Thanks. According to your reply here, it would mean that, in OSAS, we presume that we will confess all future sins.
I don't see that anywhere.
rather, all future sins are forgiven.
If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. He is saved and has new life spiritually, even though he still sins and has the flesh nature.
When the body dies, all that's left is the righteousness of Christ imputed to us.
When we sin here on earth, there are often consequences to that behavior which God does not always deliver us from, and when we die with unconfessed sin, I believe that we will have to answer for it at the Judgment Seat of Christ, which is not the judgment for salvation. God disciplines those He loves, and there is that to consider when not confessing sin.
Somehow, I get the impression that certain religious groups, particularly Catholics, have this idea that man is basically good and that when they go to confession they can remember to confess every sin they've committed.
It simply is not possible because there is so much unintentional sin that we commit, not to mention that even our best efforts are tainted with sin. Nobody's motives are pure. It's not possible because we're only human.
I guess I would have to agree for the most part with the total depravity of man. The sin nature corrupts every aspect of man's human nature, making everything we do in the flesh corrupted and incapable of being in the presence of God.
That is why we need to be born again, to receive a new nature, uncorrupted by sin.
2 different situations, same solution.
1) Presalvation sin. Repentance and confession.
We turn back to God from sin and face Him (repentance, change of thinking). We then confess all known and unknown sins to Him through faith in what Christ did on the Cross (through faith in Christ). Results in His Forgiveness of our presalvation sins and He then is free in His Perfect Holiness to impute Perfect Righteousness to us. Regenerates our human spirit and we are in fellowship with Him, as a new man (Body, Soul, And Spirit).
If we later sin,...known or unknown, we fall out of fellowship with Him.
2) Postsalvation sin. Again, Repentance and confession.
We face back to Him, He is now the object of our thinking in what He performed on the Cross. We confess our postsalvation sins to Him (not a new salvation, but simply a washing of those areas needing cleansing.) He is sure and just to forgive us those sins (1stJn 1:9)
This simply places us back in fellowship.
We still need to walk in fellowship with Him.
We are still made for a purpose by His Plan.
To perform according to His Plan, we need to continue in fellowship with Him.
To understand His Plan, we study His Word. The more we breath in of His Word and remain in fellowship, the more He is able to sanctify us, cleaning up our soul, our mind, our memory, our thinking, our problem solving techniques, so we respond to situations by His Plan, instead of reacting by our old sin nature scarred in our souls from past wrong thinking.