This is true. The Scripture does not say that we should ask for forgiveness. It tells us to confess, repent and forsake sin, Then, according to 1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sin, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness". Merely asking forgiveness without repentance and forsaking of sin means nothing and has no moral value to God.
Caveat…. “IF” we confess our Sin.
Sin … singular.
Confession TO WHOM?
Lord God.
How?
Open your mouth and speak your word.
What SIN?
Having “HAD” unbelief.
Repent… meaning to Be Sorry FOR … ?
Having “HAD” unbelief.
IF “Sorry”…
Then WHAT?
Repentance…
Meaning… Having “Changed” Belief…
FROM… unbelief IN the Lord God…
TO… Belief IN the Lord God.
God Knows a mans True Belief.
How?
God Teaches man… to Verify what he Hears.
God Verifies…
God “Searches” a mans “Heart”.
For What?
For the mans “Confession” … the mans TRUTH IN his Heart.
Why?
Because a natural man’s “spirit”, IS his “natural Truth IN his
MIND ?
No.
In the mans
Heart ?
Yes.
The man Knows … IF his own Confession, His own Truth, IS From his “Mind” or From his “Heart”… and So Also does God Know.
IS man taught to Believe “IN Man”?
No.
Is there a negative Heavenly consequence For man to NOT believe in man?
No
Is it a SIN For man to Not Believe IN man?
No
Is there A Negative Consequence…
For a A man to TRESPASS ( lie, cheat, steal, hurt, falsely accuse, murder ) Against another man?
Yes
Will such a man, TRESPASSING, Against another man…AFFECT the Trespasser's one on one
Relationship OF Salvation “with the Lord God”?
No.
* Negatively Affect such mans Relationship with the Lord God?
No.
* Negatively Affect such man “REWARDS” From God, the man “Could of received, but will not”?
Yes
Men routinely… intentionally (with malice) AND unintentionally (without malice)…
TRESPASS (lie, cheat, steal, hurt, invade, falsely accuse, murder) other men.
The “Unintentional, act of a man Against another man… WILL Find the Trespasser…
Asking the one he Trespassed Against..FOR “Forgiveness”…
Routinely… verbally Saying…
“I’m sorry…l beg your pardon, Please forgive me, Please Excuse me., etc.”
Men do not Know All things.
“Men express their Trespasses, their sorry, their asking for Forgiveness of their Trespass verbally”.
Some men Will “Forgive”
Some men will “NOT” forgive.
The Lord God teaches… men who Forgive their Trespasser's, So Also Shall The Lord God “Forgive that mans Trespasses, Against other men…(whether or not men forgive them).
Does “Forgiveness of a Trespasses” Between men… Mean, NO Negative consequence For a committed Trespass?
No.
Does “Forgiveness” from the Lord God (For Unbelief TO Belief) Between a Man AND God
Mean, No Negative Consequences for that man?
No.
An individual man…Can Absolutely establish a one on one Forever Relationship With the Lord God… and Forever that mans Soul Shall be Saved, and that mans body changed and Raised In Glory ( perfectly Sinless).
AND
That same man, “Lose out” on Receiving Rewards From God….
Because of the mans “Unrepentant” And “Continual Trespassing Against “Other men”.
WHY?
Because… a Man “WHO Has” a one on one Relationship With the Lord God…
IS by design …
A “Representative” of The Lord God. Before other men.
When “other men” See, Observe., A Trespasser, liar, cheat, thief “claiming” to be “a Disciple”, “Son of God”… WHILE “following the WAYS in Contrast to The Lord Gods Ways of Good and upstanding”…
It casts a poor “Reflection” on The Lord God…
And especially…gives PAUSE for younger Generations… (and particularly parents own children)…just Learning ABOUT the Lord God… TO “Follow Along in the Hypocrisy”.
Glory to God,
Taken