Who Confessed Sins to be saved in Scriptures?

Whenever you meet pentecostals, and ask them “How is a Man Saved?”

Most of the time it goes thus…

• See yourself as a sinner
• Admit that you can’t save yourself hence needs a Saviour
• Confess your sins
• Forsake them
• Ask God to come into your life and to write your name in the book of Life
• Thank God for saving you
• Find a Bible believing church so that you can grow
• Stay away from Sin else you will become unsaved again

All plausible but who exactly followed all 8 steps above to be saved?

For the sake of this post, I’d focus only on the confession of sins.

Under the old rusticated Testament:

• It’s done once in a year not intermittently like most folks do today.

[KJV] Leviticus 16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for ALL THEIR SINS ONCE A YEAR. And he did as the Lord commanded Moses.

This is consistent with the writer of Hebrews’ explanation in Hebrews 10

You can’t just ask for forgiveness, you must acknowledge your sins to the Priest [not to God] and bring two animal sacrifice. The Priest must offer 2 animal sacrifice [sin offering and burnt offering] see Leviticus 5 for details

If you still want to follow the above mentioned practice today see Leviticus 16 for details

• You must get two animals! one as scape goat and the other as sin offering
• Bring it to the Temple in Jerusalem!
• Bring it to the High Priest!
• You will confess [acknowledge and enlist] your sins to the HIGH PRIEST so that HE WILL place his hands on the scape goat, confess your sins over it
• The Scape goat must be taken to the wilderness by another man
• The High Priest will do some ceremonial cleansing for himself first then offer the other animal as burnt offering
• He will purify himself again after
• Then your sins are atoned for a year [Not completely blotted out]
• The same time next year, you must repeat the same!

Jesus ended all that and we now have the forgiveness of sins

[KJV] Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

[KJV] Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

[KJV] Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

[KJV] Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Other Scriptures even says because of the above Scriptural facts, He doesn’t impute or keep record of sins anymore

[2 Corinthians 5:19-20; Romans 4:1-8; Hebrews 8:8-13; Hebrews 10:9-18]

Now If Eph 1:7, Col 1:14 And other Scriptures says “We have the forgiveness of sins” already

And John 2:12 says “our sins are forgiven“

1 John 2:12 KJV
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

The question is did you confess your sins, Repent and forsake them to be saved? John 1:9

After all Romans 10 discussed the Gospel and the only reference to Confession is the “Lordship of Jesus” Not sin

[KJV] Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt CONFESS with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt BELIEVE in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

This is in line with Marks 16… He that Believes… Is Saved, he that Believes not is damned

John was Emphatic

[KJV] John 3:36 He that BELIEVETH on the Son hath EVERLASTING LIFE: and he that BELIEVETH NOT the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

[KJV] John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might BELIEVE that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might HAVE LIFE through his name.

Here again we see Paul and Silas

[KJV] Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

You’d expect all the list of steps in the first paragraph of this post right? Wait for it

[KJV] Acts 16:31 And they said, BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be SAVED, and thy house.

The few Scriptures above among many more, no one ever did “Confession of sins” to be Saved

The thief on the cross?

Those who crucified Jesus? They were even forgiven without asking for it

The woman caught in the Act?

Perhaps if you could find just one example in Scriptures where the unsaved man confessed their sins to be saved or believers confessing their sins intermittently, but there’s no none!

 

So in the light of all the above Scriptures, how would you properly explain John 1:9?

To be continued.

©Victor Oluwatobi Fabuluje

12th October, 2018