--HEBREWS x. (Nu 15:29, 30). . CHARLES TEMPLETON? When the law of God is taken into the heart, it is no longer something merely remembered: it is something …John Henry Jowett—My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year, Provoking Each Other to Love and Good Works. The immediate context defines that sin as one of the continued forsaking of the means of grace at the services of the Christian assemblies, and the habitual commission of the sin defined in Heb 10:29-note. 'You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien who sojourns among them. But how will this warning profit, if we cannot see what wilful sin is? 38BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE SHALL LIVE BY FAITH;         AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM. Calvin - He shows how severe a vengeance of God awaits all those who fall away from the grace of Christ; for being without that one true salvation, they are now as it were given up to an inevitable destruction. Counterfeit New Births - What the New Birth is Not! Before we get into this terrifying passage, we need to understand the main issue the writer is addressing and that is the issue of sinning willfully. Others, including my family, suffer consequences due to my sin. 24. It is Christ’s sacrifice or none.". In other words, the opposite would be apostasy. THERE NO LONGER REMAINS A SACRIFICE FOR SINS: ouketi peri hamartion apoleipetai (3PPPI) thusia: REJECTION OF CHRIST'S SACRIFICE How are we to know when we are guilty of it? One particular switch begins with just the thinnest piece of steel to direct a train away from one main track to another. Rather, it was necessitated by the famous “halfway” covenant, an earlier Puritan attempt to keep as many people as possible under the influence of the church, though they were not professed believers. And so what do we do? You cannot regulate his jaws: neither can you regulate sin. People don’t like to talk about it; in fact, they don’t admit its existence. When the law of God is taken into the heart, it is no longer something merely remembered: it is something, My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year, (New Year's Sermon.) But Brad and Susan had a terrible secret. The Septuagint uses esthio in a passage that is related to Hebrews 10:27…, Isaiah 26:11 O LORD, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it. They gave themselves to sin, indulging their desires without restraint, maybe even laughing at the thought of the law of God. A deliberate sin is not to be taken lightly. For the Levitical sacrifices are abolished. ), OF WILFUL SIN My sin never pleases but always grieves the God Who loves me. The author is saying that to make such a choice is to trample on the Son of God and to treat His shed blood as worthless. It quoted John 3:16 as follows: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only be-gotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall have eternal life.” It omitted ´shall not perish! His shoulders bobbed as he wept. You may protest, “But that’s the God of the Old Testament. I can think of no text that offers a more sobering look at the final reality of playing Christian than the one before us. While this should not be taken lightly for a believer, please note that this is NOT what the writer is talking about in this sobering passage. Paul records a NT account of the "certain terrifying expectation"…, For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. It was Templeton who recommended that Graham become the organization’s first evangelist. Any system that teaches the loss of salvation or penance to restore it is contrary to God’s free grace in Christ. And if it’s not true, we don’t want you. After a great earthquake, the sun turns black and the moon turns blood red. [Isa. But when we assemble here on this day, we surely do so in the belief that everything pleasant and joyful in our working and social life during the past year, for which we have had to thank God, had its source in nothing but the spiritual good, (Good Friday.) No Small Deviations in God's Economy! Many came to a saving knowledge of Christ that day. . They are sinful and, of course, do not believe in Christ, because they have never heard of Him or of His claims. I’ve discovered something in my ministry: When I take the Bible literally, when I proclaim it as the word of God, my preaching has power. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh: and having a great Priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in fulness of faith.'--Heb. And just as so man modern men still do, for men's depraved, wicked hearts have not changed! THIS day is usually regarded more as a secular and social than a religious holiday, and given up to the enjoyment of family and external relationships. They remained stubborn and defiant, self-satisfied with an outward form of religion; playing Christian we might say, without knowing the peril before them. It was time to change the tune, for the notes are very low in the scale, and with such hard usage, the strings of the harp are out of order: the next verse will surely be set to another key, or will rehearse a more joyful subject. W A Criswell adds that to "Sin willfully" is similar to the rebellion against God that is described in the O.T. Some, following The Shepherd of Hermas (ca., A.D. 140), argued that forgiveness could be obtained once after baptism, but no more. With that tears flooded his eyes. When one willingly or defiantly disobeyed God, there was no sacrifice for such apostasy. (Preaching the Word - Hebrews). But the Bible is clear that if we sin, God graciously forgives and cleanses us when we confess our sins (1Jn 1:7, 8, 9). KJV Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Second Edition. The person who spurns God’s grace in Christ deserves far greater punishment than physical death by stoning. 15.--"For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." And tough! (1 Th 5:19, Eph 4:30, Jdg 16:19,20), 17. Believers who commit such willful sins, will return to the Lord, for they are under too great a conviction to stay away permanently. 28Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. The Wisdom decides and declares what is to be: the Power secures the performance. (1) The least likely view is the Arminian view, that our text describes true believers who sin and lose their salvation. 13:8). I keep the Law. 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