of work that you actually have to do at this point is so minimal and almost
every single area you know, I can almost every single area I people people don't know how to
Sew anymore like that.
Yeah, like when I was young if you got a hole in your jeans.
You would put a patch like your mom would put a patch on it or whatever.
Now you just go buy a new pair.
You know.
No, no now now you buy the pair with the hole pre -made.
With the hole pre -made.
Yeah, but I mean by the way by the way Tim when when were you born.
I.
Mean not that long ago, man.
The microwave was invented in 1945.
No, I mean it wasn't a household item for me it was probably popular popularized popular a lot more.
No when I was.
We didn't we didn't have a microwave.
Most no one had a microwave like sure.
Yeah for a long time, you know.
So like none of my parents none of my friends parents had microwaves.
It all of a sudden became popular when we were eating when we were younger or whatever.
We're I mean, I remember the change or whatever, but I didn't realize it was invented so far.
But it wasn't it wasn't popularized then for sure, yeah, so, you know, but we I mean when I was growing up.
We even have personal computers.
Right, yeah now we have them in our pocket.
Yeah, I mean we like AOL all that instant messenger.
I mean that was like that was stuff that was coming out.
You're laughing at it in my AOL instant messenger and you know, I used it too.
I used it too.
But that stuff was coming out when I was Late high school, you know, yeah.
Yeah, like our family had a personal computer like maybe the last couple years of high
school.
But it was one big box computer.
Yeah, it probably it probably had like 30 megabytes of RAM or something like that.
It was ridiculous.
Yeah, I think that the.
The dial -up we had dial -up internet the dial.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, this feeds were like.
You know one megabyte.
Yeah.
Blazing fast and then when all the Napster and LimeWire came out, you know.
You could download your you could download your single mp3 song, you know.
That was like five five megabytes or whatever in like an hour.
It was that bad.
But now I mean like you so but you think about like this is the point is like you're living a Society right now.
It's heavily like a consumer site society and Like all the stuff that used to
require work.
It doesn't require work anymore.
Like that's the point and so in that kind of society.
Like you have a bunch of people who they really they don't have any expectations for that for themselves whatsoever.
Right.
And so as like society is like degrading like we're checking a Christian worldview out the window.
You have a bunch of people who basically are like they don't know the Bible.
They don't know all the reasons why.
Their parents trained them to do certain things.
And so it basically just all goes out the door it all goes out the window in the name of hey.
Let's try to be faithful.
So in order to be faithful, but what you do is you basically say hey everything my parents taught me about wisdom or whatever is
wrong and so then because there's not like a.
Like what you have is you have a bunch of people who think this is a good exegetical move.
But what they want is they want like a very specific verse that's going to say directly.
Don't not do this or yeah, yeah do this.
Yes, there's something like they what they want is they want like a verse in the Bible that tells them that
It's a sin to not do your laundry every day or something like that, right?
And so because they can't find that verse in the Bible that says it's a sin to have like laundry
piles all over your house.
Right.
Then they think well God doesn't have anything to say about this and you know I
have laundry piles over my house, and I probably shouldn't I feel guilty about that but then.
Like what I need to do is just realize no one's perfect.
God's not expecting me.
Perfect.
Maybe me to be perfect.
I just need to show myself grace, right?
I need to show myself grace right and you realize that like It's okay to
not be perfect.
And I don't want to impose standards that God hasn't imposed on me and that kind of thing.
And so then man Jesus his yoke is easy.
His joke is easy.
His burden is light, right?
But all that's being used in such a way as to like take people who are very lazy low -performing kind of
people and.
Then they're making very specific demands about what the Bible has to say for them for it to track on and
what they're doing is.
They're trying to deal with the guilt that they have that comes from a conscience that's screaming at them that says hey.
You're lazy.
Your house is a mess and your life is a mess, you know, and you're not
like all these.
These.
Affirmation pep talks that you do.
You tell yourself that you're strong and powerful and courageous and independent and all that there's no they're not working.
And so then you're trying to fill that fill the void like you're trying to silence your conscience and basically say hey,
you know it like.
You got to show yourself grace.
No one's perfect and it's okay that everything's a mess and Got any Jesus down the cross to forgive you and
no condemnation man.
So that's the answer.
So show yourself.
So isn't I mean isn't wouldn't that be that sort of attitude be a direct violation
of the let us sin so the grace may abound from Paul and I can't remember if that's first or second
Corinthians, I think.
But.
Wouldn't that be of a direct violation of a command like that?
It certainly is.
Yeah.
I mean It's a nonsensical concept in general.
Part of it's a nonsensical concept in the sense that like God is the we need grace from God.
We don't show ourself grace.
We're not the judge who has been offended.
So that's Roman.
Romans 6 is Roman 6.
Yeah.
Yeah, like so part of it's a nonsensical kind of
Expression it's just as bad as you need to forgive yourself or something like that.
It's the same kind of thing.
It's it's Theologically inept, but then like the but yes what you're saying is like this is
What what this is is continuance and that grace may abound but the problem is like people don't have categories for sins of
omission and they have very.
Like.
They basically have no standards that they think the Bible holds them to at all.
Right, maybe like maybe like murder maybe literal murder.
Maybe they're maybe maybe but not even that man I can't you say that you say that as if it's just a
given but it's not because I mean I I've seen plenty of people online who you know if you
Like relate, you know related to people taking the law in their own hands and vigilante justice and
that kind of stuff you know, like if a young man were to rape their daughter or whatever you could do you could ask like
If the dad were to hunt that guy down and shoot him to death because he didn't get justice.
Would that be okay and you would get a significant number of Christians today saying that that would be fine.
You know because so I mean it's it's not even true that.
That's I mean you you have any number of progressive Christian people.
But the Trump assassination thing saying it would be justified, you know.
So, I mean, I I don't I don't think you could even get a consensus there.
But yeah in general, yeah, maybe murder.
Rape for sure, you know, like rape rape is always bad even like fake rape.
You know like meaning like all the me too kind of definitions of that.
Like any anything with children maybe would be still You know wrong, but
there's very few things that are on the table at this point that are actually expectations but I mean like
something like sloth like There's no people people don't have any category for sloth.
That's like a real sin or laziness.
They don't have any because they don't have any way to apply it, right?
So like laziness is like a hypothetical sin that they have no way of ever.
Like.
Identifying.
Yeah, like gluttony is a similar a similar deal where it's the sin that everyone's against but also no
one's committing, right?
Yeah, so then what you have when you talk about those kind of things is well, whoever knows what that means.
So they're like it's irrelevant, you know, you couldn't it's not you can't really.
No one could act ever be accused of it because.
Basically, no one's willing to say the obvious.
So so it's just like that.
So any kind of sin that you could actually commit.
You know, you just have a group of people who are unwilling to conceive of it as sin basically.
Yeah.
Yeah, so What is
the so when we're talking about showing ourselves grace right you
You do have this idea, I mean obviously forgiveness is a huge Aspect of the Bible,
right?
You know, it's in the Old Testament all over the place.
It's in the New Testament all over the place and you know, we're talking about this idea of Showing
ourselves grace, right?
And um, you know, we've already referenced the Romans 6 You know shall we
send so that grace may abound?
Basically meaning like hey, we know God said that he's gonna forgive.
You know everyone who asks forgiveness of him.
He will forgive them.
Everyone who repents and belief he will forgive them that will not be put to shame.
You see those ideas all over the Bible so obviously Forgiveness is a huge aspect of the
Chris the Christian life but then How exactly does that apply?
So there's there's plenty of people who have done Terrible things in their past and
and then thankfully, you know by God's grace.
They realize those things.
They realize those sins and they repent of them.
They turn from them.
They put their faith in Christ and you know.
They're counted amongst the redeemed.
They're they're now part of the you know universal Church
they've been saved and You know sealed by the Holy Spirit all of that stuff.
But then what do you do with this idea of like hey, there's all these sins that that I've committed.
There's all these things that I did that were bad and sometimes they're very very bad things that God has forgiven
and and typically there are people who You know, there's the people who go so far with the
grace aspect of it that they become Antinomian like you're saying and they just there's
practice, you know.
They there's practically no faithfulness in their life because there's no standard and they they're just relying on the
hey God.
Oh for you know, whatever I do.
God's gonna forgive me for it and then there's the kind of person who legitimately hold tries
to hold on to All of the things that they did in their life.
You know almost as if they're not Forgiven and so so what do you do with that kind
of attitude and all of this?
Essentially the other side of the spectrum where someone's just completely unwilling to Unwilling to
let go of those past sins.
Is that a situation where you do legitimately say?
Hey, you need to show yourself grace or is there a different response that that person needs to have?
So I mean the idea of grace is unmerited favor.
Sure.
Yeah, so I mean like the issue is like.
These are words that make sense in the context of a standard that has been transgressed, right?
So like God is the judge God is God whose standard matters.
So God like we need grace from God.
Like us showing our self grace is neither here nor there because we're not the judge.
God's the judge.
It's his standard that matters.
So.
You know, but then there is the kind of thing that you're talking about now, unfortunately like what's happening is You have a lot of
people who are? basically
Using the wrong application.
So part of this is like there's a concept that you're talking about this real.
That we're using poor language for okay.
But then the other part of it is even with that real concept all the wrong people are applying the wrong
Application, right?
So I mean like for instance, like I mean if you.
Like the major problem today is not that you have people who are so high -performing
and rigidly holding themselves to like Crazy standards or something along those lines.
The issue right now is we refuse to almost hold ourself to any standards.
Like yeah, that's the problem that most people are facing, right?
So I mean like it they got there are women out there like for instance like with homemaking or something like that and this is.
Like a.
Conversation that this this kind of discussion often happens in women's groups or whatever.
I mean, there are ladies out there who will you know, they work from.
You know sunup to sundown like they if they see a speck of dirt on the ground.
They're you know, scraping it with a toothbrush or something like that, right?
There are those kind of people who they need Their husband to come along and say hey chill out, right?
Like I'm not asking you to do this, right?
So I'm not asking you to hold yourself to this unrealistic standard that you're holding yourself to you.
Don't have to do all the things that are on your plate to do.
I mean, there are some high -performing individuals out there.
I said, there's some.
I mean, that's not just in the the American that's not Americans in general, but there are some you know.
I mean, there are the kind of people who really have just crazy ridiculous standards.
I mean you can imagine like.
The.
You know the guy who has the workout Standard to where if he doesn't, you know work
out three hours a day or whatever.
If he if he if he gains a pound of fat or something, you know.
If he goes up from 1 body fat to one and a half percent then he considers himself an absolute, you know
failure or something.
It's like yeah, you don't.
Like yeah, there is such a thing as perfectionism, right?
That's bad.
So but most people aren't there, you know, but what's happening is like you have an entire
movements of people who.
They basically like you have a bunch of lazy people and their knee -jerk impulse is just to say
hey, you know.
We don't want to be legalistic.
So just reject any kind of standard.
And so then they're giving the advice that you might give to the perfectionist to the lazy person.
But the lazy person doesn't need the perfectionist kind of advice.
Hey, it's okay to chill once in a while.
Hey, it's okay to eat an ice cream cone every once in a while, right?
Like the problem is you're eating ice cream every week.
You're I mean you're eating donuts, but you know multiple times a week like the the point is like you don't need the
perfectionist advice but I mean there is like a concept like what you're talking about and You know in that
concept like what you need to do is you need to ask yourself?
What is God's standard.
Have I violated God's standard when I fail to meet God's standard?
Then what you need to do is you need to go to God.
Bible says if you confess your sins, he's faithful and just Forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And so there is a kind of person who is failing to meet like a legitimate divine standard.
They need to come to God with that and then they need to confess that they need to accept his forgiveness.
And then they need to realize that there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
But what that doesn't involve is that doesn't involve like them forgiving themselves.
So I mean there's plenty of people like that who will come and they will ask God's forgiveness.
And then they still feel guilty and they don't know what to do with it.
And then you have a bunch of people coming along and say hey, yeah, we'll give yourself grace, right?
Show yourself mercy.
I think no, that's not what you need to do.
All right, forgive yourself, you know.
You don't need to forgive yourself.
That's not what you need to do.
What you need to do is realize that God has pronounced you forgiven and it's his verdict that matters and you have to trust
that.
By faith, even if your feelings tell you that it's a lie.
You have to trust by faith that you and him are right and you're right not because of what you've done.
Because of what Jesus has done, but then there's also like the reality that you know, if you're living in
unrepentant unconfessed sin.
You can keep on coming to God and asking his forgiveness but you also like by his grace through the power of
his spirit need to make lifestyle changes because.
You can't just keep on searing your conscience and defile defiling your conscience over and over and over again.
So like what you need to do is you need you need the same solutions that you know.
That all Christians need you need faith and repentance right repent repent and believe the good news, right?
So turn from your sins.
With God's help and trust in the finished work of Christ on your behalf, you know.
So those are the answers.
The answer isn't like you take the seat of the judge and pronounce a forgiven verdict on yourself.
And so but that's that's kind of people's knee -jerk response to any situation where any person feels guilt
whatsoever.
Is to say well, hey, have you asked God to forgive you?
Yes.
All right.
You still feel guilty yes.
Well, then you need to forgive yourself and it's like no you don't need to forgive yourself.
You need to trust that God has forgiven you, you know, and you possibly need to repent like actually repent of this thing, too Right,
you know, so there's that but I mean so like the whole concept of giving yourself grace.
It's just.
It's the same kind of thing is you need to forgive yourself.
It's like no you don't give yourself grace.
God gives you grace you look to him for grace.
You accept his grace when he gives you grace you trust in that by faith.
So basically what you're saying is there.
There really isn't a situation where you show yourself grace.
There's just there's situations where you know.
You need to take take God's command seriously and actually repent and do the things that he has
commanded you to do.
And then there are situations where maybe you have maybe you have legitimately repented.
But you still feel guilty and in that scenario you need to your problems not you need
to forgive yourself.
Your problem is you need to trust in God's forgiveness, right?
Right?
Yeah.
So I mean like the idea of like showing yourself grace would be the idea of like you standing in judgment of your own actions.
You know, and this is something that Paul refuses to do.
So, you know Paul's in his letter to You know the Corinthians.
I mean they're they're basically accusing him of wrongdoing and he's and he looks at him.
He basically says hey, I I know of nothing against myself, right?
Like these accusations are false.
I know of nothing against myself.
But in this I'm not justified right like I'm not justified right because like the idea is like
Because like I'm biased in my own favor, right?
Like in other words, I'm prone to think the best about myself and there may be hidden fault just because I don't.
I can't see Any faults within myself just because I'm looking at the accusations.
I'm saying hey, they don't land right you're judging my motives and these accusations they don't land but just because
like Like I'm I have a clear I have a testimony of a clear conscience that doesn't mean that that
doesn't justify me, right?
Like so like just because my my heart may be off right I may be missing something and
I don't see the secrets of my own heart even so.
So Paul says in first Corinthians 4 or 3 but with me.
It's a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court.
He says in fact, I don't even judge myself for I'm not aware of anything against myself.
But I am NOT there by acquitted it is the Lord who judge judges me therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time before the
Lord comes who will bring to light the things now hidden in the darkness and Will disclose the purposes of the heart then each one will
receive his condemnation from God.
So I mean like Paul's looking at himself.
He's saying I don't even judge myself, right?
Like cuz I'm not the judge.
God's the judge.
He's the one who's whose verdict matters and that's what Christians who use this kind of language Remember it's God's
judgment that matters.
It's his verdict that matters.
It's not our own verdict.
It's not our own perception of ourself.
Like I'm not like just just because I think yeah, you know what?
Maybe I'm harsher on or myself that I need to be, you know, therefore I need to show myself grace.
I guess no God's my judge not me, right?
Like you're my you know, I judge.
I'm not my judge, right?
God's my judge and I'm gonna leave it to him and his judgments gonna be right.
Like the only thing we should be judging ourself by is by his standard in his word, right.
Right like in and then when we violate that standard like we need his forgiveness and that's the only standard that matters.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, and then you and then you get all the people that tell you.
That tell you any time that you you know, take seriously God's commands that hey only only
God can judge me.
Only God can judge me.
Well, that's Gary.
Yeah, yeah, and then you say that should scare you actually that should not be a that should not be a
phrase that comforts you.
Because he's gonna know everything.
Nothing's gonna be hidden from him.
I guess I guess in in one sense, maybe it could be comforting if you're the person who's legitimately trusting and
and You know in Christ's sacrifice on the cross so that when we get judged.
Yeah, our you know, our righteousness will be Christ's righteousness not our own so maybe there's
maybe that's Where some people are getting their comfort, but I doubt it.
Most people are just.
Most people just use it as a get out of jail free card for whatever you're talking about.
But okay, I think that's a good place for us to wrap up the conversation.
So thank you Tim for answering all my questions and and and talking about this subject
because because I'd see this a lot too and You know, I even used to be someone who thinks this way like hey, I've got to forgive
myself and I've got a I've got a just You know realize that it's
okay that I I did this or that thing and just move on and whatnot.
When the reality is it doesn't matter if I forgive myself or not.
It matters if God has forgiven me for it and and the same applies to everyone.
So thank you for walking us through that.
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