Past sins.
1. When Christ died. All of my sins were yet some 2000 years in the future, so to say Christ died for just past sins alone is a false statement
2. If only MY past sin were forgiven when I received Christ, And all future sins were left on my own. I am doomed. Because if Christ did nto die for my future sins, they have no means or atonement. Which means, anyone who sins after they were saved are as lost as when the committed the first sin of their life with no hope.
3. If, on the other hand, All my sins were paid on the cross. The the offer of forgiveness would include all of my sins, since he already paid the price for those sins.
so you see. there is a MAJOR issue with this thinking that God only covered our past sins through grace and we must earn forgiveness of our future sins through works.
In Fact Paul calls people who buy into this lie a fools (gal 3)
What strikes me about this way of talking about sin, it is like sin is the problem with man rather than the symtom of something else.
If sin is removed yet nothing changes, man is not brought into heaven, then what is the point.
If sin is the issue, it must be removed and not recur. If our walk is about a new way, a way of being that is eternal and does not fade,
then this is what shines, whether there are issues along the way or not.
Peter fell away, denied Jesus, but came back, realising how he had approached Jesus needed revising, and Jesus was fine with forgiving
him, and they walking together. Judas on the other hand had no desire to walk the way of heaven, or believe it had value, so when
it all went wrong, he had no way back, because he just had his betrayal of an innocent man.
Sin is the byproduct of us not coping, of things not fitting together and we take it upon ourselves to respond.
Here is a crazy statement: a sinless man could live without loving God. The reason it is absurd, is part of the commandments
is to love God with everything we are. But the contradiction is Jesus brings maturity, love and balance into someones life and
a focus that does not come otherwise. Once developed it is possible to believe this strength is ones own, and then choose to
walk away, as if the lifeblood of ones life is not interwoven in Christ. Sadly people soon discover they dry up, things go south,
what was solid becomes rotten and hollow and they crumble.
We fall for these delusions because our feelings tell us we are ok, which is just a feeling in the moment, and can flip tomorrow
when things shift. So a preacher who knows the gospel can become corrupted and popular, until finally when tested, it is all
failed and blown apart.
So for me there is just the eternal walk with Jesus.
God bless you