I know but our God is so merciful and forgiving each time we confess our sins to Him. He gives us His promises: I John 1:9 Psalm 103:10-14 As far as I see it ... the only sin that Jesus will not forgive is the unpardonable sin. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit ... because a person needs the Holy Spirit to draw them to God and later when they get saved, the Holy Spirit indwells the person. This is why when I pray for the lost I ask the Lord to keep His Spirit on them to continually convict them. ——————— “What is Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit?” From Billy Graham Ministry Jesus responded by saying, “I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.” - Fair Use- Indeed God is merciful! But again the point is, that only God can recognize the sealing by the Holy Spirit. Cain had a mark put on him by the Lord. The AC will put a mark of the beast on people. And lastly, the Lord places a seal upon those that are acceptable for entrance into heaven. God''s seal is invisible to men, but I believe that demons can see that seal! They know who their enemies are! It's a spiritual reality. TR In agreement ... believers and future believers are both sealed with God’s name in their foreheads and only the demons can see the seal. I base the belief that future believers are also included on the fact weird things happen before I get a chance to witness to some people. For instance one time I was taking the day off during the week to drive to AC Moore to return a bunch of craft items that were my moms. She died and the items were still in their original package. The night before this is what happened. First my dementia dad started acting up with fear and saying I shouldn’t go to the store tomorrow. I said “in the name of Jesus get out of my presence” and then my dad all of sudden acted so calm. So the demons were using him to persuade me to not go. They didn’t give up. Then I’m cooking his meal ... and the kitchen cabinet door suddenly opens up and a cast iron frying pan comes out and falls on my right foot! ouch! I was in soooo much pain because I was barefoot. This is my driving foot ... so I prayed that the Lord would heal me. Guess what the next day ... no swelling, pain or black or blue marks. When I finally got to the store the place was empty and I had a great conversation with the cashier. She asked me why I’m returning all these items and I said my mom bought these and she is now in heaven and it opened the doors to talk about spiritual things. She gave me a store credit card for a couple hundred dollars and when I gave her the Bible tract to read, she was so happy to hear about the Gospel. She said she couldn’t wait to read the tract on her lunch break. I knew she was going to get saved. The demons probably saw her work schedule when I would be at that store and they tried to prevent me from speaking to her. Another example I was trying to get to my dentist appointment and along the way 2 cars and 1 pick up truck almost hit me. I had to keep swerving to avoid getting hit! I thought is my vehicle invisible?! I prayed for safety the rest of the way and when I reached the parking lot I was so shaken up. I couldn’t understand why I had to go through that ordeal but I soon found out there was a new hygienist just filling in and I was able to talk to her about Jesus. Nothing is lost to the Lord! Again bless your heart and may the Lord continue to honor faith! No doubt many rewards await you Sis! You are also a treasure to us here at RITAN. Continue to be blessed and a blessing! TR Just a clarification to my original post on this chain. I apologize if I unintentionally implied in any way that someone who is truly born again, sealed and adopted can somehow become unborn, unsealed and unadopted by subsequently adding poop to their cup of salvation. Rather, what I was trying to say is that there will be those who never drank of the pure living water because the "water in the cup of their salvation" was polluted from day one by works of self-righteousness. Hope that helps clarify where I was coming from.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
“The one sin which God cannot forgive is mentioned in Mark 3:28-30 and Matthew 12:31-32. Jesus had been performing miracles, including driving demons out of people by the power of the Holy Spirit. Instead of recognizing the source of Jesus’ power and accepting Him as God’s Son, the religious leaders accused Him of being possessed by the devil and driving demons out in the power of the devil.
