Forgiveness Begins with Confession

Question: Have you ever sat down and thought hard about your sins and truly been sorry for them and confessed them one at a time.  Think about what this says in 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”  Jesus’ main purpose was to shed His blood and to give His life a ransom for the sins of mankind.

If you read about the sacrifices in the Old Testament you read about the blood of animals being shed for repentance and forgiveness of sins at that time.  Then in the New Testament Jesus became the sacrificial Lamb which cost Him His life, which was very degrading and extremely painful and humiliating to say the least.  Without Jesus’ death and resurrection, no one could be right with God.  The death and shed blood of the animals were just a foreshadow of the things to come.  

Think of this, Jesus was a man without sin, never did anything wrong, lived a holy and righteous life, no matter what was said or done against Him he never retaliated but always responded with love.  Even when He threw the money tables over when the people were buying and selling in the Temple, He did it for the love of His Father’s house, which He said was a house of prayer and the people had made it a den of thieves.  What Jesus had was a righteous anger, not a revengeful spiteful anger, in other words He was angry, but He did not sin!!  

The Word of God says, without the shedding of blood there is no remittance of sins (forgiveness).  Jesus shed His blood many, many years ago but the blood has not lost any of its power.  Without Jesus’ death and His blood being applied to your life you will never get into heaven.  Like I said earlier, forgiveness begins with confession of individual sins and your willingness to repent.  This might help to explain this, please read 2 Corinthians 7:10, “For the grief that God wills brings a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret. But the world’s grief brings death.”

Like I said before, no one could be made right with God unless Jesus the Lamb of God had been crucified, died and rose again.  Please read Hebrews 10:1-18, “The Torah has a shadow of the good things to come—not the form itself of the realities. For this reason it can never, by means of the same sacrifices they offer constantly year after year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers—cleansed once and for all—would no longer have consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices is a reminder of sins year after year— for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. So when Messiah comes into the world, He says,‘Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. In whole burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not delight. Then I said, ‘Behold, I come to do Your will, O God (in the scroll of the book it is written of Me).’ After saying above, ‘Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them’ (those which are offered according to Torah), then He said, ‘Behold, I come to do Your will.’ He takes away the first to establish the second. By His will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Messiah Yeshua once for all. Indeed, every kohen stands day by day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. But on the other hand, when this One offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God— waiting from then on, until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet. For by one offering He has perfected forever those being made holy. The Ruach ha-Kodesh also testifies to us—for after saying, ‘This is the covenant that I will cut with them: ‘After those days,’ says Adonai, ‘I will put My Torah upon their hearts, and upon their minds I will write it,’ then He says, ‘I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.’ Now where there is removal of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.”

Question: Are you tired of being enslaved to sin, has God been drawing you to Jesus, has the Holy Spirit been convicting you of the sin in your life, are you ready to repent and confess your sins and turn from your sinful ways and turn to the Lord and ask Him to come in and be your Lord and Savior?  God loves you and He is the only way to be put in right standing with Himself through the other factors I have been talking about.  Like I said, God loves you and so does Jesus, let me reveal something to you that you may not know about and this is the truth and it is good news, please read John 3:16-17, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.”

This is talking about whosoever, so that includes you or me or anyone else who is willing to truly repent.  But don’t forget the only way to get to God, the Father, is through Jesus, His Son, check out John 14:6, “Yeshua said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

The only way to get to Jesus is through the Father, check out John 6:44, “No one can come to Me unless My Father who sent Me draws him—and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Enough said, I hope that this Tidbit is responded to in a positive way and that you will make the right choice, if necessary.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you all have a super day!!