What of Future Sin?

A lady came to me one day and said, “I do not get you there. I can quite understand that Christ died for the sins I committed up to the night of my conversion, but do you mean to tell me that Christ died for my future sins?”
I said, “How many of your sins were in the past when Christ died on the cross?”
She looked puzzled for a moment, and then the light broke in, and she said, “How foolish I have been! Of course they were all future when Jesus died for me. I had not committed any of them.”
God saw all your sins, and He laid upon Jesus all your iniquity, and therefore, when you trusted Him, you were justified freely from all things. Do you say, “Does it make no difference then if a believer sins?” That is another question, and it would take a whole evening to go into that, but here is the point — the moment you trust the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, your responsibility as a sinner having to do with the God of judgment is ended for eternity, but that same moment your responsibility as a child having to do with a Father in heaven begins. Now if as a child you should sin against your Father, God will have to deal with you about that, but as a Father and not as a Judge. That is a line of truth that stands by itself, and does not contradict what I am now teaching. It explains some things that bewilder people when this doctrine is brought before them.