“…the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” One need not go to the Greek to find out this is a present and continuous cleansing. The English word “cleanseth” carries with it both a present and progressive action. Because of this, in spite of daily defilement from sin, we can enjoy unbroken fellowship with God.
Confession of sin is not to be at the end of the day but throughout it. The Christian life is to be lived on a moment by moment basis. This is the way in which God keeps His vineyard in this world. “I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.”
As A.W. Tozer says in his book, I Talk Back to the Devil, “…when God forgives a man, He treats him as though he had never sinned…He starts with him again as though he had just been created and as if there had been no past at all.”
What God forgives, He forgets.
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