Man without Christ is an enemy of God. There is enmity between the man and God, but through the blood of the cross, the enmity has been slain, and through the blood man can become reconciled to God, and enjoy peace with God. I d like to point out here that the forgiveness of sins is one of the most misunderstood subjects in the Bible. You have heard people tell the lost to get down on their knees and beg God to forgive them of their sins, that if you pray long enough and hard enough, God will remit the penalty for sins. That s human forgiveness, beloved, not Divine.
Divine forgiveness is the execution of the penalty, and that penalty is death.
Jesus died under the penalty. We have it, we didn t get it, it s a gift. The translation of the word forgiveness comes from a Greek word Aphesus , and means to bear up and bear away, to separate the sins from the sinner. Fifteen times it is found in the New Testament. The blood of Jesus was shed and Jesus paid for our sins.