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Agreeing With God
When we hear the word ‘confession’ we almost always think of confessing sin.
The word, ‘confession’ as used by Old and New Testament writers is broader than simply acknowledging some sin.
The OT word often translated ‘confess’ is the same word often translated ‘praise.’
...verb and noun have two meanings: the more frequent and fixed in established forms is “to laud, praise, thank”; it also means “to confess (sins)” … .
The concept that binds the two meanings could be rendered “to acknowledge” or “to confess”; we could speak of a “confession of praise.”
Both meanings acknowledge either the delivering activity of God or one’s own trespasses, one’s own failures.
When one confesses one’s own failure, one acknowledges God, against whom one has sinned … .
Ernst Jenni and Claus Westermann, Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1997), 503.
The primary NT word is
1. ὁμολογεῖν == “to assure,” “to promise,” “to admit,” “to concede.”
T. W. Hunt, in Disciple’s Prayer Life, writes, “We are to agree with Him.
This is the essence of the Christian life and of prayer itself - praying in agreement with God and living in agreement with God.” (Week 8, p. 111).
There are at least four types of confession described in God’s Word:
Confession of Sin
Psalm 51 includes four different words David used to ‘confess’ his sin with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband:
a).
transgression/rebellion
In Hebrew this word simply means ‘crime.’
Crime in the OT was a broad category that covers all sorts of personal and property abuses.
b).
iniquity/guilt
The basic nuance of this word is “sin” conceived as missing the road or mark
W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White Jr., Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1996), 232.
c).
sin
Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Sin)
which means “to be bent, bowed down, twisted, perverted” or “to twist, pervert.”
d).
evil/wickedness
bad, disagreeable, malignant:
Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 948.]
Obviously David sensed the gravity of his action -
“Against You—You alone—I have sinned and done this evil in Your sight.
So You are right when You pass sentence; You are blameless when You judge.”
(Psalm 51:4, HCSB)
Of course the NT writers speak of sin:
The principal NT term is hamartia (and cognates), which is equivalent to ḥṭ’.
In classical Gk. it is used for missing a target or taking a wrong road.
It is the general NT term for sin as concrete wrongdoing, the violation of God’s law (Jn.
8:46; Jas.
1:15; 1 Jn.
1:8).
B. A. Milne with J.M., “Sin,” in New Bible Dictionary, ed.
D. R. W. Wood et al. (Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 1105.
To ‘confess’ sin is to admit before God that you have personally failed, that you have disobeyed, that you have acted in a way that is opposite of God’s express will.
As we confess sin 1 John 1:9 is crucial:
Confessing Our Needs
Jesus’ ministry has multiple examples of individuals coming to Him expressing specific needs.
As we pray we can ‘confess; our own needs.
We can also ‘confess’ the needs of others - those who are captive, those who are blind (spiritually and physically), and those who are oppressed - by any number of challenges.
Confess Jesus as Lord and Savior
We used to invite people to ‘ask Jesus into their hearts.’
While we meant well, the Bible never uses that terminology.
The word translated ‘acknowledge’ is the Greek word ‘ὁμολογέω’ which means ‘ to say the same thing as;’ reminding us that Jesus confesses us as His ONLY as we confess Him as ours!
Later, John will explain:
Confessing Your New Nature
Two passages from God’s Word”
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