Hyper grace

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

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What a load of BS. Healthy confession is acknowledging the truth of our sinfulness in the faith of GOD's abiding forgiveness. There is no condemnation in the light (speaking the truth), and there is no forgiveness in the darkness (denying we have sin).

To help you grasp this distinction, I want to draw twelve lines between healthy and unhealthy confession.
1. Unhealthy confession is an admission of my badness, but healthy confession is a declaration of my trust in God’s goodness (Ps 145:4-7).

2. Unhealthy confession emphasizes leaves me focused on my needs, my weaknesses, and my shortcomings; healthy confession connects my need with God’s grace, his strength and his limitless provision (Php 4:19, 2 Cor 12:9).

3. Unhealthy confession puts the focus on me and what I have or haven’t done, but healthy confession puts the focus on Christ and what he has done for me (Rom 10:9-13).

4. Unhealthy confession requires no faith at all and so doesn’t please the Lord (Heb 11:6), but healthy confession is an expression of the faith in my heart (Rom 10:8). Indeed, healthy confession stirs my faith (Rom 10:17).

5. Unhealthy confession is based on the hope that I can convince God to do something or give me something to make things better; healthy confession is based on the good news that God has already given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us (2 Pet 1:3).

6. Unhealthy confession is begging God to forgive me; healthy confession is only possible when I know he already has (2 Pet 1:5-9).

7. Unhealthy confession is begging God to bless me; healthy confession is thanking God that in Christ I am already the beneficiary of every blessing there is (Eph 1:3).

8. Unhealthy confession perpetuates a cycle of Adamic self-reliance and death (Gal 6:7-8); healthy confession empowers me to walk in newness of life (Acts 13:46).

9. Unhealthy confession is hedged with excuses, finger-pointing, and blame (see Gen 3:12); healthy confession is an honest admission of failure or need underwritten by a radical reliance on God’s grace (see Ps 51:1).

10. Unhealthy confession is motivated by a perceived need to restore relationship with God; healthy confession is only possible when I am secure in his promise that he will never leave nor forsake me (Heb 13:5).

11. Unhealthy confession always follows sin but healthy confession often preempts it. By being honest about my weaknesses and vulnerabilities I position myself to receive the grace that empowers me to say “No” to ungodliness (Jas 4:6).

12. Unhealthy confession is agreeing with the Accuser that I am still a miserable sinner (“look at what you did!”); healthy confession is agreeing with the Holy Spirit that I am still a saint despite what I did(Joh 16:10).

In this life you will make many messes. Confessing-to-be-forgiven or to otherwise manage the sin in your life is like trying to clean house with a filthy mop. You’ll be busy but you won’t make any difference. If anything, you’ll make things worse by adding self-righteous unbelief to your pile of sins.

True confession is freely acknowledging your total dependence on God’s grace – grace for salvation, sanctification, and every other thing. True confession is faith put into words. True confession is relying on the One who cleanses you from all unrighteousness.

Bad confession, such as religion teaches it, seems right to man but ultimately leads to death. Good confession leads to life and godliness.

 

[Grace777x70]

Media Alert..Drunk apostles seen in Acts 2. God would never be like that....it's not Him..it's the people reacting..

...apparently people do "react" different when encountering the presence of God..

The flesh looks like this...

Ephesians 4:30-32 (NASB)
[SUP]30 [/SUP] Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
[SUP]31 [/SUP] Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
[SUP]32 [/SUP] Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

Sometimes a lot of "manifestations" are just their flesh reacting to things like kundalini energy on them.

These are the ways the flesh reacts to the holy spirit.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such things [there] is no law. Galatians 5:22-23​

 

[AboundingGrace]

D.I.Y self-righteousness and holiness vs Jesus...which one glorifies our Lord?

Both. In Numb.5:6-7 the direction is Godward, not humanword.. not focused on look at me, but focused on looking at God for His mercy. When a person recognizes they have sinned and repent unto God, such is the time when the Father responds by forgiving us.

The result is our joy toward God. Thank God He has set me free from sin!

 

[eternally-gratefull]

D.I.Y self-righteousness and holiness vs Jesus...which one glorifies our Lord?

I must disagree, That is what the jews did maybe, but not the way it was intended.


Under the old covenant, We were supposed to look at the mercy lamb, who removed the sin which should have caused us to look to Christ who would come.

[SUP]19 [/SUP]What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. [SUP]20 [/SUP]Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.

[SUP]21 [/SUP]Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. [SUP]22 [/SUP]But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. [SUP]23 [/SUP]But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. [SUP]24 [/SUP]Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. [SUP]25 [/SUP]But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

 

[Grace777x70]

I agree..definitely not the way God intended..it was just the nature of it back then before Christ....it definitely had us looking at our sinfulness and that no one was righteous...the LAw worked!..we have a new and living way through Jesus!..much better I would say..

I must disagree, That is what the jews did maybe, but not the way it was intended.


Under the old covenant, We were supposed to look at the mercy lamb, who removed the sin which should have caused us to look to Christ who would come.

[SUP]19 [/SUP]What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. [SUP]20 [/SUP]Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.

[SUP]21 [/SUP]Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. [SUP]22 [/SUP]But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. [SUP]23 [/SUP]But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. [SUP]24 [/SUP]Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. [SUP]25 [/SUP]But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

 

[eternally-gratefull]

I agree..definitely not the way God intended..it was just the nature of it back then before Christ....it definitely had us looking at our sinfulness and that no one was righteous...the LAw worked!..we have a new and living way through Jesus!..much better I would say..

Yeah

Sadly we have to many (as they did back then) people stuck in religion. who say they honor Gods law. then trample on it, because it condemns them, and they do not see it,

What should lead them to Christ, have them crucifying him over and over..

The law did not fail. They failed, because of their pride. The law will still do its job, Sadly by then, it may be too late.

 

[Grace777x70]

Yes sir..religion is always "me" focused..we should be Christ-focused..that's why I believe we should be confessing who God says we are..not on how we "feel" otherwise...sometimes when I wake up..I don't feel saved..lol..then I have a coffee and wow..it's miraculous.. sanctification process starts..lol

Yeah

Sadly we have to many (as they did back then) people stuck in religion. who say they honor Gods law. then trample on it, because it condemns them, and they do not see it,

What should lead them to Christ, have them crucifying him over and over..

The law did not fail. They failed, because of their pride. The law will still do its job, Sadly by then, it may be too late.

 

[eternally-gratefull]

Yes sir..religion is always "me" focused..we should be Christ-focused..that's why I believe we should be confessing who God says we are..not on how we "feel" otherwise...sometimes when I wake up..I don't feel saved..lol..then I have a coffee and wow..it's miraculous.. sanctification process starts..lol

I will be glad to get to eternity, When having a cup of coffee is for pure pleasure.. lol

 

[Grace777x70]

LOL..I hear ya'

My all time favorite coffee is Jamaica Blue Mountain...very distinct...but I am not a coffee connoisseur by any stretch of the imagination..

I will be glad to get to eternity, When having a cup of coffee is for pure pleasure.. lol

 

[eternally-gratefull]

LOL..I hear ya'

My all time favorite coffee is Jamaica Blue Mountain...very distinct...but I am not a coffee connoisseur by any stretch of the imagination..

We have been drinking a trader joes blend. We are called coffee snobs because we can hardly drink anything else..lol