Welcome back, everybody. I'm here with Johnny Ardavanaugh. My name's Hank Bowen. And this is part three of a three-part series that we've been doing over the last couple of weeks on the pursuit of holiness. So the first episode we walked through was fighting sin.

Yeah. Then we went to Renewing of the Mind. Yeah. And now today we're going to talk about

maybe the third piece of that triangle or the third leg on that stool. I don't know, I'm mixing

my metaphors. Third piece of the triangle. I'm over my skis. But practically that's confession.

So we're going to be talking about a rather

serious matter. But why don't you, why don't you set this up for us, Jamie? I got the ball.

Thank you. No, I think confession is a, I told you, just a needed but neglected biblical category.

You know, especially for believers who maybe have asked the question and we'll answer this.

Like, why would I confess my sin if I've already been forgiven of all of my sins?

It says in Ephesians 1-7, in him we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

It says in Acts 1043 that everyone who believes in Jesus Christ receives forgiveness of sins through his name.

And this is a biblical reality that if you're a Christian, all of your sin, past, present, and future has already been forgiven by God.

Psalm 103, verse 12, that he removes our transgressions as far as the east is from the west.

And that's one of the main things that Jesus Christ came to do in his life and his death and

his resurrection was to offer you cleansing and forgiveness and redemption from your sin. So some people

ask, why would I confess even if I'm already a Christian? And I think to answer that question,

I want to frame the story of King David.

And I think a lot of people are probably familiar with King David, but I mean, he's a godly man.

You know, there's 42 kings, I think, in the Old Testament.

There's only one that's referred to as a man after God's own heart.

And that guy's name is David.

He writes one third of the Psalter. He is a musician.

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