You cannot "declare clearance" if you’re not officially "clean", otherwise if "authorities" decided to examine your claim and found out you harbored "bad luggage on" all along, the consequences are already known to you and prescribed in the "book of law".

Please rethink my quoted words in the context of your question, only that God’s forgiveness overrides our imperfectness, which makes Him perfect and leaves us to pursue purification of ourselves and towards others for humanity’s sake.

Salam