You need to hear the gospel words of Zephaniah 3:19: “I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise.” You need to hear the promise of Romans 10:11: “For the Scripture says, ‘Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.’” Why? Because Jesus Christ went to his death on the cross, “despising the shame,” as Hebrews 12:2 says, enduring its agony in the full blazing weight of the wrath of God, that you might be forgiven and covered and secured and free. Colossians 2:15 says, “He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by
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