Seriously? During Advent? Yes. With Kanye West and Kyrie Irving in the news recently over accusations of antisemitism, God laid it on my heart to address Jesus’ lineage and patterns of a remnant I see in the Old Testament, with the threads of a remnant winding all the way to Revelation. I see a time […]
No amount of good works we do can provide us with a new nature. This was a hard lesson for me. There was pride involved in doing all the good I could to distract from the sinner Scripture says that I am. I didn’t feel like a big sinner. I wasn’t an axe murderer, terrorist, […]
Jesus was no whipping boy or scapegoat. There’s far more going on here than punishment which happened when He took away our sin (which was both the offense and the point source of all our guilt and shame). Here’s the key: we don’t just start with a clean slate, as good news as that is. […]
Now, whether you look at the Hebrew language or the Greek language of the Bible, the very same word for sin is, at times, also translated sin offering. Doesn’t make sense, right? From a purely human perspective, sin cannot be a sin offering. But from God’s viewpoint, all our iniquity (sin) was laid upon Jesus […]
As I continue to ponder whether Jesus experienced shame, there is no denying what the Apostle Paul was careful to describe: “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) Jesus had no sin. That’s the easy part. […]
There will never be such a lasting and consequential failure as that of Adam and Eve in Eden when a single bite of fruit from the forbidden tree plunged all humanity into guilt and shame. Nothing we can do will be able to cover our guilt and relieve our shame because it all goes back […]
With Jesus there was no separation from God, no sin, and no guilt. Adam and Eve—at one point in their lives—were just like that! But then enters stage left, guilt on the coattails of sin. Together, Adam and Eve sinned and separation from God was the immediate outcome (as sin becomes guilt). They weren’t separated […]
Continuing our discussion of shame and whether Jesus ever experienced it, maybe we need to look at shame through a more biblical definition and to contrast it with guilt. Here’s our history: When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, walking with God, and enjoying His full presence in the cool of the […]
What is Shame? Shame has been defined as “a spiritual consequence of sin”. Oxford defines shame as “the feelings of sadness, embarrassment, and guilt that you have when you know that something you have done is wrong or stupid.” None of them quite plumb the depths of the biblical definition. Irrespective, it is always viewed as unpleasant, […]
Before dismissing the question, “Did Jesus Experience Shame?” with an offended “Of course not!”, one must ask if Jesus was truly human and to what degree is shame part of our human condition? “He had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful […]
