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All Sins, Past, Present and Future Are Forgiven for Believers in Jesus Christ

The lamb of God is a metaphor for the sacrificial practice of killing a lamb and draining its blood so that sins might be symbolically washed away as in having been forgiven. God instructed Israel through Moses to practice this every year.
 

Exodus 30:10 -- Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns*. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering** for the generations to come. It is most holy to the LORD."

Incidently, only twice in the entire bible does God say, "...most holy to the Lord." That is an interesting study referring to His possessions beyond our scope here but hoped to be developed later in the ministry section of this website. Our Lord's reference to the lamb here points toward the future and symbolizes His Son as the sacrificial Lamb of God, hence "most holy to the Lord."

 The atoning (redemptive) work of Jesus Christ at Calvary is finished forever into eternity just as Jesus died on the cross among His last words saying, "It is finished." Unlike the sacrificial lamb of Yom Kippur which was required to be renewed annually because it was only symbolic pointing toward the everlasting atonement yet to come, the shed blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ redeems us forever. The "Lamb of God," the sacrificial Lamb of redemption for you and for me is the Son of God, His Firstborn, Jesus the Christ (Christ = Messiah or Redeemer).

John 1:29  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!..."

The redemptive shedding of the blood of the Son of God has atoned for the sins of the world.

Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus died for the sins of the world. That includes every sin that exists from the beginning of creation until the end of time (in this present age). This means our past (even though committed after the death of Jesus), present and yes future sins yet still uncommitted. Jesus is not going to come again and die for the sins committed between Calvary and before the end of time. All sins, of all time, by all have already been paid for. Sin is a labor (work). When one sins, they must receive the wages for that sin. That wages is death. You and I are sinners. We were born on "Death Row" scheduled to receive our just wage of death for the sins we have committed against God. But, Jesus came and paid the price for us. We, as believers and ONLY as believers, are no longer scheduled to receive our just wage because it has been paid for by the Son of God. We have been redeemed, reconciled to God through His only begotten Son, Jesus the Savior. Just as sin entered this world through one man, Adam, and became attributed to all men, so too all the sin of the world exits through one man, the second Adam, Jesus Christ thereby crediting all believers  and freeing them of their sins and it's wages. Jesus took the impendiing death of all believers upon Himself and paid the price for your sins and for mine. Jesus died in our stead. He died our death that we may be free. Those who by faith have died with Jesus are also risen again with Jesus to a new and everlasting life reconciled to Father God Almighty. The death due us at birth does not refer to our first death in the flesh but rather to the second death in the spirit. An explanation of the second death is beyond the scope of this segment but is forthcoming in the ministry section of this website.

While the sacrificial death of the Son of God was for the sins of the world, not all the world will be saved by this most loving, selfless, gracious act of Jesus Christ.***

 As God tells us through John 3:16 -- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

Those who accept the shed blood of Jesus as their substitutionary payment for their wages of sin, and trust in the Lord Jesus will live eternally with Him. Those who do not believe in Jesus Christ and what He has done for us, will not be covered with the sacrificial atonement made by the Lamb of God. Therefore, they shall perish. We all experience the first death of the flesh (with very few exceptions as already noted in scripture). To perish as God describes for non-believers is to experience the second death. All of our spirits live for eternity in the sense that they exist. What God refers to here as death is His absence. God turning His back on one is death. Even though the spirits of nonbelievers will burn in hell for all eternity where there will be whaling and gnashing of teeth, their existence is not considered life. For life is being in the presence of God. And this is heaven, that we walk with God our Heavenly Father and with Jesus His Son. Our God has yet to turn His back on this world. As a result, we are blessed even on a cursed earth. We all share in the sunshine, the food abundance (where He has blessed this cursed earth to bring forth the abundance), the light, the growth, the warmth, the rain, the water, the love, the comforts, the air we breathe, our very heartbeat, and the multitude of things we so easily take for granted.

 John 5:45 ...He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

None of this is part of the second death. On the contrary, hell is all the horriffic things you have ever envisioned it to be and more.

In the book of Romans when Paul was preaching to them (the Romans) and revealed that God's grace was greater than all sin and that even our future sins are forgiven, they realized that they could sin even more and their sins would be covered by the shed blood of Jesus for Paul said where sin increased, grace increased all the more. Their realization is true although you will hardly find a minister who will teach it or even who may realize it himself.  In Romans 6:1 Paul continued by saying what then, shall we sin so that grace may increase? Legally we could, but do we? By no means! Paul says. Yes, our future sins are already forgiven no matter how much more we sin, but once we fully realize and fully understand and appreciate what the Son of God has done for you and for me, how can we then contribute to the purpose for the shedding of His blood? How can we act in such a way as to contribute to the sins which His shed blood covers, to have caused Him need to have spilled yet another drop. How can we be even more responsible for even one drop of His shed blood at Calvary? We cannot. Yet we continue to sin. We can suppress some overt sin. Yet we remain in this sinful nature flesh. How can we reconcile this great frustration within us once we come to fully realize the impact and consequence of all our sinful actions? The answer to that question is also beyond the scope here but hopefully will be imminently discussed further in the ministry section of this website.