CHAINS OF INNER OPPRESSION, THE CONSEQUENCES, AND GOD'S RESPONSE

CHAINS OF INNER OPPRESSION, THE CONSEQUENCES, AND GOD'S
RESPONSE

CHAINS OF INNER OPPRESSION, THE CONSEQUENCES, AND GOD'S
RESPONSE
“I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is” (Lamentations 3: 17)
Sin in the life of the person produces different negative and adverse consequences in his
spiritual, emotional, mental and physical area, as well as in his relations with others. Let's
see what these chains of internal oppression that enslaves him are:
Within the soul are destructive feelings of guilt, of rejection, abandonment and loneliness,
low self-esteem, hatred, bitterness, resentment, fears, phobias, concern and all thoughts and
emotions that preserve you from peace and internal domain.
• CONSEQUENCES:
• In the soul: (heart and mind)
Obsessions, depression, anxiety, anguish, of revenge, suicide, frustration, envy, jealousy,
greed, impatience, dispersal; inability of forgiveness, total absence of inner peace, mental
illness, desolation.
• In the body:
Diseases without physical cause: problems of sleep, tachycardia, stress, food and digestive
problems, asthma, headaches, backaches, arthritis, colitis, ulcers and all kinds of diseases
and ailments because of internal stress.
In the next verse we can see the importance of bringing the sins to God in confession and
the benefit for the physical and emotional health.
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“When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and
night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.”
(Psalms 32: 3-4).
“Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, “This is
my sickness, and I must endure it.” (Jeremiah 10: 19).
“So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased”
(Psalms 39: 2).
• In the spiritual life:
Inappropriate image of God, blame him and feel abandoned by him. Fear of punishment
and severe judgment of God, obstacles to spiritual growth and disproportionate fear to
Satan.
The person may feel that God not answers, blame Him for his painful experiences, claiming
his current life, therefore it will be difficult to trust Him. This way he loses communion
with God, because he has fear of punishment and does not dare to be honest in prayer. You
cannot reach trust in God, indispensable and essential aspect to be restored.
Let's look at this in the following verse:
“Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a
deceptive brook, like a spring that fails.” (Jeremiah 15: 18).
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In the following Psalms (Psalms 32) we can see the negative and adverse consequences of
sin in the spiritual, emotional and mental life as well as the impact on diseases without
physical cause. The psalmist suffers from powerful feelings of guilt and is self-punished,
blaming God for the punishment. We can deduce that because of internal stress the psalmist
suffers various ailments and depression to express that all day is bleak. Here we find the
importance to make the slaved people to experience the power of the Word of God to
liberate then and the positive effect of the redemption of Jesus Christ to pay for the sins of
humanity.
• GOD'S RESPONSE
CHAIN OF OPPRESSION GOD´S RESPONSE
BLAME GRACE AND GOD´S FORGIVENESS,
FORGIVENESS TO OTHERS AND TO
YOURSELF
RANCOR, HATRED FORGIVENESS TO OTHERS AND TO
YOURSELF
SENSE OF LONELINESS AND
ABANDONMENT
ACCEPTANCE OF LOVE AND
COMPANIONSHIP WITH GOD,
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF GOD
FEELINGS OF REJECTION AND LOW ACCEPTANCE THAT HAS BEEN
CREATED BY GOD WITH PURPOSE,
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SELF-ESTEEM WITH GIFTS AND TALENTS
FEARS AND PHOBIAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUPREMACY
OF GOD OVER EVIL
FRUSTRATION ACCEPTANCE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY
AND WILL OF GOD
CONCERN AND FUTURE DESIRE TO TRUST IN GOD REGARDING THE
FUTURE
2.3 RESISTANCE AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS TO EVADE THE PAIN
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”