Wednesday | 08 April 2026
The confession of Christ before men is not only the confession that we make before unbelievers. It is referring to the confession that we make before others in all contexts of life, including in our marriage, our household, in the church, and in the world.
Significantly, a person’s testimony will always be preceded by confession. Without confession, our testimony will be little more than a commentary on the word of present truth or the expression of the self‑righteous ‘despiser’. Act 13:40‑41. Our testimony should be the fruit of faith that we have obtained as we have responded, with confession, to the illumination and conviction of the Spirit. Such a testimony overflows with life to others because it comes from our experience of fellowship in the offering and sufferings of Christ. We join this fellowship by the faith that we receive as we ‘confess with [our] mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in [our] heart that God has raised Him from the dead’. Rom 10:9.
There are ‘multitudes’, even among us, who are in the valley of decision, choosing to receive or to reject the repentance and faith that Christ is offering to us in ‘the house of Caiaphas’. Joe 3:14. Two apostles were in that house as Jesus was bruised for our iniquities and chastened for our peace. One proceeded from there mourning, and finding repentance and faith. The other found only self‑defined penance. Thereafter, he defined his life and ministry as being worthless, judging himself, and then executing himself by suicide. His ‘mourning’ was the self‑indulgent attitude of a person who views themselves as being a victim, which only led to death.
Mourning for Christ our Firstborn with godly sorrow ‘produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted’. 2Co 7:10. We mourn for the Son and for the inheritance that we have lost. And in the place where it was said, ‘You are not My people’, there we are called ‘the sons of the living God’. Hos 1:10.
Further Study:
2 Corinthians 7
References:
Act 13:40-41
Beware therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you: ‘Behold, you despisers, marvel and perish! For I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you.’
Rom 10:9
That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Joe 3:14
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
2Co 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
Hos 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there it shall be said to them, ‘You are sons of the living God.’