Why we need to confess: Sin breaks our fellowship with the Lord
What it means to confess: To admit, to acknowledge our sin
How to confess: Praying to the Lord as soon as we realize we’ve sinned
Correct and on point.
sin only break FELLOWSHIP, but not our RELATIONSHIP with God. see, once we're born of God we are his, end of story, no going BACK. as Nicodemus saith, "John 3:4 "How can a man be born when he is old?
can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" answer NO. just as a married man and woman have a child, (and the child cannot go back into the womb to born again), and the child grow up, and maybe go anti-social, and kill. guess what, that RELATIONSHIP is never broken, that child is still those Parents offspring/Child, nothing can change that. but the parent don't like what the child did, that's broken FELLOWSHIP. christian need to understand this. FELLOWSHIP and RELATIONSHIP.
now some edifying... scripture, Romans 8:38 "
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,"
Romans 8:39 "Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." christian all over the world should be jumping for joy after hearing this verse.
I'm like the apostle Paul, "
For I am persuaded", yes, 101G is fully persuaded. now just because we know this, do this give us a license. to sin, let hear what God say. Romans 6:1 "What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin,
that grace may abound?"
Romans 6:2
"God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" (READ THAT AGAIN).
Romans 6:3 "Know ye not, that so many of us as
were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?"
Romans 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness of life."
Romans 6:5 "
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:"
Romans 6:6 "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,
that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." (BINGO, should, should, should, not..... serve sin, one might want to read that again also)
Romans 6:7 "
For he that is dead is freed from sin." (BINGO, that the answer to the sin problem, I have said it before, God in nature have given us the answer, play possun, as in opossum. and here is the scriptures to back this up with... Romans 6:11-14 if christian can grasp these scriptures, their sin problem will vanish over a short period of time. practice, make perfect.
again this is why Baptism is so important. ACT LIKE YOU'RE DEAD INDEED TO SIN, but Alive to God in Christ....

YEA! AMEN.
thanks tsr, those were good points,
PICJAG
101G The "Spiritual Saboteur"