Tuesday | 07 April 2026
Our willingness to confess our faults to one another will be an inevitable fruit of our application to the word and will have an expression in our marriage, our house, and in relational settings in the church. In these contexts, we are able to pray for one another and obtain healing and grace for our pilgrimage together in the fellowship of Christ’s offering and sufferings. 1Jn 1:7.
Inasmuch as we are to confess our faults, we are also to confess our obedience, or righteousness. This is a ‘good confession’ that we share as those whom Christ has made to be kings and priests to God the Father. Rev 1:6. It is the expression of a believer who no longer belongs to the kingdom of darkness, but who has been delivered to the kingdom of light as a son of God. Col 1:13. Paul explained that Jesus made this very same confession before Pontius Pilate, writing, ‘Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing.’ 1Ti 6:12‑14.
By confessing our faults to one another, and also making ‘a good confession’ through faith obedience, we are confessing Christ before men. This is because Christ is the substance of our repentance and of our obedience. Emphasising the importance of confession, Jesus Himself said, ‘Whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.’ Mat 10:32‑33.
Further Study:
Matthew 10
References:
1Jn 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Rev 1:6
And has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
Col 1:13
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.
1Ti 6:12-14
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing.
Mat 10:32-33
Therefore, whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.