Hope, Healing, and a New Identity

https://www.regenerationrecovery.org/struggles/sexual-abuse // Having a conversation around safety and abuse has become more and more common in our world today. How should a Christian think about abuse and safety? Emma Dotter consults a discussion written by John Elmore to discuss this conversation. This conversation is not just one that is heavy, but in Christ we can have hope. “God hates that this has happened to you, and although you may not understand why this has happened, God will punish the wrong that was done to you. God can heal your shame and restore your true identity.” Emma reminds us that, “You matter to God. Entrust justice from your abuse to Christ.”
 
 Scriptures used in this podcast:
 Psalms 34:18, “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” 
 Psalm 56:8, “You have kept count of my tossing; put my tears in you bottle. Are they not in your book?” 
 Lamentations 3:55-59, “I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit; you hear my plea…”
 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” 
 Ephesians 1:3-4, “Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing…” 
 Galatians 6:2, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” 
 1 John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another…”
 1 Peter 2:21-24, “For this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you…”
 Leviticus 25:18-19, “And then you will dwell in the land securely...”
 Leviticus 26:3-5, “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season…” 
 Deuteronomy 12:10, “But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety…”
 Proverbs 18:10, “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.” 
 Proverbs 29:25, “The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.” 
 Luke 22:36, “And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one…” 
 Acts 9:25, “But his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening n the wall, lowering him in a basket.”
 Acts 17:10, “The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.” 
 Acts 19:30, “But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him.”
 Acts 23:10, “And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them…”
 John 3:17, “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
 Acts 2:21, “And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
 Acts 4:12, “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” 
 Romans 10:9, “Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” 
 Ephesians 2:8, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,”
 Matthew 10:28, “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
 John 16:33, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take here; I have overcome the world.” 
 
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