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Our advocate is forever with us; He promised to never abandon us in John 14:23 so we take that promise for ourselves and hold it dear to our hearts. There is absolutely nothing we could ever do to establish our own righteousness. Nothing.
The Greek work for advocate is parakleôtos. Para in the Greek means to come alongside and the whole word means intercessor or consoler. He’s not going to keep reminding us of our old sin that we’ve already repented of!
We know this because Jeremiah 31:31-34 tells us that He will remember our sins no more so the “authorities” in the LDS Church are laying an undue guilt trip on its people.
Since I got saved, I have found such comfort in knowing I am in a safe place worshiping a safe God. And because of this my spirit is more compliant to Him and my desire is to please Him at all times. There is a peace I can’t explain and an easy-going, day-to-day relationship I experience each time I open my eyes.
No more am I wondering if what I’ve done is good enough, or if He’ll forgive me this time because of my prodigal ways. I know with assurance how much I’m loved and because of that, He chooses to be here with me.
My prayer for the Mormon people is to know this Holy, Righteous, Benevolent God. As you can see in the LDS reference below their god is anything but benevolent.
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“And again, “. . . Unto that soul who sinneth shall the former sins return, saith the Lord your God.” (D&C 82:7.) Would this mean that the person who has returned to the sins he has professedly abandoned must start the process of repentance again from the beginning? that one cannot return to sin and then start repentance from where he left off?
To return to sin is most destructive to the morale of the individual and gives Satan another hand-hold on his victim. Those who feel that they can sin and be forgiven and then return to sin and be forgiven again and again must straighten out their thinking. Each previously forgiven sin is added to the new one and the whole gets to be a heavy load.” — Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 170.
Doctrine and Covenants 82:7 “And now, verily I say unto you, I, the Lord, will not lay any sin to your charge; go your ways and sin no more; but unto that soul who sinneth shall the former sins return, saith the Lord your God.”