1. October 22, 2017

2. yadah
“acknowledge; praise; thanksgiving; confess”
homologea
“speak the same thing; promise; confess; praise”

3. Confession implies acknowledgement and agreement, but also ACTION!

4. Confession implies acknowledgement and agreement, but also ACTION!
If confess greatness but live in fear…
If confess Lordship but don’t follow…
If confess sinfulness but continue…

5. James 2:26 “Faith without works is dead.”
1 John 1:6 “If we say we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in darkness, we lie.”

6. Confessing Faith in Jesus
Confessing Faith in Living
Confessing Sin to God
Confessing Sin to Others

7. Confessing Faith in Jesus
Matthew 16:16 Peter said, “Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Acts 8: Philip and the Ethiopian treasurer
Romans 10:8-10 Paul writes about “the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses unto salvation.”

8. Confessing Faith in Living
1 Timothy 6:11-14
Hebrews 4:14; 10:23 “Hold fast your confession…”
Romans 10:8-10 Paul writes about “the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses unto salvation.”

9. Confessing Faith in Living
1 Timothy 6:11-14
Hebrews 4:14; “Hold fast your confession…”
Romans 10:8-10 Paul writes about “the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses unto salvation.”

10. Confessing Faith in Living
Matthew 10: Jesus said, “Everyone therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.”

11. Confessing Faith in Living
Matthew 10: Jesus said, “Everyone therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.”
1 John 2:23 “Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.”

12. Confessing Sin to God 1 John 1:6-9
Proverbs 28:13 “He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.”
2 Samuel David’s sin with Bathsheba
Psalm 32:1-6 When David didn’t confess
Psalm 51:1-4 When David did confess

13. Confessing Sin to Others
James 5:16 “Confess your sins to one another…”
James 5: Help those who stray
Galatians 6:1-2 “Brethren, even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.”

14. Philippians 2:8-11 Confessing Faith in Jesus
Confessing Faith in Living
Confessing Sin to God
Confessing Sin to Others