4 Spiritual Disciplines: Confession

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• 4 Spiritual Disciplines Confession
• J. Richard Love
• June 24, 2007

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Dont fix the problem
FIX THE BLAME!
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Psalm 51 Page 405
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How to come CLEAN with God...
onsider the signs you need a bath.
C L E A N
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• Dirt
• Distance
• Depression
• Disturbance
• Dormancy
• DNA

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How to come CLEAN with God...
onsider the signs you need a bath.
C L E A N
aunch God into the process.
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PSALM 139 23Search me, O God, and know my heart
 test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24See if
there is any offensive way in me,        and
lead me in the way everlasting.
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How to come CLEAN with God...
onsider the signs you need a bath.
C L E A N
aunch God into the process.
xpress your failure.
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1 John 1 8If we claim to be without sin, we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
and will forgive us our sins and purify us from
all unrighteousness. 10If we claim we have not
sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word
has no place in our lives.
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• PSALM 32
• 1Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven,
  whose sins are covered.
• 2Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not
  count against him and in whose spirit is no
  deceit.
• 3When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through
  my groaning all day long.
• 4For day and night your hand was heavy upon me
  my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

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How to come CLEAN with God...
onsider the signs you need a bath.
C L E A N
aunch God into the process.
xpress your failure.
sk for forgiveness.
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Psalm 10312 ...as far as the east is from the
west, so far has he removed our transgressions
from us.
Isaiah 118 Come now, let us reason together,
says the LORD. Though your sins are like
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow though
they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
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Isaiah 4422 I have swept away your offenses
like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me for I have redeemed you.
Micah 718-20 Who is a God like you, who pardons
sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant
of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
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How to come CLEAN with God...
onsider the signs you need a bath.
C L E A N
aunch God into the process.
xpress your failure.
sk for forgiveness.
ourish the relationship.
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A Healthy Relationship with God
Response from God
Relief from guilt
Renewal of mind
Reinstitution of the experience
Return of joy
Restoration of usefulness
Reality in worship
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How to come CLEAN with God...
onsider the signs you need a bath.
C L E A N
aunch God into the process.
xpress your failure.
sk for forgiveness.
ourish the relationship.
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