Does UNCONFESSED Sin in My Life Stop Me from Getting Healed?

We’ve established in the discussion Does Sin in My Life Stop Me from Getting Healed? that having sin in your life does not disqualify you from healing, which is offered on a grace basis.  This current topic covers a specific prevalent idea in the Body of Christ that if you have unconfessed sin in your life, you must confess it to God so that He will forgive you before you can get healed.  The premise is that you are not “right with God” while you have unconfessed sin in your life, and that in order to be “right with God” again, you must confess that sin, and then God forgives that sin and cleanses you from unrighteousness, and then you will be properly positioned for your healing.  Some have even stated that the problem in our country is that the Christians are not right with God.  But that is impossible, because if you’re not right with God, you’re not a Christian!  All Christians are right with God because they have been justified by the blood of Jesus.  That doesn’t mean that everything they’re doing is all right with God – not one of us could say that – but they themselves are right with God thanks to Jesus’ blood.  Thus, they are able to receive everything God has, including healing.

The reason for the belief stated above is a wrong interpretation of 1 John 1:9.  The only way to dispatch the wrong idea that UNCONFESSED sin stops you from getting healed is to prove that 1 John 1:9 does not mean what most Christians think it means.  I’ve written an entire article about What 1 John 1:9 Really Means to settle this issue.

After you read that article, you will finally be in a position to answer the original question, “Does UNCONFESSED sin in my life stop me from getting healed?”  No, it doesn’t.  As we have mentioned, ALL believers have unconfessed sin in their lives, and as they grow in Christ, they will learn what these sins are so that they can repent of them.  But in the meantime, you can still receive healing, because healing is granted to you on the basis of your righteousness in Christ, not based on your ability to avoid sin and confess it when you know that you’ve sinned.

So avoid the kind of thinking that says, “I have to get sin out of my life before I can get healed.”  Unless you think you can be the only person since Jesus to walk in sinless perfection, you obviously realize that sin will never be out of your life in this lifetime.  So if you think sin has to be out of your life before you get healed, you’ll never get healed.  And you will probably be upset as people with sin in their lives (confessed and unconfessed) get healed while you don’t because they take by faith what God offers by grace while you try to earn the same thing with your good behavior.