You have to go to verse 25 where it defines what sins are covered.
Why would it reference only the past sins but not the future?
Because those future sins need to be dealt with as well through genuine repentance (contrition).
Romans 3:25 says:
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.
Why would God specify “the remission of sins that are past”?
Why would man want to look over this and apply verse 23 out of context and to all sins past, present and future?
One reason I have found in my life, before I came to realize the truth surrounding this issue, was that I wanted an excuse to continue in sin and yet still feel comfortable in my salvation.
That is the heart of the OSAS message after all for many others as well.
We see this on a daily basis.
This is why divorce, smoking, adultery, drinking, obesity, putting wicked things before our eyes and into our ears (movies, TV, ungodly music) and many other sins are rampant in the so-called church today.
People want to continue in sin so that grace may abound.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Romans 6:1-2
It is easy to see why the teaching OSAS is essentially absent in the first centuries of the church.
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