@Papa,
I commend your effort to encourage others and share the goodness. However, I'd rather encourage you to share what exactly is in the Word of God, so that people don't go away with misplaced beliefs.
With God, there's no need to seek forgiveness. In fact the bible doesn't say ask or seek; The bible says TAKE IT!!! Hebrews 4:16
This is sadly sending the wrong message to seeking souls. The Bible didn't say "TAKE IT" in your referencing Heb. 4:16, for this is what it states:
"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and
find grace to help in time of need."
How does someone "obtain" mercy and "find" grace if he/she has not first been asking and seeking? In Matt. 7:7 & 8, the Lord Jesus Christ said "
Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that
asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." As you don't expect to "receive" without first "asking", so you don't expect to "FIND" without first "SEEKING".
James 4:2 also warns that "ye have not, because ye ask not". If anyone is going to 'have', 'obtain', or 'receive' anything from God, such a person must first come "ASKING" and "SEEKING" before they can hope to "take it".
The idea that
"with God, there's no need to seek forgiveness" is simply wrong and does not derive from the WORD of God. Perhaps you had forgotten indeed that, in teaching the disciples how to pray, the Lord Jesus Himself taught us to seek God's forgiveness. Do the words in Matt. 6:12 not point to
seeking forgivess when we pray: 'And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors'? Yes, we're encouraged to
ask and seek so that we may
find and obtain.
because ". . .God so love[s] the world. . .". He's more willing to forgive than you are willing to obtain mercy. So He put out His forgiveness and says "come, take!" So when you sin, obtain mercy, because it's been given already! He's given us ". . .all things that pertain to life and godliness."
It's only hard to come to terms with this due to unbelief - See Romans 11:30
It simply doesn't add up. God's offer of anything to anyone is made on the seeker's "asking" to "receive", or "seeking" to "find/obtain". Until a person actually asks and seeks, he/she cannot obtain - that is the clear message of Jesus: ". . . how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things
to them that ask him?" (Matt. 7:11).
Colossians 1:14 doesn't say we ask, it says we HAVE (as our own) forgiveness - That's only because it's been given.
That text was written to those who already have first 'ASKED' before they received (see Col. 1:21 - they were formerly 'alienated' and 'enemies' in mind by wicked works). You cannot be given something in this regard until you first have 'asked' for it.
1 John 2:12 says "I write unto you, little children, because your sins ARE FORGIVEN you for his name's sake."
The 'little children' have received forgiveness of sins - because they first asked for it. They didn't just 'obtain' without first having asked it of the Father (Matt. 7:11 - "them that ask Him"). People should be encouraged with the clear message of the WORD in all things - and in this case, God is willing to give all good things (including forgiveness) to those who ask Him.