Acts 26:18 - They will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God's people, who are set apart by faith in me.
God is perfect. The bible tells us that God is the ultimate symbol of perfection and purity. He is only goodness. If God is all of this, then it means that He cannot be anywhere near evil and sin. In the Old Testament, when people wanted to pray and talk to God, they would have gone to the Ark of God, the house of God. The only place where the presence of God would dwell. But we see that someone couldn't just waltz into the house of God without purifying themselves first. Purification was achieved by laying your sins onto an animal and sacrificing it. We seen in 2 Samuel 6:6 that a man named Uzzah stumbled while transporting the Ark of God and touched it to steady it. Immediately he fell down dead because he, a man who naturally sinned, had merely touched the Ark of God without purifying himself.
Although we sin, this does not mean that we are sin. Yes we are sinful, we do bad things everyday. We might not steal or murder, but we might tell a small lie or talk badly about someone behind their back. Those things are still sins, and therefore we are still sinful. But because of Jesus's sacrifice on the cross, we do not have to sacrifice animals before we can be in the presence of God. We have the Holy Spirit with us everywhere we go. Our sins were forgiven when Jesus died. Jesus was our sacrificial lamb who we laid our sins upon. He was the ultimate sacrifice.
What Jesus did for us allowed us to leave our past mistakes and even our future mistakes behind us. The wrongs we did, the way we treated someone else, the times we lied or gossiped, are all forgiven in God's eyes. We are NOT our sins. Our sins do not define who we are. They were washed away by the blood of Jesus. We are now only defined by one thing: Jesus.
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