As believers, we know God forgives all our sins.  But how do we describe that grace to someone whose guilt prevents them from trusting Jesus Christ?

First, Jesus Christ came for the very purpose of forgiving all our sins.  The apostle Paul says it best: “When you were dead in your sins . . . God made you alive with Christ” [Colossians 2:13].  The Bible never minimizes the seriousness of sin and always maximizes God’s grace to forgive.

Is there a sin that God won’t forgive?  Yes.  Jesus warned the Pharisees that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit would not be forgiven.

Some people today worry they have committed an “unpardonable sin.”  But the very fact that they are sensitive to the Holy Spirit shows they haven’t committed such an act of blasphemy.

Here’s how we can describe grace to our friends and family: No matter what we’ve done and no matter how we’ve sinned, God loves us.  When we ask Him for forgiveness, God removes our sins “as far as the east is from the west” (Psalm 103:12).  Now that’s Good News worth talking about!