Plan for: Thanksgiving | Advent | Christmas
Plan for: Thanksgiving | Advent | Christmas
This sermon explores the concept of confession as a means of acknowledging and turning away from sin, thereby experiencing God's forgiveness and grace, and rising anew from past mistakes.
Admitting failure is difficult. Confessing and coming clean when we are at fault is not an easy task. I’m sure many of you here today have a similar story like the one I just shared. Honestly, we probably all have numerous stories that sound eerily similar.
Thankfully, the stories end differently when God gets involved. With God, we are promised forgiveness when we confess our sins and come clean. And when we bring ourselves into the light we are able to live free, unburdened or hindered by the sin that so easily entangles so that we can run the race set before us. (Hebrews 12:1)
Confession is the 4th topic of our 6 weeks together in our journey to abundant life. Obviously Jesus led a sinless life so we won’t see any specific examples from His life including sin. However, it is because of Jesus’ sinless life and humble sacrifice that we can experience the unrestrained forgiveness of the Father over our sin. As I said in week 1, you are not broken beyond repair.
Jesus is the reason we can confess and experience complete forgiveness in our lives.
This divine forgiveness is truly amazing grace and it is such a different response to our wrongdoing than what many of us grew up experiencing ... View this full sermon with PRO Premium
With God, we are promised forgiveness when we confess our sins and come clean.
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