Those who truly repent will certainly confess their sins to those who have not repented. Their hearts have deviated from God, or their hearts are blind, and the light of the glorious gospel of Christ cannot shine on them (see 2 Cor. 4: 4), so they will not see their filth and corruption, and of course they will not admit their sins. However, if a person is endowed with a repentant heart by God, he will surely see that what he said and did in the past is full of sin, so he will certainly bow down before God, admit his sin and ask God's forgiveness.
When John the Baptist preached repentance, the Bible told us: "At that time, people from Jerusalem, all Judea and the area around Jordan went out to John to confess their sins and were baptized by him in the Jordan River" (Matt. 3: 5-6). Here we can see that when people hear the gospel, their conscience is illuminated by God, they see that they are guilty, and they turn their minds from sin to God, they will automatically and spontaneously admit their sins. It can be seen that repentance is an expression that a truly repentant person must accompany.
Repentance is not a condition of salvation. Because some preachers misunderstand the Bible and regard confession as a necessary condition for a person to be saved, it is a biased practice to encourage, advocate, urge or imply the audience to come forward and confess. The Bible has never listed confession as one of the conditions of salvation. Repentance is an inevitable phenomenon of repentance, or a truly repentant person is bound to feel guilty. However, repentance and confession are not the conditions for salvation. Salvation is purely from the grace of God, and salvation is not from human behavior; If confession and repentance are the conditions of redemption, that is to say, redemption must have some kind of behavior. This goes against the truth of the gospel.
If repentance is the condition of salvation, then anyone who wants to be saved must ask God's forgiveness for all the crimes they have committed in their life. But in fact, the crimes committed by people in this life can never be remembered clearly. Then, aren't those crimes that can't be remembered unforgivable?
Confession and redemption are related. On the other hand, repentance and redemption are related. The relationship between confession and redemption is like a person who has some disgraceful diseases, and he never admits it or receives treatment. One day, he realized that it was wrong to cheat himself to avoid medical treatment, so he admitted that he was ill. He decided to see a doctor and stop keeping it from him. He confessed his illness to the doctor, but it doesn't mean that he will be cured. In order to recover, you need a doctor's treatment. So is the salvation of sinners, not by confession, but by faith and Christ's redemption. Repentance is an inevitable experience of salvation, but it is not the direct cause of salvation.
Repentance means to stand on God's side and condemn it as a crime. There are three aspects here: God, me and sin. God and sin are at both ends, and I am in the middle. Crime is when I leave God, and I am with sin. As soon as Adam sinned, he fled from God (Gen. 3: 8). Sin separates you from God (W 1: 2 1). Repentance is to return to God and admit that what you have done is sin. Stand on the opposite side of evil and accept condemnation. Therefore, people who must be illuminated by God and have deep feelings and deep hatred for sin can truly repent their sins; As for those who don't feel guilty and take crime and confession as routine, they just admit it unintentionally, which is not a confession at all.
In a primary school, students are afraid to look up at the teacher and leave the classroom to play on the playground. Only one student stayed in the classroom, saw a beautiful knife, got greedy and stole it. Everyone went to the classroom together. When the master found that the knife was gone, he reported it to the teacher, who asked the students. Everyone said they didn't steal it. During the lecture, the teacher secretly observed that a student was afraid to see the teacher. The teacher immediately asked him, "why don't you dare to look up at me?" Did you steal a knife? The child didn't dare to speak for a long time, and then admitted with trepidation, "Yes. My sin has caught up with me, so that I can't hold my head high. This sin is more than my hair, and I am chilling.