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1. verse 9.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ah, this is definitely a verse that I would encourage you to memorize if you haven't already

memorized it. If we confess our sins, confession is such an important part of our relationship with God.

And I think many times we overlook it,

to spend time each day examining your heart. And there's a sense in which we want to do this all

throughout the day but to have concentrated time that leads to continual time in

confession to examine our hearts and to ask continually

before God and in a concentrated way before God what in me in my thoughts,

and my desires, in my words, my actions,

and my motives?

What in any part of me is not most glorifying to God. Where am I

disobeying His word? Where am I not obeying His words of sins of comission and omission things were doing things

were not doing that God is calling us to do to spend time intentionally praying. God search my heart

Psalm 139. Help me to see what you see when we confess our sins like this he is faithful praise God that when

we are unfaithful God is always faithful. He's faithful and there's so many pictures of his faithfulness.

The picture here in 1st John 1-9 is he's faithful to forgive us. We can be confident that when we confess

our sins God will be faithful to forgive us.

You say, how can we know that?

Well, that leads to the next thing.

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