Luke 3

Verse 19-20

"But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done, Herod added this to them all: he locked John up in prison."

Herod added to his list of evil things he had done.

There was a list.

Thankfully, love 'keeps no record of wrongs' (1Cor13:5). But in God's justice sent Jesus to take the penalty for the trespasses. God did not just forgive and forget. He paid for it with Himself.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation." (2 Cor 5:17-19)

In Christ, our sins are not counted against us.

But by no means continue sinning (Rom 6:1-2) but to bring the peace and forgiveness to others, as God's ambassadors to share this message of reconciliation. You can't give what you don't have.

Be reconciled to God!

One of the most memorable things that happened in my first year was in a Business student MDA. We were reading 1 John 1 and so we took time and wrote out all the sins we could think of onto a piece of paper. Folded it up. Wrote 1John1:9 on it. And then we went outside and burned it. =D

That list you keep can easily be confessed and forgiven by Christ's death on the cross, to be remembered no more.