-Are we not to confess
our sins to God as it says in Romans
10:10 and 1John 1:9?
Few of us could even remember
them all! If confession
is necessary for the remission
of sin, where is the provision
for the bad things done we cannot recall? What
is 'confessing our sins'?
And for the ones we can recall,
how
to get rid of what led us to them?
To look at it one way: If
sins did count, Christ saved us as sinners:.1Timothy
1:15. It wasn't required that one first had to qualify by following
a lot of does
and don'ts such as those people back then under the ancient.Mosaic
Law were supposed to, but they didn't anyhow.(*).
How
much more then does the saving apply if we still have faults?.John
3:17; Matthew
9:13 "...I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Matthew
18:11 "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.".Luke
15:7....
Does the first sin after
you became a spiritual person of love rescind
His sacrifice? Does it stop us from being His
workmanship? Does God know we still sin? Yes! Does He 'magico presto'.eradicate
all capability.(subconscious
mindsets).to
sin once we accept Him? Isn't it instead that He has made
us accepted by what He did when they crucified
Him?
It's because of the plan
of God for us that there is opportunity for character development?.2Peter
3:18. And why would character development be at all desirable anyhow?
Is it just to be better so we all get along better? Is that it? No! This
is it.
Has He become our intercessor?.Romans
8:34; Ephesians 2:5. Did Emmanuel
pay
with His life to open the way to the Father?.1Corinthians
7:23;
Matthew 20:28;
1Timothy
2:6.
Has all sin, which is missing
the mark of living with a higher consciousness, now
been paid for? We were all subject to the lower consciousness of missing
the mark because of having no choice
early in life available to us regarding the ego level functioning of humanity?
Because eternity is only
in the present, what we call the past and what we call the future is only
the perception
of the present. By changing the present, the past and future is looked
after. This is hard to come
to grips with from the ego level
where we see history, but easier to comprehend from the far grander
higher
consciousness level, eternity.
Does God look at our sins.(past,
present and future).or
our spirits made perfect?.Romans
8:27;
Hebrews 12:9,23. And
why?.Romans
4:17 "...God, who quickens the dead and calls those things which be
not as though they were."
Paul
tells us to go beyond teachings that keep binding us to physical do's and
don'ts:.Hebrews
6:1.
The word 'confess' as used
in Romans 10:10 and 1John
1:9, in the original, means 'to assent
to', 'to agree with', 'to acknowledge', 'to realize'.
Luke
12:8 "Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men.(what
this."confess
me before men".means,
see on Luke 12:8), him shall the Son
of man also confess before the angels of God."
'Confessing sins', in context.(1John
1:3-7).refers
to a relationship with God. 1John 1:9
is saying that if we realize that we have fallen short of this intimate
relationship, Christ will 'send away this separation'.(original
for word 'unrighteousness' there).from
the Father. So the key is to be close to what
Christ is.
1John
1:10 is saying that if we think we have not ever missed the mark since
being converted, we are seeing
through a glass darkly:.1Corinthians
13:12. God wants
us to live life, learning what works for our best as we go along and
as quickly as one can, so negatives
can be avoided.
In this relationship with
the Creator is perfect love, unlike anything you have previously encountered
or knew.
Romans
10:10 with Luke 6:45 and Matthew
12:34,35 show us that the heart is the key.
When we see and admit our faults, we thereby recognize them and hopefully
have the attitude of wanting to be rid of them and make decisions to so
do. Then the Holy Spirit has something
with which to work.
When one is open with himself
about shortcomings as to God's standard of love.(1John
4:8,16).he
is in the attitude necessary for the Christ presence to help us:.1Timothy
1:5; Hebrews 2:18; 8:6;
9:15;
Jude
1:20,21.
Christ took all sin for
all time upon Him so we could have a relationship with the Father.(read
John
17th chapter). Now He is there
to help us get delivered from what still is hurting us:.Hebrews
9:28; 1John 3:3. He is the captain
of our salvation.(original
is 'deliverance'):.Hebrews
2:10; Jude 1:24; Ephesians
5:25,26 "...Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that
he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word."
If one is willing to be cleansed
of whatever attitudes have brought problems into his or her life, well,
that's all that's needed:.Ephesians
2:10 "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Emmanuel unto good
works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.".It's
speaking of leaving the low consciousness level for the higher consciousness
level:.Philippians
3:13-15.
One in a relationship
with Christ and the Father is of course going to talk
to Him about things. You are in an intimate relationship. Christ
hears and helps. Again, Jude 1:24.
The Father does not any longer
see your sins and no longer wants to hear them, Christ's sacrifice
being just that precious to the Father in the exchange of your sins for
His
righteousness.
He would rather hear thankfulness
for what He has done for you. The Father sees the
spiritual you when in this energy called Christ,
sees you as holy, righteous and perfect and sins no longer count:.Romans
4:17 "...God, who quickens the dead and calls those things which be
not as though they were."
That is why, because of what
Christ has done and is doing for us.(1Peter
1:5), we can have confidence in
coming to the Father, even if sin is still in our lives and may even still
be when He comes:.1John
2:28; Hebrews 10:35; 3:6,14;
Ephesians
3:12.
Now sins will cause heartache
until you move from them and with Christ's help you can. Example – Derek's
life.
The Father and Christ know
you and me still have shortcomings.(1John
3:20), but because of Christ's
sacrifice, they no longer are counted against you in the relationship.
Beautiful forgiveness isn't it? Did not even He say?.Matthew
18:21,22.
The impetus
for pursuing that which you now know to be true of you:.1John
3:1-3.
The true gospel has power
for deliverance.(Romans
1:16).for
those who learn and apply it:.1John
3:3;
James 1:27; 2Peter
3:2..Study
the subject of 'Righteousness' in this
regard.
James
5:16 also talks about confessing faults. Word there for 'faults' is
not the same as the original word for 'sin'.(missing
the mark). The word 'faults' here means
'fall beside' or, off track for a while, like some people just have a hard
time making themselves study and thinking about what they have studied,
which would all help to keep one on
track. Little by little their Christ consciousness can dissipate:.Jude
1:20,21.
So here it is not talking
about your 'miss the mark' faults but rather one's daily efforts in God
and how lukewarm you may have discovered them to be:.Luke
10:38-42.
-If sin no longer counts,
why
did Paul put such an emphasis on the law in Romans
7:12 as being holy, just and good and
why does Paul also talk about a spiritual warfare and striving against
sin as in 2Corinthians 10:4,
Ephesians
6:12 and Hebrews 12:4.
-If sin doesn't now count,
why does Paul say 'not to sin' as in 1Corinthians
15:34?
'Don't miss the mark in awakening
to righteousness, because those without this knowledge have missed this
mark', would be a better translation.
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