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Jesus Covers Your Shame (The Significance of the Cross)
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- Опубліковано 28 бер 2021
- What does the death of Jesus mean for our experience of shame? Can we truly be forgiven for all our sins? In this video, which is part of the Talbot class I teach, "In Defense of the Resurrection," I explain how Jesus being naked on the cross is meant to portray that he fully covered all our sins.
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Someone once told me that guilt says ,"I did something wrong", but shame says, "there's something wrong with me." Guilt is easy to deal with. I confess and there is a consequence and it's dealt with. Often we look at the cross as dealing with my guilt. And it does. But in cultures where shame is the big deal, there is no going back. That is why honour killing is big in some societies. Not because they're nasty, but because that is the only way to deal with shame. As the West walks away from God, Cancel Culture is starting to do the same. There's no forgiveness, even if the so called sin was a long time ago. But I died with Christ and was made a new person. The shame is dealt with.
I find this subject engrossing.
Thank you for sharing this.
I'm in therapy for Narcissistic Abuse. I've learned to recognise shame and shame triggers.
Shame is different from embarrassment.
It's not easily healed from.
Shame ALWAYS follows abuse.
Abuse involves trauma to the victim.
The world is full of traumatised individuals.
One day while walking home from therapy, I cried quietly behind my sunglasses. I said to Jesus "I'm so broken". I felt ashamed of my brokenness.
I felt Him say in a reassuring, matter-of-fact way "I came to heal the brokenhearted".
I cried with relief, as waves of comfort washed over me.
I think about these words and about these aspects of Jesus' character every day.
I love Him for them.
Thanks for sharing. So glad its' helpful!
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This guy is a national treasure. Thank you so much for this one. I have much sin, and have struggled with grace and shame both, in coming to God. I recently read a book on shame by Louis B Schmede which was great, and helpful. You brought up some core issues with your provocative talk here. God bless you. Much love, always, from California.
This just hit me in a very profound way. Thank you so much Sean for posting this video. This is a dimension of the cross that I never considered and I can’t tell you how this just impacted me. God bless!
Thanks Sean. Excellent point to emphasize!
Wow, so profound.
Sean, thank you.
Why is there such an obsession with sex (nakedness) in Christian circles such that sex is read into everything? It’s as if the purity phenomenon and its ills are regaining influence in Christian circles with all its self righteousness over premarital sex, divorce, homosexuality, etc.
Actually this point is brought up precisely because people don’t get how he covered our shame...
I'd like to point out that many people are struggling with experiences of sexual abuse in childhood.
I'm one of them.
Many of us have endured sexual assault as adults. Many are trafficked, many endure atrocities as war crimes. There are so many traumatised individuals in the world, right now.
The impact of shame that always follows abuse and trauma is profound.
That Jesus has taken my shame has been a powerful part of my relationship with Him in recent years. I love Him for it.
I see more clearly that the Evil One is a Narcissist psychopath; a liar, murderer, Accuser. Our Old Enemy.
He will heap shame on us as soon as we're born.
He enjoys our pain.
He thrives on schadenfreude.
He loves to highjack everything about human needs and nature and use them against us, to entrap us. Sex is the easiest way to ensnare a person.
(See HG Tudor's work at narcsite.com and his UA-cam videos about the way the Narcissist uses sex as a weapon to ensnare and control you).
I love that these aspects of Jesus personality shine so brightly, illuminating beautifully that Jesus is not an abuser. He's the exact opposite.
I was watching over your video addressing Christian questions roleplaying as an atheist.
*YOUR ANSWERS* - Were often very full. You were able to address all the questions with reason and logic. Never once did you have to dodge or refuse to answer.
*THE QUESTIONS* - Often the questions showed a lack of reasoning. You would address questions on prophecy by simply pointing out the obvious that prophecies could be worked to be fulfilled by those who know the prophecy. I'm hoping these individuals stopped believing because of these reasons. Your answers as an atheist actually work regardless of someone being an atheist.
*THE FOLLOWUPS* - Many times there were additional things asked where someone would not truthfully answer. Your best moment was when you asked if Jesus could or could not do something. The individual didn't want to answer a true dichotomy question. It is possible to say, "I don't know." but it is ontologically true that either Jesus could or could not do this.
So overall, I'm hoping there was a re-evaluation on why they believe these claims. Your straight forward addressing of questions (Without dodging) and the other side often showing faulty reasoning and dodging creates a weird issue... I have to ask:
What convinces you to be a Christian?
Pretend I'm the atheist (I'm actual agnostic) and you're the individual giving me the question.
Thanks for the question. There's one reason I am a Christian: I think it's true. I actually work hard to defend atheism fairly in my "atheist encounter," for a variety of reasons. I've really wrestled with the claims of atheism. But I think the scientific, philosophic, historic, and existential weight points to Jesus really being God.
@@SeanMcDowell Thank you for your reply. I was a Christian for 20 years. I was confirmed to my Presbyterian church and one of the fastest sword drillers at my Baptist Bible School. As with many people, it was when I went to college that I feel away from the faith. A street preacher pointed at me as I walked across campus and said, "Are you saved?" and I couldn't reply "Yes". I had wept during chapel and given my life to God but something in my mind made me doubt and feel lukewarm. It was as though I had never truly thought over the question.
Since then I've studied Josephus (History), Aquinas' Five ways (Philosophy), and metaphysics. When I say "Study" I mean actually buying Antiquities of the Jews only to find out the two passages I need to read are readily available online via PDFs. I bought endless apologist books like Evidence That Demands a Verdict and Even more Evidence That Demands a Verdict. I've spoken with Frank Turek, Sye Ten, Kent Hovind, Matt Slick, Eric Hovind, Matt Dillahunty, Alex O'Conner, and probably more that I am forgetting. I think it was Alex who said it recently:
*"If there is truth to a religion, this is the most important question for us to be seeking an answer to.*
I honestly seek an answer. I honestly seek to resurrect the faith I had as a child. However when I look at your answers as an atheist and the reasoning used many in the audience, it makes me realize how far I've come. It makes me worry that my need to find truth in Christianity exists merely because I went to a Baptist school and was confirmed to a Christian Presbyterian (USA) church.
I appreciate your reply and I hope to hear more from you. I know you're busy and a random internet person is not top priority (Nor should it be).
It's just that as an atheist your answers were very specific and convincing. While as a Christian apologist, I find the answers more vague and (probably because of my biases) less convincing.
@@The7logiebears Thank you for replying. As long as you are ok, I'd like to know a little more about your story and give my view on it. This is your story and I can understand not wanting to delve further in to what would be a very traumatic event.
1 - *What happened when you called out to God?* The more specific, the better.
2 - *What other events have happened that can only be explained by God?* Once again, the more specific the events here, the better.
3 - I've called out to God and asked for signs and have not received them. *Why do you think this is?*
4 - A UA-cam I watch (PineCreek) sincerely asks God to light a napkin on fire. He has had Christians pray to light the napkin on fire to renew his faith. Every time he prays or his Christian guests pray for the napkin to light on fire, the napkin remains. This is similar to Elijah and the prophets of Baal. Elijah had them dose the wood in water and God still ignited all the wood. If there is a God who will show up the prophets or Baal, *why won't this God show himself to me or PineCreek?*
@@The7logiebears Thank you for your replies. It would seem, via your worldview, God has taken a rather active role in saving you physically.
*QUESTION* - I am holding a napkin and asking God to light it on fire. He has saved you from death and harm many times. Why won't God light this napkin like he brought fire to a pile of soaked wood in the Bible?
If God did bring fire to this napkin, it would bring me reason to believe. Am I asking too much? Does not give direct evidence when asked for it? Your thoughts here?
I literally just threw the napkin away in a trashcan next to me lest it light on fire and I miss it... I sincerely asked God to do this to renew my faith and he did not or did not exist to make it happen.
Why would God directly save you multiple times...
But won't light a napkin on fire for me?