The Bible speaks about union with Christ. It speaks about the forgiveness we have in Christ Jesus our Lord and Redeemer. We can go to Him no matter what sin we have committed. Damnation cannot touch us. He forgives all kinds of sins and Christ conquers any sin. We ought to repent through Christ crucified. It is in His shed blood where we are forgiven of our sins. We ought to praise Him for His sovereign grace through Christ our Savior. He paid full satisfaction for our sins at the Cross. It is through and in His sovereign grace that we find His abundant loving-kindnesses. He forgives as far as the east is from the west. He appeased the Father’s wrath through His Son’s all-availing and all-sufficient atonement. The grace of God is there for us to cover our sins. No matter what the sin is He forgives us. The sin could be an unforgiving spirit, sexual sin, coveting, pride, arrogance, fornication, adultery, idolatry, masturbation, pornography, homosexuality, ungodliness, sinning with license, fraud, unfaithfulness, greed, cheating, activities in the occult, believing false doctrine, murder, cruelty, selfishness, and not attending public worship. The Lord of hosts through His Son also forgives envy and hatred among the brethren. We ought to proclaim the forgiveness of Christ to all creation, but the offer is to the elect.
John Piper wrote,
I must feel the truth that once I was as close to hell as I am to the chair I am sitting on – even closer. Its darkness, like vapor, had entered my soul and was luring me down. Its views were my views. I was a son of hell (Matt. 23:15), a child of the Devil (John 8:44) and of wrath (Eph. 2:3). I belonged to the viper’s brood (Matt. 3:7), without hope and without God (Eph. 2:12). I must believe that just as a rock climber, having slipped, hangs over the deadly cliff by his fingertips, so I once hung over hell and was a heartbeat away from eternal torment. I say it slowly, eternal torment!
Bethlehem Baptist Church states,
Forgiveness is available for all sins, without exception. Forgiveness is received freely through trusting Christ. And trusting Christ involves confessing sin as sin and turning away from it to embrace the ways of God with joy.
Scott Hafemann wrote,
There comes a time when God's patience runs out (Rom. 2:4-10; 2 Pet. 3:8-10; Jude 5). Those living in continual disobedience must not presume upon God's grace, falsely assuming that God's kindness means that he is winking at their sin. Nor should we take God's forgiveness for granted. We must not sin willfully, thinking that by doing so we are simply giving God another opportunity to glorify himself by showing forth his mercy. As Paul would put it centuries later, "Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means!" (Rom. 6:2). To do so is to reveal by one's hardened disobedience that the saving power of God is not really in one's life (see Rom. 6:2b-14).
John Bunyan wrote,
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
C.H. Spurgeon wrote,
I believe that as often as I transgress, God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
RC Sproul wrote,
What do you do with the person who says, “I’ve asked God to forgive me about this, but I still feel guilty”? I hear that statement over and over again. I usually say to these people, “If you still feel guilty, then pray to God again. But this time don’t ask Him to forgive you for the sin that is haunting you. Rather, ask Him to forgive you for insulting His integrity by refusing to accept His forgiveness. Who are you to refuse to forgive yourself when God has forgiven you? When God promises to forgive His people when they repent, He is not playing games. If He says He will forgive you, then He will forgive you. And if God forgives you, you are forgiven.”
C.H. Spurgoen wrote,
See how red is your guilt, mark the scarlet stain. It you were to wash your soul in the Atlantic Ocean, you might incarnadine every wave that washes all its shores, and yet the crimson spots of your transgression would still remain. But plunge into the “fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins,” and in an instant you are whiter than snow. Every speck, spot, and stain of sin is gone, and gone forever.
R.A. Torrey wrote,
When Jesus died, He died as my representative, and I died in Him; when He arose, He rose as my representative, and I arose in Him; when He ascended up on high and took His place at the right hand of the Father in the glory, He ascended as my representative and I ascended in Him, and today I am seated in Christ with God in the heavenlies. I look at the cross of Christ, and I know that atonement has been made for my sins; I look at the open sepulcher and the risen and ascended Lord, and I know the atonement has been accepted. There no longer remains a single sin on me, no matter how many or how great my sins may have been.
Roy Lessin wrote,
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer. But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior.
The God we serve is our friend if we come to Him in faith. We ought to come to God in faith and by faith. We cannot please Him unless we come to Him by faith. Our sins are forgiven because we have asked Him to forgive us by faith. He will not hold our sins against us as the world goes crazy. No, no! He freely forgives us through the free offering of Christ at Calvary. Why, we are forgiven and have the best kind of Savior, because He saves to the uttermost. No matter how frequent our sin is He forgives us like we have never sinned before. We sin in His presence but He is gracious and compassionate. Thank God for Jesus Christ! Amen.
