Why Can I Believe God Forgives Everyone Except Me? | The Pursuit with James Griffin

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of forgiveness through the lens of the Barabbas exchange and discusses the struggle of believing in personal forgiveness from God.

You are Barabbas. In this episode of The Pursuit, James Griffin, Carlos Fernandez, and Matt Moody walk through Peter's sermon in Acts 2 and 3, unpacking the Barabbas exchange and what it really means that Jesus took the cross reserved for a murderer. The conversation goes deep on penal substitutionary atonement, why we struggle to believe God actually forgives us even when we're confident he forgives others, and the critical difference between Holy Spirit conviction and shame from the enemy. ...

People in this episode

Host: James Griffin

Guests: Carlos Fernandez, Matt Moody

Topics covered

• forgiveness
• atonement
• shame
• Holy Spirit
• self-belief
• Christian theology

Keywords

• forgiveness
• Barabbas
• penal substitutionary atonement
• Holy Spirit conviction
• shame
• Acts 2
• Acts 3
• Peter's sermon

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Acts

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