Confess to Profess. Off with the old, Out comes the New.

Scripture teaches that “if anyone is in Christ, they are a newly created; old things pass away, behold all things become new”. (2 Corithians 5.18)

This however is hard to reconcile with the mindset of those whose anticipation is for God or His Son to come and do something else for them that haven’t been done all ready, as though the salvage process need an additional remedy, and as though things are out of Gods control and He needs to re-ascert His authority. Blasphemy!

The gift of God of being saved has been completed for us whereby at baptism we confess the old person done and gone to become newly reimaged like God. This is your first step, but then the purging of your old ways commences.

From here the journey for you is to put off your old person and recon it to be so, whose corrupt mind needs to be re-written, with scripture telling us (Romans 12.2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transfigured by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

It is the carnal mind that is replete with weaknesses and fears and false self imaging, that needs to be flushed from the wrong ways of thinking. That is what a confession is for, to flush that stuff out. Our Heavenly Father did not overlook any of those or any other obstacles. All aspects of Salvation have their given methods to accomplish the tasks necessary to own the full package as described in James, “receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls”. It is in the spirit of the mind where this all takes place, between you and your Heavenly Father. And it is the human entity that benefits from the re-newed mind.

The main obstacle now is doubt. A lack of true faith, a word synonymous with trust and believe. Your objective now is to put off the old to exchange for the new. But there is a vast vortex between the old and new, the place you grow in faith. And to walk by faith is like walking across a fast moving stream only seeing the water. But with every step you take you find something to stand on just underneath the current. All logic tells you that this is impossible. But when you look back and see how far you’ve stepped into what was the unknown, you find out it’s really quite easy. Until then, If we’ve harbored something in ourselves, then the Holy Spirit comes along and shows you the blockage, be it a fear, a doubt or harboring other destructive mindsets. It is not for your condemnation, nor to weaken you, but for you to expunge that garbage from your thinking not to let it in again. You do this by laying it down at the cross to set out and receive the replacement. This all happens one step at a time. This is the walk of faith of trading in the old for the new.

It is kind of like taking all of your packaging and stinky un-eaten food from your dumpster, to then trade it in for new full fresh packages without paying for it, but a whole lot better. That is why scripture defines your old person as a “filthy rag” not to be re-used.

If you confess your sin nature, not your sins because you really may not know what sin is yet. So you admit sin to have it neutralized, you can’t then learn a new way of thinking and profess your new identity which is the opposite of the old, this is how we put on Christ.

If you are locked into thinking you can be cleansed from sin by multiple confessions, Satan has you right where he wants you.

First John 2 says, we right these things to you for you not to sin. But if anyone sins we have an advocate with the Father”. In this way you have a lawyer to represent you not to the Father, but to yourself. Continual confessions is the mindset of the self condemned that needs to be regenerated by the spirit as a change in perspective. When you quit dwelling on condemning factors, that is when you quit fighting against sin. That is why the law was implimented. To make sure that you are good and dead to the law. To be so unresponsive as to say that you are dead to the law as taught in the book of Romans.

So when we go to the word of God called scripture, it is like a grocery store of things from the new covenant, or new contract of Gods terms and conditions to be accepted by you by confessing once for a sin nature, then professing your renewal gifted from the cross then possessing giftings from within the Heavenly Father. By your tool of faith you are speaking affirmations that God gave you to become the new you.

This is how you put Christ on, one attribute at a time until you’ve consumed Him. That is why He said to “eat all of Me”. As we consume Him, this becomes the new you and your consumation. And because in the beginning God said “let there be… The thing that He said came into be the moment He spoke it. Even as Paul in 2 Corithians 4, said; ¹³ And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore we speak”, to impliment our new person like the Only Begotten.

Like Paul we quote David in the Psalms so that we too can have the same measure of faith, to believe a thing then to speak for it to be.

If now you “having been given everything that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who has called us to His Glory and virtue through  Christ, (2 Peter 1) You only have your old self of bad memories that produce doubts and fears to theart your success. If you continue to confess sin, you are only fortifying your old you. In this way you become your own devil’s advocate by reinforcing who you were before your conversion. You put your transformation on hold.

When your old man who is held together with your old memories, who refuses to let go of you, you confess to profess, old things pass away all things become you and all things are from God. In your old fault or weakness you put Christ in there.

You have to learn to see your face on that man at the cross where Pontius Pilate washed his hands from that act, but you wash your hands from the old you reconned to be hanging there then put it behind the stone, to be rolled away for the third day to have your grave clothes lay there empty and to have the tunic from your head folded up and put in another place as an old expired document of a dead man shelved like a book of bad memories you no longer need. They only have power over you if you open it back up. And for everytime something from the old tries yo eek out to drag you down, you combat it with who Christ is because that’s the new you. “For even the angels behold the Father’s face in these little ones”. Accept that has a gift because if you think you can wash your conscience by confessing, you negate and reject the saving at the cross. You are to “recon it dead”. Let it be so. Amen!

This is how you put Christ on, by professing the new, not confessing the old. And you do this with the Word of God because if “in the beginning was the word of God, the word was with God and the word was God, He was in the beginning with God” (John 1.1)

18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by  Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

So understand this! It was in the tomb of a dead man (Christ) where you proverbially in the spirit of the cave of your old flushed out mind. There you see another tunic folded and glistening white. Well put that on. It’s been placed there for you, for your transfiguration from a worrier to having the joy of God. Ask He said “My joy I give to you. Not like the world has. So when you have been robbed of this joy, you only have to remember and make the cut from it by ignoring it in your mind. It is not worthy of a response because that is what makes it live. You can say that “we’ve been crusified with Christ. Old things pass away and all things have become new and all things are from God”.

Does God sin? No. Are you “in Christ”? Yes. And on Him is no sin!!!