THE BELIEVER'S CONFESSION OF SIN !

THE BELIEVER'S CONFESSION OF SIN !: The second kind of confession is the believer's confession of sin when he or she has broken fellowship with the Lord. We lose our testimony the moment we sin. "And he said unto me, Write Blessed are they who are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me the are the true sayings of God. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not ! I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (Revelation 19:10). Sin always puts the light out. Faith trembles in the darkness of broken fellowship. In (Psalms 137) we see a type of broken fellowship. Israel had sinned and was carried away into captivity. They remember Zion. Their harps were hung on the willows and their enemies asked for a song. They cried, "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?" (Psalms 137:4). Many, believer are in self-deception when that is broken fellowship with the Lord, because they have not truly repented of the sin that they have committed. Faith has no song when fellowship is broken. (1 John 1:3-7). That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things right we unto you, that your joy may be full. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. Notice that the word "fellowship" is mentioned four times in these verses. These words are not written to sinners. A sinner is the man or woman who has not been truly born again, they still have the nature of the devil. When a person is dominated by their fleshly nature and try to give a excuse of why they do what they do and try to justify and will tell you that God understand. That person is self deceived ! Still in bondage. (1 John 1:3-7). Is written to the believer for two reasons: first, as a warning against broken fellowship; and, second, to show the way back into fellowship. God said we're lying if we say we have fellowship in Him but walk in darkness. He said, "if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (v. 9). When we've sinned, we know it. We have a "monitor" inside us that lets us know when we've have are doing wrong. Remember I said, you cannot serve God with a evil conscience ! If we don't know it, we shouldn't try to find something with which to condemn ourselves. When we are always finding something to condemn ourselves, we are robber ourselves of faith ! I hear a lot of people say "there is nobody perfect, but Jesus Christ." You want to know the truth ? If you are truly in Christ the Father sees you as perfect in Him. You're measuring yourself from a carnal perspective. If we miss the mark in some way, we should wait --- to go to what you call church -- we should say right then, "Lord, I've missed it. Forgive me." He will, and well continued to walk in fellowship with Him. The moment we confess our sins, He forgives us and we stand in His presence as if that sin had never been committed ! We needn't confess our sins over and over again. This builds weakness, doubt, and send consciousness into the human spirit. If we confess the sin once, He's forgiven us and has forgotten it, so we must forget it, too. God said in His Word, "I, even I, and he had blotted out thy transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins" (Isaiah 43:25). If He doesn't have any memory of the things that broke your fellowship, why should you ? That isn't God condemning you; it's Satan trying to take it vantage of you !