"These [in Berea] were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so." - Acts 17:11
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Hebrews 10:26-29 - Understanding the Unpardonable Sin and Rejecting His Sacrifice

(26) For if we willfully go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins, (27) But a terrifying expectation of inevitable judgment and of fierce fire, which will devour the adversaries of God. (28) Consider this: anyone who rejects the law of Moses dies without mercy under the testimony of two or three witnesses. (29) How much worse punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, as an unholy thing, and has scorned the Spirit of grace?

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This is what the unpardonable sin ultimately accomplishes. Through willfully practicing sin, the sinner rejects the very basis of his covenant with God, the blood of Jesus Christ. If one deeply appreciates and values His sacrifice, he will not willfully practice the very actions that made that sacrifice necessary. God forgives with the understanding that the one forgiven has turned from sin and will continue to overcome it.

When God designed this creation, He considered His purpose along with our free-moral agency. He concluded that He had to devise a payment for sin so profound in its implications that the heirs of salvation, out of overwhelming gratitude, would drive themselves from sin. Such a price of redemption could not be the death of any common person or animal, for these have neither the worth nor the ability to pay for all sin. Only the sacrifice of the sinless God-man, Jesus Christ, could meet these qualifications.

What we see in Hebrews 10:26-29 is the end of a person who, by the very conduct of his life, reveals his pitiful assessment of that sacrifice. The author makes a three-fold indictment against this person. First, he repudiates the oath taken at baptism. Second, he contemptuously rejects Christ. Third, he commits an insulting outrage against the merciful judgment of God.

— John W. Ritenbaugh

To learn more, see:
Christ, Our Passover



 

Topics:

Gratitude

Jesus Christ's Sacrifice

Overcoming

Redemption

Sacrifice

Sin

Sin, Willful

Unpardonable Sin




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