Saying "future sin is forgiven" is akin to saying that the provision is made. Whatever sin that may come (future) to pass is thoroughly ready to be washed in the blood of Christ (making our sins of scarlet as white as snow, our sins of crimson as white as wool). Scripture, in Hebrews, is very plain (and forward) on how sin is dealt with. It says, "without the shedding of blood there is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22). This is why Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection had to be done, an eternally sufficient sacrifice (He is risen).
If the blood of Christ didn't cleanse our sins today, then the lost would never be saved. How else are their sins atoned for, or remitted (presently)? By the same blood He shed then, and His ministry as High Priest.
Hebrews 9:11 King James Version (KJV)
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Hebrews 9:22-26 King James Version (KJV)
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
If the blood of Christ didn't cleanse our sins today, then the lost would never be saved. How else are their sins atoned for, or remitted (presently)? By the same blood He shed then, and His ministry as High Priest.
Hebrews 9:11 King James Version (KJV)
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Hebrews 9:22-26 King James Version (KJV)
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Saying my future sin is forgiven means it has already been forgiven before I commit it.
Saying the provision is made means that as I believe, every sin I may commit is forgiven and never counted against me!
That at least is how I see the difference . . .
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