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	<title>Comments on: Do Christians Need to CONFESS Their Sin? (Pt 1 &#8211; James 5:16)</title>
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		<title>By: Andre van der Merwe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andre van der Merwe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A very good friend of mine, Cornel Marais (Charisma Ministries) has written a brilliant message on this topic, shedding a clear light on this often misunderstood and heavily contested matter. May God open the eyes of our understanding to grasp the wonders of His Grace.

Click this link to follow:
http://www.charismaministries.org/?p=288

In Grace
Andre van der Merwe</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A very good friend of mine, Cornel Marais (Charisma Ministries) has written a brilliant message on this topic, shedding a clear light on this often misunderstood and heavily contested matter. May God open the eyes of our understanding to grasp the wonders of His Grace.</p>
<p>Click this link to follow:<br />
<a href="http://www.charismaministries.org/?p=288" rel="nofollow">http://www.charismaministries.org/?p=288</a></p>
<p>In Grace<br />
Andre van der Merwe</p>
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		<title>By: Andre van der Merwe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andre van der Merwe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Marco

Do not be quick to cast the first stone. I don&#039;t know about you but I have never heard of anybody who has delivered a person over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh. Yes we see that Paul commanded this in the Bible, but how do we know if a sin is &quot;bad enough&quot; to do this to a person? What about the following verse: Gal 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 

You also say that there is no such thing as the gospel of Grace, well I don&#039;t know what you are going to do with the following verses:

Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the &lt;strong&gt;gospel of the grace of God&lt;/strong&gt;.
Gal 1:6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel.
Phil 1:7 just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
Acts 14:3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts 20:32 “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

In Grace
Andre van der Merwe</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Marco</p>
<p>Do not be quick to cast the first stone. I don&#8217;t know about you but I have never heard of anybody who has delivered a person over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh. Yes we see that Paul commanded this in the Bible, but how do we know if a sin is &#8220;bad enough&#8221; to do this to a person? What about the following verse: Gal 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. </p>
<p>You also say that there is no such thing as the gospel of Grace, well I don&#8217;t know what you are going to do with the following verses:</p>
<p>Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the <strong>gospel of the grace of God</strong>.<br />
Gal 1:6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel.<br />
Phil 1:7 just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.<br />
Acts 14:3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.<br />
Acts 20:32 “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.</p>
<p>In Grace<br />
Andre van der Merwe</p>
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		<title>By: marco</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When a Christian sins (makes a mistake), is their right standing with God lost, and can that right standing only be restored if the person confesses the sin?”  When a person sins there fellowship with God and other believers is disrupted. here is a NT example, and while it is extreme, it shows how importance confession of sin and repentance is to those who follow the NT and the gosple of grace of God, the gosple of Christ, the gosple of the kingdom of God (note: in the NT there is no such thing as the gosple of grace, the same way there is no gosple of love, or repentance):

here is a guy who sins so badly he has to be tossed out of the church:

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father&#039;s wife ...I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Now is this guy condemned? Does he lose his salvation, of course not, but how is his fellowship with God and the church restored: Delivering a person unto Satan does not mean we are damning them to hell nor does it mean they are going to die physically. In this instance, we see by Paul&#039;s instructions in 2 Corinthians 2:6-7, that this man didn&#039;t die but repented and was restored back into the fellowship of the church. 

This is a withdrawal of our intercession on the behalf of another and a retaining of their sins to them. This means they start reaping what they&#039;ve sown because we aren&#039;t cancelling Satan&#039;s activities through our prayers. This is done in the hope that these &quot;hard knocks&quot; will bring them to their senses. (Mt. 18:17).

So it is clear that to those who follow the gosple of the Grace of God, when we sin, we know exactly what to do: we do what the bible tells us to do:   confess those sins knowing we are forgive: My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When a Christian sins (makes a mistake), is their right standing with God lost, and can that right standing only be restored if the person confesses the sin?”  When a person sins there fellowship with God and other believers is disrupted. here is a NT example, and while it is extreme, it shows how importance confession of sin and repentance is to those who follow the NT and the gosple of grace of God, the gosple of Christ, the gosple of the kingdom of God (note: in the NT there is no such thing as the gosple of grace, the same way there is no gosple of love, or repentance):</p>
<p>here is a guy who sins so badly he has to be tossed out of the church:</p>
<p>It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father&#8217;s wife &#8230;I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.</p>
<p>Now is this guy condemned? Does he lose his salvation, of course not, but how is his fellowship with God and the church restored: Delivering a person unto Satan does not mean we are damning them to hell nor does it mean they are going to die physically. In this instance, we see by Paul&#8217;s instructions in 2 Corinthians 2:6-7, that this man didn&#8217;t die but repented and was restored back into the fellowship of the church. </p>
<p>This is a withdrawal of our intercession on the behalf of another and a retaining of their sins to them. This means they start reaping what they&#8217;ve sown because we aren&#8217;t cancelling Satan&#8217;s activities through our prayers. This is done in the hope that these &#8220;hard knocks&#8221; will bring them to their senses. (Mt. 18:17).</p>
<p>So it is clear that to those who follow the gosple of the Grace of God, when we sin, we know exactly what to do: we do what the bible tells us to do:   confess those sins knowing we are forgive: My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;</p>
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