Get out of sin.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. "

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We emphasize the first sentence: If we confess our sins. Here we have other of the four sentences that begin with this conjunction "Yes" We have already read several of them. In verse 6 we read: if we say that we have communion. In verse 7 we read: if we walk in light. And in verse 8 we have the phrase if we say that we have no sin. Now, in this verse 9 we have the right method to gather sinful man and a holy God and that method is, the confession of sins.

Now, what does it mean to confess our sins? Well, the Greek word used here is homologeo, which means "to say the same thing". "Logeo" means "to say" and "homo" means "the same". So you must say the same thing that God says. When God in His Word says that what you have done is sin, you must go to God's side and look at it from that perspective. You now have to say, observing yourself: "Lord, you are right, and I say the same thing you say: I have sinned." This is what it means to confess your sins. This is, dear friend, one of the greatest needs of believers. This is the method that God uses for the Christian to deal with the problem of sin in his own life.

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We remember a difficult case at this time. A pastor met a man who was going through very serious problems; In fact, he was in an extreme situation. He divorced his wife because he discovered that she had been unfaithful. In addition, he lost his home and lost his job. He was desperate and told the pastor: "I want to serve God, but I have failed, my life is a total failure". The Pastor spoke directly and sincerely telling him: "Go to God to express what you feel, because God wants you to do it: tell God, with your own words, that you have failed, that you have made a mistake, and that you want to tell him what same as He thought about your sin, seek God's help, He is your Father, you belong to his spiritual family, and tell him that you have lost your fellowship and fellowship with Him, but you want to recover it, restore that relationship, if you confess your sins He is faithful and just to forgive you all your sins: "

Now, after we confess our sins, what does God do? He cleanses us. In the parable recorded in Luke 15, the prodigal son returned home from a distant, dirty and smelly country, because he came from a pigsty. No one would expect his father to put new clothes on that dirty, ragged young man. On the contrary, he gave her a good bath. In the Roman world they were very concerned about cleanliness and there is no doubt that they subjected him to a good cleaning session before putting on a new tunic. And that young man would no longer want to return to the far country to end up living in a pigsty, in the company of the pigs.

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When you confess your sin, it means that you have turned away from that sin. It means that you have said the same thing that God has said about sin. Sin is a terrible fact. God detests it and now you also hate it. But confession restores him to the relationship of communion and fellowship with his heavenly Father.

The following work was taken from the Bible school following the
reference of the master Reina Valera 1960.
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