This is a VERY Important post for my Hebraic friends. Frightening really! "!!!!Heb. 10:26-29, 39 “For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?” This passage is referring to believers (Hebrew Christians), as can be seen from 10:19, 20 (brethren, who have access into the holiest by the new and living way – Christ); 10:21, 22 (only believers have a High Priest and are invited to draw near in full assurance); 10:23-25 (they are told to hold fast their profession, and to attend the assembly of the saints, and to exhort one another in view of the coming Christ); and 10:30-33 (He will judge His people; and the persecution they suffered for their testimony). There is no break at this point (10:26-29) in the line of reasoning. The writer is still talking to believers. As in the explanation for the Heb. 6:4-6 passage, Judaism continued to exert a pull upon many Hebrew Christians and caused them to consider abandoning Christianity in order to return to Judaism and its O.T. sacrifices. If these Hebrew believers failed to heed the knowledge which they had concerning their position in Christ and the accompanying exhortations to go on to maturity, and instead apostatized, then they would be sinning willfully. It could not be called a sin of ignorance, but a willful sin. However, the Old Testament system (Judaism) to which they were tempted to return had no sacrifice for willful sin, only judgment. The writer is not here teaching that there would be no forgiveness in Christ, but that these Hebrew believers were talking about going back to a religious system (Judaism) that had no provision for the forgiveness of presumptuous (defiant) sin, committed willfully and deliberately with full knowledge!!"
Posted on: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:15:43 +0000
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