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To: Dr. Eckleburg
While it is true that believers must live lives of repentance and confession (1 John 1:9), it is also true that God is not keeping a ledger of sins which have been confessed/repented of and others which have not. Confession and repentace in the life of a believer are important elements of sanctification, but there is not a one-to-one relationship between our confession/repentance and our forgiveness.

Ecclesiastes 12
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Sure looks like ledger keeping.

98 posted on 07/21/2009 10:14:56 AM PDT by ET(end tyranny)
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To: ET(end tyranny)

Has Jesus paid for your sins on the cross or not?


101 posted on 07/21/2009 10:58:02 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
And all our works will be judged. Thankfully, believers will be judged by the good work of Jesus Christ within them.

Stand before God cloaked in your own righteousness, if you are so unwisely inclined. I'm grateful to meet God at the moment of my death clothed in the cleansing blood of Christ alone.

102 posted on 07/21/2009 11:02:21 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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