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Break Free - Take off the Mask
We have four parts to our life:
Crown (who we are in Jesus) Blindspot (what others know, we don’t) Mask (what we know, others don’t) Potential (what God knows, no one else)
Humor: 4 preachers.
1 - go to movies. 2 - smoke. 3 - play cards.
4 - it’s gossiping I can’t wait to get out of here
“Confession of evil works is the beginning of good works” St Augustine
1. Don’t remove your crown when you remove your mask.
Confess your condition before God without cancelling your position in God!
Repenting from sin is resigning from sonship! “I am not worthy to be called your son” Luke 15:19.
“This son of mine was dead” Luke 15:24
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:7-9
2. Confessing your sin removes consciousness of sin.
Confessing your sin is like washing your hands.
Secret sin is like germs, makes you sick.
When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long.
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer.
I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Psalm 32:3-5
Sin neglected makes you infected.
Sin can’t be contained, it contaminates.
Preventive care is the best care.
Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.”
John 13:10
3. When you remove the mask, God removes the enemy!
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
James 5:16
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:32
Confessing your sin removes the enemy out of your palace but not the battle out of your world.
Confession brings peace to the palace while empowering me to win war in the world.
Peace comes when I stop hiding and start hosting.
Confess your sin to God, spiritual elders, and to those your sin has affected.
Judas confessed his sin to wrong people
Story of stealing car, lying about job, lying about test, stealing money!
Prayer:
Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo.
Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment.
Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image, through Jesus Christ, the light of the world.
Amen.
From the PCUSA Book of Common Worship
Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1993; p. 88
Psalm 51
1 Have mercy upon me, O God,
According to Your lovingkindness;
According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,
2 Blot out my transgressions.
3 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.
4 For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in Your sight—
That You may be found just when You speak,
And blameless when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be converted to You.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
The God of my salvation,
And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
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