“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9 KJV
The apostle John is explaining that if we freely admit our sins when His light uncovers them, He will be faithful to forgive us every time. God is just to forgive us our sins because of Christ, and He will continue to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Instead of telling God about the detail of our sin, by confessing we remind ourselves about the detail of our redemption - God doesn’t need the information about our sins, we do! God’s faithfulness and righteousness is the basis of our forgiveness and cleansing from every sin. Jesus removed every condemning evidence against us. Confession really is to say what God says about us. In the new covenant of grace, Jesus has finished the work of every damning evidence against us. We are to confess our redemption now so that we proclaim the victory of the Cross. Let’s not be burdened under the law of personal performance, deceiving ourselves and ignoring the truth. Let’s not focus on what we have done wrong, but on what Jesus has done right! The light of the Gospel reveals our freedom from sin, not our bondage to it. Let’s confess the benefits of redemption because of the glory of the Cross! Thank You Jesus!
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