Creflo Dollar 2016, "How To Overcome Shame"

SUMMARY

We must not let shame sabotage God’s purpose for us, or paralyze His call on our lives.  He has given all of us an assignment, and we must believe that everyone’s life is significant and has a purpose. The devil’s favorite weapon to use against us is shame over something that happened in the past. As Christians, we must not only understand shame, but learn how to overcome it. Shame stems from a sense of failure and is a powerful emotion caused by a consciousness of guilt or shortcoming, but the answer to the shame dilemma is Jesus, Himself.   

Creflo Dollar 2016, "How To Overcome Shame"

A. God sent His Son to take on the shame that we deserved. He did this to free us from it.

Jesus gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to those who pulled out the hair. He did not hide His face from shame and spitting. God will help me, and I will not be confounded. I know I will not be ashamed (Isaiah 50:6, 7).
He submitted Himself to shame to spare us from it.
God helped us overcome shame when Jesus died on the cross.
At the ninth hour, Jesus asked God why He had forsaken Him (Matthew 27:46).
Jesus suffered the shame of rejection. There was actually a separation between Him and the Father. This was so that God would never forsake us.
Jesus bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. He was stricken, afflicted, and smitten by God (Isaiah 53:4).

He suffered the shame of our sins, and endured this on our behalf.
Christ suffered once for our sins, so that He might bring us to God (1 Peter 3:18).
This was only necessary to do one time, as part of His finished works.
He took on all the shame of every sin that mankind would ever commit. Because of this, we must not let shame overtake us when we make a mistake.
God made Jesus, Who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that in Him we could be the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Through Jesus, we are righteous without having to do anything righteous.
God laid a stumbling stone and a rock of offense. Whoever believes in this Rock will not be ashamed (Romans 9:33).
Jesus became the Rock of offense.

B. Our debts of shame and guilt are paid in full. We no longer need to carry them.

God says to comfort His people. Tell them their sins are pardoned, and they have received double from Him for all their sins (Isaiah 40:1, 2).
This Scripture is based on the custom of posting debts written on parchment on the doorpost of a home, in hopes that a rich man would pay them all and fold the paper over double. This would indicate that the debts were paid.
Folding over the paper meant the shame and humiliation of having debts was not visible any more. This indicated that the poor man no longer owed anything.
Jesus blotted out the handwriting of the ordinances against us, took them out of the way and nailed them to the cross (Colossians 2:14).
Compared to the wealthy man who hid the debts of the poor man by folding over the paper, Jesus actually erased our debts completely.
For your shame, you will have double, and for confusion, they will rejoice in their portion. They will have double in their land; they will have everlasting joy (Isaiah 61:7).
We are no longer in debt from sin. Jesus has given us a double portion of forgiveness.
There is a difference between guilt and shame.
Guilt is seeing what we have done. Shame is seeing ourselves as failures because of what we have done.
Guilt is feeling bad about what we do. Shame is feeling bad about who we are.
Guilt is an awareness of failure. Shame is a sense of failure in someone else’s eyes.
Guilt is about disobedience to the Word. Shame is how others perceive us, or how we see ourselves.
There are consequences to shame.
It can lead to paranoia, excessive perfectionism, and being a doormat for others.
It ties us to our past and sabotages our future.
It extinguishes our hope.
Adam heard God’s voice in the garden of Eden, and admitted that he hid because he was afraid (Genesis 3:10).
After Adam and Eve sinned, they realized their guilt, and it made them feel ashamed.
Adam could have repented and God would have restored him, but shame stopped Adam from doing so.