Will a believer ever face God with sin on their back?
No. When a believer comes under the Gospel's forgiveness, they are forgiven everything—past, present, and future. They will never come into God's presence with sin on their back, because Christ has paid for it all. This is beyond human comprehension but taught in Scripture.
Les teaches that Paul's classic statement in Galatians 2:20—being crucified with Christ—shows the very function of the Gospel: Christ died for the sins of the world, was buried, and rose from the dead. Les emphasizes that when we come under that forgiveness, we are forgiven everything, past, present, and future. We will never come into the presence of God with sin on our back, so to speak, because it has all been paid for. He says this is beyond human comprehension and we will never understand it this side of glory, but he believes it because that's what the Book teaches: we have been forgiven all our trespasses, not because of anything we have done, but because of what Christ has accomplished on our behalf. That is what makes the Gospel so simple and yet so complex.
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Will we ever stand before God with sin on our back?
We will never come into the presence of God with sin on our back because it has all been paid for.