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What is True Biblical Confession?

~ “that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:19

The core meaning of biblical confession is to agree with God, NOT to ask for forgiveness. This understanding is rooted in the Greek word for confession, homologeō, which literally means “to say the same thing as another” or “to assent.”

Key Tenets of Biblical Confession

Agreement, Not Petition: Confession is an act of agreeing with God about a situation, primarily acknowledging the reality of one’s sin and, more importantly, acknowledging the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Total Forgiveness: Because of Christ’s sacrifice, forgiveness for all sins (past, present, and future) is a complete and established fact by God Himself. Asking for forgiveness is viewed as undermining the sufficiency of that single, finished work. We are to Thank Him for that forgiveness that was provided at the cross.
Interpretation of 1 John 1:9: The passage “If we confess our sins…” is not interpreted as a conditional if that must be met for God to grant forgiveness. Rather, based on the Greek grammatical structure, it speaks to whether or not a believer chooses to agree with the fact that God has already forgiven and cleansed them. The forgiveness is constant because God is faithful and just.
Logical and Scriptural Coherence: If confession as most understand it) were a prerequisite for forgiveness, it would logically require one to remember every single sin, which is impossible. Scripturally, this view contradicts the New Covenant promise that God “will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more” (Hebrews 10:17).
The Nature of Agreement: For a believer, true confession is agreeing with God that:
1. They have sinned.
2. Jesus paid the complete price for that sin.
3. They are completely forgiven and righteous in Christ.

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Bob George discusses the concept of fellowship with God, emphasizing that believers are either in fellowship or out of it, not bouncing in and out. He explains that First John 1:9 is addressed to unbelievers, not the saved, and that the forgiveness of sins is a past act, completed at the cross. Bob explains that the root of sin is unbelief, and believers should confess their unbelief, not their sins. He also addresses the issue of whether practicing homosexuals can be saved, suggesting that their actions indicate a lack of true faith. Bob offers to send a book to a caller for further clarification.

“So here’s the deal when you’re looking at and here’s, here’s one of the proofs of this type of thing as to who it’s talking to. If you’ll turn over to Second John, you’re going to see he writes to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth. And not only I, but also all who know the truth because of the truth which lives in us and will be with us forever. So we’re told something about the truth it is in us and will be with us forever. Now, who is the truth? Well, Christ, and so Christ is lives in us, and Christ will be with us forever. That’s that’s eternal. We know that to be true. Now, if that is true, which it is, then when you’re claiming to be without sin, you’re deceived, and the truth is not in us. If the truth isn’t in us, it’s because it never has been in us. Because if it was, it would be with us forever. So you’re claiming something, and these Gnostics that were claiming to be. You without sin, were the same Gnostics that were claiming that Jesus did not come in the flesh, and that is the reason. In the first chapter of John, he says, We proclaim to you what we’ve seen and heard and what and again, that we have seen him. We have heard him. We’ve talked to him. And in order to correct these Gnostics who were claiming that he was some kind of a mystical form and later on referred to as antichrist. So the same Gnostics claiming that Jesus didn’t come into flesh are the same ones who claiming that they didn’t have sin and identified as an antichrist, then you certainly couldn’t identify a Christian as an antichrist. So that passage right there is enough to realize that if the truth is not in you, it’s because it never has been in you. And then the construct Tony on this passage is an unusual construct. And let me just say this. I, first of all, I came to understand these truths long before I ever looked into the Greek. But again, I realized that the Greek isn’t going to contradict what I know to be true. And so I checked I’m not a Greek student. I checked with people, the leading Greek professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, with many, many Greek professors over at Criswell Bible Institute. And then when I went to Greece, I finally got it good. And when I was teaching that over in Greece, this guy was sitting there looking at me, like, what, what planet did this guy come off teaching what I’m thinking? Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so he so he known I was teaching that this is a passage to a believer, not to a believer, to it, but to a lost person. And so I went up to him, and he said, You know, I have a little trouble with that. And I said, Well, look at your language. Look in your Bible and see what it says you you know, you didn’t have to go to seminary learn Greek, so read it. And so he looked at that, and looked at and looked at he looked at me. Said, my goodness, why didn’t we teach this? And I said, I don’t know. That’s why I’m here. Is to teach it. So the construct on that is this that the if is, I don’t know if you guys are ever going to come to your senses or not. That’s exactly what it’s meaning…

Well, number one, God is not dealing with us on the basis of sin today, he’s dealing with us on the basis of new life. And again, it gets back down Tony to this issue that the only sin that Jesus left us with is the sin of unbelief. He said, the world’s sin is unbelief in Me, the sins of the entire world were placed upon Christ at the cross. God teach that, and God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not counting their sins against us. And then in Romans, a phenomenal passage, and this is, I believe, where most people are totally confused in this issue, while we were yet enemies. That means lost. We were reconciled to God through the death of his Son. We were reconciled before we ever got here, right. How much more having been reconciled shall we be saved by His life? Life. We’re not saved to the death of Christ. You’re saved to the life of Christ, and what you’re saved from is the consequence of sin, which is death by the gift of God, which is life. Now, you don’t bring a corpse to life by forgiving them. You bring a corpse to life by imputing life to them, right. But in order to give us eternal life, which is what we have, the act on the Cross had to be eternal, because if he gave us life, and that cross was not complete, the next time we sinned, we’d die, wouldn’t we? Right. And so we’d be like we’d be we would have a Dracula theology. We’re alive today and dead tomorrow, and alive today and dead tomorrow. He took away the sins of the world so that there’s nothing left to do, except to go to any man and woman, boy and girl on the face of this earth, and say, My son, Your sins have been put behind my back, never to see them again. But the consequence of sin is death, and you’re dead, and you need life, and I came that you might have life. I’m the way, I’m the truth, I’m the life, I’m the resurrection and the life. And whosoever believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me will never die. And it’s an issue of life and death. Well, we’ve stopped at the cross in our salvation message, instead of going to the cross and then through the cross to the empty tomb. And to understand what Paul did, when he said, without the resurrection, we’re to be the pitied of all people and are still in their sins. Well, certainly he knew the cross occurred, but what was provided for the world at the cross is received only in his resurrected life. And that’s why we come to Him, not for forgiveness. We come for life, and in that life we have forgiveness. And so it’s a done deal. And so faith is going to have to say thank you. I mean, if something is done, Faith says, Thank you. I don’t ask God to give me eternal life as a born again believer, because I already have it. I say, thank you for it. In Him you have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. I don’t ask God to redeem me. Why? I’m already redeemed. Well, what else am I forgiven? So in both of those cases, if I’m going to function by faith, I’m going to say thank you.” ~ Bob George

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John 6:28,29

28 Therefore they said to Him, “What must we do, that we may be doing the works of God?”

29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in Him whom He has sent.”

Behold Jesus, the Lamb of God Who Took Away the Sins of the World and the World

Lord Jesus, teach me the TRUTH of the world we live in today and the Truth of You

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JESUS DIED…
1. For all (1st Timothy 2:6; Isaiah 53:6).
2. For every man (Hebrews 2:9).
3. For the world (John 3:16).
4. For the sins of the whole world (1st John 2:2).
5. For the ungodly (Romans 5:6).
6. For false teachers (2nd Peter 2:1).
7. For many (Matthew 20:28).

For Me:

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ^{Galatians 2:20}

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