Well, why do we keep confessing our sins if all of our sins have been canceled in Christ?

It's a great question from a listener to the podcast named Andy, who represents I think

a lot of listeners out there who are asking this very same question.

Here's how Andy put it, hello Pastor John, can you help me understand the work of Jesus

whereby all of our sins past, present, and future were forgiven in Christ?

And yet we are called to continually confess, thinking specifically of the, it is finished

statement in John 1930, and also the amazing reality that Christ, quote, forgave all our

trespasses and canceled our record of debt that stood against us in Colossians 2 verses

13 to 14.

But then we're also called to constant confession to in 1 John 1 9.

So Pastor John, how do we make sense of all these truths?

Why do we keep confessing if all of our sins have been canceled in Christ?

I love that question because it gives me an occasion to exult with you and with all

of our listeners in the immeasurable greatness and beauty and preciousness and wonder of

what Jesus did in fact on the cross achieve once for all when he died and rose again

for his sheep.

And I say for his sheep, because it says in John 10, 15, Jesus laid down, I laid down

my life for the sheep.

In other words, in the death of Jesus, God has a very special peculiar design or intention

or purpose to purchase and create a flock for himself, including the purchase of our

face, our union with Christ, our forgiveness of every sin, past, present, future, our

eternal right standing with God as adopted children and as new creatures in Christ.

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