“For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ And again, ‘The Lord will judge his people.’ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:26-31 ESV)
This passage of Scripture directly follows after some instructions on spiritual cleanliness in relation to our faith in Jesus Christ and to our salvation from sin, and on the subject of us Christians stirring one another up to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, but encouraging (exhorting) one another, and all the more as we see the Day of judgment or the Day of our Lord’s return drawing near. So this is to clarify for us, even in more depth, what it means to be saved from our sins and to have eternal life with God, and who that does not apply to, even if they profess faith in Christ.
And this is important that we understand what this is teaching us, especially in our day and age, for it appears that in our Christian culture today that many have rebelled against the Lord’s teachings on the subject of salvation from sin and eternal life with God, and they have recreated the gospel message by diluting it and altering it and lessening the message of it in order to appease human flesh and to not offend the ungodly of the world. And so this modern gospel message is giving carte blanche to professers of faith in Jesus Christ to continue living in sin, only now without feeling guilt.
So, even though you will hear many messages today which tell us that we can believe in Jesus (rarely biblically defined), have all our sins forgiven, be on our way to heaven, and that it can’t be taken away from us, regardless of how we live, that is not the gospel that Jesus taught, and it is not the gospel that his NT apostles taught. For they taught the necessity of dying with Christ to sin, not just once, but daily, and of walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice, if we are going to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God in heaven.
And they taught that if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment and of the fires of hell. And it does not matter what our lips have professed. For Jesus said that if we call him “Lord” but we don’t do what he says, we will not enter the kingdom of heaven. His apostles taught the same, that if we say we are in fellowship with God or that we know him, but we still walk in sin, and we don’t obey him, then we are liars. For if sin is our practice, hell is our eternal destiny, not heaven.
[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]
So, don’t be fooled by those who are telling you that you can believe in Jesus (not biblically defined) and now all your sins are forgiven and heaven is guaranteed you and it cannot be taken away from you, but regardless of how you live. Please read the above Scriptures in their context, and you will see that Jesus and his NT apostles taught the opposite of that. Somewhere along the line of time someone created this false and cheapened form of the true gospel so that sinners could feel assured of heaven as their eternal destiny while they continued in deliberate and habitual sin against God.
That is not of God, but of the devil who has gotten so many people to believe his gospel and to reject the true gospel as the lie, which is absolutely a sad reality. For many people are being promised forgiveness of all sins and heaven guaranteed them when they die while nothing really changes in their hearts and lives, but while they continue living in sin and not in walks of obedience to the Lord, and not in holy living. And one day we will all stand before God and he is going to say to some professing Christians, “I never knew you. Depart from me you workers of lawlessness” (Matthew 7:21-23).
Broken Cord
An Original Work / August 29, 2018
Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is separate from Him.
Your words not matching your actions today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.
Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,
For you profess one thing, but other you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to what you confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.
Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord God.
Because of how you live, you are a fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life to God.
