1 John 1:9 "9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
1 John 1:9 says that to grow in holiness, we are to confess and ask to be cleansed. This is not about salvation but about growing in Spiritual maturity. Those who lack Spiritual and emotional maturity are not asking to be cleansed because they cannot admit they have flaws and hidden sin.
Most Christians are buying into false doctrine, self-indulgence and self-reliance to appear holy, because they have been trained to love themselves first.
Anyone who loves themselves first will never love Christ.
For many years, we heard people say, "if you don't love yourself first, you won't love anyone else." That was a lie of the devil. God says we must love God first and deny ourselves.
If we cannot deny ourselves, then we will neither love God nor others. The more we love God, the less we think about ourselves, and the more we are dedicated to Christ, which will result in loving others.
Often, our modern culture takes three words out of the scriptures and makes a false doctrine out of it without the benefit of the rest of Scripture. Satan loves this and uses it frequently in these days of apostasy.
May each of us be diligent to find the meanings of practices and follow only those things as described in Scripture.
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