Holy Moments: The Holy Moment of Confession

Where Heaven Touches Earth

Encountering God's Grace Through Honest Confession

Four important ways for you to embrace confession as a way of life with Jesus:

1) The Reality of Our Need

1 John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

2) The Promise of Forgiveness

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

3) The Power of Confession

Psalm 51:10–12 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

First, confession creates a clean heart.

Second, confession restores joy.

Third, confession renews our spirit and relationship with God.

Third, confession renews our spirit and relationship with God.

4) The Practice of Confession

First, private confession to God.

Second, confession within community.

James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Third, the humility modeled by the tax collector.

Application: Living in the Freedom of Confession

Three practical ways you can apply confession to your way of life with Jesus

First, make confession a regular spiritual discipline.

Second, create space for corporate confession in our worship.

Third, embrace the freedom that comes from living transparently before God.

1 John 1:9 NIV If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

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Revelation 21:1-8

Big Idea: God's ultimate plan is not destruction, but re-creation—making all things new and beautiful.

This is a key insight that changes everything: God's plan is renewal, not replacement. He's not looking to scrap everything and start over. He's looking to take what exists—what he declared "very good" in Genesis—and make it new again.

Revelation 21:1-8

Big Idea: God's ultimate plan is not destruction, but re-creation—making all things new and beautiful.

This is a key insight that changes everything: God's plan is renewal, not replacement. He's not looking to scrap everything and start over. He's looking to take what exists—what he declared "very good" in Genesis—and make it new again.

Point #1: God renovates creation rather than replacing it.

Revelation 21:1 NIV

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.What does this mean for us today?

Several things:

• First, the physical world matters to God.

• Second, our bodies matter

.• Third, social justice matters.

Point #2: The goal of all history is God dwelling with his people.

Revelation 21:2 NIV

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.Revelation 21:3 NIVAnd I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.Revelation 21:4 NIV‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Point #3: God renews what exists rather than creating something entirely different.

Revelation 21:5 NIV

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Point #4: God offers renewal as a gift, but the choice is ours.

Revelation 21:6 NIV

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

Revelation 21:7 NIV

Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.

Revelation 21:8 NIV

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.

Point #5: The new creation vision transforms present living.

• Our Suffering Has Meaning
• Our Work Has Purpose
• Our Hope Is Certain

Final Challenge: What broken area of your life do you need to entrust to God's promise to make all things new?