What Do We Learn about the Law of Confession from Jesus

What Can we Learn about the Law of Confession from Jesus's Example?

RECAP: What Can We Learn from Bible Examples of the Law of Confession in Operation?

Twelve Spies—You will get exactly what you say consistently

David—Build a Highway of Holiness with Your Words

Elijah—Bring God’s Written Words to Bear on Your Nation

Elisha

5. Jesus—Speak Ministry Outcomes before They Happen

(John 17:11 NKJV) “Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.”

(Mark 11:22–24 NKJV) So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. {23} For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. {24} Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”

Jesus taught that things can change by speaking it contrary to how it appears

The Holy Spirit confirms that this means to call into being that which doesn’t not yet exist?

(Romans 4:17 KJV) ... God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

(Romans 4:17 AMP) … God who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

Did Jesus do this?

Did he speak to things and command them into the state he wanted?

Did he speak of things which didn’t exist yet as though they did?

Did he speak to change things … creatively?

A. Woman Bent Over:

(Luke 13:11–13 NKJV) And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. {12} But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” {13} And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

The woman was bent and couldn’t straighten herself

Jesus spoke creative words

He spoke of things that hadn’t happened yet as though they had

Then he laid hands on her

Immediately, she was made straight

She glorified God; she knew she couldn’t do this herself

Jesus spoke of her healing as a present reality before it had happened.

ILLUSTRATION:

Evan Roberts declared all Wales in revival from the vision God showed him … and it began happening

Reinhardt Bonke— “I see a blood washed Africa. From Cape Town to Cairo, Africa shall be saved.”

My Teeth Vision:

I saw a vision of all of my teeth restored to brand new

I thought it was happening there and then,

But it is for my confession

It is a present reality in the spirit ream

But I have to speak it out creatively for it to come into being in the natural realm

APPLICATION:

You can do this too

Speak out loud in words what the Holy Spirit shows you is done

Speak as though it is already done—because in God’s mind it is

Speak it in the face of contrary and contradictory circumstances and people

B. Dead girl:

BACK STORY:

Jesus was returning to Capernaum from ministry trip to Gadara

A crowd met him

The ruler of the synagogue asked him to come to his home to save his 12 y.o. daughter from dying

Jesus agreed to go

(Mark 5:21–23 KJV) And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea. {22} And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, {23} And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

But, on the way he was stopped by the woman with the issue of blood

She touched his garment and power went into her and she was healed:

She said, “If I can only touch his clothes, I will be healed.”

Jesus called her forward to testify and she “told the whole story”

Meanwhile, a runner from the pastors house said his daughter had just died

Jesus said, “fear not; only believe”

And Jesus followed him to his house ...

(Luke 8:51–55 NKJV) When He came into the house, He permitted no one to go in except Peter, James, and John, and the father and mother of the girl. {52} Now all wept and mourned for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping.” {53} And they ridiculed Him, knowing that she was dead. {54} But He put them all outside, took her by the hand and called, saying, “Little girl, arise.” {55} Then her spirit returned, and she arose immediately. And He commanded that she be given something to eat.

Today, we are looking at Jesus’s use of the law of confession.

But first, note how many commands he gives in this narrative in his role as Lord;

they all go with the way he does miracles.

When he commands, we obey

Fear not, only believe

Permitted no one to go in except Peter, James and John ect.

Do not weep

Little girl arise

“He commanded that she be given something to eat.”

Now, did he speak using the law of confession?

“She is not dead, only sleeping”

He spoke to onlookers stating that the dead body was sleeping

If she was sleeping, he could wake her up with his voice.

“Little girl, arise”

He was speaking to a dead body as if she was alive and able to obey

ILLUSTRATION:

New Equipment: sounded good today

We spoke of a non-existent thing as though it was a past, historic fact.

The Ganglion is Gone

APPLICATION:

You can do this too

When you hear from God

Say only what he says—no more and no less

Stick to your confession (saying the same thing)

No matter what people say or how they ridecule it

Expect God to watch over it.

C. Lazarus:

(John 11:1, 4, 11–15, 23, 43–44 NKJV) Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. ... {4} When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” ... {11} These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.” {12} Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.” {13} However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep. {14} Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. {15} And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.” ... {23} Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ... {43} Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” {44} And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”

“Lazarus is dead”

Jesus was not mistaken about Lazarus,

only thinking he was asleep

He knew exactly what he was doing; it was intentional

“Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”

“Your brother will rise again.”

He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”

A dead man couldn’t obey this

But a sleeping man could be woken by the loud shout

And then he could have obeyed the instruction

APPLICATION:

When you hear from God

Say only what he says—no more and no less

Stick to your confession (saying the same thing)

Despite people’s emotions, misunderstandings, contrary statements, wrong doctrines, or tears.

Expect God to watch over it.

NOTE:

He may not start you with raising the dead

But he will start you just outside your comfort zone

Believe he is guiding you

Step out by faith and obediently say what he has given you to say

It’s his responsibility to watch over his word to perform it

Bridle your tongue from saying anything other than what he says

D. Jesus’s Ministry Outcomes Regarding Salvation:

(Mark 10:32–34 NKJV) Now they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going before them; and they were amazed. And as they followed they were afraid. Then He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them the things that would happen to Him: {33} “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles; {34} and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.”

(John 12:23–24 NKJV) But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. {24} Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.”

(Mark 10:45 NKJV) “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

(John 17:11 NKJV) “Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.”

(John 3:16–17 NKJV) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. {17} For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”