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Ezra 10:11
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‘Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure.’ It’s a beautiful way of expressing it. After all, they were a typical church; they weren't all saved. But in New Testament times in our congregation, those who are members of the church: we trust and hope that most of them are saved, and their great concern is to please God, and to do what is pleasing to him. ‘Now therefore make confession’, acknowledge sin, they are told. Acknowledge this is wrong. There is a sign that some people didn't altogether acknowledge it. Acknowledge the sin; confess that it's been accommodated and not dealt with, and it hasn't offended you. You haven’t been moved, and you've been indifferent to the hypocrisy involved – because many of these people were priests – and go to the Lord with real regret. Cry out for reformation and pledge yourself to him – all that is in the confession – ‘and separate’; accept separation ‘from the strange [pagan] wives.’
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In our confession of any sin we recognise, as David does in Psalm 51, that our conduct, whatever it might have been, has brought shame to the cause and is grievous to God. It has grieved the Lord. It has grieved the Spirit within. It's a grievous thing that I've done, and I should be seeking to please him as one who is saved by him and given so much.
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