by Annagail Lynes

Created on: June 01, 2008   Last Updated: June 02, 2008

Are we only forgiven from our sins until we sin again? Most people believe this to be true. They believe that God only forgives us of the sins we have confessed and that until we confess them, we are not forgiven. They cite 1 John 1:9 as their text, which is written to unbelievers.

When the soldiers crucified Jesus on the cross, how many of our sins did Jesus take? He took them all-past, present and future. We cannot commit a sin that has not already been bore by Jesus on the cross. All of our sins-past, present and future-are forgiven.

Why did Jesus die on the Cross?

Sin entered the world through Adam and Eve's sin. Contrary to popular belief, Adam was not off tending the animals while Eve spoke to the serpent. Genesis 3 clearly states that Adam was with her. Evil triumphs when good men remain silent.

God told them not to eat the fruit of the Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good And Evil. The devil, satan in disguise, convinced them that if they ate of its fruit that they would be like God.. Once they ate it, sin entered the world because of their disobedience. Now everyone who is born into this world is sinful. There are no faultless people.

God's wages for sin is death (Romans 6:23) but to enforce those wages meant that He would be eternally separated from us forever. In order to be just yet merciful, a sinless, blameless sacrifice had to be made. He send His Son to be born of a virgin woman. Since He led a blameless, sinless life, He could die in our place.

On the cross, Jesus took all our sins-past, present and future. Jesus doesn't need to be crucified again and again because we sin.

We cannot earn our salvation. We cannot be good enough to earn it. Salvation has nothing to do with us, and everything to do with Jesus.

We will suffer the physical death of our bodies when we pass on, but once we accept what Jesus did for us, our spirits never die. We will live in our new bodies with Jesus in Heaven. Later we will live on a new Earth (Revelation 21:1, Isaiah 65:17) after evil has been wiped out on this one.

Jesus' shed blood continually cleanses us of our sin. Continually. Not once than then it stops. No, continually.

For most of us this concept is foreign. We have never been taught it in the churches. We have been taught to be sin-conscious, to dwell on all our sins, to name them one by one. Dwelling on our sins only causes us to sin more. Whatever our minds dwell on is the direction in which our lives will go.

The opposite is also true. If we dwell on our righteousness

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