Will Christ Jesus forgive our future sins?

A debate occurs often on social media about a particular preaching : “Christ has also forgiven the sins that you might do in the future.” Let us meditate about this.

One can sense a justified anger among those who oppose such preaching. Because…

• It encourages people to sin.
• It dishonors the blood that Christ shed for us.
• It decreases the virility of the desire to live Holy.
• It opposes the commandment “do not sin again.”

These reasons might appear to be justifying with a proper intent. However, the ones opposing must tell what is wrong with preaching people that Christ Jesus had shed blood for our future sins also. What should be preached instead?

We ought to preach people “do not sin hereafter.” But in case, if you sin in the future, should we preach that the blood of Christ will not wash it away? Is it right as per the Bible?

If it is wrong to preach that the blood of Jesus washes away future sin, then the opposite can be right preaching that future sin will not be forgiven. Which means, does Christianity expect a man to be perfect after salvation to death, without committing a sin? Is it possible? Has anyone lived like that? Spiritual growth is a process which does not happen in a day. We are the ones who preach to grow spiritually and progress to attain fullness like Christ each day until we die. Which means, there is a hidden message in it that we might fall in the future and rise again. This is also the truth, which means, Christ’s blood is the sole remedy for the one who had fallen in the future also, isn’t it? What is wrong in telling it directly? “But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil,” says the Lord himself!

Do you think that a believer will commit sin wilfully? Do you reckon that a believer will make plan on how to sin after knowing that Christ had shed blood on the cross for his future sins also?

Has any preacher in the world ever said that Christ had shed blood for your future sins also, so there is no need to worry about judgements, enjoy sinning? Have we explored the real purpose of teaching that Jesus forgives your future sin?

We accept (which we may or may or obey) the commandment that Jesus said, ‘you should forgive others not seven times, but seventy seven times,’ (Matt 18:22). But why do we attempt to hide the truth that Christ also forgives us seventy seven times?

Assume that you are committing a sin in the next three days. Perceiving it from today, it is future, isn’t it? Will you not ask God for forgiveness? Or will you not accept if God wills to forgive you? You will accept that forgiveness and tell a testimony happily, won’t you? When you take it easy for your soul, why do you make it difficult for the other souls?

Most of the people oppose this preaching because of the fear that sin might increase when we talk about forgiveness. This is basically an incorrect apprehension. It is the paradigm of the worldly that if forgiveness increases, sin shall increase. Whereas the paradigm of the Lord is whoever is forgiven more shall love the more (Luke 7:47). Speaking about forgiveness does not kindle to sin.

The message that Christ forgives your future sins also is preached for believers in the church, not for unbelievers. It is to encourage a believer to oppose illness, we say, “if you fall sick in the future, you do not need to panic, for the medicine is ready,” and not to grant him permission to embrace illness. Every believer wakes up from his bed every morning with a will to live for God this day. No believer wakes up with an intention to commit atleast four to five sins this day. Never forget that the seed inside you is ‘His.’

It is common for all believers to struggle against flesh. Occasional falling by the flesh diminishes a believer’s fighting spirit. The medicine that helps him to rise up is the certainty of forgiveness. How can a believer trumpet when he is not certain about his forgiveness, “Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light” (Micah 7:8)?

At last, as you say, if a person desires to sin when he knows that Christ forgives his future sins also, then we should show him the Cross, not the Hellfire. The blood of Christ is going to forgive everyone’s sins for thousands of years and more, this is the truth. We should only transform that person, we must not change the truth for someone.