After Darth Vader saves Luke's life by throwing the Emperor down the open shaft in the throne room; Luke tries to help his father escape the doomed Darth Star. At the shuttle's base, his father says, "Luke, help me take this mask off." Luke is afraid that in doing so, his father will die. Anakin then tells him, "nothing can stop that now. Just for once, let me look on you with my own eyes."
As the Death Star falls down on top of them, Anakin's last words to Luke are, "Tell your sister; you were right."
No one has been born that is irredeemable. While we might access various degrees of evil to our sins, God looks at all sin, from a "little white lie" to genocide, as the same.
This is difficult for non-believers to wrap their minds around, but Romans 6:23 tells us, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." When wages are paid, they are paid as an obligation based on the person's performance. Our performance was a life of sin.
Romans 3:23-24 is crystal clear regarding that as we read, "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."
The Apostle Paul, before his conversion, approved of the execution of Stephen (Acts 8:1). In Acts 8:4, we read, "Saul [Paul pre-conversion] was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison."
Then, on the road to Damascus, Saul met the Lord and became Paul, one of the most influential disciples of Jesus the world would ever know.
Regardless of our sins, if we call on the name of the Lord, we will be saved (Romans 10:13), and if we confess them to God, He will forgive us (1 John 1:9).
What do we need to confess today?
