Confession of sin liberates

The Christian life commences with confession and continues with it till we leave this world of sin.
The miracle of salvation takes place when one confesses faith in Christ’s finished work at Calvary. An unsaved sinner has got one sin; the original sin of Adam. And that is the sin that is critical to confess at salvation.
When one is not yet born again he is not a sinner because he commits sins, instead he commits sins because he is a sinner. In other words he sins by nature because he was born in sin. David, in his great psalm of confession, made a startling statement that helps understand how this Adamic sin inherited. He said in Psalm 51:5, “For I was born a sinner – yes, from the moment my mother conceived me”. Here David was praying for the remission of the original sin. But when we get born again, the nature of sin is totally removed from our lives.
 And if we commit any sin after salvation, it is no longer a result of Adam’s sin but a result of personal choice. And because it is by personal choice, and not by nature, it is called personal sin.
It is important for you to understand this distinction between the sin of Adam and personal sin. The remedy to the sin of Adam is confessing Christ as one’s Lord and Saviour. Romans 10:9 describes the process of salvation this way: “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Can you see that there is no mention of confessing of sin in this process of salvation?
A sinner needs a saviour; therefore he must confess Christ unto salvation. But a saint does not need a saviour because he already has got him. Rather a saint needs confession of sin unto sanctification, liberty and victory.
When a saint sins he must confess the personal sin immediately; not because his eternal life is at stake but his freedom is limited. Living a sinless life gives us all the liberty and victory in this life. We live without any fear of Satan because He cannot touch us when we have nothing of him in us. The great man of God Professor Ezekiel Guti summed up this revelation in four words; “Fear not, sin not.” It was in this sense of living a sinless life in order to keep the devil away that Paul wrote, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil” (Ephesians 4:26-27). You see it takes gross sin and total backsliding for one to lose salvation, but it takes a single step into sin to lose freedom immediately. It is impossible for a saint to walk in liberty and victory when he conceals sin in his heart.
Though no one may know of your sin, the fact that you know it and keep it unconfessed will put you in a spiritual prison that is worse than a physical one. This explains why one who commits a crime and the police fail to arrest him may eventually surrender himself to the authorities for justice. The handover is not necessarily for justice but for mental freedom.
Someone wrote this about those with concealed sin, “Even though no human tribunal sentence them, they carry the harpoon in their heart, and sooner or later it will bring them to a certain and awful doom. It can’t be otherwise whilst God is God.” Sure it cannot be otherwise because the Scripture says that he who hides his sin will not prosper. Hear King David’s misery when he concealed his personal sins of adultery and murder, “When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me” (Psalm 32:3-4). The reason a saint does not prosper when he conceals sin is that sin affects our daily relationship with God and hinders prayer.
 Psalm 66:18 reads, “If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.”  Do not be deceived; the remedy of the sin of a saint is confessing it.
Dear saint keep not that secret sin unconfessed for God knows everything about it. Psalm 139:1-2 says, “O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I far away.”  Hebrews 4:13-16 echoes the same truth: “but all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give account…” Why should you defer repentance and confession when God is faithful to forgive you? When Christ the Advocate is on your side for justification? When happiness, liberty and victory in forgiveness await you?
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