Comments on: James 4:8b http://versebyversecommentary.com/2000/11/30/james-48b/ by Dr. Grant C. Richison Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:55:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Grant http://versebyversecommentary.com/2000/11/30/james-48b/comment-page-1/#comment-2334 Grant Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:37:48 +0000 http://versebyversecommentary.com/2000/11/30/james-48b/#comment-2334 Thanks for your comments, Deb. You are right in that God stands reconciled by the death of Christ as a substitute for our sins. Our confession does not reconcile us. We have positional reconcilation but we must apply what we have positionally to experience. We do this by confession. Confession is a matter of fellowship, not our relationship to God. Note a debate that I had with someone on 1 Jn 1:9 by going to that verse. Thanks for your comments, Deb.

You are right in that God stands reconciled by the death of Christ as a substitute for our sins. Our confession does not reconcile us. We have positional reconcilation but we must apply what we have positionally to experience. We do this by confession. Confession is a matter of fellowship, not our relationship to God. Note a debate that I had with someone on 1 Jn 1:9 by going to that verse.

]]> By: deb w http://versebyversecommentary.com/2000/11/30/james-48b/comment-page-1/#comment-2309 deb w Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:41:36 +0000 http://versebyversecommentary.com/2000/11/30/james-48b/#comment-2309 Hi Grant--Once again please know I have appreciated content in your verse by verse commentary. I have a question on this one. . . how do you reconcile the thought in this bible study that we can not "draw near" to God without confession of sin? I know that it says in Romans 6 that we are not to go on sinning that grace may abound and acknowledge the truth of God's word in 1John 1:9. And yet as I have read some of your other studies about God's faithfulness to finish what He has begun in us--and noted you to have quoted Romans 5:10--it would seem to me that this scripture communicates that it was God who reconciled us while we were enemies--and to me believing this truth that it is what God has done that brought about this reconciliation--to me even when He would need to discipline me and allow me to know where sin in my life is grieving him and hurting me and perhaps others--I can come to Him as I am and be "saved by His life" as He convicts me in His prescence and I recieve His cleansing as His child. Hi Grant–Once again please know I have appreciated content in your verse by verse commentary.
I have a question on this one. . . how do you reconcile the thought in this bible study that we can not “draw near” to God without confession of sin? I know that it says in Romans 6 that we are not to go on sinning that grace may abound and acknowledge the truth of God’s word in 1John 1:9. And yet as I have read some of your other studies about God’s faithfulness to finish what He has begun in us–and noted you to have quoted Romans 5:10–it would seem to me that this scripture communicates that it was God who reconciled us while we were enemies–and to me believing this truth that it is what God has done that brought about this reconciliation–to me even when He would need to discipline me and allow me to know where sin in my life is grieving him and hurting me and perhaps others–I can come to Him as I am and be “saved by His life” as He convicts me in His prescence and I recieve His cleansing as His child.

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