If We Confess Our Sins

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). God sent Jesus into this world to take away our sins. Believers know that God is faithful to forgive and cleanse us from all sin. 

Jesus suffered, bled and died, that believers could be forgiven and cleansed from all sin. God's word to believers through the Bible is that you are forgiven from all sin, by the faithfulness of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

If there a sin in your past that causes you to feel unclean before God, confess that sin in prayer. Ask God to forgive and cleanse you through Jesus Christ. God will forgive you. His Son died that you may be cleansed from all sin. God is faithful in Christ to cleanse us from all guilt and shame.

Someone may say, "I know that Christ died for the sins of the world, but I have a past sin that makes me feel guilty." Believers say, "Christ died for all of my sins. I am forgiven and cleansed." Faith is sure because of the faithfulness of God in Christ to forgive and cleanse every believer.

Jesus Christ did not die to take away some of our sins. He died to cleanse us of all our sins. Trusting in Christ to take away everyone of our sins is based upon the faithfulness of God. That trust is based upon the faithful promise of God. "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).

The Gospel In Genesis

We see that God makes the gospel promise to Abraham through covenant in Genesis 12:1-3. God gave him this promise:"In you all the nations shall be blessed." That blessing comes through Abraham's Seed who is Christ. "Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, and to seeds as of many, but of one, and to your Seed, who is Christ" (Galatians 3:16).

Old Testament believers had the gospel in Genesis of the Messiah who was coming. As believers today, we know that He has come "that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith" (Galatians 3:14).

All believers receive the blessing as Abraham did in Genesis. He was justified before God by faith. "And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it unto him for righteousness" (Genesis 15:6). The gospel has always been received by faith (Hebrews 11:39-40). 

The gospel came to Abraham in Genesis through the covenant promise. The  gospel comes today to all believers through the covenant fulfillment."Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever"(Hebrews 13:8). Jesus said, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad" (John 8:56).