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626 | Confessing our Sins - Living 1 John 1:9 Every Day · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast.
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  With Kimberly Miller, where we believe that every man, woman,
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  boy, and girl must come to Jesus just like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is helping you experience the reality of God in your everyday life.
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  are on our website at watwm.org.
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  We invite you to sit down with us as we open the scriptures to learn more about
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  who God is and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  So often we hear the verse, 1 John 1.9, that says, If we confess our sins,
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  He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  However, I wonder how often we really look at what that says.
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  If the truth be known, each of us need to incorporate this verse into our lives every day.
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  Join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim discusses the
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  practice of this all-important verse.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  And it is an absolute pleasure to discuss with you something that the Lord has placed on my heart.
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  And I believe if you are a frequent listener to Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  you'll hear the verse 1 John 1-9 fairly often.
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  And it's because it's a verse that I believe that every Christian has to hold
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  on to. And that is, if we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive
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  us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  Now, from the very beginning, I want to make it extremely clear that that does
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  not mean that this verse gives us this free pass as a license to sin.
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  But what it does is it gives us the hope and the absolute truth and knowledge
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  that if we do sin, which we are still in the flesh, that if we come to Christ
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  for forgiveness, that he will surely cleanse us.
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  It also is the verse that allows us to see what takes place when we come to
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  Christ as a sinner in need of a Savior.
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  When we come to him before we have that personal relationship with Jesus Christ,
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  it says if we confess our sins, and the Bible is very clear,
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  that we have to acknowledge that we are a sinner.
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  And Romans 3.23 gives us that fact that we are all sinners in need of a Savior.
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  And then what happens is we come to Christ, we confess our sins,
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  and he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
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  In Luke chapter 2 and verse 11, he says, For unto you was born this day in the
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  city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And that Savior,
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  Jesus Christ, is who actually forgives us of our sins.
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  And you say, Kim, well, how does he do this?
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  In John chapter 3 and verse 16, it says, For God so loved the world that he
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  gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
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  but have everlasting life.
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  And because of his love for us, his death, burial, and resurrection,
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  he allows us to have his righteousness imputed into us.
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  He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might have the righteousness of
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  God through Jesus Christ.
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  This is where we get our salvation.
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  In John chapter 14 and verse 6, he says, I am the way, the truth,
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  and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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  So when we look at 1 John 1, 9.
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  We can't help but see that this is the result of the work of Calvary.
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  And so many of us believe that salvation comes and then we just go our merry
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  way and we've got some sort of fire insurance to deal with us.
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  So at the end of time, when we face Jesus Christ, he says, you know,
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  you're one of mine. I see the blood and he passes over and you get to go into heaven.
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  That isn't at all the way the work of grace,
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  in your heart is the work of grace in your heart we're told in second corinthians
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  5 17 that behold old things are passed away all things are become new and we
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  are new creatures in christ jesus,
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  that work of grace that comes because of that dying on the cross for us that
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  when we call upon him and we're saved it changes us but you know what.
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  We still live in this world. And I bring to your mind Peter.
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  Peter is talking to Jesus, his very familiar passage of scripture,
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  because Jesus talks to Peter and Peter wants him to wash him all over.
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  I believe it's in John chapter 11, and it deals with Jesus washing the disciples'
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  feet and becoming a servant of all men, which he is the servant to all.
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  Yet he is King of kings and Lord of lords.
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  And Peter comes to him and he's going to wash his feet.
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  And Peter says, hey wash me all over and jesus says hey you've already been
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  washed all over you don't have need of that but you do need the dust of your feet washed off,
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  now obviously that's a huge paraphrase but that's what it's telling us in that scripture,
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  and that is where we get to first john 1 9 in the life of a believer,
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  it's the place where we come to jesus getting the dust of the world washed off
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  so that we are peculiar people zealous of good works that he expects us to be,
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  enables us to be, and has called each of us to be.
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  So when we look at 1 John 1, we have two aspects that we must stay very close to in our focus.
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  The first is, he is our Savior.
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  And first and foremost, we need to have taken care of that confession of sin.
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  And it's extremely clear in the Word of God that that is a personal relationship.
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  And it says, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved in Romans 10, 13.
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  So it's not a confession we make to another man it's not a confession we make,
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  sort of just out loud to a group of people it's a confession of our heart in
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  repentance to a savior who loves us.
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  It's a conversation between you and Jesus Christ and the receiving of his grace.
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  But then we all are little Peters in many ways at many different times.
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  But when we look at ourselves every day, just because of where we have been
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  and what we've done, and I mean even walking a life that is close to God and
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  is holy and acceptable and pleasing unto him,
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  we still have the prince of the power of the air, which is the devil,
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  walking about us seeking to devour us,
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  as a result we get some dust on us,
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  and we have this promise that we can confess our sins,
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  and he's faithful and just to forgive us our sin now what does that mean that
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  means that he has given us the holy spirit to indwell inside of us he tells
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  us that in john chapter 14 and he will bring to mind those things that we have need of,
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  and if we have actually taken into heart 2nd timothy 2 15 and studied to show
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  ourself approved unto god a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing
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  the truth looked at psalms,
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  119 105 where david said it's a lamp and a light for us to go by.
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  Then when we get in such a situation that we're walking through the world and
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  a little bit of stuff gets on us we have a conviction in our heart that says we need to talk to God.
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  And that conversation with God is guaranteed to be fruitful because it says he's faithful and just.
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  Do you realize you could sit in my presence from daylight till dark till the
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  cows come over the moon and I couldn't do a thing about your sins?
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  I might be able to introduce you to the scriptures. I could talk to you about
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  the grace and the mercy and the absolute forgiveness of God.
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  But Kim Miller can do nothing to help you with your sins.
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  There's only one God who can do that.
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  Again, that's in John chapter 14 and verse 6. He says, I am the way,
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  the truth and the life. And no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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  He is judge of judge, king of kings, and lord of lords. And because he is truth, he is just.
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  But praise be to God, he doesn't give us what we deserve. His mercy is abundant
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  and his grace is sufficient.
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  So we get his grace that allows us the salvation of the Lord to be given to
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  us through a simple act of childlike faith.
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  He's faithful and he's just.
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  You don't have to worry about him lying to you.
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  He said, I will forgive you. And then he says, I'll cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
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  It's an interesting thing that he uses the word cleanse.
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  He could have said, I'll wash you up. Now, when I was a kid and my mom sent
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  me in to wash up, it never failed that when I came back out,
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  she always did this like number of looking at me behind my ears and around my
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  elbows and things to make sure I got myself clean.
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  Because just because I had washed up did not necessarily mean i come out clean,
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  because i can miss a few spots or maybe i just go in and play and then come
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  back out but he didn't say i'll wash you.
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  No he said he washes our sins white as snow which is a scrubbing but he said,
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  i'll cleanse you because when he said i'll wash your sins and make them white
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  as snow he gave us the result that he had done a good job washing because we
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  went from scarlet to white,
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  We went from black sin to clean pureness.
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  But in this verse, he says, you tell me your sins, which are black.
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  You tell me your sins, which are wrong. You tell me your sins,
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  which are going to cause you destruction. And for the wages of sin is what? It's death.
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  But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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  You give me your sins and I will cleanse you.
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  When you're cleansed, guess what? You even smell good.
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  You look good and you smell good. there is no evidence that you were ever dirty.
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  If you wash up, sometimes there's streaks.
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  But if you cleanse, by pure definition, there's no remnant of the filth.
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  Now, isn't that fabulous?
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  It would be marvelous if he washed me up.
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  But it is spectacular that he cleanses me because that means as sin hits my feet.
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  And notice that when Peter came to Jesus, he was washing the feet.
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  He didn't expect us to get so deep and mired in sin. It'll be up to our waist,
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  eyeballs and over our head.
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  Simple cleansing of the feet because it should be a frequent, not a random activity.
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  It should be instantaneously as the Holy Spirit tugs on your heart and tells
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  you that you have stepped out of the will and the way of God and that a little
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  bit of the world has kind of touched you,
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  that you are immediately confessing to God and receiving his cleansing.
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  Now, I want to leave you with this thought because I don't want you to catch this incorrectly.
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  I'm not telling you to isolate yourself and not be in the world because we are his light.
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  We are his ambassadors. We are his hands. We are his feet.
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  What I'm telling you is there's no reason why the world should be part of you.
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  And if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to cleanse us so that the
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  world isn't part of us and we can live in it and be a light for Jesus Christ.
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