I think I enjoy such one sentence questions better than the longer "pamplets" I have been writing lately!
All of my sins have been POTENTIALLY paid for - IF I ask the Lord's forgiveness after I sin, I know it will be forgiven due to Christ's unlimited and eternal work of His Passion and Death. We call Christ's work "objective redemption", which is good for all men. But we are commaned to repent of our sins, individually and personally. If we don't, Christ's work is not applied to us. Thus, our God-guided repentance is part of our "subjective redemption", our personal return to God.
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Shall we compare word-counts? 8~)
All of my sins have been POTENTIALLY paid for...
That is not Scriptural. But it does invest your ecclesiastical hierarchy with the power to give or withhold salvation, when it is rightly the work of God alone.
Christ either paid the ransom for your eternal life, or He didn't. His redemption was not tentative; it was complete and accomplished everything God intended.
"There are some who say that true humility before God means that we can never be sure, we can never be confident, we can never say, with the apostle, "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day" (II Tim. 1:12). But that idea (that true humility means we can never be confident of our salvation) is not the teaching of Scripture. It is a false humility. The Scriptures are plain! "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me" (Ps. 23:4). "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, (then the apostle goes on to mention many more things), shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:38, 39). "And we know that we are of God" (I John 5:19), we know that, says John..."
Through these discussions I've come to realize we really are talking about different definitions of salvation -- yours seems to have many strings attached.
The salvation of which faith is the evidence, as spoken in Hebrews 11:1, has been accomplished. It is not time-dependent, nor man-dependent. The price was paid in full. Recognize your finished redemption in Christ, and you will live it more confidently because He has done it for you.
Here is God Himself telling you He will shoulder the burden for you...
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you." -- Isaiah 46:1-4"Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
"All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. {38} For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. {39} And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. {40} And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." -- John 6:37-40
Did God give you to Christ, jo kus?
Is our assurance and our confidence misplaced?
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" -- Philippians 1:6
Our confidence is a perfect and actualized confidence because it is in Christ alone.