In the Old Testament sacrificial ritual what was the sinner to do when he brought a sacrifice for his sin?

Leviticus 5:5, 6. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Note. Confession does not persuade a reluctant God to overlook our sin. It is not a manipulative maneuver we can use on Him to gain leniency.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Confession changes us- not God. It is our acknowledgement that we recognize the hideousness of our sin and that we need and desire the forgiveness that God has already offered and longs to give us.

Although we no longer are required to make an animal sacrifice when we sin, is confession still required by God?

Proverbs 28:13

Note: Confession, the heartfelt acknowledgement of our sins is still a basic requirement for forgiveness. The Lord does not require us to do some grievous thing before He will forgive. We need only to confess our sins sincerely to Him, asking for His mercy and for His grace to forsake them.

Are we to confess to others besides God?

James 5:16. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Note: We are to confess our sins to God who is the only one who can forgive and restore us to spiritual health. But those sins or faults which have injured or given offense to a friend or neighbor should be freely confessed to that individual as well as to God. We should ask forgiveness of those fellow human beings whom we have wronged as well as asking God’s forgiveness.

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏What is the nature of true confession?

Leviticus 5:5

1 Samuel 12:22

Should we ever urge an unwilling confession from ourselves or others?

Proverbs 12:22

Psalms 34:18

What other characteristics will make our confession of sin insincere and thus unacceptable to God?

Psalms 66:18

Isaiah 1:16,17

Genesis 3:11-13. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Note: True repentance and confession will lead an individual to bear his guilt himself and acknowledge it without excuses or attempts at self-justification. Such a life will be marked by a genuine change in which those things offensive to God are put away.

When we confess our sin sincerely, can we be sure they are forgiven? What if we still don’t feel forgiven?

1 John 1:9