False humility. A "healthy/pure conscience" is the result of confessing our sin(s) with a sorrowful and contrite heart ... and not in believing that "we're good to go" by simply "acknowledging". BTW ... what's the difference in confessing and acknowledgement ? And why would one acknowledge and at the same time not bother confessing or asking for forgiveness ? Does God frown on us or are we pestering Him when we come to Him for forgiveness for a transgression after we've been redeemed ? The psalms are full of sorrowful pleas for forgiveness ... by believers. "they aren't seeking forgiveness but transparency unto victory" >>>>> What is that supposed to mean ? God doesn't want or expect believers to confess our sins because we're already saved ? He's fine with us saying ... Yeah .. I blew it again Lord but I know you're cool with it because I acknowledged it ? Complete nonsense bordering on arrogance ... if not already submersed in it. "God's grace (and forgiveness) won't lead somebody to a seared conscience" .... you're right ... it won't ... because if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us. I don't feel condemned for this very reason.
Being confident is what we need as believers to walk "circumspectly" in this world. We have to not only believe that we are 100% in God's sights forgiven and loved unconditionally., we have to KNOW it as our claim for life in Christ now.
Being confident of this very thing... He who has begun a good work in your will perform it.... Faith is being CONFIDENT in the One we have faith in for what HE did... not on our ability to be worthy by what we do. We can no longer worry about being worthy because IN Christ we ARE.
This is the CONFIDENCE we need to have victory. It's not found in us but in Jesus.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in [SUP][a][/SUP]the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, [SUP][b][/SUP]yes, eternal life.
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14 [/SUP]AND THIS IS THE CONFIDENCE the assurance, the privilege of BOLDNESS) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.
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15 [/SUP]And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.
The only reason we can come and must come and do it boldly is because of Jesus. We come to find grace and help in time of need. We do not come to become righteous again. We ARE already righteous IN Christ now. We stand on the solid Rock who is Christ Jesus.
For myself, I know that I've already confessed my sin and He was faithful and just to His promises that in Christ I'm forgiven and my sins are now and forever more as far as the east is from the west. Never to be brought up before me because now I'm a new creation in Christ. Old things have passed away... His seed remains in us. 2 Cor.5:17
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16 [/SUP]Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a [purely] human point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]. [No] even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh].
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17 [/SUP]Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!
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18 [/SUP]But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him].
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19 [/SUP]It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor).
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