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shared by Tim Limkeman on 02 Sep 19 - No Cached

First. if this verse teaches that we are supposed to confess our sins on an ongoing basis as Christians, then it also teaches that it is necessary to confess in order to be forgiven. If we don't confess, then we aren't forgiven. Those are the words of the text.
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Christians are clearly in view here because he used the endearment "little children"--the secure antidote for sin is the advocacy of Jesus acting as a defense counselor for us
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We have clear teaching in a number of places in the New Testament that our forgiveness is a one time event, that it's done when we confess that Jesus is our Lord, when Jesus comes into our life we enter into eternal life, that our sins and transgressions God remembers no more,
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then how is that we can interpret 1 John 1:9 that we must confess in order to be forgiven if, in fact, we are forgiven already?
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The word fellowship when applied between God and man in the New Testament is synonymous with salvation.
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This first section is strongly evangelistic, it is addressing the non-Christian contingent
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God is faithful to bring that sin to our awareness through conviction in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (John 16:8)
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