Faith Bible Study Guide
As I said, thinking, believing, and confessing in line with the Word all go together. Now whenever the word “confession” is used, we instinctively think of confessing sin and failure, but that is the negative side of confession. That is important in its place, but as we discussed in Chapter 10, there is also a positive side of confession and the Bible has more to say about that than it does the negative side.
Confession, as we said in the last lesson, is stating something we believe. It is declaring something we know to be true, and it is proclaiming a truth we have accepted wholeheartedly. Our confession should center around several basic, scriptural truths. Let’s review them again:
1. What God has done for us through Christ in His plan of salvation.
2. What God has done in us by the Word and the Holy Ghost in the new birth and the infilling of the Holy Ghost.
3. Who we are to God the Father in Christ Jesus.
4. What Jesus is presently doing for us at the right hand of the Father, where He ever lives to make intercession for us.
5. What God can accomplish through us, or what His Word can accomplish through us as we proclaim it.