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Session 17 - Confession of Sins and the Lord's Supper (The Glory of Righteousness)

Objections to One-Time ConfessionSome might say, “But what about what Isaiah said in chapter 59 verse 2 that our sins put a separation wall between us and God, that they hide His face from us and that He will not hear us? Doesn’t that mean that we come out of fellowship with God and that we need to confess our sins to Him in order for Him to hear us again?” No, it doesn’t. Isaiah lived before the cross, Jesus had not paid for his sins yet, and Isaiah was not a new creation in Christ. Indeed, during his time and during the Old Covenant period, people’s sins created a separation wall between them and God, and God didn’t hear them until they humbled themselves before God, and brought the animal sacrifices for atonement. However, Christ is our eternal sacrifice that has cleansed us from all sin once and for all. So, in the New Testament, our sinful deeds don’t put a separation wall between us and God anymore. God doesn’t hide His face from us, and He always hears us, no matter what we did wrong.  ”But what about Proverbs 28:13, where King Solomon says: Proverbs 28:13 (NKJV) 13 He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”? The same explanation given for Isaiah’s case is relevant here as well. King Solomon needed the mercy of God and his prosperity depended on his obedience to the Law, because he was walking in darkness. His sins had not been removed yet. All the people of the Old Testament relied on the mercy of God for their blessing and prosperity. Until Christ would come, God overlooked temporarily their sins when they obeyed the Law or brought the animal sacrifices. However, in the New Testament, the new creation has become prosperity (2 Corinthians 8:9) without any qualification, because of Christ’s righteousness, and believers have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:3). Believers in Christ don’t have sins to cover or confess anymore, because they were all taken away at the cross.  “But what about King David when he lamented in Psalm 32:1-5 and Psalm 38:18 about his sins and confessed them? Shouldn’t we follow his example?” Let’s read those passages.  Psalm 32:1–5 (NKJV) 1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doesn’t impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. 5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I haven’t hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.  Psalm 38:18 (NASB95) 18 For I confess my iniquity; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.  If we look carefully at the first two verses of Psalm 32, we will notice that King David prophesied by the Spirit about the time when people’s transgressions will be forgiven and the Lord will not impute iniquity to them anymore. He rejoiced looking ahead at the days we are living now. However, in his time, he had to confess his sins to the Lord to receive mercy and he probably confessed more in the hope of saving his son from the death punishment. And even though King David confessed his sins many times and asked for forgiveness from God, his confession and tears were not the ones which atoned for his sin. David still had to bring sacrifices to atone for his sins according to the Law.  Finally, “what about the Lord’s prayer from Luke 11:2-4 or Matthew 6:9-13, where Jesus tells us to ask the Father to forgive our sins? Isn’t He telling us to confess our sins to God?” Let’s read the Lord’s prayer passage in Luke: Luke 11:2–4 (NKJV) 2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread. 4 And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”  If we take a close look at the Lord’s prayer in the light of the Gospel, we will quickly notice that the Lord’s prayer is an Old Testament prayer and not a New Testament one. First, we need to realize that the disciples who asked Jesus to teach them how to pray were Jews, accustomed with the Law and the Torah. Second, Jesus hadn’t died yet on the cross in order to establish a prayer model according to the new creation era and He couldn’t disclose yet the plan God had through the cross, otherwise the devil would have never crucified Him. At that moment in time, Jesus was still in the Old Testament period. The transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant had not been made yet. For example, He said in verse 2 to pray that God’s Kingdom would come on earth. That was the longing and the prayer of all Old Testament prophets, that the Kingdom of God would come. This was supposed to happen when Messiah would come. At that point in time, this kind of prayer made sense because the Kingdom had not come yet. However, we see later in Romans 14:17, as well as in other places, that Jesus brought the Kingdom on earth, especially after the cross, although not in its full visible manifestation yet:  Mark 1:14–15 (NKJV) 14 Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”  Luke 17:20–21 (NKJV) 20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”  Romans 14:17 (NKJV) 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  Then in Luke 11:3, Jesus told His disciples to ask the Father for the daily bread. However, we see later in Ephesians 1:3 and 2 Peter 1:3 that God has already blessed believers with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places and everything pertaining to life and godliness. At the end of the prayer, Jesus instructs the disciples to ask the Father to deliver them from the evil one. That made sense before the cross, because all people were in the domain of darkness and under the authority of the devil and they needed God to intervene and help them. However, later, Colossians 1:13 says that believers have been transferred from the domain of darkness into the Kingdom of His beloved Son. Moreover, Ephesians 2:6 and 1:20-23 shows that believers have the same rank and authority of the right hand of the Father as Jesus Christ, and their authority in Christ is far above all rule, authority, power and lordship. The new creations don’t need to pray for deliverance from the evil one, because they have already been delivered from him. Similarly, the prayer for forgiveness of sins, conditioned by their forgiveness of others was an Old Testament prayer. In the Old Testament, the people of God had to repeatedly bring sacrifices and ask for forgiveness of their sins. However, even this Old Testament prayer of asking for forgiveness of sins was not a confession of individual specific sins, but a general one of all sins. The Greek word used here is again Hamartia, in plural form, depicting the totality of all sin in the life of that person as nature or deeds, and not as specific known sinful actions.  After all this teaching about confession of sins, you might be wondering yourself: “So what am I supposed to do then when I sin? Should I confess my sin to God or not? How do I continue to relate to Him?”  What to Do When We SinnedIf we are honest with ourselves, most of the times, we don’t feel condemned about every little sin that we did or about sins that we are not aware of, like Martin Luther. Usually, there are specific sins that the devil or our conscience bring to our minds and condemn us with, sinful behaviors and attitudes that we’ve probably repeated many times and were unable yet to overcome. Those are the times when we feel the need to say something to God about our sins before we can move on. On one hand, we feel condemned about those sins and unworthy to approach God. On the other hand, we know that all our sins have been removed forever, and this creates a real conflict inside of us. This inner conflict is also fueled by the fact that we still live in a fallen world, where forgiveness of someone depends on the other person apologizing first and making the first step towards reconciliation. Our minds are programmed to think that way and to transfer by analogy the same kind of interaction to the relationship between God and us. Before I provide a practical solution to this inner conflict and to the question about what to do when we sin, we need to be aware of one thing. Any form of confession of sins and any type of forgiveness plea to God for our sins will not forgive those sins in that moment in time, neither will they justify us or maintain us justified. They will not make us more worthy to receive blessings from God or minister to others, nor will it maintain our salvation intact, as if our salvation was in jeopardy before. Yes, the salvation of our soul and body are progressive, but the salvation of our spirit is a one-time deal that lasts for eternity. We don’t confess a sin to God to be forgiven. God has already forgiven all our sins, and they were removed forever. Acknowledging before God the known wrong that we did, with which our conscience condemns us, will only cleanse our conscience and help our mind get over it. It will help us relate to God again in sincerity with all our heart. In other words, it will help us to forgive ourselves in our mind, it will appease our conscience, and it will enable us to relate to God openly and fearless again. We should absolutely do that if our mind and conscience bother us and we cannot get over it just through the Word of God. We should say “I am sorry” to God if there is something specific that we feel condemned about, for the sake of our conscience, so that our conscience would not become dull, hardened, and insensitive. However, we should not stay there and focus on our sin for too long. We need to immediately focus our attention to the truth of the Word of God about our sins and start thanking Him and praising Him for what He has done. We should begin declaring what the Word of God says about our new identity in Christ, and not lounge any longer in the accuser’s condemnation. This is part of cleansing our conscience of sins with the water of the Word.  Therefore, when there is a sin that bothers us when we try to fellowship with God, the right way to deal with it or to confess it should be something of the following: “Father, I am so sorry for the wrong thing that  I did. I acknowledge it’s a sin and that, as a new creation in Christ, I should not have done it. I admit that I played with death and I did harm to myself, that I grieved Your Holy Spirit and frustrated Your grace. But I thank You that my sin has already been removed from me and washed away by the blood of Jesus. Thank you that I am still a new creation in Christ, that Your love is unconditional, and that I am free of condemnation forever (Romans 8:1). I am dead to sin and alive to righteousness (Romans 6:11). Sin doesn’t have dominion over me anymore, because I am under grace (Romans 6:14). Jesus Christ is my righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21). I am born of God and I overcome the world (1 John 5:4). I am the light of the world and the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:14). I walk in the light and I will never walk in darkness (1 John 1:5-7). I have been transferred from the domain of darkness into the kingdom of Your beloved Son (Colossians 1:13). Thank you Father that I am accepted in the Beloved and highly favored in Your sight (Ephesians 1:5-7).” Now, you may ask: “Will not this way of confessing sins soften me towards sin? Will not this give me more license to sin?” No, it will certainly not. It’s exactly the opposite: it will give you more freedom from sin. Have you noticed that you still sin without a license if you want to? Paul says in Romans 6:2, “How can we who died to sin continue to live in?” If you were genuinely born again, can you do whatever you want and still remain saved? Yes, of course. But why would you think of doing evil since you repented and came on God’s side?  Why would you want to sin since you don’t have a sinful nature anymore? Actually, a better question is this: If you were genuinely born again and you have the right teaching about who you are in Christ, do you think you will be able to continue to want to sin indefinitely? I don’t think so. Can God do whatever He wants? Yes of course. But does that freedom give Him license to sin? Never. His freedom of doing whatever He wants has some boundaries. Could Jesus have done whatever He wanted on earth? Yes, of course. But Has He ever sinned? No. Perhaps, when you hear this message for the first time, you might have the tendency to indulge in your sinful habits at first, especially if you have been for a long time under many religious rules and under the fear of hell or of losing your salvation. You might still feel like you enjoy certain sins and pleasures, although your spirit has been completely recreated. That happens because your feelings and behaviors are skewed and not fully aligned yet with the desires of your new spirit due to an unrenewed mind. In fact, freedom to live for God without any conditions and threats can be a real challenge for many. However, this does not mean that this perspective on confession of sins gives you license to sin more. Your sinful actions or habitual sins only reflect what was already in your heart and what needs to be corrected and changed through the renewal of your mind. Your spirit is perfectly holy; it doesn’t like to sin. The more you renew your mind to your new identity in Christ, your desires, likes, and feelings will change accordingly, and align themselves to your new identity. Slowly, the love of God will compel you and bring you back from your indulgences and sinful behaviors. But this time you will be a real free person, and you will walk in holiness because you want to and because you truly love God, and not because of constraints and threats of hell.  Going a step further, the Bible’s solution to overcoming sinful behaviors is to always remind ourselves about our righteous identity in Christ. This is not to encourage us to sin more or soften us towards the gravity of sin and of its consequences. Rather this reminding is intended to focus our attention on our Savior, Who paid in full at the cross for our sins, and to encourage us to live according to the new creation’s identity that Jesus established at the cross. This is what true repentance is all about—turning to the cross and returning to His grace! When you fail, know that you can always talk to God openly about your failure, but do it with a revelation of the weight of the cross and of its victory. See your sins already punished in His body and receive afresh His forgiveness and unmerited favor, so that you can conquer your sins.

Session 16 - What to Do When We Sinned (The Glory of Righteousness)

Session 15 - Confession of Sins in 1 John 1:9 (The Glory of Righteousness)

Confession of SinsRomans 8:1 says this: Romans 8:1 (NKJV) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.  Many Christians read the above passage and again they add in their mind, without even realizing, the following: “Yes, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus [as long as they don’t have any unconfessed sins in their lives].” However, that is not true. As we will see from the Bible, confession of sins doesn’t constitute the basis, or the condition of MAINTAINING salvation. Once believers are justified by faith, they have peace with God forever: Romans 5:1 (NKJV) 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  If maintaining justification or salvation depends on believers’ confession of sins (either of all sins or even only the known sins), then the most loving thing that God, the Father, can do for believers is to take them to heaven immediately after they are saved. This way believers are not in danger of ever losing their salvation by missing even one unconfessed sin. When believers confess their sins, can they be sure they confessed everything? Do they have enough time to confess everything?  For Martin Luther, confession of sins was a daily discipline. Sometimes, he confessed for as long as six hours at a time! He took it to the highest extreme. Luther was asked on one occasion, “Do you love God?” to which he answered, “Do I love God? Sometimes I hate Him.” How could someone say such a thing? Only  someone tormented by his sin could come to such a conclusion. Luther confessed for hours. He would review regularly the Ten Commandments and the seven deadly sins and the greatest Scriptural fear he had was breaking the First Commandment, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3). He would also review often the Sermon on the Mount and question whether he could faithfully live according to its principles. The scenes of judgment in the Book of Revelation haunted him as well. R.C. Sproul explains with more details what used to happen in those times in this way, “Confession was a regular part of the monastic life. The other brothers came regularly to their confessors and said, ‘Father, I have sinned. Last night I stayed up after ‘lights out’ and read my Bible with a candle’ or, ‘Yesterday at lunchtime I coveted Brother Philip’s potato salad.’ (How much trouble can a monk get into in a monastery?) The father Confessor would hear the confession, grant priestly absolution, and then assign a small penance to be performed. That was it! The whole process took only a few minutes. Not so with Brother Luther. He was not satisfied with a brief recitation of his sins. He wanted to make sure that no sin in his life was left unconfessed. He entered the confessional and stayed up for hours every day.” Luther’s reason for confession was his fright about God’s judgment. He thought God was offended by his sins, but God was not offended because of Christ’s sacrifice. Luther lived in daily fear of the immediate judgment of God on his life. He said on one occasion, “If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.” That’s how much he became distressed with the enormity of his own sins and his inability to satisfy a righteous God.  Luther confessed every sin. He hated his sin. In fact, because of his obsession with confession, Luther was even deemed crazy. Some monks believed he had deep sexual struggles, because only that kind of sins would bother a monk so much that he would confess as much as he did. The monks thought Luther was on the verge of a psychotic episode or breakdown. His heavy doses of confession caused even physical pain and suffering to him. He developed digestive difficulties (e.g., kidney stones and gallstones) due to the anxiety caused by his battle with sin. No particular sins distressed him. It was his overall corrupt nature –“What can I do to win a gracious God? Oh my sin, my sin, what shall I do with my sin?” Today, maybe Christians don’t take confession of sins to such extremes like Luther, although they should, if they were really serious about it. However, they still go through a similar relative torment like Luther and always feel unworthy before God. The Israelites in the Old Testament had a Day of Atonement once a year when they would confess their sins and put them all on a goat - a scapegoat called Azazel - and then they would send that goat in the wilderness. Can anyone imagine a few million Jews taking the time to confess all their sins from that past year to the priests? The whole process would have taken a few years to end and the priests would be exhausted or die of exhaustion. Did the people confess their sins like believers do today? Of course not. Whenever people brought animals for sin offerings, would the priests examine the people of their sins, or the animal for sacrifice, which had to be spotless and without any defect? The animal, of course. The priest would examine the sacrifice and not the person bringing it, because the whole reason for why anyone would bring a sin offering was that they sinned. No need for further examination.  Similarly, when John the Baptist baptized people in water at the river Jordan, the Bible says that people would come to him and confess their sins. They would not start confessing every little sin to John in the water. In both of these two described cases, confession of sins meant acknowledging that they had sinned before God, and believing that He forgave or covered all their sins. This is what born-again believers do, once and for all, at the moment of their salvation. Think about the criminal on the cross, who had a multitude of sins, which he didn’t confess. He just asked Jesus to remember him when He would go into His kingdom and Jesus promised him that He would take him to heaven. Why would God be interested in hearing about every dirty and filthy sin of ours? He knows and sees plenty of it, everything is open in His sight, He already knows everything, and He already paid for all sins through Jesus’ sacrifice.  The truth is that, even if we think that we have a sincere and pertinent reason for confessing our sins, we actually do it because we cannot forgive ourselves and because of our self-righteousness. We are trying to show God that we are not that bad, that we can do something to fix the wrong and become again worthy before Him to receive His blessings, and to have Him move with power in our lives. Does confession of sins really help us in not sinning anymore? As you probably noticed in your own practice, most of the times, it doesn’t. You confess the sin and then you do it again most of the times, because that confession in itself keeps you in the cycle of sinning, by making you focus on the sin and on your inability to overcome it, and not on Jesus.  Now, let’s look at confession of sins from a different angle. When people do something wrong to us, should we expect them to ask for forgiveness first in order to forgive them? According to the Bible, no, not at all. We should forgive people no matter what they do, and even about 490 times a day. If God requires that of us, wouldn’t He much more treat us the same way? Yes, He would. He has already removed all our sins, without waiting for our detailed confession of every sin. We confessed once that we were sinners and that we needed Jesus’ sacrifice to cleanse us, and this was enough for Him. Apparently, the sacrifice of Jesus is not enough for us. We feel the need of crying and making penance for every sin repeatedly. An even more concerning question is this: What happens if a believer suddenly dies with unconfessed sins? Is he not saved anymore? Does he go to hell after living a lifetime with God? Sadly, many Christians and even leaders think that these believers would go to hell. In order to alleviate such a terrifying conclusion, they say that, in reality, not many believers will be in that situation, because God will ”orchestrate” their death in such a way that most Christians would die with all their sins confessed. Are you ready to believe something that doesn’t even have a biblical support, rather than believing that all your sins have been removed and that, no matter when and how you die, you go to heaven? Such an assumption would mean that believers are saved completely and permanently only at the end of their lives, and even then, only if they confessed all sins. This conclusion is not biblical.  Now, if we look carefully in the New Testament, we can easily notice that Jesus, in all His life on earth, never mentioned confession of sins, not even when He initiated the Communion (or the Lord’s Supper) in the upper room with His disciples. He didn’t tell them to take a few minutes to examine themselves of their sins, make sure they confessed everything, and then partake of the bread and the wine, or not partake at all, if their sin is too heavy. Furthermore, we can see apostle Paul speaking in so much detail about salvation, justification, and sanctification in all of his doctrinal epistles (Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, 1 and 2 Timothy, etc.), but never mentioning anything about confessing sins. How could Paul forget altogether to mention such an “important” aspect of confession of sins as a condition to maintain salvation? Of course, he didn’t forget. In fact, he didn’t write anything about it intentionally. In his letter to the Corinthian Christians, many of whom were committing sins like visiting the prostitutes from idols’ temples, he didn’t tell them to confess their sins to get right with God, but rather he reminded them of who they were in Christ: 1 Corinthians 3:16 (NKJV) 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?  Our being “right with God” is not based on the imperfect confession of sins of an imperfect man, but on the riches of God’s grace and on the perfect sacrifice of His Son. There are only two passages in the whole New Testament alluding specifically to confession of sins and neither one of them was written by Paul. In addition, none of those two passages mentions confession of sins as a condition for maintaining salvation. The two passages are found in James 5:14-16 in the context of physical healing, and in 1 John 1:9. Let’s take a look at the first one.   James 5:14-16 James 5:14–16 (NKJV) 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.  It’s important to notice a few things in this passage. The context of this passage is physical healing of sickness and confession of trespasses (or mistakes) to one another, not to God. Only by looking at the context, we can conclude that this passage cannot be taken as a biblical support for confession of sins to God, the way Christians do it today. Verse 15 says clearly that if the sick person has committed sins, they will be automatically forgiven without any confession. More striking is that those sins will be forgiven after the person was healed and not before. Sometimes when I go to pray for someone sick, if the sickness doesn’t go instantly and is stubborn, some leaders would say to me: “Ask the person if they have some unconfessed sin or hidden sin in their life.” What does that have to do with anything? Does unconfessed sin stop healing? No, not at all. While we were yet sinners, God took the initiative to send His Son to die for us, even before we were born without waiting for us to ask Him to do that. The passage clearly says that the sick will be healed first, irrespective of their sins, and if they committed sins, they will be forgiven without mentioning anything about confession of sins to God.  Verse 16 then talks about confessing our trespasses to one another. However, that doesn’t make us more holy and worthy of healing before God, it doesn’t bring us closer to God, and neither delivers us permanently from not committing those sins again. Confessing, crying, and taking the load off your chest doesn’t really make you free of sin. Such freedom comes only by grace through faith, and not by confession to one another. Yes, it’s true, that some sins like witchcraft and involvement in the occult can be the direct cause of certain diseases. Likewise, stress, unforgiveness or bitterness can cause some diseases, as well, and by simply confessing those sins to one another and bringing them to light, the sick person can be healed and delivered. However, confession in such instances is not a condition to make God heal the person, but rather an act to expose the demonic or to seek reconciliation in human relationships. This would be the first reason for confessing sins to one another. A second reason for confessing sins to one another, based on this passage, can be to receive help in prayer from other believers concerning a problem or sin, and to be strengthened for victory over those sinful behaviors. In fact, verse 16 encourages praying for one another. The third reason for confessing hidden sins to other people is your emotional relief and the therapeutical effect following the sharing of those things. Sinful behaviors or deeds steal your peace and keep condemning you continuously, so confession helps you forgive yourself and cleanse your conscience of that guilt easier and faster, especially in the case of repeated sins. However, that confession doesn’t influence God and His relationship to you in any way. This aspect of bringing to light things hidden that tear a person apart inside is encouraged even by the secular world as being beneficial. However, it cannot be used to make atonement for your sins before God. 

Session 14 - Confession of Sins (James 5:14-16) (The Glory of Righteousness)

What does the apostle John mean in 1 John 3:9 when he states that those born of God do not sin and cannot sin? Why does the Holy Spirit convince believers of: sin or righteousness? You can find out in this message. For more Bible teaching, we invite you to visit our website: https://eserediuc.com/en To receive automatic notifications when new material is available, you can subscribe or follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eserediucm Twitter: https://twitter.com/eserediucm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eserediucm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eserediucm YouTube: http://l.eserediuc.com/YouTubeEN Vimeo: http://l.eserediuc.com/VimeoEN Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/eserediucm You can also subscribe or follow us on the following podcast channels: Apple: http://l.eserediuc.com/ApplePodcastsEN Spotify: http://l.eserediuc.com/SpotifyEN Google: http://l.eserediuc.com/GooglePodcastsEN Vurbl: http://l.eserediuc.com/VurblEN Castbox: http://l.eserediuc.com/CastboxEN Stitcher: http://l.eserediuc.com/StitcherEN TuneIn: http://l.eserediuc.com/TuneInEN iHeartRadio: http://l.eserediuc.com/iHeartRadioEN Radio Public: http://l.eserediuc.com/RadioPublicEN Overcast: http://l.eserediuc.com/OvercastEN Podchaser: http://l.eserediuc.com/PodChaserEN Pocket Casts: http://l.eserediuc.com/PocketCastsEN Castro: http://l.eserediuc.com/CastroEN Deezer: http://l.eserediuc.com/DeezerEN You can download all our video, audio, and written materials in one zip file here: http://l.eserediuc.com/DownloadAll #Righteousness #ConfessionOfSins #Condemnation #Audio

Session 13 - Believers Cannot Sin (The Glory of Righteousness)

In this session, we will discuss about the gift of freedom from condemnation for those in Christ and about when are the future sins forgiven and removed: at the time of salvation or in time based on their confession. For more Bible teaching, we invite you to visit our website: https://eserediuc.com/en To receive automatic notifications when new material is available, you can subscribe or follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eserediucm Twitter: https://twitter.com/eserediucm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eserediucm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eserediucm YouTube: http://l.eserediuc.com/YouTubeEN Vimeo: http://l.eserediuc.com/VimeoEN Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/eserediucm You can also subscribe or follow us on the following podcast channels: Apple: http://l.eserediuc.com/ApplePodcastsEN Spotify: http://l.eserediuc.com/SpotifyEN Google: http://l.eserediuc.com/GooglePodcastsEN Vurbl: http://l.eserediuc.com/VurblEN Castbox: http://l.eserediuc.com/CastboxEN Stitcher: http://l.eserediuc.com/StitcherEN TuneIn: http://l.eserediuc.com/TuneInEN iHeartRadio: http://l.eserediuc.com/iHeartRadioEN Radio Public: http://l.eserediuc.com/RadioPublicEN Overcast: http://l.eserediuc.com/OvercastEN Podchaser: http://l.eserediuc.com/PodChaserEN Pocket Casts: http://l.eserediuc.com/PocketCastsEN Castro: http://l.eserediuc.com/CastroEN Deezer: http://l.eserediuc.com/DeezerEN You can download all our video, audio, and written materials in one zip file here: http://l.eserediuc.com/DownloadAll #FreeOfCondemnation #FutureSins #FaithAndWorks #Audio

Session 12 - Condemnation and Future Sins (The Glory of Righteousness)

What happened to the cross? In what way did Jesus become sin and what kind of death did He experience? What are the implications for us believers of the sinless life that Jesus lived on earth and of His resurrection? You can find out in this message. For more Bible teaching, we invite you to visit our website: https://eserediuc.com/en To receive automatic notifications when new material is available, you can subscribe or follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eserediucm Twitter: https://twitter.com/eserediucm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eserediucm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eserediucm YouTube: http://l.eserediuc.com/YouTubeEN Vimeo: http://l.eserediuc.com/VimeoEN You can also subscribe or follow us on the following podcast channels: Apple: http://l.eserediuc.com/ApplePodcastsEN Spotify: http://l.eserediuc.com/SpotifyEN Google: http://l.eserediuc.com/GooglePodcastsEN Vurbl: http://l.eserediuc.com/VurblEN Castbox: http://l.eserediuc.com/CastboxEN Stitcher: http://l.eserediuc.com/StitcherEN TuneIn: http://l.eserediuc.com/TuneInEN iHeartRadio: http://l.eserediuc.com/iHeartRadioEN Radio Public: http://l.eserediuc.com/RadioPublicEN Overcast: http://l.eserediuc.com/OvercastEN Podchaser: http://l.eserediuc.com/PodChaserEN Pocket Casts: http://l.eserediuc.com/PocketCastsEN Castro: http://l.eserediuc.com/CastroEN Deezer: http://l.eserediuc.com/DeezerEN You can download all our video, audio, and written materials in one zip file here: http://l.eserediuc.com/DownloadAll #TheGreatExchange #TheNewCovenant #Righteousness #audio

Session 11 - The Great Exchange (The Glory of Righteousness)

Have you ever tried to define the concept of sin, especially from the New Testament's point of view? What exactly is sin really? You can find out in this message. For more Bible teaching, we invite you to visit our website: https://eserediuc.com/en To receive automatic notifications when new material is available, you can subscribe or follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eserediucm Twitter: https://twitter.com/eserediucm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eserediucm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eserediucm YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA6o09pBsCDxUwKuE5wfv7g/videos Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/rediscoverthegospel You can also subscribe or follow us on the following podcast channels: Apple: http://bit.ly/en-apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/esm-faith-spotify Google: http://bit.ly/en-google Castbox: http://bit.ly/en-castbox Stitcher: http://bit.ly/en-stitcher TuneIn: http://bit.ly/en-tunein iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/en-iheartradio Radio Public: http://bit.ly/en-radiopublic Overcast: http://bit.ly/en-overcast Podchaser: http://bit.ly/en-podchaser Pocket Casts: http://bit.ly/en-pocketcasts Castro: http://bit.ly/en-castro Deezer: http://bit.ly/en-deezer You can download all our video, audio, and written materials in one zip file here: http://bit.ly/en-download-all #WhatIsSin #Sin #Righteousness #audio

Session 10 - What Is Sin? (The Glory of Righteousness)

This message talks about what righteousness is and about positional righteousness (innate righteousness) versus practical or behavioral righteousness (activated righteousness).

Session 9 - What Is Righteousness? (The Glory of Righteousness)

What should you see when you look in the mirror of the Word? With what kind of unconscious presumptions do you read the Bible? What changed radically for the believers in the New Testament compared to the people of God in the Old Testament? These are some of the questions this message is trying to answer.

Session 8 - The Mirror Principle (The Glory of Righteousness)

This message shows what it means for born-again Christians to renew their minds and how this can be done practically. It also explains what carnal thinking and spiritual thinking mean, and then describes the differences between them, as well as what a truly spiritual person looks like.

Session 7 - The Mind Renewal Process (The Glory of Righteousness)

This message continues the discussion of who the born-again Christians really are in their spirit.

Session 6 - Who Are You in the Spirit? (The Glory of Righteousness)

In this message, the three parts of the human being are explained - spirit, soul and body - as well as the relationships between them, with an emphasis on the human spirit and on who the born-again Christians truly are, from the perspective of the spirit.

Session 5 - Spirit, Soul, and Body (The Glory of Righteousness)

This message explains how our consciousness along with our behavior can generate two types of consciousness that are both detrimental to us: a consciousness of dead works and a consciousness of sins.

Session 4 - The Consciousness of Sins and of Dead Works (The Glory of Righteousness)

This message talks about the relationship between conscience and the Law of Moses, about the role of each, as well as about the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Session 3 - The Conscience and the Law of Moses (The Glory of Righteousness)

Understanding is a fountain of life. This is a Christian teaching ministry with the purpose of bringing more understanding and revelation to the global body of Christ about the Gospel of Grace.

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