1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, and thank you for listening to your 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: Daily Bible Verse, the podcast that examines one verse each 3 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: day to learn more about God and his will for us. 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jessica vin Rokel and have you ever 5 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: felt like shame held you captive? Well, today's episode is 6 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: for you, as well as my book Reframing Rejection, How 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: looking through a different lens changes everything. This book walks 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: you through the pain that rejection causes, the shame that 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: keeps us bound, and gives you the tools to freedom. 10 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: We're going to return to our podcast after a short 11 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,959 Speaker 1: word from our sponsor, and we're continuing with our lent 12 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: series Surviving Wilderness Seasons with today's Bible Verse, Colossians, chapter two, 13 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: verse fourteen. Today's Bible Verses, Colossians Chapter two, verse fourteen. 14 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 1: Having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood 15 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: against us and condemned us, he has taken it away, 16 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: nailing it to the cross. For years, I walked into 17 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: situations and assumed I would be rejected. One powerful voice 18 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: from my past wrapped itself around my heart and influenced 19 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: how I saw myself and how I thought other people 20 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: saw me. I grew convinced that if people truly knew me, 21 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: they would confirm the lie from my past. Consequently, my 22 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: conversations were guarded and I missed opportunities. Shame convinced me 23 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: that one negative voice defined my entire story and kept 24 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: me stuck in the wilderness. This reminds me of a 25 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, where someone had to weigh 26 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: a mark which publicly announced who they once were. The 27 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: issue with shame is that we often keep wearing the 28 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: label inside our own minds, long after others forget. But 29 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: the Cross of Jesus tells a different story. The Bible 30 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: says Jesus canceled our debt and nailed it to the cross. 31 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: This label of shame, which tried to infect all areas 32 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: of our lives, has been removed at the cross. Our 33 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 1: past and whatever people said about us loses its power. 34 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: Even when I persisted in wearing the label rejected, Jesus 35 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: offered me a new label, redeemed. The legal indebtedness in 36 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: this verse refers to the Law of Moses. This included 37 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: a moral code of commandments that set standards for right conduct, 38 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: but it could not give life or the power to 39 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: obey God. The Law exposed the offenses against God and 40 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: our human inability to live up to God's perfect standards. 41 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: But God established a better covenant through Jesus's life and 42 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: by the power of his spirit. The old covenant way 43 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: of living was nailed to the cross because Jesus fulfilled 44 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: the law perfectly. Through the Cross, God canceled the law's 45 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: accusations against those who respond to Jesus in faith, accept 46 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: his forgiveness, and entrust their lives to him. Followers of 47 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: Jesus now have the power to meet the righteous requirements 48 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: of the law, not to gain salvation or favor, but 49 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: to show their love and gratitude to him. Colossians Chapter two, 50 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: verses six through fifteen shows us how we are to 51 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: live in Christ. It teaches us how we are to 52 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: walk with Jesus, being rooted and built up in him. 53 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: And second, it reminds us to let thanks giving flow 54 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: from our heart and not allow ourselves to be taken 55 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: captive by false teaching, philosophy, or deceit. You see at 56 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: the Cross, Jesus triumphed over all demonic forces and satanic powers. 57 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: He stripped them of their power to hold men and 58 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: women captive. This triumph I want you to picture this. 59 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: It's a military image of a general leading his captive 60 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: through the streets so that everyone can see the evidence 61 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: of complete victory we share in Christ's triumph. Shame over 62 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: our failures, has lost the battle, and it becomes our prisoner, 63 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,679 Speaker 1: rather than us being held captive by it. The work 64 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 1: of Jesus in those who follow him happens through the 65 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: work he did on the cross. You see, we are 66 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: spiritually dead prior to receiving Jesus as our savior, but 67 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: God makes us alive in him. Shame is a sneaky enemy, 68 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: but we don't have to submit to its lies, even 69 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: though it tries to get us to believe that we're 70 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: still bound by it. When criminals in Roman times were crucified, 71 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: they had their crimes nailed to the cross, such as thief, rebel, 72 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: or king of the Jews. We also have a record 73 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: of moral debt before God, and no one can pay 74 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: it except for Jesus, a perfect man. He pays it 75 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: and removes it from our record. The phrase taken away 76 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: comes from a Greek term meaning to wipe out, and 77 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: this means that the accusations against us are completely wiped 78 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: away and covered over. They can no longer accuse us. 79 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: Jesus paid for the writing that was against us when 80 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: he was nailed to the cross. The demonic forces have 81 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: been disarmed except for their ability to deceive and to 82 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: create fear. You see, the weapons are in our hands, 83 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: not theirs. Shame may try and fool you into thinking 84 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: it still holds power over you, but it does not. Colossians, 85 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: Chapter two, verse twenty reminds us, since you died with 86 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,679 Speaker 1: Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why 87 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: as though you still belong to the world, do you 88 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: submit to its rules. When you feel like shame tries 89 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: to bring you back into bondage, Remember how Jesus nailed 90 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: it to the cross and calls you his own. He 91 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: redeemed you, and he redeems the broken spaces in your heart. 92 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: If you feel bound by shame and failure, turn your 93 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: attention to the cross and what Jesus went through to 94 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: set you free. He bore immeasurable pain physically and spiritually, 95 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: so that we can walk through this life as Victor's 96 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: reverse the mindset that shame leads you in chains, and 97 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: that you are actually leading it as the vanquished enemy. 98 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: It is today give your shame to Jesus and take 99 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: on your new identity of redeemed. Let's pray, Heavenly Father, 100 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: thank you so very much that you made away. Lord. 101 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: Thank you for your law that exposed our need for you, 102 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: our need for savior, our need for your son. Jesus Lord, 103 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: we walk in victory because of you. Where do we 104 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: receive what you've done? We trust you with our lives, 105 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: and we give today to you in Jesus name. We 106 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: pray Amen.