Gospel Liturgy: God, Confession Discussion
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Introduction:
How is everyone?
Review:
We’re 2 sermons into a five part series on Gospel Liturgy
God: Psalm 145
Guilt: Psalm 51
Grace
Gratitude
Giving
The Gospel can be summarize by God, Man, Christ, Response
In this structure our response is first gratitude, we hear the preaching of the word and then we respond in Giving or Devotion.
Anyone come away with questions from those first two sermons? Psalm 145 or Psalm 51?
What is everyone’s experience with different kinds of liturgy?
The Glory of God intended for our adoration: Psalm 145
The acknowledgement of guilt for our confession: Psalm 51
Hopefully we can all be in agreement, it’s important God be at the center of our worship.
Why is it beneficial to include confession in our worship?
When we truly see the glory of God, which is our aim when we come to worship, the only natural response is to recognize our sin. “Woe is me!”
It’s difficult to worship with the feeling of guilt, let’s address it!
The only reason we can worship is because we’ve been freed from our guilt. Let’s remind ourselves of that every week.
It reminds us that we’re a body of believers in need of mercy and grace from Christ and from each other.
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
“The first purpose of the law is to be a mirror. On the one hand, the law of God reflects and mirrors the perfect righteousness of God. The law tells us much about who God is. But perhaps more important, the law illuminates human sinfulness. As Augustine once wrote, “The law orders, that we, after attempting to do what is ordered, and so feeling our weakness under the law, may learn to implore the help of grace.’”
R.C. Sproul
A NT recipe for confession
1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life— 2 and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us— 3 what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
John is writing for the sake of the fellowship of the church with other Christians and ultimately fellowship with God. This fellowship which man enjoyed with God back in the garden, that’s the goal.
How are they going to regain that fellowship? Jesus Christ!
Where do we start?
5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
Who is God?
God is Light! There is no darkness in Him at all.
We do not have fellowship Him as sinners.
How do we remedy this problem?
We walk in the light. We put our brokenness in the open before Him. That’s the only way we have fellowship with one another. When we confess the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin and our fellowship with the church and with Christ is gained.
What the temptation we need to avoid?
We have no sin!
What is our great comfort in spite of our sin?
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The word of God reveals to us that there is sin in us. The law of God reveals that there is sin in us. The glory of God reveals sin in us. Let’s be honest about it and confess it so we can have fellowship with one another.
The context of the confession is fellowship. Fellowship with God and fellowship with the church. I believe there’s a good argument here for why confession is a corporate task. One that we can do even in our worship services because in so doing we advance our fellowship and unity as a church.
Sermon Review
What makes it difficult for us to acknowledge our sin? What contributed to David’s blindness?
What does it look like for us to address the heart of our sin in addition to the action of our sin?
How does confession advance the glory of God?
