All sin is on the Cross, forgiven...

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24

How can we not forgive already forgiven sins?

The sin that came upon us from another and caused us pain, has already been paid for by our Savior. Who are we that we should hold that person’s sin by not forgiving?

When Jesus took the wounds upon His Body, it was our healing for the wounds we would receive from others…

When Jesus said, “It is finished…”  forgiveness was released for all ages, we are now not able to hold any sin against those who have sinned against us.

Corrie ten Boom, a native of Holland, was put into a German Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany for attempting to harbor & save Jews from genocide.
She wrote about dealing with the pain & memories of having been mistreated in the concentration camp.
“If there is one thing I’ve learned since I’ve passed my 80th birthday, it’s that I can’t store up good feelings & behavior; but that I only draw them fresh every day.”
Good advice, don’t you think?
This confirms Jesus’ words, “Give us this day our daily bread.”
Later in life some close friends had taken advantage of her & she once again had to deal with more pain.
She also wrote about how she struggled with continuing to turn it over to God:
“Then it was that another secret of forgiveness became evident. It is not enough to simply say, ‘I forgive you’. I must also begin to live it out. I must also begin to live it out & in my case that meant acting as though their sins, like mine, were buried in the deepest sea.
If God could remember them no more & He had said your sins & iniquities will I remember no more, then neither should I. And the reason the thoughts kept coming back to me was that I kept turning their sin over in my mind. And so I discovered another of God’s principles: We can trust God not only for our emotions, but also for our thoughts. As I asked Him to renew my mind, He also took away my thoughts.”

That was God’s plan of reconciliation to all mankind, we no longer have to hold the unforgiveness of another person’s sin in our hearts or minds; nor our own sin.. because it all has been washed away by the Blood of Jesus,                           the Work of the Cross is sufficient!

So next time we are asked by the Spirit to “forgive”, we must do it quickly and completely, for that is how Jesus forgave us.