rec1011-110239<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Psalm 130:1-4 (NASB) <\/p>\n About Forgiveness…<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Our sins involve guilt, therefore, we need forgiveness.<\/strong><\/p>\n Isaiah 59:2 (NASB) 2. Forgiveness is offered by God through the death of His Son.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 Peter 3:18 (NASB) <\/b> 3. The confession of\u00a0 sin is the necessary condition in receiving forgiveness.<\/strong><\/p>\n Psalm 32:5 (NASB) 1 John 1:9 (NASB) <\/p>\n Nehemiah 9:1-3 (NASB) <\/p>\n Nehemiah describes this humbling process through…<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Fasting…which speaks to us about DENIAL<\/strong><\/p>\n Ezra 8:21-23 (NASB) 2. Sackcloth…which speaks to us about SORROW<\/strong><\/p>\n Esther 4:1-3 (NASB) 3. Ashes…which speaks to us about PAIN\/LOSS<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 Samuel 4:10-12 (NASB) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deuteronomy 8:1-3 (NASB) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NASB) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Matthew 18:4 (NASB) <\/p>\n (NEXT SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – CONFESS YOUR SINS –\u00a0PART\u00a02)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 Message by Dr. David Drake rec1011-110239 Confess Your Sins Nehemiah 9:1-3 (Part 1) Psalm 130:1-4 (NASB) 1 \u00a0Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD. 2 \u00a0Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To … Continue reading Confess Your Sins<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Nehemiah 9:1-3 (Part 1)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/b>1 <\/span><\/sup> \u00a0Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD.<\/span>
\n2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive <\/span>To the voice of my supplications.<\/span>
\n3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?<\/span>
\n4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But there is forgiveness with You, That You may be feared.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His<\/i> face from you so that He does not hear.<\/span>
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\n18 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For Christ also died for sins once for all, the<\/i> just for the<\/i> unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I did not hide; <\/span>I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD”; <\/span>And You forgave the guilt of my sin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
I. TRUE CONFESSION OF SIN WILL BE USED OF GOD TO HUMBLE US<\/h3>\n
\n<\/b>1 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel assembled with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt upon them.
\n2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
\n3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0While they stood in their place, they read from the book of the law of the LORD their God for a fourth of the day; and for another<\/i> fourth they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God. <\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>21 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our possessions.
\n22 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For I was ashamed to request from the king troops and horsemen to protect us from the enemy on the way, because we had said to the king, “The hand of our God is favorably disposed to all those who seek Him, but His power and His anger are against all those who forsake Him.”
\n23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter,<\/i> and He listened to our entreaty. <\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>1 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly.
\n2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0He went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
\n3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0In each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing; and many lay on sackcloth and ashes. <\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
\n11 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
\n12 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Now a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn and dust on his head. <\/span><\/p>\nHUMILITY gives the heart a “spiritual check-up”<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/b>1 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0“All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give<\/i><\/span> to your forefathers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/b>2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0“<\/span>You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
\n3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0“<\/span>He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.<\/p>\n\u00a0HUMILITY obtains or secures the action\/attention of God<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/b>14 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.<\/p>\nHUMILITY is being exalted “BY” God to spiritual greatness<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0“<\/span>Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n
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