How confession promotes honesty, humility, transparency, accountability and reconciliation.
James 5:13-19, ESV
Why do I need to confess my sins to a person?
- The Bible expects us to do so. Eph. 4:25, Col. 3:9-10
- It hinders us from a life of hypocrisy. James 1:22-25
- It shares the burden of living righteously. Col. 3:12-14
- It break’s the enemy’s strong hold. Ps. 32:3-5 NLT
- It facilitates genuine repentance.
- It promotes genuine forgiveness. 1 John 1:6-7
- It allows the church to be the church. Gal. 6:1-5
Results for Confessing sins to another:
_Reconciliation_.
19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Colossians 1:19-20, NIV
18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
II Corinthians 5:18-19
Results for Confessing sins to another:
_Responsibility_.
Results for Confessing sins to another:
_Restoration_.
V19-20 My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, 20 let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
Genesis 33:4
Regulations for confessing sins to another:
Regulations for confessing sins to another:
1. It is both unwise and unnecessary to be fully & equally transparent with everyone.
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24, ESV
Don’t Confess to a gossip!
Regulations for confessing sins to another:
2. Even though temptation is not sin and keeping your struggles quiet can seem attractive, confession is an essential part of resisting.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7, ESV
Secret temptations strengthen sin’s attractions.
Regulations for confessing sins to another:
3. Confess sins _quickly_ and _honestly_.
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8, ESV
Wimberley Christian Church will not shoot the wounded!!
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32, ESV