Conference Report, Apr. 1989, 72 & Ensign May 1989; “The discouraging idea that a mistake (or even a series of them) makes it everlastingly too late, does not come from the Lord. He has said that if we will repent, not only will He forgive us our transgressions, but He will forget them and remember our sins no more. Repentance is like soap; it can wash sin away. Ground-in dirt may take the strong detergent of discipline to get the stains out, but out they will come.” – Boyd K. Packer
1 John 1:9; “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 2:2; “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
Romans 8:1; “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
Isaiah 43:25; “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
He, meaning Jesus, is the propitiation for our sins. Not us, not asking again and again and again. We repent and He remembers it no more, because Jesus paid the price for our sins to bring us into a covenant relationship with God.
Repentance isn’t what washes our sins away – Jesus is! This man’s words reveals who he really is and takes the mask of a wolf off his shiny veneer.
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