Every Tongue Shall Confess:
Our Confession
Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is called our confession.
Hebrews 3:1
“So all of you holy brothers and sisters, who were called by God, think about Jesus, who was sent to us and is the high priest of our faith.”
Hebrews 4:14
“Since we have a great high priest, Jesus the Son of God, who has gone into heaven, let us hold on to the faith we have.”
*“Confess” means to make known your faults.
*Confession means to declare publicly your personal relationship with God.
*Confessing Jesus Leads to Life
Romans 10:9
“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. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
*Confessing Jesus is a requirement for salvation
*Max Lucado says, “The only contribution you make to your righteousness is your own confession and admission of sin.”
*Confessing Jesus brings glory to God.
2 Corinthians 9:13
“It is a proof of your faith. Many people will praise God because you obey the Good News of Christ…and because you freely share with them, and with all others.”
*Confessing is an important principle to belief and understanding.
*Confess the name of Jesus aloud
*Our confession should be before others
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.”
Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
*“Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
*Not Confessing Leads to Death
Matthew 32-33
“Whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.”
Mark 8:38
“Whoever is ashamed of Me and My Words among the sinful people of this day, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in the shining-greatness of His Father and His holy angels.”
Luke 12:8-9
“I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God. But he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.”
Revelation 3:5
“He who overcomes, shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”
*If we fail to confess Jesus, then we aren’t His own.
1 John 4:2-3
“By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.”
*Why We Fail to Confess Him
John 12:42-43
“Nevertheless even among the rulers, many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees, they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.”
John 9:22
“His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.”
Mark 8:36
“What will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”
Romans 1:16
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes.”
2 Timothy 1:12
“For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.”
*“I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ!”
*All Will One Day Confess Him
Romans 14:10b-12
“For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written: ‘As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.”
*All Will One Day Confess Him.
Hebrews 9:27
“It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.”
2 Corinthians 5:10
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”
Revelation 7:9-12
“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying: ‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.’” At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
*In Luke 19:40, Jesus said that should His disciples ever fail to confess His name, that “the stones would immediately cry out!” The whole of creation cries out His name in praise!
