He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”
Confession is for Us!
In the above verses, Adam is caught red-handed eating the forbidden fruit. God confronts him with this truth and Adam is forced to confess his misdeeds. God didn't ask them because He didn't know what Adam did, but wanted Adam and Eve to confess to Him. This is the reason we must confess our sins. It is for us not for Him. It is why we have to say the sin. John said it this way:
1 John 1:9-10 (ESV Strong's)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
If we don’t confess the sin we are, in essence, saying we have not sinned. Therefore we make God a liar. In the above passage, when God confronts Adam, God is pointing out Adam’s sin. If Adam does not confess, he is saying God is a liar. In Adam’s case, he confesses the sin, but blames the wife. That was NOT a confession. That was a blaming and shaming. Eve would end up blaming the serpent. When we confess out sins, we need to take personal responsibility for the sin. It isn’t someone else, it isn’t Satan, and it wasn’t God’s fault. Note what James says:
James 1:13-15 (ESV Strong's)
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Confession is the pathway to forgiveness. Our coming to Christ confess admits our sin and our inability to solve the problem, alone. Only Christ can remove the shame of the sin.
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