When you confess your sins, does God hand you a bill? In a great many churches, forgiveness comes with a price — an absolution, and then a penance, a set number of prayers to say to "make satisfaction" before the matter is truly settled. This message asks one plain question: is that how God actually forgives? Walking straight through Scripture, we find something far better.

You confess directly to God — and to a trusted brother or sister, not of necessity a priest — and the moment you ask, you are forgiven, freely, with no quota to pay off. And He doesn't just forgive it. He forgets it — removes it as far as the east is from the west, casts it into the depths of the sea, and remembers it no more. Because the bill was already paid, in full, on a cross. Come with empty hands. It is finished, and it is free.

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