Episode Notes: 

◎ Self Forgiveness: Can you forgive yourself? 

◎ In order to have forgiveness, there needs to be an offender and a victim. 

◎ People who use this statement are really dealing with something, but this isn't a correct articulation or rendering of what one is working out. 

◎ 2 Cor. 7.8-10 is a text that does speak to grief; worldly grief vs. godly grief.  

◎ Godly grief produces life and worldly grief produces death. 

◎ they need to move through worldly grief, over sin,  to godly grief over sin to life and freedom. 

◎ We cannot remove or renounce God’s judgment, and pronounce ourselves as judge….we need to humble ourselves and let God be God. 

◎ It’s not self-forgiveness, but rather, receiving the full measure of grace that Christ accomplished on the cross.   

◎ It's not self-forgiveness, but embracing God’s grace. 

◎ Self-forgiveness is emotively based.  

◎ The object of godly grief was not to alleviate the grief, but that it would produce something beautiful in a person, an effort to change one’s life.   

Episode Resources
- Piper Audio from DesiringGod
- Gospel Coalition Article
- Robert D. Jones Book - I can't forgive myself