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The Spiritual Discipline of Self-Examination and Confession Presented by Nehemiah Team: Joshua Kim, Caleb Kim 01/14/2007. Introduction. A model of SE and confession in Psalm 139 Self-Examination: Unhealthy, Healthy way Confession: Unhealthy, Healthy way Practice of healthy SE and confession

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  1. The Spiritual Discipline of Self-Examination and ConfessionPresented by Nehemiah Team: Joshua Kim, Caleb Kim01/14/2007

  2. Introduction • A model of SE and confession in Psalm 139 • Self-Examination: Unhealthy, Healthy way • Confession: Unhealthy, Healthy way • Practice of healthy SE and confession • Conclusion

  3. A Paper of Confession

  4. A model of SE and confession • Psalm 139 - O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. • The goal of SE and Confession - to know who I am in God and to experience who God is.

  5. Self-Examination • Unhealthy SE: - Focus so much on my sins, your sins. - ex) - It leads to depression, discouragement or even suicide. • Healthy SE: - Focus on who I am in God. - ex) - Christ-centered approach not me-centered approach. - It leads to have my awareness of who I am as unique in God.

  6. A diary of SE <-> Daily bread, Testimony. • The goal of self-examination? - To know who I am in God not to condemn myself too much. - The more I know who I am in Christ, the more we come to him humbly.

  7. Confession • Unhealthy Confession: - Repent what I did not do on the basis of what I was supposed to do. - ex) - It leads to regret, sorrow and emotionally comforted but not to the cross.

  8. Healthy Confession: - To confess that I am the chief of sins. Pour out my hurt or wounds before God. Accept the blood of Jesus on the cross. - ex) - It leads not only confess his sin but also to the cross of Jesus Christ. - It is the means of healing and transforming our inner spirit. (Heb 9:13, 14)

  9. Why do we have to do self-examination and confession if God already forgave all our sins? - Have deep sense of the seriousness of sin. - Experience God’s absolute forgiveness. - Build up deep love relationship with God. Ex) - Remember Jesus’ sacrifice and broken heart of God.

  10. Practice of healthy SE and confession • A paper of confession • Sins to confess - John 20:23 - 1 John 1:9 • Things to be hurt or wounded - Matthew 6:14, 15 • Write down five list: - Left side: sins which you want to confess. - Right side: things which you were hurt or wounded by others.

  11. Conclusion • Self-examination and confession is one of the spiritual disciplines between me and God. • It helps us to get clear conscience before God and to grow as a good solider of Jesus Christ. • What we have learned:

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