Your Sins Are Forgiven... Unless You Don’t Confess Them?

Are your sins really forgiven once for all, or only after you confess each one?
 Does unconfessed sin break fellowship with God?
 Episode 61 of Grace Uncensored tackles one of Christianity’s biggest forgiveness contradictions.

We say Jesus paid for every sin.

Then we say you’d better confess each one or something between you and God remains unresolved.

So which is it?

In this episode, Billy McDonald looks at confession, forgiveness, repentance, fellowship with God, the Lord’s Prayer, and the New Covenant reality of what Jesus actually accomplished at the cross.

What happens to sins you forgot to confess?

Does forgiveness depend on your memory?

Can sin break your union with Christ?

Do Christians need to keep “short accounts” with God?

And what does 1 John 1:9 really mean when compared with the rest of the New Testament teaching on forgiveness?

Grace doesn’t teach us to ignore sin.

Grace gives us the freedom to face sin honestly without fear, shame, or the belief that we’ve fallen out of God’s family.

You’re not maintaining forgiveness.

You’re living from forgiveness.

SCRIPTURES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:

Colossians 2:13–14
 God made us alive with Christ, forgave all our sins, and canceled the debt that stood against us.

Hebrews 10:10
 We’ve been made holy through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:14
 By one sacrifice, Jesus has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

1 John 1:9
 John speaks of confessing sins and God’s faithfulness to forgive and cleanse, a verse often used to teach repeated forgiveness.

Ephesians 1:7
 In Christ we have redemption through His blood and the forgiveness of sins.

Romans 8:1
 There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

James 5:16
 Believers are encouraged to confess sins to one another and pray for one another.

Matthew 6:12
 Jesus taught His disciples to pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”

Matthew 6:14–15
 Before the cross, Jesus taught that forgiveness toward others was connected with receiving forgiveness.

Ephesians 4:32
 After the cross, believers are told to forgive others just as God has already forgiven them in Christ.

Colossians 3:13
 Believers are told to forgive one another as the Lord has forgiven them.

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