His Blood Is Greater Than Your Sins (a whole life time)

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BenFTW

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Awhile back someone used a verse to make a point and funny enough the intention they had in using the verse to refute my point actually only solidified my perspective. I had an "aha!" moment. In fact it is quite powerful, the verse makes it clear that even the last, most recent, sin you committed is only dealt with by faith in Him through His blood. No other means, He is the final sacrifice and His blood is sufficient.

1 Corinthians 15:17 King James Version (KJV)

17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Notice the correlation of one still being in their sins if Christ is not risen and their faith being in vain (or futile). There is no mention of sin confession for forgiveness, or mention of penance. Just a simple Gospel perspective. If Christ isn't risen your faith is in vain and you are still in your sins. Therefore, if Christ is risen then your faith is not in vain and you are no longer in your sins.

What does this mean? If you have faith in Christ you are no longer in your sins. Your sin is dealt with, paid for, by Jesus Christ's sacrifice. His blood is sufficient. So many people get hung up on all of these crazy doctrines and belief systems that, basically, try to replace what Jesus already accomplished on your behalf. You are forgiven, present tense. Your sins? Taken care of. Did Jesus Christ rise from the dead? What does your faith say? Then you are not in your sins. You are in Him.

Its so very simple, the Gospel. It doesn't have to be complicated. He is risen and you are forgiven. The truth of His resurrection is the crux to your justification. Your sins are dealt with and you are justified before God if Jesus Christ is indeed risen. The Christian faith believes this ergo you stand justified before God. You are not in your sins, but in Christ.
 
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Amen...Jesus said it best "after" John's ministry was over. John the Baptist was the last of the Old Covenant prophets and he prepared the way for the Lord.

Mark 1:14-15 (NASB)
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Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,

[SUP]15 [/SUP] and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."

Gospel means "the nearly too good to be true news - or it is incredibly almost unbelievable good news".

News is something that has already happened.
You are forgiven. That is the gospel message that brings His life. Believe the gospel. The blood of Jesus speaks of better things.



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BenFTW

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People, try as they must, attempt to come up with all these means of dealing with sin or else but what we see here is simply faith in Christ. Its amazing the simplicity of the Gospel. To think that often times people preach the necessity of sin confession for forgiveness when we clearly see throughout scripture that our forgiveness (and justification) is found through our faith in what Jesus did on our behalf (His death and resurrection). Even in the scripture above we clearly see the necessity of Christ's resurrection and their forgiveness for their present sins. No mention of sin confession, penance, or repentance beyond faith in Jesus. If He is risen and you have faith in Him, your sins are forgiven.
 
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I am a firm believer that once one confesses Christ as Lord and acknowledges Jesus by faith every sin that that person would ever commit has been nailed to the cross and the penalty paid by JESUS and the righteousness of Christ is eternally applied unto that spirit which has been born of incorruptible seed.....this is not to say that we won't be chastised and or pay in our physical life LIKE David did and like some of the N.T. (such as the man in the Corinthian church and the destruction of the flesh) Jesus continually mediates for those who have been received by faith and the blood being applied.....and where sin abounds....GRACE did much more abound.....!
 
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upon conversion, we are 'forgiven' of ALL of our 'PAST-SINS', a clean slate! - after this we are
required to approach our Holy Intercessor in repentance/truly we must turn away from what has
always separated us from Him, and yes, we sorrow many times, for a true Christian's Heart
easily breaks in two when we hurt our Messiah, when we can acknowledge what His Love for us truly means...
once we have been called, we wholly belong to our Creator, 'lock-stock-and-barrel -
and yes, He has definite rules and regulations regarding how we may approach Him for the Gift
of His most profound Holy Sacrifice and we will always feel a personal duty towards Him
for His most amazing gift of the sacrificing of His own Life for all of us so that we may live/thrive/grow
with Him in our everyday lives in order for us to live with Him in ETERNITY for the Glory of His Love for us...
 
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God does have definite New Covenant "ways" for us to come to Him - believe the gospel of the grace of God in Christ that your sins are forgiven and come boldly to the throne of grace in your time of need - what ever that need is.

There is nothing separating us from our loving Father and Lord. That's the whole purpose of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
 

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People, try as they must, attempt to come up with all these means of dealing with sin or else but what we see here is simply faith in Christ. Its amazing the simplicity of the Gospel. To think that often times people preach the necessity of sin confession for forgiveness when we clearly see throughout scripture that our forgiveness (and justification) is found through our faith in what Jesus did on our behalf (His death and resurrection). Even in the scripture above we clearly see the necessity of Christ's resurrection and their forgiveness for their present sins. No mention of sin confession, penance, or repentance beyond faith in Jesus. If He is risen and you have faith in Him, your sins are forgiven.
Indeed..

Sadly the Amazing grace which makes it so simpe to enter into eternal life with God is rejected by many.. They simply cannot believe it is simply by believing Jesus and accepting His loving gift of forgivness through the atonement of the LORD Jesus Christ... Within many who reject this is the need to justify themselves.. They cannot accept salvation as a true loving gift from God, pride moves them to desire to pay for the gift by their efforts at rightiousness..

They wish to earn it..
Rather then recieve it..
But it is too precious to be bought..
It could only ever have been had as a gift..
 
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One of the most profound statement ever made about this topic was made by John the Baptist.
When he introduced Jesus to his (John's) disciples it was known that the blood sacrifice covered
sins.

John said " behold the lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world.
 
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Yes,JESUS paid for our sins,past,present and future and now the Issue Is faith.Once we are born of the Spirit of GOD,we should be conscience of our right standing before GOD .

Born again of the Spirit of GOD and now members of the body of CHRIST and In HIM there Is NO darkness.

Some Interpret 1st John 1:9 differently than I Interpret It.I believe GOD forgives us once and for all the first time and then the reborn of the Spirit of GOD person should be conscience of their right standing before GOD and then by the mercies of GOD renew their minds presenting their bodies a living sacrifice.

GOD looks at the heart,man looks at outward appearances.
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1st John 1:9
King James Version(KJV)

9.)If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
 
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John 13:10
King James Version( KJV)

10.)Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all
 
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Mark 1:14Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, 15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

Just that easy.
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There is a doctrine called the grace revolution that says it is not the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, but the Devil that is putting you under condemnation when you sin. It says that if a Believer confess their sins which The Holy Spirit reveals they are in unbelief because you do not believe Christ paid for you sins.
 
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There is a doctrine called the grace revolution that says it is not the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, but the Devil that is putting you under condemnation when you sin. It says that if a Believer confess their sins which The Holy Spirit reveals they are in unbelief because you do not believe Christ paid for you sins.
There's a bunch in the BDF that believe that as well, but when we go into the real world, we find many christians wouldn't touch that stuff with a ten-foot pole.
 
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There is a doctrine called the grace revolution that says it is not the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, but the Devil that is putting you under condemnation when you sin. It says that if a believer confess their sins which The Holy Spirit reveals they are in unbelief because you do not believe Christ paid for you sins.

I never heard of that one before that if a believer confesses their sins they are in unbelief and I have listened to over a thousand messages on the grace of God.

I have heard that believers don't need to confess their sins in order to be forgiven. These are the ones that have said that they do have sin and have need of a Savior just like 1 John 1:8 says when they first heard the gospel message. They actually believe the gospel message that says their sins are forgiven by the blood of Jesus. I have never heard anyone say not to confess sins to the Lord. Not one time but maybe you have.

Personally I always talk about sins to the Lord. He seems to always want to talk about what His Son did for me when I am telling Him everything. We have a good, good Father who loves us deeply.
 
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maxwel

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Did we just veer off into hyper grace again?
 
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People have said to me, “Pastor Prince, I was taught that only my past sins—from the day I was born until the day I became a Christian—have been forgiven, and that my future sins are not forgiven until I confess them and seek forgiveness.”

My friend, when Jesus died on the cross, how many of your sins were future?

Unless you are more than 2,000 years old, all your sins were future then! Jesus took them all upon Himself, nailed them to the cross and declared, “It is finished!” So if you are not forgiven of all, then you are not forgiven at all.

“You mean Jesus also died for the sin that I have just committed?”

Yes!
“And also for the sins which I will commit?”
Yes! That is why He said, “It is finished!”

But many of us are inconsistent in our believing. One part of us says, “God has forgiven me of all my sins.” But another part says, “Yes, but I must still confess my sins to be forgiven of them.” Are you like that?


Beloved, you are forgiven not because of your work of confession. Your confession cannot wash away your sins. You are forgiven because of the blood of Jesus shed for you. His blood alone cleanses you.


You cannot believe that you are forgiven of your past, present and future sins, and still think that there is something for you to do to make that forgiveness complete. If you do, then it becomes your work too, not Jesus’ alone.


Is there a place for confession of sins? My friend, if you have just sinned, you can always tell God about it without feeling condemned because you know that you already have forgiveness and that Jesus was condemned in your place. But you don’t confess your sins to God in order to be forgiven. You already have total and complete forgiveness because of the blood of Jesus!

Thought For The Day

You are forgiven because of the blood of Jesus shed for you. It is His blood alone that cleanses you.












 
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So, the truth is there was no mention of people not confessing sins to the Lord and if they did - they are in unbelief. It said we don't need to confess sins "in order" to be forgiven which is after we come to Christ.

Those that have come to Christ have acknowledged that they were sinners and needed a Savior and they found forgiveness in the blood of Jesus. Those are 2 different things then saying that no one confesses sins now after coming to Christ and if they do - they are in unbelief.
 
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Unfortunately, there is a teaching that is becoming quite dominant in this country and elsewhere. It’s referred to as the Grace Revolution, but in reality, it is an evolution away from the true grace of God.

In essence, this hyper-grace doctrine claims that the Cross of Christ addressed all sin, past, present, and future, which is exactly correct. Most definitely, the Cross did do this. But then it states that when a Christian sins, due to the fact that all future sins have been atoned as well, the believer does not have to confess his sin, or ask forgiveness, or even mention it at all. In other words, just go on as if though nothing has ever happened. Plain and simple this is error. And as all error does, sooner or later it will cause the believer terrible problems. In fact, some will even lose their souls.

The foundation of this false doctrine claims that I John 1:9 is speaking to sinners only and not saints, and that Christians do not — and should not — confess their sins to the Lord.

In the Expositor’s Study Bible, I John 1:9 says: “If we confess our sins (pertains to acts of sin, whatever they might be; the sinner is to believe [Jn. 3:16]; the saint is to confess), He (the Lord) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins (God will always be true to His own nature and promises, keeping faith with Himself and with man), and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (‘All,’ not some. All sin was remitted, paid for, and put away on the basis of the satisfaction offered for the demands of God’s holy law, which sinners broke, when the Lord Jesus died on the Cross.)”

As Pastor Swaggart put so well in these expository notes, “the sinner is to believe; the saint is to confess.” So my question is this: are there really born-again believers who think that they no longer have to confess their sins to the Lord?

"The phrase, ‘If we confess our sins,’ pertains to acts of sin, whatever they might be. No Christian has to sin; however, the sad truth is, every single Christian does, at times, sin.

‘Confess’ in the Greek is homologeo, and means ‘to say the same thing as another,’ or, ‘to agree with another.’ Confession of sin on the part of the saint means, therefore, to say the same thing that God does about that sin, to agree with God as to all the implication of that sin as it relates to the Christian who commits it and to a Holy God against whom it is committed (Wuest).

All of this includes the saint’s hatred of that sin, his sense of guilt because of it, his contrition because of it, the determination to put it out of his life, which can be done only by understanding that all victory is in the Cross, and that our faith must ever be in that finished work. In fact, the very reason that we sin is because we get our eyes off of the Cross (Lk. 9:23-24) and onto other things.

The English word confess means ‘to admit the truth of an accusation, to own up to the fact that one is guilty of having committed the sin.’ But the Greek word means far more than that, as we have addressed above.

The Greek word teaches that the constant attitude of the saint towards sin should be one of a contrite heart, ever eager to have the Holy Spirit to point out all wrong, and to put it out of the life by the power of that same Holy Spirit.

- Pastor Jimmy Swaggart
 
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Here is how I view the scriptures concerning the blood of Jesus and the forgiveness of sins. If Jimmy Swaggart has a different opinion - he is entitled to have it.

Again - I have listened to over 1,000 messages on the grace of God and never have I heard anyone say not to confess sins to the Lord as Mr. Swaggart has said. Never once.

Either he is mis-informed or he has made that up himself and mis-represent what is actually being said. I believe the first one myself that he is simply mis-informed on the truth of what is being said.

Here are scriptures that say we have complete forgiveness in Christ. That His sacrifice has dealt with all sin.

Does this mean we go out and sin all we want? No, a thousand times - No -

It means we trust in His sacrifice for our sins when we blow it and run to the Father to tell Him - confess all things now - but not in order to be forgiven because we do believe in what Jesus has done for us by His blood.

Forgiveness is a done deal - we can believe it or don't believe it.

On the subject of forgiveness that we have in Christ now because of His precious Blood...here is what the scriptures say.....sometimes the truth in the gospel of the grace of Christ "conflicts" with what we have been religiously taught.

1 John 2:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake.

have been forgiven = perfect passive

perfect = The perfect tense in Greek is used to describe a completed past action which produced results which are still in effect all the way up to the present time. It is continuously happening in the present.

passive = voice = action is happening to you....you are not doing it

Without a doubt this verse says that the sins are forgiven from a past action that remains in a continuous completed state and that was put on them....not something they did.

Ephesians 1:7 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

We have redemption = present continuous action...so this means we have present continuous forgiveness of our sins...

and look...that grace stuff shows up again!...it's all according to the riches of our loving Father's grace that He has given to us in Christ our Lord.

Colossians 1:13-14 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

[SUP]14 [/SUP] in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Same thing here too...present continuous action = forgiveness of sins


Redemption!..we have been bought with the precious Blood of Jesus... Let's honor His work.


Brethren ...we have a great salvation in our Lord!

Walk in the knowledge of your forgiveness in Christ and in that security we will experience maturity.
 
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