DAILY TRUTH - Acknowledging Sin & “Exonerating” God
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In confessing sin, as we take shame to ourselves, so we give glory to God as righteous, owning him justly displeased with us. In the objective sense, God needs no exoneration. Let God be true, and every man a liar. But there is something to be said subjectively when a man confesses his sin.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the
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Matthew Henry, again, in commentating on these particular verses of our text, says this.
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Note, in confessing sin, as we take shame to ourselves, so we give glory to God as righteous.
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owning him justly displeased with us again old language but what this late great puritan is
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essentially saying is that one of the ways we glorify god is by way of consequence
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the way of consequence being by owning our sin when we own our sin
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we exonerate God. In the objective sense, God needs no exoneration. Let God be true,
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and every man a liar. But there is something to be said subjectively when a man confesses his sin,
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as David does in Psalm 51 verse 4. Against you and you only have I sinned and done what is evil
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in your sight so that I'm confessing that I did it, only I did it, and I did it against you
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so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. God would have been
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justify whether David confessed his sin or not. He would have been blameless whether David repented
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or not. But there is something to be said outside of the objective ultimate truth category within
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the subjective interpersonal confession and repentance realm, that when we say, I sinned,
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in our hearts we are saying god is exonerated i think of the book of james let no one say
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when he is tempted i am being tempted by god for god cannot be tempted nor does he tempt any man
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but each man is led astray by his own desire desire if not dealt with sin at the level of
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desire eventually gives birth to sin, and sin, when fully grown, brings forth death.
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James is saying a lot in that particular passage, but one thing that he is certainly saying is that
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God is not to blame. One of the things that we do, brothers and sisters, when we confess our sins
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before the Lord, is we exonerate Him. Or, as Joshua says in our text today,
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Joshua recognizes that in the confessing of Achan's sin,
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He is indicting himself and simultaneously in one foul swoop, giving glory to God.
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I'm responsible. God is blameless. It's just as what David does, so that you may be justified
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in your words and blameless in your judgment. Confessing sin indicts us and exonerates God.
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In the objective sense, God is always exonerated.
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In the objective sense, let God be true in every man a liar.
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But there is something to be said in terms of our individual relationship with God.
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For us to say that which is already true, whether we said it or not,
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it still does good to the soul of a man to say,