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Why Should I Confess My Sins To A Man? by eepa: 7:29pm On Sep 22, 2015 |
Why Should I Confess My Sins to a Man?
It is GOD who forgives sins, and once forgiven, He
ceases to remember them.
Isaiah 43:25, "I, even I, am he that blotteth out
thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not
remember thy sins."
It is God only who forgives sins.
Jeremiah 31:34, "...for I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin no more."
Ezechiel 18:22, "I will not remember all his
iniquities that he has done."
Romans 3:26, "GOD in His patience remitting
former sins..."
Hebrews 8:12, "Because I will be merciful to their
iniquities, and their sins I will remember no
more."
GOD forgave sins through a human nature.
Matthew 9:2-7, "...And Jesus, seeing their faith,
said to the paralytic, "Take courage son; your sins
are forgiven you...For which is easier to say, Your
sins are forgiven you, or to say, Arise and walk?
But that you may know that the Son of Man has
power on earth to forgive sins", then He said to
the paralytic, "Arise, take up your pallet and go to
your house.""
GOD uses His priests as His instruments of
reconciliation. The New Covenant priesthood is
prefigured or 'typed' in many places in the Old
Testament. Here are several examples from the
Old Testament of reconciliation and atonement
being performed by a priest:
Leviticus 4:20, "...Thus the priest shall make
atonement for them, and they will be forgiven."
Leviticus 4:26, "Thus the priest shall make
atonement for the prince's sin, and it will be
forgiven."
Leviticus 4:32, "Thus the priest shall make
atonement for him, and he will be forgiven."
Leviticus 4:35, "Thus the priest shall make
atonement for the man's sin, and it will be
forgiven."
Leviticus 5:5-6, "...then whoever is guilty in any
of these cases shall confess the sin he has
incurred, and as his sin offering for his sin he has
committed he shall bring to the Lord a female
animal from the flock, a ewe lamb or a she-goat.
The priest shall then make atonement for his sin."
See also Leviticus 5:10,13,16,18, 12:8,
14:18-20,31, 15:15,30, 19:22.
Leviticus 6:7, "And the priest shall make an
atonement for him before the Lord; and it shall be
forgiven him for any thing of all that he has done
in trespassing therein."
Leviticus 7:7, "Because the sin offering and the
guilt offering are alike, both having the same
ritual, the guilt offering likewise belongs to the
priest who makes atonement with it."
Leviticus 16:32, "This atonement is to be made
by the priest who has been anointed and
ordained to the priesthood in succession to his
father."
Leviticus 19:20-22, "If a man lies carnally with a
woman . . . they shall not be put to death . . . but
he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the
Lord, to the door of the tent of meeting, a ram for
a guilt offering. And the priest shall make
atonement for him . . . before the Lord for his sin
which he has committed, and the sin which he
has committed shall be forgiven him."
Numbers 6:11, "The priest shall offer up the one
as a sin offering and the other as a holocaust,
thus making atonement for him for the sin he has
committed by reason of the dead person."
Numbers 15:25, "And the priest shall make an
atonement for all the congregation of the children
of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them..."
Numbers 15:28, "And the priest shall make
atonement before the Lord for him who sinned
inadvertently; when atonement has been made
for him, he will be forgiven."
The prophets in the Old Testament spoke in
GOD's Name, in the first person. Here are
examples...
Deuteronomy 18:18-19, "I will raise up for them a
prophet like you from among their kinsmen, and
will put My words into his mouth; he shall tell
them all that I commanded him. If any man will
not listen to My words which he speaks in My
name, I Myself will make him answer for it."
Ezekiel 3:4, "And He said to me: Son of man, go
to the house of Israel, and you shall speak My
words to them."
David the King conversed directly with GOD:
2Samuel 2:1, "And after these things David
consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up into one
of the cities of Juda? And the Lord said to him: Go
up. And David said: Whither shall I go up? And he
answered him: Into Hebron."
Yet David still had to confess to Nathan and hear
from him that he had been forgiven.
2Samuel 12:13, "And David said to Nathan: I
have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to
David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin:
thou shalt not die."
The priest has been given the ministry of
reconciliation. He mediates GOD's forgiveness to
the sinner. The priest is merely an instrument of
GOD. As an analogy, think of GOD as the Supreme
Healer, the Master Surgeon. He will remove the
cancer of sin from the soul, while using one of His
priests as the scalpel.
This GOD given ministry is shown very plainly in
Holy Scripture:
Matthew 16:19, when Jesus gave the power and
authority to Peter, "And I will give you the keys of
the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you shall
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and
whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed
in heaven."
Matthew 18:18, Jesus gave this power to all of the
Apostles, "Amen I say to you, whatever you bind
on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever
you loose on earth shall be loosed also in heaven."
John 20:21-23, "He therefore said to them again,
'Peace be to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also
send you'. When He had said this, He breathed
upon them, and said to them, 'Receive the Holy
Spirit; whose sins you shall forgive, they are
forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain,
they are retained'."
Matthew 10:40, "He who receives you receives
Me; and he who receives Me, receives Him who
sent Me."
Luke 22:29-30, "And I appoint to you a kingdom,
even as My Father has appointed to Me, so that
you may eat and drink at my table in My
kingdom; and you shall sit upon thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of Israel."
2Corinthians 5:17-20, "Therefore, if any one is in
Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed
away, behold, the new has come. All this is from
God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is,
in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself,
not counting their trespasses against them, and
entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So
we are ambassadors for Christ, GOD making his
appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of
Christ, be reconciled to God."
Clearly, the Apostles were given the authority to
remit sins, or to bind them, in the person of
Christ. How are they to accomplish this if they do
not know what sins to remit or to bind? The
sinner is required to confess his sins as shown.
1John 1:8-10, " If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will
forgive our sins and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned,
we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."
The Apostles obviously would not live forever, and
sin will always be with us, so they passed the
authority on to others.
2Corinthians 2:10, "Whom you pardon anything, I
also pardon. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I
have forgiven anything, I have done for your
sakes, IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST."
The priest says in the confessional, "I absolve you
of your sins." The priest is acting in Personna
Christi, in the person of Christ. Since the priest is
acting in the person of Christ, then it is Christ to
whom you confess your sins. It is Christ alone who
remits them. Jesus Christ uses the priest as His
voice and His hands.
As mentioned earlier, the prophets of the Old
Testament spoke in GOD's name. They spoke IN
THE PERSON OF GOD. The priests of the New
Covenant speak IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST.
GOD never changes.
Matthew 9:5-8, "For which is easier to say, "Your
sins are forgiven you, or to say arise and walk?
But that you may know that the Son of Man has
power to forgive sins" - then He said to the
paralytic, "Arise, take up your pallet and go to
your house". And he arose, and went away to his
house. But when the crowds saw it, they were
struck with fear, AND GLORIFIED GOD WHO HAD
GIVEN SUCH POWER TO MEN."
The New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the
Old Testament is revealed in the New.
Christ, the High Priest of the New Covenant,
ordained the apostles to continue His priestly
mission. James 5:14-16, (14) "Is any among you
sick? Let him bring in the presbyters (priests) of
the church, and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
(15)and the prayer of faith will save the sick man,
and the Lord will raise him up; and if he be in
sins, they will be forgiven him. (16) Confess,
therefore, your sins to one another, and pray for
one another, that you may be saved. For the
unceasing prayer of a just man is of great avail."
St. James taught us that we must go to the
"presbyters", and not to just anyone, to receive
the "anointing", and the remission of sins. First,
he told us to go to the presbyters, or priests, in
verse 14. Verse 16 continues with the word
"therefore", so that word is a conjunction that
connects verse 16 back to verses 14 and 15. It is
the priests to whom St. James told us to confess
our sins.
Why do we go to confession? What is the real
reason?
We go to meet Christ... |
Re: Why Should I Confess My Sins To A Man? by Nobody: 7:42pm On Sep 22, 2015 |
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Re: Why Should I Confess My Sins To A Man? by eepa: 8:23am On Sep 23, 2015 |
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