CONFESSION IS THE BEST CLEANSING

Asking God to forgive your sins is better than AJAX cutting stains from a 6 year old boy’s jeans!

Psalm 32:5, I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

David had committed adultery, a grievous sin, and then tried to cover it up. The first time by getting Uriah, Bathsheba’s husband, to go sleep with her. Then by getting him drunk to do the same. When those two things didn’t work, David sent him to the hottest part of the battle so he would be killed. David orchestrated Uriah’s death to cover up his sin. He tried everything he could but yet God knew his heart! God knew the wickedness he had committed.

With the guilt and shame holding him down, he cried out to God for forgiveness. When he did, the is what he said about God; “… thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.”

Hey friend, confession is the best cleansing! He will take that mess you have made and make it a message of Grace! Would you follow David’s lead and ask the Lord to forgive you this morning?

GET RID OF SIN

Is sin so luscious that you will burn in hell for it? -Spurgeon

Proverbs 28:13, He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

David felt the pain and agony of the sin he had committed. He knew if he did not confess and forsake it, he would have that weight upon his life until he did. He knew it would destroy his life. He knew he would never be what God wanted him to be with that sin dragging him down. So, David “got rid of the sin”. What I mean is that he didn’t set it aside. He didn’t cover it up. He dealt with his sin the way God instructs us to. He confessed it. He forsook it!

Will you do the same this morning or will you continue to be hindered by the sin that so easily besets you?

BE THE LIGHT!

            A Christian should be a lamp, and not a damp.  He should cheer and enlighten his brethren, and never act as a wet blanket to their zeal. -Spurgeon

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: Ephesians 5:8

            God didn’t take us to Heaven when He saved us so we could be light in the Lord for this world! If we have sin in our life, our light will not shine bright! We will not be someone who the lost will find spiritual guidance in. We will not be the example to this lost, dying, and hurting world we need to be!

            Do you want to be a dim light or a bright shining light for you Saviour? Clean the lens of your heart by confessing sin and be the light God wants you to be!

IN CHURCH BUT NOT IN THE CHURCH

            There have been many professions of faith but not many possessions of the faith.

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7:23

            Some people have never been saved so it shouldn’t surprise those of us who are when they don’t live Godly. Lost people will do, what lost people do. They will not be faithful to church. They will not handle sin properly; confession and repentance. They will not forgive those whom have done them wrong. They will not give what God asks. What it all boils down to is— they will not be obedient to the Word. I am reminded this morning of another scripture… If ye love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15

            What are you trusting in your salvation for? If it’s anything other than the finished work of Jesus Christ—you’re still lost! You’re not part of the church… you’re just in a church!

SURGERY IS NECESSARY!

Christ and we will never be one until we and our sin are two. –Spurgeon

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Hebrews 12:1

You want to have God’s blessings on your life—cut out sin! You want to have peace that passes all understanding—cut out sin! You want to have life and have in more abundant—cut out sin! Child of God in order for you and I to live a life honoring and glorifying to God we are going to have to deal with the sin issues in our life! How? Confess and repent— allow the Lord to do surgery on your heart!