Un mainta tipical na cas di nos sobrino y su esposa!
Welcome to our Blogspot! Here in Canada we are in the FALL SEASON. Our trees are turning from green to yellow, orange, brown, and red! The leaves are falling fast, leaving the trees bare and desolate. Winter is around the corner.
Today we want to talk about Confession, or what it means to confess. To this very day this was, and still is something that is well known here in Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles.
In the Scriptures the word “confess” has more than one meaning. We will try and discuss two of them today. The first is found in Romans 10: 8-11: “But what does it say? The Word is near you: It is in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord”, and believe in your heart, that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trust in Him will never be put to shame.” I would recommend that you read the entire chapter ten of Romans, and also Matthew 10:32-33.
The invitation here to receive pardon and eternal life is offered to all people everywhere in the world without exception. Please pay very close attention to the fact that this word of confession must come out of each person’s own mouth, when or after we have believed in our hearts.
Friends, no one, but no one can believe for us, or confess for us. The word “to confess” means to admit, or to acknowledge. It is we who have to admit and acknowledge, and no one else, that we are sinners, and must believe from our hearts, that God raised His Son from the dead. And we must understand that it is for our very own sins He died, because He, Himself, did not know sin, and no untruth was found in His mouth. We must understand very well that we cannot hide sin before God. He knows each one of us exactly as we are!
The word confession can also mean: “conceding or to say the same thing”. This means that we concede, agree, or say the same thing as to what God already knows about us. We may ask: “How is it possible for God to love a sinner as me, when in fact He already knows how I really am?” The answer is clearly and truthfully written for us in the Scriptures. For example in the book of Romans 5:6-8 we read: “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will a man die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly die. But God demonstrates His love for us in this: While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Therefore, friends, do not turn a deaf ear to the loving call of God today. Repent of your sins, and accept the pardon that God offers to you today. Do not close your heart’s door, because no one knows what the day may bring forth.
The Lord willing, we will POST the second part of this message on Confession in a few days. Have a good and safe day. We would love to hear from you either under COMMENTS or bbhenriquez@shaw.ca
Your friends,
Bicento and Betty Henriquez, writing from our retirement home at 534, 120, LaRonge Road, Saskatoon, SK., Canada, S7K 7Z9
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