NO CONDEMNATION | Romans 8:1

For a prank, one day English playwright, Noel Coward sent an identical anonymous letter to 10 well-known men in London, and his note says simply, we know what you have done, if you don't wanna be exposed, leave town. Well, it's reported that soon all 10 men, they got out of town. Not so nice a prank, but I think it does prove a point, and that is the pervasive power of guilt in the lives of many people. Or as Hemmingway told a story about guilt as there was a father and son who were alienated, I mean, the Son had done and something that really hurt his dad and feeling the shame, the boy runs away, and The Father searches all over Spain for his son and he can't find him, and finally, in desperation, the father places an ad in Madrid's daily newspaper and the ad reads Paco, meet me at Hotel Montana noon, Tuesday, all is forgiven, Papa. Hemingway says that there was a whole squadron of Madrid police that had to be called out to keep the peace as some 800 young men named Paco show up wanting forgiveness. Most of us, even as Christians, who do believe God's good news, we know what it is sometimes a struggle with the guilt to feel that we are forgiven.

I wanna share a verse with you that really helps me a lot in all of this, and it's Romans 8:1...

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