Will sins that I have commited before I became a Christian affect my Judgement?

[John Pearce]

Will sins that I have commited before I became a Christian affect my Judgement?

 

[Ponder]

in my piont of view no they will not,

if you are saved, then nothin can affect that
once you become a christian then u technically say forgive me for the sins ive have committed before, but it really depends on wat you pray

 

[Emmy]

Dear John Pearce.When Jesus died for us on the cross,He bore all our sins away with Him,He gave all of us the chance to return to God blameless and without sin;all of us means you as well John,If we accept this free offering of Jesus and follow Him,all our past sins have completely disappeared.He left us with two commandments:"Love God with all your hearts,with all your minds and with all your souls,also love your fellow men and fellow women as you love yourselves."These two commandments contain all ten commandments which God gave us.One more thing John,if you sin now(God knows how very hard it is not to sin)you must ask God/Jesus to forgive you and really try to sin less and less.Sincere greetings from Emmy,your sister in Christ.PS All humans sin sometimes.

 

[John Pearce]

Dear John Pearce.When Jesus died for us on the cross,He bore all our sins away with Him,He gave all of us the chance to return to God blameless and without sin;all of us means you as well John,If we accept this free offering of Jesus and follow Him,all our past sins have completely disappeared.He left us with two commandments:"Love God with all your hearts,with all your minds and with all your souls,also love your fellow men and fellow women as you love yourselves."These two commandments contain all ten commandments which God gave us.One more thing John,if you sin now(God knows how very hard it is not to sin)you must ask God/Jesus to forgive you and really try to sin less and less.Sincere greetings from Emmy,your sister in Christ.PS All humans sin sometimes.

Thanks. That helps. I was just worrying about my past. You have put me at ease. Yeah, I found that Jesus working through me has reducd my sin amount anyway! and I do confess in prayer, but do I have to specific? What if I forget I have sinned for something? I dont speak about specific sin usually, i usually just ask for forgiveness and say sorry for my sin in general.

 

[theseed]

Will sins that I have commited before I became a Christian affect my Judgement?

It depends on what you mean by "judgment". Do you mean will they affect your outlook on things? I would say yes. That is why we need to be invovled in God's words so that we can become conformed to Him (Rom. 12.2).

 

[BarbB]

John, I have discovered that when I have conveniently forgotten certain sins, the Holy Spirit reminds me of them and won't let me go without repentance! So, not to worry!

 

[Serapha]

Will sins that I have commited before I became a Christian affect my Judgement?

Hi there!



"yes"

But, probably not in the way that you might think. When all of heaven bows to Jesus Christ as Lord of lords and King of kings.... all the believers will place their "crowns" at the feet of Jesus.

The sins are forgiven, but we still are accountable for the results of those sins... if you lead someone away from the Lord and they died in their sins, that will be held before you just as those who you lead to the Lord are tallied up to you.


The attributes of God include righteousness, justice, and lovingkindness.... so the "measurement" of our works for the kingdom of God will show in the "crown" that we place at the feet of Jesus.

The "judgment" is a judgment of lost opportunities and actions, and not a judgment of our past sins.... The Word of God tells us that God will not remember our transgressions, placing them as far as the east is from the west.

That's grace... and mercy... two more attributes of a righteous and just God.


~Serapha~

 

[prestonw]

This is a more interesting question then some are making it out to be. There is a difference between "sins" and bad things you have done. Sin is being unclean in God's eyes.

The Judgement is a different story.

Rev 20:4-5 (KJV)
V4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
V5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.

The phrase "the rest of the dead" implies to me that even these people are among the dead in the later verse talking about the Judgement.

Rev 20:12 (KJV)

V12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

This says that you will be judged on your works. This is seperate from sin. In other words, while having faith in God and Jesus is a start, it isn't the end all be all answer. While eternal life is granted to all that believe in Jesus, what your place is in this eternal life are determined in part by the works you perform.

Will sins that I have commited before I became a Christian affect my Judgement?

 

[Serapha]

This says that you will be judged on your works. This is seperate from sin. In other words, while having faith in God and Jesus is a start, it isn't the end all be all answer. While eternal life is granted to all that believe in Jesus, what your place is in this eternal life are determined in part by the works you perform.

Hi there!



I totally agree with that statement... not only are heaven and the lake of fire our eternal rewards for our faith, but there will be considerations within our eternal place of residence related to our works..... both for the believer and the unbeliever.

~serapha~

 

[Chad Merrell]

Yeah the last few posts have made it clearer for the oster of the question. Every action we do causes a change in our lives for good or bad. However even though we make mistakes we might have to live with our entire lives we can be forgiven for them.

example: I get mad at my brother and grab a gun and shoot him in the leg. Well I can change and be forgiven thru repentance, but I will always remember what I did and also how I hurt my brother. I might have been forgiven for it but I will always feel bad for it at the same time. Some mistakes (not sins) will ache us till we die, however once we truely repent the sin guilt should not be present.

 

[Dive]

I personnaly believe that the Judgment wont actually be as it sounds. Jesus died on the cross for us so that, if we follow him, no matter what happens we can get into heaven. All we need to do is accept is we have done wrong, and then we'll be forgiven. I dont believe that we will be forgiven when we gp up to heaven, I think we've already been forgiven: when Jesus died on the Cross. 2000 years ago

 

[Angeldove97]

I studied this today and I pray it will inspire you!!
Are you guilty of the unpardonable sin?

Luke 12:10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Overview

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  We will see why it is normal for Christians to fear their sin is unforgivable. We will look at Bible saints who were clearly forgiven even though they once seemed guilty of the unpardonable sin.
  
  Whatever Jesus meant by his puzzling statement, the correct interpretation will be consistent with the rest of biblical revelation. God declares over and over in his Word, his eagerness to forgive anyone and everyone who comes to Jesus, genuinely wanting forgiveness. The God of truth has given his word. In the light of so many unbreakable promises, it must be that if anyone were to become unforgivable, something happens that makes that person refuse to appropriate those promises. So to be unforgivable, someone must refuse to repent or fail to seek forgiveness through Jesus.
  
  What must one do to blaspheme the Spirit?
  
  
  
  
  Let’s see what the Bible says Jesus was referring to:
  • Mark 3:22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebub! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.” (28) So Jesus . . . spoke to them . . . (28) I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. (29) But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.” (30) He said this because they were saying, “He has an evil spirit.”
    
  
  Verse 30 is crystal clear. These people were not swearing at the Holy Spirit. In fact, they were devout theologians who would not dream of being disrespectful to the Spirit of God. Those in danger of committing this sin were proposing that Jesus had a demon. Imagine someone convinced that Jesus’ miracles came from an evil spirit! Such a person is blaspheming the Spirit, through whom Jesus ministered. Since divine forgiveness is available only through Jesus, saving faith is impossible while anyone believes that the holy Son of God is demon possessed. No one believing that blasphemous doctrine can be forgiven in this life, nor in the next. Should a person stop believing that blasphemy, however, and start believing that Jesus is God’s sinless sacrifice for the sins of the world, that person is no longer blaspheming and can now find forgiveness through Jesus. This truth is confirmed in the book of Acts.
  
  Beginning with his Spirit-filled sermon on the Day of Pentecost, Peter repeatedly preached salvation to people to whom he said such things as ‘Jesus, whom you crucified,’ and ‘You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. You killed the author of life . . . Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord . . .’ (Scriptures). These people charged with such offenses obviously did not believe they were killing a godly man. They were well aware of the undeniably supernatural character of Jesus’ miracles. They must therefore have blasphemed the Spirit of God by believing that Jesus’ miracles were the work of an evil spirit. Saul of Tarsus must have been one such person and yet, like so many others, he completely reversed his belief about the source of Jesus’ miracles and through this complete change of heart, he found forgiveness through Jesus.
  
  No one believing that Jesus is demon possessed can be forgiven, but anyone no longer believing that blasphemy can find forgiveness.
  
  Any sin for which you sincerely seek Jesus’ forgiveness, is not the unpardonable sin
  
  
  
  
  Scripture promises forgiveness to any wicked person who turns to God.
  • Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
    
  
  
  
  Anyone who seeks Jesus’ forgiveness is obviously turning to God. It would make God a liar if he were to spurn anyone who sincerely turns away from his sin, seeking the true God with all his heart. The judgment of God upon those who continually resist his Spirit is not that God won’t respond when they turn to him. The judgment is that they would become so hardened that they do not turn to God.
  • Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people callused . . . Otherwise they might . . . turn and be healed.
    
  
  Do you see it? If they turned they would be forgiven (healed). The judgment is that their heart becomes so callous that they refuse to turn to God.
  
  Proof that you have not blasphemed the Holy Spirit
  
  
  
  
  Jesus’ warning against blaspheming the Holy Spirit sends a chill down us. And rightly so. We dare not abuse God’s grace. It is true that God’s Spirit will not ‘always strive with man’ (Genesis 6:3). However, if you find yourself longing for fellowship with God, it is clear that the Spirit is still ‘striving’ with you – passionately working within you in an attempt to woo you back to God.
  • John 16:8 When he [the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth] comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment
    
  
  Since conviction of sin is the work of the Spirit, if you feel convicted of your sin, the Holy Spirit obviously has not withdrawn from you. On the contrary, he is actively working in your life seeking to bring you back to Jesus. Feeling the need of forgiveness is clear proof that God has not given up on you.
  • John 6:44 No-one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
    
  
  Your longing to come to Jesus is proof that Father God is drawing you. It is irrefutable confirmation that he has not abandoned you.
  
  Someone who is unforgivable must be someone who no longer meets the conditions of God’s promises of forgiveness. In other words, they become so hardened that they never want Jesus to forgive their sins. Either they turn their back on God so defiantly that they refuse to return to Jesus, or they never seek forgiveness because they imagine God approves of their sin. An example of the latter might be someone so caught up in homosexuality or damnable heresy that for the rest of their lives they believe that their sin is acceptable to God.
  
  There is a huge emphasis in Scripture that forgiveness is freely available to anyone who comes in simple trust to Jesus, willing to let go of their sin.
  
  Moreover, the Bible indicates that it is not those who have done little wrong who most easily find salvation, but those who see themselves as among the worse sinners.
  
  Consider Paul, so mightily forgiven and blessed of God. He considered himself the greatest sinner.
  
  
  It is normal for Christians to find themselves strongly tempted to think that they are beyond God’s forgiveness. This is so common because we all have the same spiritual enemy. Relative to the God who dwells in us, our enemy is such a weakling that he can do little else but tell us cunning lies in the hope of tricking us.
  
  
  The devil is like a school bully. He hates you furiously but he is powerless to hurt you because your best friend towers over him. As long as you and your friend remain inseparable, the bully can only fume in utter frustration at his helplessness. Your friend is faithful and will never desert you. The bully’s only hope is if you wander away from your friend. But why would you be so stupid? You would only do so if you imagined your friend no longer cared for you and would not defend you.
  
  The devil knows his options are limited. For as long as you cling to Christ, you are a thousand times more powerful than him. So he hatches a plan. Somehow he has to convince you that God is no longer devoted to you. If you believe that lie you will wrongly imagine that prayer and staying close to God is pointless. You might therefore gradually drift from the only Person who can foil the Evil One’s plans to destroy you. If he can fool you into not calling upon the devil-crushing power of God when he attacks, he can turn you into his plaything.
  
  So the Accuser of the brethren feverishly tries his old con job on you, just like he does with every other Christian, hoping to trick you into thinking the loving Lord has rejected you. If he could bring this off in your life, he could twist you around his little finger, like someone ordering people around because they do not realize that what looks threatening is nothing but a toy gun. If you see through the devil’s trick, he is a goner. He’ll have to run for his life.
  
  No one on this planet deserves divine forgiveness. God offers forgiveness, not because of what you have or haven’t done, but because of what Jesus has done. In his extravagant love God wants to treat everyone as if they were sinless. All that Justice requires is that you make it legal for him to pardon you. This happens when through faith you so identify with Christ that a divine exchange takes place whereby Christ receives your sin (that’s what killed him) and you receive his sinlessness (that’s what gives you spiritual life).
  
  Remember that when Jesus was tempted, the devil quoted from the Bible. Jesus exposed the devil’s lies by quoting Scripture back at him, proving that the devil had distorted God’s Word. That is what I have done in this webpage and in the next, and indeed in this whole series of pages. Don’t let the Deceiver mess with your mind. Instead, resist the Evil One’s powerfully persuasive brainwashing by continually immersing yourself in the truth of these pages. Don’t give him license to deceive by dwelling on his lies.
  
  For effective medical treatment you must take identical pills day after day. Likewise, you need to absorb these truths by reading them over and over. Jesus overcame the devil’s lies by quoting Scripture from memory. And he was so conversant with the full teaching of Scripture that despite the deceiver’s powerful intellect, Jesus saw through every cunning attempt to distort God’s Word.
  
  
  
  
  
  Who was the greatest first century Christian? Some would say Peter. Some would say Paul. And yet both committed sins so grievous as to seem unforgivable. When we gloss over the gravity of their sin we miss something very significant about the extent of God’s forgiveness.
  
  It was not false modesty that moved Paul to label himself the ‘chief of sinners’. Though his mind had been saturated with Scriptures that told him the opposite, he sought to murder powerful Christians like Stephen who, if allowed to live, could have saved thousands of souls from eternal torment. Even worse, he tried not just to end their precious lives, but to torture Christians in the hope that they would blaspheme and turn their back on their only Hope of salvation. Even mass murderers and violent, hate-crazed rapists rarely try to violate their victims’ eternal destiny. Some people have tried to banish Christianity from their country, but few people in history have tried like Paul to obliterate every trace of Christianity from the entire planet. Above all men, Paul was most worthy of destruction, yet God was so eager to forgive him that the Lord dramatically took the initiative by powerfully intervening on the Damascus Road.
  
  And consider Peter, the other contender for the title of greatest first century Christian. When he first came to Jesus he was so overwhelmed by his sinfulness that he fell at Jesus’ knees, begging the holy Lord to leave him (Luke 5:8). Jesus welcomed Peter not only as a beloved follower, but as an apostle, and not only an apostle, but one of the inner circle of three (Peter, James and John). And yes, even among these three, Peter’s name regularly topped the list.
  
  Yet we find Peter committing one of the most grievous sins imaginable – being used as a tool of Satan to tempt the holy Son of God. And this was no minor temptation. He sought to use his special friendship with Jesus to entice the Lord to reject the way of the cross – the only means whereby anyone on this planet can find salvation. Had he succeeded, we would all have been spiritually doomed! And coming from someone so close to Jesus’ heart, and from someone who had just delighted Jesus by his sensitivity to the Spirit, Peter hurled at Jesus a most enticing temptation. ‘Get behind me Satan!’ Jesus was forced to retort.
  
  Still later, Peter disowned his Lord, not once or twice but three times, using oaths and everything he could think of to totally disassociate himself from his only Hope of salvation.
  
  Years later, Paul had to confront this powerful church leader, compelled to publicly accuse Peter of hypocrisy, lest he lead many astray (Galatians 2:11-14). Yet Peter was fully forgiven and showered with spiritual blessings. And that same offer of divine forgiveness – that same extravagant love – is eagerly extended to you.
  
  
  
  
  
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[prestonw]

I personnaly believe that the Judgment wont actually be as it sounds. Jesus died on the cross for us so that, if we follow him, no matter what happens we can get into heaven. All we need to do is accept is we have done wrong, and then we'll be forgiven. I dont believe that we will be forgiven when we die up in heaven, I think we've already been forgiven: when Jesus died on the Cross. 2000 years ago

Okay, but what will our place be in Heaven? This is where we are judged according to our works. This may determine if you are in the presence of God or if you get to eternelly scrub the heavenly toilets, so to speak. That is the point I was trying to get across.

 

[Dive]

Okay, I dont know how well I put it. We wont be judged in heaven as in we will be forgiven: I think this can already happen and has.

However, I do believe that we'll have to accept that we have done wrong in heaven. Only when we realise it, will we get our seat next to the father. If we dont, and think we're the best, we'll be scrubbing those toilets.

 

[Benjammin]

No, all sins before salvation are washed away, sins afterward, will not affect wether or not your in heaven, but you will have to answer for them.

 

[Dive]

I must say I disagree with that. If that were true, it would imply that you could commit sins as much as you want, and as long as you answer for them, it wont matter. This may be true, but this, I dont think, is what God would want us to think.I think that if we commit sins after salvation, we still run the risk of going to hell if we dont accept that we have done and need Jesus to help us.

 

[reverend B]

the way i understand it, when you repent of your sin, when you bring your sin to God in humility and sorrow, your sins are not only forgiven, but forgotten. they are "as far as the east is from the west". they cease to be. the closer we walk with Christ the less these sins will influence our lives.

 

[prestonw]

the way i understand it, when you repent of your sin, when you bring your sin to God in humility and sorrow, your sins are not only forgiven, but forgotten. they are "as far as the east is from the west". they cease to be. the closer we walk with Christ the less these sins will influence our lives.

Our "sins" and our "works" are to separate things. Sins are against God, works are either for God or for your fellow man. Sins my be forgiven, but what about that time you didn't help someone that may have needed it, or the last time you instead of giving a little bit of money to charity you had to buy a slightly larger TV. These are not sins against God, they are works you could have done, but didn't do. Jesus said the most important commandment was "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul," second most important was "Love thy neighbor as thyself." So, Jesus said 1) avoid sin by loving God 2) do good works by loving your neighbor.

 

[crystalpc]

Will sins that I have commited before I became a Christian affect my Judgement?

John, no they will not. I have scripture for you.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

 

[TheMainException]

A big fat NO they won't at all. Christ's blood washed you clean as fresh snow (not the kind you find on the road.).