Thursday, I taped this wonderful message...and have transcribed some of the most important parts below.
 
You can get the entire 12 sermons on CD...for a gift of ANY amount.  Google:  David Jeremiah....Turning Point ministries.
 
I wanted to share this with anyone who struggles to understand this.....   Read..enjoy....and learn....
 
BTW.....the Title of this sermon series is:    WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING, IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THE RAPTURE IS SO NEAR.  (rom memory....something like this!)
 
From the sermon: (I was moving fast this morning when I transcribed this...I hope I did it justice...)
QUOTE:
Jesus Christ paid for how many of our sins?  All of them.
 
Collossians 2:13  (Read this)   He died to forgive all of our sins.  Past present and future.
 
I had a lady come to me once and say  “I know God took care of all of my sins before I was saved.  But don’t I have to take care of all the ones since I was saved?”
 
And I asked her what I have asked many since:  How many of your sins were in the future when Christ died? She said:  "Hmmmmm……..All of them."
 
He forgave all of them before you ever lived.  Because of what happened on the cross, when you trusted Christ that kicked in.  And you were forgiven and are forgiven today, and you will never have to face your sin again.  That means God has no charges against you, that He will ever level against you for your sin.
 
Romans:       There is therefore now, no charges against those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:31:   Who shall bring a charge against God’s elevct…..read the whole verse….
 
For it is GOD that justifies.  When you were saved, you were truly forgiven. And you will never ever have to face your sin again.  You say “what about if I sin as a Christian?”
 
If you sin, you break your fellowship with God and you have to go back and get that fellowship straigtned out…it’s a relaltional thing…..but you will never have to face punishment for your sins again.  That’s the point of this passage.
 
One of the most often asked questions is this:  How can someone have all of his sins forgiven and have to have his works reviewed at the judgement seat of Christ?  
 
If my sins are all forgiven, why do I have to go before the judgment seat of Christ?   Well, the answer is found in the fact that forgiveness is about justification and the rewards are about the works that a justified person does. So these works are NOT done in order to BE justified….these are the works someone does because they ARE justified!  (Becuase they want to do them....!! )
 
Read the verse again:   For by grace you have been saved through faith, it is a gift from God, not of works, lest anyone could boast. For we His workmanship which God prepared before Him, that we should walk in them.
 
We are not saved BY good works…..we are saved FOR the purpose OF good works.
He saved us for a purpose…..if He had no purpose for us after He had saved us,  He would take us right to heaven and spare us all a lot of misery! But He saved us for good works.
 
So at the Judgment Seat of Christ, we are going to stand before God just after the Rapture…we are saved now….we are Christians………and we are going to stand before the Lord, and He’s going to do a little review of how we lived a Christian life.
 
How we lived the Christian life has NOTHING to do with whether or not we are going to get to heaven.
 
In fact it says in I Corinthians, CH 3:  “if our works don’t pass muster,  we are going to be saved, though at thy fire.”  What does this mean?  You ‘re not going to lose your salvation, but you are going to lose your rewards……

MY COMMENTS:   David said 2 things I have always thought of myself:
1) It did occur to me a few years ago...."since all of my sins were in the FUTURE when Christ died on the cross for ALL of my sins.....then ALL OF MY SINS.....FOR ALL OF MY LIFE......WERE FORGIVEN....once I accepted Christ as my Savior......and He became MY substitute for ALL of my sins...for ALL of my life!!!"   How incredibly wonderful to fully understand.....and David said this same thing in his sermon!!!
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2) I first asked a friend in 1999......"Why is sin so bad?   My answer.....because sin seperates us from God.  When we sin......we do what?  We PULL AWAY FROM GOD.....HE doesn't go any where...but WE tend to pull away.  As when Adam and Eve HID in the garden after they had eaten of the tree."   I have thought, for many years, that my sin as a Christian is bad because I turn away from God....becuase I am ashamed.....and I HAVE TO TURN BACK TO HIM to fix my relationship with him.   EXACTLY what David said in this sermon!!
 
I am not the brightest theologian out there....but I think I got these 2 points right.....and knowing THAT.....makes my life as a Christian more wonderful.....every day.
 
I hope this message was as good for you as it was for me.
 
YFIC,
RAndy !!    :)   :)   :)