CONFESSION -- THE KEY TO FAITH !
- Evangelist/Bobby Lewis
- Dec 15, 2020
- 3 min read
CONFESSION -- THE KEY TO FAITH ! "For with the heart man believe unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10:10). In the last lesson we discussed confession. Our text refers to confession and salvation, but the text is also true concerning anything is that you receive from God. Why ? Because all that you receive from God comes the same way: through faith. With the heart man believe for healing, and with the mouth confession is made until it is manifested in your body ! With the heart man believe for the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and with the mouth confession is made. Everything you receive from God comes this way. The same thought appears in (Mark 11:23): "For Truly I say unto you, that whosoever shall SAY unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he SAITH shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he SAITH." In this text, Jesus mentions believing once and confession three times. When the Lord spoke to me about this once, He said, "you'll have to do three times as much preaching about the saying: as you do about the believing part, because people are not missing it in the believing part; they are missing it in the saying [or confession] part." Nowhere does the Bible teach that if you just believe in your heart you will get an answer. It teaches that if you leave with your heart and say it with your mouth, you shall have what you say." In other words you have to learn to agree with God by saying what he has said ! (Romans 10:8). Says, "but what saith it ? In other words, what says the Word ! The word is nigh thee, even in thy MOUTH, and in thy HEART; that is, the word of faith, which we preach." Notice that the word of faith must be in your mouth as well as in your heart. Few believers have recognized the place that confession holes in their lives. It is unfortunate that whenever we use the word "confession," people invariably think of confessing sin, weakness, and failure and doubt as well as unbelief. That is the negative side of confession. There also is a positive side -- and the Bible has more to say about the positive side than the negative. The dictionary says that to confess means "to make confession of one's faults, to acknowledge faith in." If we live on only one side of confession and constantly confess our faults and failures, doubts and unbelief, we will grow lopsided in our Christian life, building weakness, sin, and failure -- consciousness or sin -- consciousness into our spirits. Christianity is called "The Great Confession." What is confession ? First, it's declaring what we believe to be true. Second, it's giving evidence to what we know in our hearts. The knowing is the intimate knowledge of the heart not the head ! Third, it's testifying to the truth that we've accepted. But we must know what we are to confess. Confession centers around my area: First, what God in Christ did for us in the plan of Redemption. Second, What God through the Word and the Holy Spirit did for us in the New Birth and the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Third, what we are to God the Father in Christ Jesus. Fourth, what Jesus is doing for us now, seated at the right heel of the Father, where He ever liveth to make intercession for us (Hebrews 7:25).
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