RIGHT AND WRONH CONFESSIONS

Few Christians have recognized the place that confession holds in the scheme of things. Whenever the word "confession" is used we instinctively think of confessing sin, weakness and failure. That is the negative side of this question.

Christianity is called " The Great Confession." Confessing is affirming something that we believe. It is testifying of something that we know. It is witnessing for a truth that we have embraced. Confession holds a very large place in Christianity.

Jesus planned that this great Life and Love should be given to the world through testimony, that is, through the confession of our lips. Testifiers and witnesses and confessors have been the great leaders in the revolutionary life that Jesus gave to the world. The major problem that we face then, is to know what we are to confess.

Our confession centers around several things:
- what God in Christ has wrought for Us.
- What God through the word and the Spirit has wrought in us
- What we are to the Father in Christ
Last of All
- What God can do through us or What the word will do in our lips

You cannot confess or witness about things you do not know. It is what you have seen and heard that count in the court room. It is what you know personally about Jesus Christ and about what you are in Christ that counts. How few of us dare to confess to the world what the World declares that we are in Christ! Take this scripture: 2Corinthians 5vs17 " Wherefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation". What a revolutionary thing it would be for the Church to make a confession like that! They are not just forgiven sinners not poor, weak, staggering, sinning church members. They are New Creations created in Christ Jesus with the life of God, the nature of God and the ability of God in them.

What a stir it would make in them modern church for you to confess that you are absolutely redeemed. Ephesians 1vs7-8 " In whom we have our redemption through HIS blood, the remission of our trespasses according to the riches of His grace, which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

That would mean that Satan's dominion has been broken, that he lost his dominion over your life the moment you became a new creation. You received a new Lord, Jesus Christ to reign over you. Satan's dominion ended and Jesus dominion began. Disease and sickness can no longer lord it over you. The old habits can no linger lord it over you. You are a new creation created in Christ.

" If God then be for us, who can be against us". That is your confession as you stand before the word. God is with me always.

You say with triumph:::
- I confess that i have a redemption that God planned and wrought in Christ.
- I am not afraid of anything
- I am a new creation of which He, Himself is the Author and the Finisher
- I have no fear because this God of Omnipotence is on my side
- I have a righteousness that permits me to stand in His presence as though sin had never been.

Remember that Faith never grows beyond your confession. Your daily confession of what the Father is to you, what Jesus is now doing for you at the right hand of the Father and what the Mighty Holy Spirit is doing in you will build a positive, solid faith life. You will not be afraid of any circumstance of any disease or of any condition. You will fearlessly face life a conqueror. After a while you will find that ROMANS 8vs37 is true " Nay , in all these things we are more than conquerors". You will never be a conqueror until you confess it......

May the good Lord help you....... Amen