Well, then, the next point in this man was, he confessed his sin. He
says to his brother thief, "We are suffering justly; we deserve it." I
never knew a man saved till he took his stand as a sinner. Cain never
confessed his sin. Judas never confessed his sin to God, though he
went and confessed it to man.
Now, I want to say that I am not come here to urge you to confess your
sins to any man, unless you have done some sin against him and he is
stumbling over it; if so, go and confess that certainly. We must not
confess our sins to any but God. I have not much sympathy with the
class of people that are always running to this man and that man to
confess their sins. There is no priest on earth that can forgive sins.
I have got a high priest who is "a priest for ever after the order of
Melchizedek." The only man we have a record of in Scripture who
confessed his sins to man was Judas, and he went right out and hung
himself.