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Old 06-10-2008, 03:50 PM
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Default Re: Should Christians Confess Their Sins?

Scott's Post #8 > Doctrine > Should Christians Confess Their Sins?

Aloha brother,

I appreciate your Post #8 and agree with you wholeheartedly.

I believe that every Christian has an "Achilles Heel" (poor example) or a "weakness" (at least one) that he or she must become aware of and guard against.

Some Christians deal with "carnal" problems ("Sins") all of their lives i.e. drunkeness, drugs, porn, adultery, fornication, idolatry, heresies, etc., etc., etc. I call this the "garbage" we pick up (mostly before we got saved - though sometimes after).

And then there's the "baggage" (mostly "faults" - which can lead to "sin") that we have accumulated (both before we got saved and after), and that has a lot to do with our culture (country, state, city, town, etc.); our home "environment (no training, wrong training, bad training); our "schooling" (public i.e. government, private, "Christian", etc.); and especially those "things" that appeal to our HEART - for where our heart is, there will be our "treasure" also.

I believe that Hyper or Ultra Dispensationalism appeals to those Christians that are the "Cerebral", "Academic", and "Intellectual" type (not necessarily "schooled"). Satan has a "device" for all of us and the easiest way for him to "side track" a saint is to exploit our weaknesses.

It's fairly easy to spot the "garbage" in our lives, but we may not be as readily aware of much of the "baggage" that we have accumulated along life's way, but I know that we all have some, and the only way for us to get rid of it is to study and pray and be willing to receive "instruction" from the Holy Spirit concerning both our faults and our sins.

Generally speaking, I have observed that, those Christians that were saved at an early age (before their "teens") don't seem to have accumulated as much "garbage" as those who were saved later in life (the exceptions always prove the rule). But they still have to contend with the "baggage", which often times they may not even be aware of.

Conversely, those Christians that have been saved later in life, often have to contend with both the "baggage" and the "garbage" they accumulated along the way.

Now God has provided a way for us (Christians) to lead a "victorious" life, but it entails turning away from ours sins and turning unto God and worshiping Him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH (and you can't have ONE without the OTHER). This is sometimes very difficult when one has grown accustomed (it's "their bag") to living in sin and thinking in the the way of the world (in the Western World - Humanism foremost).

How does one throw off 20 or 30 or 40 years of Humanistic thinking and reasoning?

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Psalms 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

There are many more verses but these will do. But that's not all (and this is where we King James Bible believers sometimes fall short). We must SET our "hearts" to both seek the Lord and His Truth. We must not neglect the God of Scripture in our pursuit of the "
Truth".

It is instructive to know that in the entire Bible there is only one man of whom God said: . . . . he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. [Acts 13:22]. Could it possibly be that God gave this "testimony" about David because no other writer of the Bible spoke or wrote as much about God as David (Approximately 1,190 times out of 1066 verses)? Could it possibly be because no other writer of the Scriptures spoke or wrote as much about God's word as David (Approximately 342 times in 336 verses)? Could it be because no other writer of the Bible spoke or wrote as much about the "heart" of man as David (Approximately 130 times out of 126 verses). Or could it be that, in spite of David's terrible sins, that he displayed a love of God; a love of God's words; and an understanding of the "Biblical heart" that very few men before or after him have ever had?

Did you notice David's "balance"? He spoke and wrote about the God of Scripture over three times as much as he spoke about the Scriptures themselves. We have to be careful, although God has placed His word above His Name, we cannot do the same. We must worship the God of Scripture in Spirit and in Truth.

Should Christians (although eternally secure in Christ) confess our sins; repent of our sins; turn away from our sins; and turn unto God? Of course we should! Are we any "better" than the saints of old? Of course not! Religious pride is perhaps the most dangerous of all sins for a Christian.



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