We can know now.
Galatians 2:20-21 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
When God sees me IN CHRIST, then He sees me crucified IN CHRIST, and I am clothed in Christ's righteousness, which is the righteousness God sees when He looks at me. He doesn't see my own righteousness, which can never meet His standards.
I died IN Christ. I live IN CHRIST. I am seated in the heavenlies NOW IN CHRIST.
Sin is only removed by forgiveness, and forgiveness by its very nature is a gift. It cannot be earned. No amount of good works can procure salvation. There is no good outweighing the bad. There is no accounting of our deeds or motivations because we already stand condemned by the fact that we sinned ONCE. Even if all we ever did was sin once, that would be enough to condemn us, just as Adam sinned ONCE and died.
Works cannot and do not save. They never have and they never will.
It is completely by God's mercy and grace and we can know for sure now because God who cannot lie said that if we believe in Jesus, our faith is counted to us as righteousness.
Romans 4:1-8 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: 7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
And where there is forgiveness, there is no more sin to account for or try to work off.
Hebrews 10:18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
If you're forgiven, there's nothing left to work off. If there's something to work off, then you haven't been forgiven.
See post 159. You are just wrong. I can ask him to help yes and he will but we have to respond. We are not robots. Period.