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I am forgiven, period.

I have repented of my sins and am a new creature in Christ.

It doesn’t mean that I’ll never sin again, it means that I am free of the penalty of the sin. It’s not on again, off again Christianity based on works.

If salvation were based on whether a person repented of each and every individual sin which they committed and whether or not they repented of each and every individual one, there’s not a person on the planet who could be saved. Nobody is capable of repenting of each and every individual sin because nobody is capable of recognizing and remembering each and every individual sin they ever committed in their lives.

When a person turns to God in repentance and faith all his sins are forgiven and he is made a new creature in Christ. That person is clothed in the righteousness of Christ and God does not count his sins against him any more.

It’s a blanket legal pardon of ALL sin. Someone who has put their faith in Christ alone for salvation is God’s child, not to be thrown on the trash heap because they are not capable of being what someone else thinks is perfect.

Catholics don’t get that sin in the believers life only affects the reward they will get once they get to heaven and that reward is not heaven itself, it is above and beyond making it to heaven. Heaven is guaranteed because of the believers position of being in Christ.

Hebrews 9:11-15 11But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent ( not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

15Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Hebrews 10:11-14 11And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Romans 8:1-4 1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:10-11 10But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

We are forgiven for our sinfulness and are the children of God. We have life in Him, not because of our perfection but because of His perfection being credited to our account because of our trust in Him.