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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of

God. You're listening to Daily Truth.

Matthew Henry, again,

in commentating on these particular verses of our text,

says this, note,

in confessing sin,

as we take shame to ourselves,

so we give glory to God as righteous, owning him justly displeased with us.

Again, old language, but what this late great Puritan is essentially saying is that one of the ways we glorify God is by way of consequence. The way of consequence

being by owning our sin. When we own our sin, we exonerate God. In the objective sense, God needs no exoneration. Let God be true and every man a liar.

But there is something to be said subjectively when a man confesses his sin as David does in Psalm 51 verse 4 against you and you only have I sinned and done

what is evil in your sight so that I'm confessing that I did it only I did it and I did it

against you so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

God would have been justified whether David confessed his sin or not.

He would have been blameless whether David repented or not.

But there is something to be said

outside of the objective, ultimate truth category

...