In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

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Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. When we confess our sin, we're not informing

God of our sin. God does not need to be informed. He is all-knowing. He is omniscient. We're not bringing new information

before the Lord that he previously was not aware of. To confess our sin is not merely to inform God of

our sinfulness. Confession is not informing God. It's agreeing with God. It's not informing God of our sin. It is agreeing with God

that we are in fact sinners and not only agreeing with God about our sin, that we are sinners,

but in regard specifically to the severity of our sin. That when we confess sin, we are saying, let God be true, though every man a liar.

There's a sense in which David even says in his great prayer of confession in Psalm 51,

he says, so God may be proved blameless in his judgments. That's part of his prayer of confession. What David is saying is

that as he confesses his sin before the Lord, one of the things that he's doing, one of his aims,

his goal in confession of sin is, as it were, in a subjective sense, to exonerate God.

Now God needs, in the objective sense, no exoneration.

David recognizes that God is just, even if every person on the planet lied about him.

God will remain in the objective, eternal, and truest sense, just in all his judgments. He is neither harsh,

nor cruel, nor petty, nor capricious. He is just. And David knows that God remains just,

whether he acknowledges that God's judgments are fair or not.

But in the subjective sense, David, a man after God's own heart,

who loves God above all other things.

David wants to exonerate God, as it were.

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