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Synonyms: humiliation, mortification, chagrin, ignominy, loss of face, shamefacedness, embarrassment, indignity, abashment, discomfort, discomfiture, discomposure, guilt, remorse, contrition, compunction, disgrace, dishonour, discredit, degradation, disrepute, ill-repute, infamy, scandal, odium, opprobrium, obloquy, condemnation, contempt, pity, misfortune, crying shame, cause for regret, source of regret, sad thing, unfortunate thing, discredit to, disgrace to, stain on, blemish on, blot on, blot on the escutcheon of, slur on, reproach to, bad reflection on, bring into disrepute, degrade, debase, defame, stigmatize, taint, sully, tarnish, besmirch, stain, blacken, drag through the mud/mire, give a bad name to, put in a bad light, humiliate, mortify, make someone feel ashamed, embarrass, abash, chasten, humble, put someone in their place, take down a peg or two, cut down to size, show up

Antonyms: honor, pride, respect, glory, praise, dignity, honor, esteem, glorification, laud, compliment, regard, credit, elevate, acclaim, pleasure, favor, kudos, recognition, flatter, admiration, greatness, happiness, self-confidence, reverence

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1. The Guilt Offering

Leviticus 5:14--6:7

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... holy things, whether done by directly desecrating a holy thing (Lev. 5:14–19) or by swearing a false exculpatory oath, thus desecrating God’s holy name (Lev. 6:1–7). In both cases the remedy involves restitution of an item plus 20 percent and a guilt offering. Historical and Cultural Background The oath (Lev. 6:3) was also employed in Mesopotamia. A man accused of deflowering a maiden, or accused of fraud in the case of stolen goods, or accused of negligence in the case of a rented ox and who denied ...

2. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... either a clear conscience or none at all.1 Perhaps the most powerful and poisonous of all human emotions is the emotion of guilt. Guilt can make a person afraid of their own shadow. There is a story told of the time when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ... thing either. I want to get even, to be made even, whole, my debts paid (whatever it may take!), to have no blemish, no reason to feel guilt or fear….I’d like to stand in the sight of God to know that I’m just and right and clean. When you’re this way ...

3. Guilt And Grace

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... disciplining the children: either that we have disciplined them too much, or haven't disciplined them enough? And that's only one of many things that can make a parent feel guilty. A book titled How to Be a Guilty Parent listed 85 different types of parent guilt. Like "Working Mother Guilt." That's what happens when you get a telephone call that goes: "Hello, Mom? Is that you, Mom? I can hardly remember your voice any longer! Now, I know you don't like me to bother you at work, Mom, but, I've really got to ...

4. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... to you now, ‘Your sins are forgiven, go and sin no more.’ He will forgive you and sustain you." I never found out who called me that night. I hope she got the message and found her peace. How did Jesus handle those people who came to him paralyzed by guilt? Here is the picture (Mark 2:1-13). Jesus is preaching to a large crowd in someone’s home. Four friends are trying to carry a paralyzed friend to Jesus for healing. The crowd is too great. They can’t get near the Master. They climb up on the flat ...

5. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... the ATM, their bumper still attached to the chain, and their license plate still attached to the bumper. If we don't like the idea of God punishing us, we will certainly find a way for someone else to get the job done. Likewise we can try to serve our guilt away. We'll be as good as good can be, and make up for our mistakes. We'll get forgiveness the old-fashioned way, the Smith Barney way: We'll earn it. This much is certain: We'll make ourselves miserable in the attempt. As a young monk, Martin Luther ...

6. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it is the gift of God— [9] not the result of works, so that no one may boast. Peter learned what Grace is all about. His guilt was wiped away forever. Batman on the other hand need to hear what Paul writes in Romans 8:1-2 (NRSV) [1] There is therefore ... life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Who do you line up more with Batman, Driven by Guilt? Or Peter, Driven by Grace? My hope is that you have experienced the forgiving grace of God. And your life is lived in gratitude for ...

7. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we do not allow the Lord to examine us in this way, we become prisoners of our sin -- but we also set ourselves up for a pervasive guilt and shame that will eventually mar our lives. But to know our sin, doesn't mean that we have to wallow in it. We must trust ... . And that leads me to the final thing I would say today -- a call to each one of us. If we're going to deal with guilt and shame we're going to have to be patient. First, we're going to have to be patient with ourselves -- we're going to have ...

8. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it is the gift of God— [9] not the result of works, so that no one may boast. Peter learned what Grace is all about. His guilt was wiped away forever. Batman on the other hand need to hear what Paul writes in Romans 8:1-2 (NRSV): [1] There is therefore ... in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Who do you line up more with Batman, Driven by Guilt? Or Peter, Driven by Grace? My hope is that you have experienced the forgiving grace of God. And your life is lived in gratitude for ...

9. Come Forward to God's Throne Where There Is Grace (Relief for Guilt)

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Today’s English version translates that: “Let us be brave, then, and come forward to God’s throne where there is grace. Now, let me be bold in sounding my thesis. Most of us are ridden with guilt because we do not accept the fact that at God’s throne there is grace. It’s a deep religious question - perhaps the deepest of all religious questions, having to do with the nature of God Let me tell you two stories: One of them comes from South ...

10. The Guilt Offering

Leviticus 5:14--6:7

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... the guilty person a means of acting upon the need for reconciliation and is thus a helpful and healthy dimension of the ritual. Additional Note 5:15 The root meaning of the verb ‘ashem has to do with guilt or responsibility, and so the traditional translation of guilt offering is quite understandable. The word connotes less the emotion of feeling guilty than culpability in breaches of formal standards. The noun form of the word relates to the reparation or compensation in the ritual for the sacrifice ...

11. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... us some day when we ask him about our sins. "I don't have any record of your ever having done wrong." Do you believe that? Do you believe, as our lesson for the day teaches, that he has taken away your sin forever? Then why not leave your guilt, your shame, your constant selfberatement here at his altar today. You can rid yourself of it through the power and the grace that only He can give. Forgiveness begins at the foot of the cross. Why not experience that forgiveness today? 1. PAUL HARVEY'S FOR WHAT IT'S ...

12. A Woman Burdened with Guilt

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... m thinking about people who are the victims of grinding poverty. Perhaps she had been sexually abused as a child. We don’t know what brought this woman to this place in her life. But we do know that she had not hardened herself to it. She still felt guilt. She still felt regret. She still longed to be made clean. Simon the Pharisee obviously wasn’t willing to cut her any slack. “If this man were a prophet,” he said to himself huffily, “he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is ...

13. The Guilt Offering (II)

Leviticus 7:1-10

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... offering. The torah, or “instruction,” here revisits sacrifices in the ritual of Leviticus 5:14–6:7. While the guilt offering is similar to the purification offering, its blood is dealt with differently. The blood is to be sprinkled against the altar on all sides. The earlier instruction focuses this rite on restitution from the offender rather than on the sin offering’s purification of the sanctuary. In fact, this ...

14. Love Does Not Compound Guilt

John 21:1-14

Illustration

Robert Allen

... would be no punishment upon the South. Lincoln was saying that the South would be treated with love and compassion. When you love, after the patterns of Jesus, caring and compassion become the cornerstone of your love. Love is not vicious or hostile. Love does not try to compound the guilt. Love doesn't try to rub salt in the wounds of shame.

15. The Guilt Offering

Leviticus 5:14--6:7

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Leviticus 5:14 introduces the reparation offering. This unit naturally follows the preceding one because the Hebrew term for “reparation offering” is a technical usage of the word that can mean “remedy” or “penalty for guilt” (cf. 5:6–7). The procedure itself is reserved for the additional instructions in 7:1–7. The reparation offering teaches several concepts: 1. Only after sinners make wrongs right to the best of their ability will God accept their sacrifices (cf. Matt. 5:23–24). 2. It ...

16. Over Much Guilt

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

Martin Luther was one who struggled with his sins. Before his break with the Catholic church he went to confession every day and was so guilt-ridden by his sins he would almost have gone every hour. On most nights Luther slept well, but he even felt guilty about that, thinking, Here am I, sinful as I am, having a good night's sleep. So he would confess that. One day the older priest to whom Luther went for confession said to him, "Martin, either find a new sin and commit it, or quit coming to see me!"

17. Guilt And Shame

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme\n There is plenty to be guilty about. We all are sinners. \nWithout God's forgiveness there is no hope. \nSummary\n Things are in a turmoil at the Peskey home. Rena is angry \nat her husband Sam concerning a trip to a massage parlor, and Sam \nis feeling guilty and worthless. \nPlaying Time 5 minutes\nSetting The Peskey house\nProps Rena -- a business card\nCostumes Contemporary, casual\nTime The present\nCast RENA\n SAM\nSAM: (ENTERS. RENA IS ALREADY IN PLACE, PACING, AND ANGRY) \nRena? I've got to ...

18. Admitting Guilt

Luke 23:26-43

Illustration

Brett Blair

Frederick the great visited a prison in the city of Potsdam. One prisoner after another assured their king that he was innocent and the victim of a framer. Finally one man, however, looked down at the floor and said, "your majesty, I am guilty, and richly deserving punishment." Frederick bellowed for the warden. "Free this rascal and get him out of our prison," he ordered, "before he corrupts all the noble innocent people here." You often view ourselves as the innocent imprisoned souls. We are not sinners ...

19. Your Guilt Is Paid

Illustration

When Billy Graham was driving through a small southern town, he was stopped by a policeman and charged with speeding. Graham admitted his quilt, but was told by the officer that he would have to appear in court. The judge asked, "Guilty, or not guilty?" When Graham pleaded guilty, the judge replied, "That'll be ten dollars a dollar for every mile you went over the limit." Suddenly the judge recognized the famous minister. "You have violated the law," he said. "The fine must be paid but I am going to pay it ...

20. A Dead Spirit Feels No Guilt

Illustration

Michael P. Green

A flippant youth asked a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a weight of sin. I feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Is it ten pounds? Eighty pounds?” The preacher replied by asking the youth, “If you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?” The youth replied, “It would feel nothing, because it is dead.” The preacher concluded, “That spirit, too, is indeed dead which feels no load of sin or is indifferent to its burden and flippant about its presence.” The youth was ...

21. Israel's Guilt and Punishment

Micah 6:9-16

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

6:9–12 This is a rather difficult text because of obscurities, possible displacement of some lines, and confusion of the person, gender, and number of some pronouns and verbs. Most commentators see verse 9b as a scribal gloss. Many follow the LXX suggestion and read “Hear, O tribe, and assembly of the city” for verse 9c. The same commentators then rearrange the lines, so that the relative pronoun (ʾ a šer) at the beginning of verse 12 has as its antecedent “city” in the emended 9c. The order thus becomes: ...

22. What Can I Do With My Guilt?

Hebrews 10:11-18

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A pepper shaker and a handkerchief Boys and Girls, If we had this pepper shaker and this handkerchief, what would the two of them combined make you think of? Could it possibly make you think of sneezing? Pepper supposedly makes us sneeze. Of course, we use a handkerchief when we sneeze. Now what do we say when somebody sneezes? Well, we could say, "God Bless You." But there's a German word that we often use, don't we? GEZUNDHEIT! "GEZUNDHEIT" is an unusual word. It means "Good Health." Now why ...

23. The Guilt Offering

Lev 7:1-38

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Leviticus 7:1–7 outlines the procedure of the reparation offering, which is similar to the purification offering, except that the blood is dashed on the sides of the outer altar. Its suet serves as a food “gift,” even though the sacrifice is mandatory, because it follows payment of reparation to the wronged party. Verses 6–10 specify priestly ownership of reparation-offering meat and summarize priestly agents’ commissions of the other sacrifices (vv. 8–10). Verses 11–36 provide additional instructions for ...

24. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... sends Jesus Christ, His supreme salvation, so that by putting our faith and trust in him we can have that forgiveness, that cleansing from guilt and sin and be made whole in him. The New Testament uses five major words for sin. One means to miss the goal ... changed and to be more appealing and more acceptable to him, and to prove the love that they now have for the Lord. The old guilt is the kind that is hopeless. It''s accusing of self, accusing of others. The Godly sorrow is the kind that seeks to change in ...

25. In Praise of Feeling Guilty

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... push for our own autonomy, to take responsibility for ourselves, to seek for better ways of doing things, and on the other hand, senseless rebellion that leads to destruction of self - and others. 2) Now to consider Cathy’s question: "Where does all the guilt come from?" Guilt is a uniquely human experience! "Oh," you say, "not so! Nothing looks as guilty as my dog when I scold him, as he slinks with his tail between his legs, or cowers or hides." Ah, there is the difference - he "cowers" - this is guilty ...

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Showing 1 to 25 of 1822 results

1. The Guilt Offering

Leviticus 5:14--6:7

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

2. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

3. Guilt And Grace

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Alex Gondola

4. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

5. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

6. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

7. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

8. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it is the gift of God— [9] not the result of works, so that no one may boast. Peter learned what Grace is all about. His guilt was wiped away forever. Batman on the other hand need to hear what Paul writes in Romans 8:1-2 (NRSV): [1] There is therefore ... in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Who do you line up more with Batman, Driven by Guilt? Or Peter, Driven by Grace? My hope is that you have experienced the forgiving grace of God. And your life is lived in gratitude for ...

9. Come Forward to God's Throne Where There Is Grace (Relief for Guilt)

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

10. The Guilt Offering

Leviticus 5:14--6:7

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

11. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan