DAILY TRUTH - Christian Confession Is Exonerating God
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When we confess our sin, we are not merely agreeing with God in his judgments, but in exonerating God in all his judgments. God is neither harsh, nor cruel, nor petty, nor capricious. He is just.
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and gospel of Jesus Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a
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five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. When we confess our sin,
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we're not informing God of our sin. God does not need to be informed. He is all-knowing. He is
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omniscient. We're not bringing new information before the Lord that he previously was not aware
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of. To confess our sin is not merely to inform God of our sinfulness. Confession is not informing
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God, it's agreeing with God. It's not informing God of our sin, it is agreeing with God that we
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are in fact sinners, and not only agreeing with God about our sin, that we are sinners, but in
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regard specifically to the severity of our sin. That when we confess sin, we are saying, let God
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be true, though every man a liar. There's a sense in which David even says in his great prayer of
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confession in psalm 51 he says so god may be proved blameless in his judgments that's part
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of his prayer of confession what david is saying is that as he confesses his sin before the lord
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one of the things that he's doing one of his aims his goal in confession of sin is as it were
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in a subjective sense to exonerate god now god needs in the objective sense no exoneration
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him. David recognizes that God is just, even if every person on the planet lied about him.
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God will remain, in the objective, eternal, and truest sense, just in all his judgments.
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He is neither harsh, nor cruel, nor petty, nor capricious. He is just. And David knows that God
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remains just, whether he acknowledges that God's judgments are fair or not. But in the subjective
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sense, David, a man after God's own heart, who loves God above all other things. David wants to
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exonerate God, as it were. You always have to add that phrase, as it were, right? Anytime you talk
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about the Godhead and you're getting a little cute, just say, as it were, as it were, as it were,
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as it were, and you usually can come through unscathed without being deemed a heretic,
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all right? So just as it were, that's a, you know, pro tip right there. Jesus, or David rather,
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he is exonerating God by saying he is blameless in his judgments. That's one of the things that
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we're doing when we acknowledge our sinfulness, not just that we are sinners, but a step further
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acknowledging the degree of our sin, the severity of our sin, is we are saying, in a sense, that
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God is just. That God is not petty. God is not cruel. He is not capricious. God is just. And
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that all he does is fair. All he does is right. All he does is good.