22. "But must I not first make restitution for all the wrongs I have done to other people before I can come to Christ and be forgiven?”

It is well that you should be exercised as to wrongs done to others, but nowhere in the Word are we told we must make restitution first, though after we are saved we should certainly seek to do all in our power to straighten up any crooked things involving the rights of other people. It is to those already saved that the apostle writes, "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth" (Eph. 4:28).
Consider the repentant thief on the cross. Surely he had been guilty of wronging many of his fellows! Yet the moment he turned in faith to Jesus he was saved. In the very nature of the case he could not make restitution to any one for any crime committed. His hands and feet were nailed to the cross. It was not possible for him to do one thing to repair the many wrongs he had done. But through the merits of the Holy Sufferer on that central cross, he was fully and freely pardoned and fitted for Paradise. Had he been permitted to live, and to come down from that scaffold, undoubtedly he would have spent his; life seeking to show the reality of his repentance, and wherever possible to make restitution for offenses committed. But he was saved altogether apart from this; and that on the ground of the propitiatory work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
You may be saved in the very same way. Then as a new man in Christ, you can prove your love to Him by striving to live unselfishly and devotedly to His glory. And if you are able to put wrongs right, as between man and man, you will in so-doing not only find joy yourself, but you will be a witness to others of the power of saving grace. But all such efforts to clean up the past will have nothing whatever to do with the salvation of your soul. You cannot even help God to save you. It is Christ's work alone that counts.
“Cast your deadly doing down,
Down at Jesus' feet;
Stand in Him, in Him alone,
Gloriously complete.”