“Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.“- 2 Corinthians 7:10 

Godly sorrow = conviction 

Worldly sorrow =guilt and shame

When you are in Christ, He leads you to repentance because His Holy Spirit brings conviction which leads to a changed life. 

When you are of the world there is nothing but guilt and shame which leads to death, for the wages of sin is death. When you are guilty, you have no hope, for you feel the weight of judgement. 

Guilt leads to shame, which leads to a lifestyle of wrong doing. 

When you feel trapped with no hope of escape, you stay where you are. You do not change because you are imprisoned in your situation.

A man walking to the gallows is on the path of death with no hope of life.

That is the situation without Christ. Hopelessness!

We are condemned! We are guilty with no hope of life.

Jesus has come to take away all guilt and shame, He offers freedom from the burdens of a guilt filled life.

For Death is final without Jesus. He came to beat death by dying on the cross, paying the price for all of our guilt and shame, taking our condemnation on Himself-proving this by resurrecting from the dead.

We then can live free from this life sentence of staying in our sins, from the prison of guilt and condemnation where there was once no escape.

We can have the Spirit of Christ live within us!

We then are transformed into the very image of Jesus. Perfected and transformed by God given conviction.

Guilt and shame was nailed to the cross. Condemnation was put to death.

We are guided by conviction!

We are resurrected into a new life where the Holy Spirit guides our lives to glory after glory. And new life after new life.