Tag: Confession
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A Confession Without Brokenness – Exodus 10:16-18
Exodus 10:16-18 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only. And he went…
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Compassion That Waited for Confession – Genesis 45:1
Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. Joseph had listened to everything. He had heard Judah say, in effect, “Take me…
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More Righteous Than I – Genesis 38:26
Genesis 38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. At last, Judah says the right thing. “She hath been more righteous than I.” That is a remarkable confession. Not because Tamar was…
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Back Where He Belonged – Genesis 26:12
Genesis 26:12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. There is something beautiful here. Isaac had been humbled in Gerar. His fear was exposed. His lie came into the light. He admitted it plainly. No excuses. No polishing. No shifting blame. He just told…
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Passing the Blame – Genesis 3:12
Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Adam had a chance to say, “I sinned.”Instead, he said, “She gave it to me.” And beneath that, there was something even darker: “You gave her to me.” That is…
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Freed by Confession – Genesis 3:10-11
Genesis 3:10-11 “And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” Now Adam speaks. And the first…
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Honest Hearts, Open Doors – 1 John 1:9-10
1 John 1:9-10 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. For years, these verses can trouble tender believers more than…
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The Lie of Sinless Claims – 1 John 1:8
1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. John is fearless here. He does not soften the edge of this verse, because the danger is too great. He says plainly that if we claim to have no sin, we are not merely…
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More Than You Think – James 5:16–18
James 5:16–18 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth…