We didn’t get in right-standing with God by being good and acting right. We got here through faith in Jesus Christ and His redemptive work at Calvary. When we accepted the sacrifice of Jesus and made Him the Lord of our lives, then God accepted us.

He had to! God had already accepted His Son’s work on the Cross. He judged it as good, glorified Jesus, and set Him at His own right hand. He called Jesus “God” and inaugurated Him into the highest office in the whole universe Therefore, the Father is obligated to accept us when we accept Jesus. Our conduct has absolutely nothing to do with it!

“That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them…” (2 Corinthians 5:19). This verse is saying that God does not hold our sins and trespasses against us! Very rarely had the whole gospel been preached, only pieces of it! We have heard that God will not forgive a sinner until he confesses his sin, but that I not true. God has already provided forgiveness and is not holing our trespasses against us.

This teaching about confession of sin stems from 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us…” However, this letter was written to Christians for the purpose of their maintaining fellowship with God. The Apostle John wrote in 1 John 2;1-2,

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you many not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

John was referring to the sins of a Christian and was instructing his fellow believers to partake of Jesus advocate ministry.

God So Loved the World
John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son…” God loved us and Jesus gave Himself for us while we were in sin. God in not holding our trespasses against us, He is calling us to make Jesus our Lord.

He accepted us on the basis of Jesus’ right-standing, and in turn, made us in right-standing with Him! Glory to God! The only sin keeping anyone out of the Kingdom of God is the sin of rejecting Jesus and what He has provided (John 16:9).

Receive Jesus as Savior and Lord Today, A Prayer Confession For Salvation:
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. Your Word says, “Who-so-ever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” I am calling on You. I pray and ask Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life.

“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

“I do that now. I confess that Jesus is Lord, and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. I am now reborn! I am a Christian and a child of Almighty God! I am saved! Thank-You Lord Jesus!