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Originally Posted by Raptor
No, not exactly, God gives us the objective side but will judge us based on the subjective side, and He will see all of it and show it to us in the light at the JSoC.. If all you do is identify with the objective side, you risk to be deceived. For example, just one of your points, being washed 100% by His blood: yes objectively, but subjectively, probably most christians have unconfessed sins, and risk to suffer loss at the judgement seat of Christ. Yes, our old man has been crucified with Christ, but Paul also says, those who are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts. How many of us have crucified the flesh today in our experience? Did not the Lord admonish us to take up the cross daily? So many christians think everything is OK, even some will prophesy, expel demons and do works of power in His name, and they will be effective, yet the Lord sees them as workers of lawlessness. You need to balance your view. You oversimplify the "way to victory", it includes confessing all those things and dealing with them, Rev. 2&3 ring a bell?
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Received. Good balancing word!
I think there is always the twofold aspect to spiritual things and the "cake" needs to be turned over. That is, there is
the spiritual reality of who He has made us, and there is also our experience. (The ol' "fact-faith-feeling" train comes into play here.)
And doesn't confession mean "saying the same thing" (Greek - homologeó: to speak the same, to agree)? When we sin and confess it to Him - and not try to hide it - we are agreeing with Him that it is something off the mark, and that we need His help with. This opens the door for Him to come into that area of our life and change us. As 1st John tells us He is then faithful AND righteous to forgive us - because His one sacrifice did it all! We just need to agree with Him (and again, that includes being open with Him about our sin).
(and BTW - going to the other extreme is someone constantly confessing sin with an overactive sin consciousness! There is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, because He took it all and His blood IS all efficacious. However, as Paul says in 1 Cor 10:23, while "all things are lawful . . . not all things are profitable." Therefore we must guard our hearts before Him and run the race well - not looking at our sin, but to JESUS!!!)