What marks a Christian is, not that he has not sin within, but that he has a new nature, which none has except he that believes in Jesus by the Holy Spirit. In virtue of Christ, God regards him as one who has entirely done with sin as a matter of divine judgment on us. God has quite closed with it thus, not as a dealing with us day by day. There is where confession of failure comes in, and thus it is a good and right thing for a Christian to judge and confess his evil.
A man's being entirely forgiven all trespasses does not put aside the need and duty and privilege of confessing the truth about ourselves to God, day by day. [9]