Many people, having misunderstood the message of 1 John 1:9 on confession, are still trying to receive the remission of their sins through prayers of repentance. ★

Some people say that whenever they give their prayers of confession, or prayers of repentance, God the Father forgives their sins. 

But the reality is that even as they give their prayers of confession and repentance, all the sins that they have committed still remain unwashed and intact in their hearts 

(Jeremiah 2:22). 

They’ve come up with such completely groundless doctrines and believe in them only to comfort themselves, just because they themselves, in their own thoughts, want to believe that God the Father would somehow forgive them, as fathers would usually forgive their children when they just confess their wrongdoings.

The fact of the matter, however, is that for those who give such prayers of confession, their sins still remain in the tablet of their hearts, testifying that they themselves still remain under the condemnation of God. It is written in Jeremiah 17:1, “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.” You may know that the representative principle pervades all Scriptures. Therefore, this passage should also be applied to all mankind, meaning that everyone’s sin is written on the tablet of his heart with an iron pen. 

Therefore, we must be freed from futile Christian doctrines claiming that it is possible to be saved from sin just by believing in the blood of the Cross. And we must return to the faith that believes in both the baptism of Jesus and the blood of the Cross as the way of salvation. The Lord does not wash away your sins just because you confess them. It is only when you believe in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit that you can wash away even all your daily sins. This is because our Lord, by taking upon the sins of the world through His baptism and shedding His blood, has already washed them away. The washing of your sins is therefore possible only when you know this Word and believe in this Truth. 

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