Owning one's guilt? Where does it say that?
2 Corinthians 7:10 ~ Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
2 Corinthians 7:10 ~ Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
pauls explaining to them his letter made them sorry because he harshly rebuked them for thier sin pointing out what they were doing and then this made them sorry for what they had been doing which led to repentance and the zeal to show themselves clear.
if they had never been told by Paul that what they were doing was sinful they never would have been sorry or repented because they would have thought that what the man was doing was fine like they originally thought until he made known the issues and group problem they had and the need to correct it he told them several harsh things in his original letter
“It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:1-2, 6-8, KJV
“Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
1 Corinthians 6:8-10 KJV
He rebuked them harshly several times even telling them this of the offender
“It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
1 Corinthians 5:1, 3-5 KJV
But the second epistle later Paul is sent angry any more because he’s seen and heard that the people were repenting sincerely over it. And so the second letter
“For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.”
2 Corinthians 7:8-11 KJV
Paul is actually telling them he is now boasting of thier obedience now they he’s heard of by bier repentance because of his warnings in the first epistle . Sometimes a good person just needs to know that what they are doing is offensive to God and then they will repent but if they never know they may never feel sorry or guilty ……but also they would never repent either not knowing it was wrong
sorrow can be used from God to redeem us through sorrow of heart and repentance but also the worlds sorrow can consume us as we see in Paul’s second epistle where he is telling them to now forgive the man they had exiled
“For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.”
2 Corinthians 2:2-9 KJV
Paul is such a loving example of a Christian I hope to meet him one day and recognize him I have alot to ask. His epistles when we read them as a whole letter really show stories and ways of God for the redemption of us as we stumble and fall and grow through the process of repentance
the only way to begin that process is to foret acknolwedge our own transgressions to have them made known , if we don’t already and this would be the current service of Moses law , and the commandments to show humans that we’re all sinners without an excuse before God.
“Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.”
Romans 3:19-20 NIV
Then we can repent because we become sorry knowing we’ve done wrong
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