Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, April 23rd. The Bible emphasizes

the importance of acknowledging our sins. So today we continue our series on Helps to Holiness by

examining the role of a true confession in living a healthy Christian life.

Now, I'm going to talk this morning about a true confession, and I am addressing

this primarily to the believer, but I think there are areas of it that are applicable to a lost person.

How many times do you have to confess a sin to be forgiven? Well, your first reply would be just one time. How many times do you confess

the same sin before you think or feel that you're forgiven? How many times have you confessed

the same old thing to God over and over and over again? How many times have you come to God and you've said,

Now, Lord, I know that I've done this before. I've confessed this before, but this time, I really mean

business. I mean, I try it over here and I didn't make it, but this time, I mean, this is for keeps.

I'm promising you. I know the Bible says you're not to make vows, but I'm making a vow. I'm promising you. I know the Bible says you not to make vows, but I'm making a vow. I'm so

confident that I'm so earnest and yearning to get this thing settling my life. I'm eager to be

obedient to you. I just want whatever you want. About a week later, you're down on your knees.

What are you confessing? Same old thing. Now, listen, it wasn't that you didn't mean business with God. When you got on your knees

and you told him that you were confessing that thing to him, you were as sincere as you've ever

been in your life. You meant exactly what you said, and God knew that you meant it. And if you confessed it, he forgave you of it. But now, I want you to

notice something. There are a lot of people who are confessing a lot of sin who are continuously

defeated in their life. So that confession is not enough. If my confession does not lead me to release and liberty from the thing that

has me in its grip, confession is to no avail. Now, the passages of Scripture we become the most

familiar with, we oftentimes become the most careless about. And probably 1.9 is one of them.

Now, we say, well, if you sin, somebody used the turn rebound. You just confess it and that's it.

But my friend, there is more to it than just that. Now, I believe in prompt confession.

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