The document discusses the importance of confession and provides biblical context. It defines confession as openly admitting sins to others and to God in order to experience spiritual healing. The document examines Greek and Hebrew words for confess, emphasizes confessing to one another as brothers in faith, and asserts that effective prayer can heal through forgiveness of trespasses.

3. Confess your trespasses to one
another, and pray for one
another, that you may be healed.
The effective, fervent prayer of a
righteous man avails much.

4. Latin: confessio
con/com "together” + fateri "to admit”
1 Timothy 6:12 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.
Acts 19:18 And many who had believed came
confessing and telling their deeds.

5. Hebrew: ‫י‬ָ‫ד‬ַ‫ע‬ (yā·ḏǎʿ) = know, acknowledge,
agree
Psalm 32:5 “I acknowledged (yā·ḏǎʿ) my sin
to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I
said, “I will confess (yā·ḏǎʿ) my transgressions
to the LORD,” and You forgave the iniquity of
my sin. Selah”
Leviticus 5:5 And it shall be, when he is guilty
in any of these matters, that he shall confess
(yā·ḏǎʿ) that he has sinned in that thing;

6. “He that covers (kā·sāh)
his sins
shall not prosper:
but whoso confesses (yā·ḏǎʿ)
and forsakes (ʿā·zǎḇ) them
shall have mercy.”
Proverbs 28:13

7. 3 Ways We Try to “COVER” Sin
1. Sin does not effect my
fellowship with God (5)
Continue to walk in darkness.
Lie.
Do not the truth.
2. I am not a sinner (8)
3. I have never sinned (10)
Deceive ourselves.
Do not have the truth in us.
Make God a liar,
Do not have His Word in us.
1 John 1

8. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another
“confess” – ἐξομολογέομαι (exomologeomai)
legō = to speak
ek = “out” (intensive)
• homologeomai = “to confess forth”
• exomologeomai = “freely, openly” used
“of a public acknowledgment or
confession of sins;” “to praise”
homos = same

9. Romans 10:9–10 if you confess (homologeomai)
with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in
your heart that God has raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart
one believes unto righteousness, and with the
mouth confession (homologeomai) is made unto
salvation.
Philippians 2:11 and that every tongue should
confess (exomologeomai) that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

11. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another
paraptōma (para - “aside” + pipto - “to fall”) =
false step, a blunder, a lapse
Matthew 6:14 “For if you forgive men their
trespasses (paraptōma), your heavenly Father
will also forgive you.

12. II. “CONFESSING”
C. OUR SINS
OUR PART: GOD’S PART:
“If we . . .” “He will . . .”
Forgive us our sinConfess our sin
Cleanse us from all
unrighteousness
Our Part & God’s Part

13. Body Soul
Spirit
Behavior Thoughts
Beliefs
Convictions
Desires
Worship

14. • What did I say or fail to say that was inappropriate?
• What do I see that was inappropriate?
• What did I hear that was inappropriate?
• Where did I go or failed to go that was inappropriate?
• What did I do or fail to do that was inappropriate?

15. Mind: What reasoning or thoughts did I use to rationalize
this behavior?
Emotions: What were my feelings at the moment
preceding this behavior?
What are my affections and desires after this
behavior?
Conscience: Do I feel guilt having experienced this
behavior?
Do I blame or criticize others for a sin I am guilty of?
Will: In what way(s) is my desire contrary to God’s will?
What are my beliefs about myself, others and God
in relationship to this behavior?

16. Worship: How did I attempt to substitute something
or someone else in place of the God by
this behavior?
How did I attempt to “play God” in my
own life or in the life of someone else?
Rescuing?
Playing Savior
Controlling?
Playing Lord
Condemning?
Playing Judge

17. THERE ARE ONLY TWO WALKS:
LIGHT & DARK
THERE IS NO TWILIGHT BETWEEN
TRUTH & ERROR
THERE IS NO HALFWAY

18. "Create in me a clean heart, O God”
Psalm 51:10

19. Interesting fact: Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess
a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say
researchers in Wisconsin.

20. It is not the experience of life, but
the experience of the cross that
makes one a worthy hearer of
confessions. The most experienced
psychologist or observer of human
nature knows infinitely less of the
human heart the simplest ChristianBonhoeffer
who lives beneath the cross of Jesus. The greatest
psychological insight, ability, and experience
cannot grasp this one thing: what sin is. Worldly
wisdom knows what distress and weakness and
failure are, but it does not know the godlessness of
men.

21. And so it also does not know that man is
destroyed only by his sin and can be healed only
by forgiveness. Only the Christian knows this.
In the presence of a psychiatrist, I can only be a
sick man; in the presence of the Christian
brother, I can dare to be a sinner.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1938)
Gemeinsames Leben or Life Together

22. Hobart Mowrer
(1907-1982)
“For several decades we
psychologists looked upon the
whole matter of sin and moral
accountability as a great incubus and acclaimed
our liberation from it as epoch making. But at
length we have discovered that to be free in this
sense, that is, to have the excuse of being sick
rather than sinful, is to court the danger of also
becoming lost…

23. In becoming amoral, ethically neutral and free,
we have cut the very roots of our being, lost our
deepest sense of selfhood and identity, and with
neurotics, themselves, we find ourselves asking:
Who am I, what is my deepest destiny, what
does living mean?”
Hobart Mower, “Sin, the Lesser of Two Evils,”
American Psychologist, 15 (1960): 301-30

24. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another
ἀλλήλων (allēlōn) = each other, one another, mutually;
a pronoun indicating reciprocation
between two persons or groups
John 13:34–35 A new commandment I give to you, that
you love one another (allēlōn); as I have loved you, that
you also love one another (allēlōn). 35 By this all will
know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one
another (allēlōn).”

25. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another
James 5:9 Do not grumble against one another
(allēlōn), brethren, lest you be condemned.
James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another
(allēlōn) and pray for one another (allēlōn), that you
may be healed.
James 4:11 Do not speak evil of one another (allēlōn),
brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges
his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law.

26. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another
and pray for one another,
εὔχομαι (euchomai) = pray, anxiously desire for,
earnestly wish for

27. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another
and pray for one another, that you may be
healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a
righteous man avails much.
ἰάομαι (iaomai) = heal, make whole, cause someone to
achieve health after having been sick,
usually not used in the sense of a
normal process; spiritual healing
Hebrews 12:13 and make straight paths for your feet,
so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather
be healed (iaomai).

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