Confessing Our Sins Before Others, Part 1 (TMF:2187)

Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Peace to Live By: Confessing Our Sins Before Others, Part 1 (TMF:2187) - Daniel Litton
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       Verse 16: “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working” (ESV). It appears in this verse that James is moving into a more general, whole church focus here. This is moving past a sick person and the elders praying for him or her, to a more general picture. We know that because he says “pray for one another.” This just isn’t limited to the elders of the church. So, let’s first discuss the confessing of our sins, and I believe we have to be careful here because there are proper times I think to publicly confess one’s sins, and there are other times not to. None of us should be a big, giant dump truck that likes to dump our load of garbage on the stander-bys. To use some Solomon phraseology, there is a time to confess in front of others and a time not to. It’s just like Jesus talked about in the Sermon on the Mount in regard to doing things before others. I think people, now watch this, people can actually take pride in confessing their sins.