Hebrews 10:26-29 BSB
“26If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, 27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries. 28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?”
If We Deliberately Go On Sinning
Many people brush over this passage of Scripture because
they don’t like what it says, or else they will try to explain it away to say
something different from what it is saying, because they don’t want to believe
what it teaches. But this is taught all throughout the New Testament Scriptures
by Jesus and by Paul and by the other New Testament apostles. Different
wording, perhaps, but the same message. We can’t just accept Jesus as our Lord
and Savior and then immediately dismiss the real reason that he died.
For in Jesus’ death and resurrection he put our sins to
death with him and he rose in victory over our sin so that, by faith in him, we
will now deny self, die to sin daily, and walk (in conduct, in practice)
according to his commands. For the purpose of his death on that cross was not
just to forgive us our sins and to give us eternal life with God, but it was to
deliver us out from our addiction to sin so we will now follow him in walks of
surrender to him, in obedience to his commands, by God’s grace, in the power of
God within us.
And yet we have many people today teaching the opposite of
this within the gatherings of “the church.” And they are teaching people that
all they have to do is to “pray the prayer” to receive Christ, or to say that
he is Lord, and to believe in Jesus’ death and bodily resurrection (taught out
of context), and now they are saved, done deal, nothing else required. But
Jesus taught that to come after him we must deny self, take up our cross daily
(die daily to sin and to self), and follow him in obedience to his commands.
Progressive Salvation
But this isn’t only about right after someone receives the
gospel message and then they go on sinning. This includes them returning to
addictive sin at any time throughout their lives, and if they do not repent,
and if they do not return to Christ prior to their death or prior to Christ’s
return. For they have chosen their sin over God. And the Scriptures make it
quite clear that if sin is what we obey, if it is our habit (addiction) that we
keep returning to over again, and not God’s commands, we will not inherit
eternal life with God.
And why is this so? Because we are not “once saved always
saved” as many would have you believe. For our salvation is a process of
salvation which we must continue in to the very end if we want to have eternal
life with God. For, as followers of Christ, we are saved (past), we are being
saved (present active), and we will be saved (future) when our Lord returns.
But all this is dependent on us continuing in the faith, in walks of surrender
to the Lord, in obedience to his commands, and no longer as slaves to sin,
until the end.
[Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew
24:9-14; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:24; Romans 13:11; 1 Corinthians
1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-2; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians
5:3-6; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 10:19-39; 1 Peter 1:5,9; 1 John
3:4-10]
Hebrews 10:30-31 BSB
30For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
So, please take this seriously! This is nothing to trifle
with. Don’t listen to those preachers who are telling you that all you have to
do is to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now you are good to go
for eternity. Read the Scriptures in their appropriate context. If you,
although you make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, are living in
deliberate and habitual sin, as a matter of practice, and obedience to God and
to his commands is not your practice, you will NOT have eternal life with God.
Don’t play around!
Follow Him
Based off Luke 9:22-25
An Original Work / February 21, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Jesus, Son of God,
Died for us on a
cross.
Anyone who would
come to Him
Must deny himself
and follow.
He must take up his
cross daily;
Die to sin and self
each day.
Father, God above,
Loved us so: gave
His Son.
If you want to save
your old life;
Keep on sinning,
follow your ways,
You will lose your
life forever;
Hope of heaven gone
away.
Spirit of our God
Gives us life in
God’s Son.
Nonetheless, if you
die to self;
Forsake your sin;
follow Jesus,
You will live with
God in heaven,
And forever praise
His name!
Have You Trampled on The Son of God?
An Original Work / July 7, 2026
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