SPEAKER_00: Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: I believe that you are well today, well kept of the Lord, as I am too.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm glad today to bring you the word of the week.
SPEAKER_00: In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, in the book of Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, it says, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Now the earth was formless, formless and empty.
SPEAKER_00: Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
SPEAKER_00: And God said, and God said, So there is what God said, and then it came to be.
SPEAKER_00: Then in verse 26, by that time, after he created everything, nothing was talking.
SPEAKER_00: They were communicating, yes, the animals and the birds, but they were not having the speech.
SPEAKER_00: So in verse 26, the Bible says, Then God said, Let us make man, mankind, in our image, in our likeness, so that they rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock, the wild animals, and over all creatures that move along the ground.
SPEAKER_00: In chapter 2, verse 19 to 20, the Bible says, Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals, he brought them to man to see what he could name them.
SPEAKER_00: And then he gave man the mandate to name the animals, and everything was and there was.
SPEAKER_00: Confession, confessing is saying the same thing as God does.
SPEAKER_00: What does God say about you?
SPEAKER_00: It's all here in the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: This month we are learning about liberating power of confession.
SPEAKER_00: In the book of Romans chapter 10, verse 8 to 13, the Bible says, But what does it say?
SPEAKER_00: The word is near you.
SPEAKER_00: It is in your mouth, and in your hearts, that is the message concerning faith that we proclaim.
SPEAKER_00: If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
SPEAKER_00: For it is with the heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
SPEAKER_00: So we are going to learn uh three things about confession.
SPEAKER_00: Liberating power of confession.
SPEAKER_00: It's important what you confess.
SPEAKER_00: You may lock yourself what you confess, or you may release yourself.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, we learn that confession brings salvation and assurance.
SPEAKER_00: In verse 10 and 11, for it is with your heart that you believe and are justified.
SPEAKER_00: It is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
SPEAKER_00: As scripture says, anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.
SPEAKER_00: Confession confirms surrender to Christ, it assures us of our salvation.
SPEAKER_00: In Galatians chapter 4, verse 7, we are told, when you confess, when you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be will not be put to shame.
SPEAKER_00: God's Spirit is in us.
SPEAKER_00: He removes all fear of judgment, he replaces it with loving confidence.
SPEAKER_00: And as a child addresses his parents.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, we learn that confession activates faith in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Confession activates faith in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Our mouth speaks of the abundance of our hearts.
SPEAKER_00: It will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord Jesus told the disciples how to pray.
SPEAKER_00: Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: It activates our faith in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: What does the Lord say?
SPEAKER_00: His kingdom is not shaken by the things of the world, by the circumstances of the world.
SPEAKER_00: But you have to unlock it with your confession.
SPEAKER_00: Let it be done on earth as it is in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: What is happening in the world?
SPEAKER_00: The world trembles for it is temporal, but the kingdom stands for it is eternal.
SPEAKER_00: Number three, confession releases spiritual boldness and victory.
SPEAKER_00: In the world, we have trouble.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord said, In the world, you will have trouble, but be of good cheer.
SPEAKER_00: I have overcome the world.
SPEAKER_00: We are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: So this is the kingdom that we are in that is not shaken by the world.
SPEAKER_00: Is the feewell is the few well is hike?
SPEAKER_00: The economy is crumbling.
SPEAKER_00: Or family issues or business setbacks.
SPEAKER_00: But what does the Lord say?
SPEAKER_00: The Lord wants you to create something by your confession.
SPEAKER_00: Let it be the way the Lord says it in his word.
SPEAKER_00: So a victorious Christian life is not lived in silence, it is lived through faith in Christ, believing in the heart, boldly confessing Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And that becomes our testimony.
SPEAKER_00: God bless you in Jesus' name.