Matthew 10:32
"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men"
"Him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven"
The Christian faith begins with an honest admission that we are followers of Christ. Confession is that initial step of identity with the Church. We generally see the word confession as being honest about a wrong doing. Therefore; confession is viewed in terms of our sin. We are all sinners. We make confession as a we bring our sin to Jesus, openly admitting everything to Him. We ask Him to save us. We repent, that is we turn away from our sin and depend on Jesus to forgive our sin. We let Him take away the barrier that sin sets up between the sinners and God. Confession of sins is so overwhelming we cannot confess it without seeing the great difference between ourselves and God. God is Holy and complete. We are sinful and incomplete. We live in a fallen world and are so needy that we cannot live without Him.
If we only confess our sins when we are first saved, we are utterly miserable. Those sins that we commit after we arrive at grace still separate us from an open and free walk with God. Once we have come into relationship with Christ we continue to confess our sins, so we can live in relationship with Him. Confession does not mean that God does not know what sins we have sinned. He knows everything about us, even those secret sins of our hearts. If we don't freely confess our sins, we tend to "believe" we are concealing them in our lives and refuse to be open with God.
"CONFESS AND CLEANSE THY SOUL"
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
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