That is a false teaching which goes against a flood of Bible passages that teach eternal security (read Jesus' promise in Jn 10:27-29, etc). (1 Jn 3:9+). from the faith in Christ as Savior. "Then they will begin TO SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS, 'FALL ON US,' AND TO THE HILLS, 'COVER US.' You don’t want to go there! Provoking Each Other to Love and Good Works. Hebrews 10:1. Wuest: but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which is about to be devouring the adversaries. Epígnosis always describes moral and religious knowledge in the NT and especially refers to full and comprehensive knowledge of God’s will that rests on the knowledge of God and of Christ found today in His Word. He is alive forevermore. And so we see a living example of Hebrews 6:4-6+! iv. God is not just a little bit angry, but passionate with fury! But his secret was now public and there was no turning back. him!”. Andrew Murray. 1. It describes an abiding state of willful, deliberate sinning! A total of 18 percent of clergy said they visit sexually explicit Web sites between a couple of times a month and more than once a week. It is very easy to select a meaning, and then to say, that is what the text means, and very easy also to look at something which lies upon the surface; but I am not quite so sure that after several hours of meditation any brother would be able to ascertain what is the Spirit's. Maybe they viewed His death as a noble tragedy, but nothing more. The stars fall to earth and the sky splits apart. This is the will of God, even your sanctification.' The severe admonition of this warning, and all others in Scripture, is God’s means to ensure our perseverance. Ponder these passages…. Wild animals remain wild and so does Sin. First, we will read, mark, and learn it; and then, secondly, we will ask God's grace that we may inwardly digest it. Kingdom Compassion and the Killing of Children Sanctity of Life Sunday. “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who for-gives iniquity, transgression and sin.” [So far, we all cheer, “Yeah! Another anecdote about Edward's sermon... Jonathan Edwards started a sermon that he did not finish. When the High Priest once a year entered into the second tabernacle within the veil, it was, we are told in the Epistle to the Hebrews, 'the Holy Ghost signifying that the way into the …Andrew Murray—Holy in Christ, Twenty-Sixth Day. 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Had he believed, he would have become an apostle. He sits down, and He will not rise for any further sacrifice. F. F. Bruce points out that they refer to people who have deliberately abandoned reliance on the perfect sacrifice of Christ. JESUS NEVER, EVER KNEW THEM!) Leaving the fellowship and repudiating the sacrifice of Christ does not remove them from judgment, but rather, places them squarely in line for judgment! Jan 21, 1990. How foolish you are who are looking for signs and wonders or else you will not believe. Those who do this are like those in Hebrews 6. 1Cor 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God (cp Jn 3:3, 4, 5, 3:36)? He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. As an aside one day in glory we will in fact attain sinless perfection forever and ever. 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. The use of the title, “Son of God,” seems “to indicate that the form of apostasy in view involves a scornful denial of the deity of Christ” (Philip Hughes, A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews [Eerdmans], p. 422). This phrase describes an anger (zeal, jealousy) marked by fire. "Every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but this man," or priest--for the word "man" is not in the original "after he had offered one sacrifice for sins," had finished his work, and for ever, he "sat down." Believers who commit such willful sins, will return to the Lord, for they are under too great a conviction to stay away permanently. 'Lo, I am come to do Thy will. (Nu 15:29, 30). The only options are: Christ or judgment. So either way, we can do without you” (Spurgeon's Expository Encyclopedia [Baker], 10:149; slightly edited). He has promised sanctification for you by coming to you Himself and being made of God to you sanctification. And if it’s not true, we don’t want you. The word deliberate (as an adjective) means that which is characterized by or results from careful and thorough consideration. A kind, generous man offers to take this man to the hospital, pay all of his bills, and then to bequeath on him all that he would ever need in life. In 1986 he published his spiritual memoir entitled “Farewell to God – My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith.” In this book he described his pilgrimage from Christian faith to agnosticism to atheism. Do not be deceived (suggesting some were being deceived - the teaching that you can be saved and live any way you please is not the true gospel of grace! After having received the experimental knowledge of the gospel truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins - None but that which we obstinately reject. . Of the five warnings given in Hebrews, the one in this passage is by far the most serious and sobering. My sin never pleases but always grieves the God Who loves me. (Is 26:11). As he was escorted into a cell of his own making, the contractor said, “I never dreamed when I built this prison that I would be an inmate one day.” (cp Nu 32:23, Pr 5:22-note), TWENTY REASONS NOT TO SIN! Adversaries (5227) (hupenantios from hupo = intensifies + enantios = contrary > cp wind as contrary = Mt14:24 or people as hostile toward = 1Th 2:15) literally means set over against or opposite and thus an apt description of those who are opposed or contrary, those who are hostile toward another. When the author says, “if we go on sinning willfully,” he is not talking about the “normal” sins that every believer commits. In Heb 10:28, the author states what every Jew knew well: If a person brazenly defied the Law of Moses, he or she was to be stoned to death on the evidence of two or three witnesses (Deut. If this is an accurate description of the human condition, then Hebrews 10:26 is very disturbing. Brad was a bible teacher and had taught Sunday school at their former church. What is the “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” sermon? God help us to believe them with our whole heart, and to exhort one another, if so be we may save some, snatching them out of the fire! But they have developed a “sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God” (Heb 3:12). Ed comment: In fact then, Voltaire did in one sense, like the demons, seem to believe and yet he rejected the life transforming heart reception of that belief, just as did some of the readers of the epistle of Hebrews! Now in v29, the one who would despise the person of Jesus and His ministry as High Priest is worthy of even greater judgment. It is Christ’s sacrifice or none.". The only sure way of being kept from wilful sin is to keep far from all sin. His shoulders bobbed as he wept. And then we "fast forward" to about 1957, when Templeton would publicly declare that he had become an agnostic! Charles Spurgeon tells about a church that was asked to accept as their minister a man who did not believe in hell. (Luke 21:25,26), Jesus foretold the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD and the terrifying expectation…, But Jesus turning to them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. But his heart has not been transformed by God’s saving grace (Ed: Jn 3:3, 5). He is there because of his own sinful choices. If that is in fact the meaning, this verse should cause terror and despair rather than mere concern. Texts: 2 Samuel 11:1-17. God's hand is very helpful when it uplifts, but it is awful when it presses down: better a world on the shoulder, like Atlas, than God's hand on the heart, like David. Each Saturday evening, the audience heard what one reporter referred to as “old-fashioned repent-and-be-saved gospel preaching.” Drawing on traditional evangelical Protestantism, Templeton urged young men and women to confess their sins, accept Christ as their Savior, and, with the Holy Spirit’s help, live a life pleasing to God. As Spurgeon said “Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross”. Selah. We would therefore expect similar attitudes toward forgiveness of sin. In time, sin always brings heaviness to my heart. The atoning sacrifice of Jesus, our great High Priest, is set forth first by way of contrast; then its character is described; and, then, thirdly, its consequences are mentioned. Having noted the adequacy of Christ’s sacrifice in Hebrews 10:1–18, he urges the readers to draw near to God with confidence (Heb 10:19–22). It is doing what one what one wants to do even when he knows it is wrong. If willful sinning is an individual's lifestyle, then that individual needs to be very honest with himself or herself and ask "Is my Christian profession really a possession of Christ?" by Frank Gaebelein [Zondervan], 2:830). most of our sins are willful! O Lord, how this message needs to be sounded forth boldly from the pulpits across America as so many I fear are deceived by their profession as indicated by their absence of a changed life. It had survived fourteen lightning strikes and many years of Colorado winters, including avalanches and fires. I adore him!” . On today's episode of ask Theocast, I'm going to be seeking to answer a question from one of our listeners, Zach, who asks about Hebrews chapter 10, verse 26, which says this: "If we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins." Come, then, first of all to THE READING, MARKING, AND LEARNING OF IT; and you will observe that in it there are three things very clearly stated. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure! All rights reserved), The price of sin is very high 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. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I’ve ever encountered in my life or in my readings. Every apostate is an unbeliever, but not every unbeliever is an apostate. The have become apostates, those who have abandoned what they previously professed. Even though he has been issuing this strong warning, the author has all along included himself with his readers by using the first person plural (“Let us,” Heb 10:22, 23, 24; “we,” 10:26, 30). I keep the Law. They have deserted Jesus and His promise of a better covenant and departed only to return to the obsolete covenant of the law practices by Judaism. Do not be deceived (Stop being deceived)! And so what do we do? That is, we do not deliberately set out to sin, but we know in ourselves that some deed or activity is wrong (at least for us, if not for everyone), yet we stifle our consciences and do it anyway. - Are you being deceived by sin and tolerating it like a pet? When through neglect I failed to confess, or through despair dared not do so, my bones, those solid pillars of my frame, the stronger portions of my bodily constitution, waxed old, began to decay with weakness, for my grief was so intense as to sap my health and destroy my vital energy. 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). Briefly …Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 18: 1872, Christ ExaltedThe Apostle shews here the superiority of Christ's sacrifice over that of every other priest. In 1945 Templeton met Billy Graham and the two became friends, rooming and ministering together during a 1946 YFC evangelistic tour in Europe (Click to see the photographs and go to the bottom of the page to see how large the gatherings were). Phil Newton applies the idea of the present tense which indicates habitual or continuous action to make the important point that "Apostasy does not happen overnight. Furthermore, deliberately hardening one’s conscience and disobeying God could start one on the way to this outright rejection of the faith. They had known about the way of life, but they had not chosen to "receive" (Jn 1:11, 12) the truth. 9 And these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 10 when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed-- for our testimony to you was believed. In the course of our conversation I said, “But, Billy, it’s simply not possible any longer to believe, for instance, the biblical account of creation. 24. Shedd—Sermons to the Natural Man, The Only Atoning PriestI purpose, this morning, to handle the text thus. Then I shall go to hell and you will go with me.". 16-22. Sin invites the discipline of God. In the rejecting of Christ's sacrifice, they discover that there is no other acceptable sacrifice for sin. Titus 1:16-note They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny (deny is present tense = this speaks of one's lifestyle, the habitual practices of one's life - their lips lie, but their actions tell the truth about their unregenerate heart) Him, being detestable (bdekluktos from bdelusso = to emit a foul odor in turn from bdeo = to stink!) (cf 1 Cor 5:9-13), 14. ,” he stuttered, searching for the right word, ‘I know it may sound strange, but I have to say . But you may as well ask the lion to let you put your head into his mouth. To speak about God’s terrifying future judgment is not pleasant, but it is necessary, since the Bible clearly teaches that it will happen. Scripture: Hebrews 3:12–14, Hebrews 10:23–25. One of the most disturbing truths highlighted in the study is that these preachers maintain their position as pastors of Christian churches with their congregations being unaware of their leader’s true spiritual state. Blatant defiance of the word of the LORD is dealt with differently. It is not those who are notorious sinners. He has perfected His work. It also conveys the idea of an intimate and personal relationship than the simple term. Come down.” Then he said a weight was lifted off and “an ineffable warmth began to suffuse every corpuscle of his body.” That was 1936. For the next twenty years, he devoted himself to bringing about the same experience in the lives of others. But Brad and Susan had a terrible secret. It is not that such deliberate sinners (or apostates) did not know the truth. Take upon thee the burden of those who are asleep, and plead with Christ to use thee to warn and to save them. It was not a momentary lapse, a struggle because of pressure from family or culture that was the problem. There are two kinds of forgiveness, judicial and parental. Hebrews 4, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary is from the most widely read and often quoted preacher in history, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Jdg 16:25-27, Ps 35:15, Ps 69:12), 9. 1 Timothy 2:4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. The Holiest of All, Hebrews 10:27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. FOLLOWING MAY HAVE SOME REPETITION. see Titus 3:11+) YOU WHO PRACTICE (present tense - willfully, deliberately, continually) LAWLESSNESS.’ (Mt 7:21+, Mt 7:22-23+) And Jesus adds " ‘Depart (command) from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels." Any sin called for rebuke and restoration or, if unrepented of, discipline (see Mt 18:15–20; 1 Cor 5:1–5). Comment: One's perseverance does not earn their salvation but it does show that person is saved because only a born again person (enabled by the indwelling Spirit) could persevere to the end. The world was not created over a period of days a few thousand years ago; it has evolved over millions of years. Surely this was a small act, unlike murder or even theft. Instead put it under the blood! But how, if the rocks are so dangerous? There are still arguments to be put forward and evidence to be shown. It will affect your family, your home, your spiritual inheritance, and your purpose in life. Hebrews 10:1. ), because no one has ever lived without sin after salvation! Yet even so, some were forsaking the assembly of the church and returning to Judaism (Hebrews 10:25). After a person leaves God, it makes little difference where he then goes. In his writings he advocated adultery and suicide, and for more than 20 years he lived in licentiousness. 18. He was angry. I began to see all of life differently. John Piper Apr 13, 1997 423 Shares Sermon. (Ge 39:9, Ezek 6:9, Eph 4:30), 5. Are you playing loosely with this perilous process of deliberately turning from the gospel of Christ? A thought is never secure until it has passed from the mind into the heart, and has become a desire, an aspiration, a passion. Although the apostates had formerly been associated with God’s people, their rebellion has put them on the side of God’s adversaries (Heb 10:27). “But that is not the point. x. God said to, I purpose, this morning, to handle the text thus. Heretics would not so be presented, only true believers. He was a moral genius. In Hebrews 12:25-note we see another allusion to "no escape"…. Does this (apostasy) happen today? Apart from the many problems with non-lordship salvation, in our text the judgment is described as “the fury of a fire that will consume the adversaries” (Heb 10:27-note). 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.) I believe the Genesis account of creation because it’s in the Bible. The declarative will is only one side; its complement, the executive will, is the living energy in which everything good has its …Andrew Murray—Holy in Christ, June the Fourteenth the Law in the Heart"I will put My laws into their hearts." To reiterate, these are NOT those willful sins most believers commit, but the immediate context defines this sin as one that continually forsakes the only means of grace God provides for salvation. 55:58. Only “after we have received the knowledge of the truth” is such an action so serious. Along with Oswald J. Smith, as well as several American evangelists and church leaders, he formed Youth for Christ International and led some of the largest weekly Youth for Christ gatherings in North America. his transgressions will not prosper (Be profitable, succeed. Some evangelicals have denied the doctrine of hell as being “morally repugnant” and not worthy of God. But it was eventually brought down from within by a tiny insect that did its work silently. . I was taken aback. THERE NO LONGER REMAINS A SACRIFICE FOR SINS: ouketi peri hamartion apoleipetai (3PPPI) thusia: REJECTION OF CHRIST'S SACRIFICE “To regard as unclean” means, literally, “to treat as common.” It may refer to partaking of communion even though his faith was not genuine, and so profaning the cup representing the blood of the covenant (Hughes, p. 423). That’s young Billy Graham! (Mt 25:41). (NLT - Tyndale House), Phillips: Now if we sin deliberately after we have known and accepted the truth, there can be no further sacrifice for sin for us (Phillips: Touchstone). Hebrews 10:26-39 “Persevere” Aux. They remained stubborn and defiant, self-satisfied with an outward form of religion; playing Christian we might say, without knowing the peril before them. Call to Worship: Psalm 100 . TEXT: HEB. Proverbs 28:13 (in depth commentary) He who conceals (intentionally, actively covering over sin so as to keep secret, cp Adam and Eve in Ge 3:7, 8, 10+!) 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." I once conducted a funeral where I got to the service and read the little bulletin that the mortuary prints up. First, we will read, mark, and learn it; and then, secondly, we will ask God's grace that we may inwardly digest it. Sin may keep me from qualifying for spiritual leadership. His ethical sense was unique. (The Peril of Playing Christian), Wuest - This sin is described as a wilful sin. This judgment was usually reserved for “big” sins, such as denial of the faith under persecution, murder, idolatry, and sexual sins. Raymond Brown said that theirs is not a single act of falling away, but a state of willful, determined renunciation of all dependence on Christ’s atoning work. So let's first look in the mirror and see how this relates to genuine, born again believers, which is most of you reading this commentary. It is not only the Holiest of All that is set wide open for us; the gate of hell is opened wide, too, to receive all who neglect or refuse to enter the gate of mercy and of heaven. What could one say about him except that this was a form of greatness?”. x. We can only tremble at the thought of the judgment awaiting them and take care that we stay far away from the slope that leads down into that pit. The passive voice as used here in Hebrews means to be reserved or to remain, to be left over. (Rev 6:15-note, Rev 6:16-note, Rev 6:17-note), We see the certain expectation of the demons when confronted by Jesus…, And behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with You, Son of God? Hebrews 10:26, 27. Twenty-Sixth Day. During the 1950’s Templeton preached in 14 countries including to some crowds as large as 70,000. As you study this difficult and disturbing passage, ask your Teacher the Spirit of Truth to lead you into all the Truth (Jn 14:26, 16:13, 1Jn 2:27, 1Cor 2:12), R Kent Hughes gives a superb introduction to this difficult passage - It is commonly thought by those who have only a passing recognition of Jonathan Edwards that his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was preached with sadistic glee to his bewildered congregation. It - `` if we sin wilfully after that we are saved, sin always brings heaviness my... 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