Hard Sayings of the Bible: Walter C. Kaiser Jr. Hebrews 6:4-8 When Repentance Becomes Impossible, Take about 45 minutes and listen to Max Maclean's reading of the sermon with about 4 minute introduction by R C Sproul - if you dare, give it a listen -. Susan had a beautiful voice and sang specials in the church. I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord. the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men (2Pe 3:7-note). For the Levitical sacrifices are abolished. It is a pestilent disease! 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. 2 Timothy 3:7-note always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. We are also forced to admit that some of our sin is deliberate. And tough! 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." I acknowledged my sin unto Thee. Here are a few examples to ponder…. But Brad and Susan had a terrible secret. This neglect of Christian fellowship is at once the indication of that indifference which is so dangerous, and the cause of further backsliding. Wheelock reported to a friend that these "thoughtless and vain" people were changed before the sermon ended so that they were "bowed down with an awful conviction of their sin and danger. If you are, then you need to remember the fate of the man with the pet boa constrictor (Do a Google search - use the following three words in your search keeping the quotation marks as written >> "pet boa" killed). (Da 5:6-note, Da 5:30-note), At the breaking of the fourth seal we see the God rejecting world's fearful reaction…, And the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; 17 for the great day of their wrath has come; and who is able to stand?" —Fitzhugh What could one say about him except that this was a form of greatness?”. The Epistle of Hebrews was written to a group of at-risk Jewish Christians who were tempted to turn away from Christ because of severe persecution. A TERRIFYING JUDGMENT I HAVE, in several Discourses, shewn you, from plain and uncontestible Passages of the New Testament, what those Terms and Conditions are, upon which Almighty God will finally pardon, accept, and justify, those professed Christians, who have been, in any Sense, or any Degree, Several Discourses Concerning the Terms of Acceptance with God. Don't harbor that sin, buried deep in the tent floor of your heart. Shouting was not Edwards’s style. The effect of the sermon was immediate. 26, 27For if we sin wilfully, after that we have received the Knowledge of the Truth, there remained, no more Sacrifice for Sin: but a certain fearful looking for of Judgment, and fiery Indignation, which shall devour the Adversaries. 24. 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! What is the “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” sermon? (cp Jesus' teaching of "degrees" of punishment proportional to the amount of light - Mt 11:21, 22, 23, 24). . John Piper Apr 13, 1997 423 Shares Sermon. The only options are: Christ or judgment. As Hughes says (p. 426), “So far from escaping from God, the apostate falls into the hands of the living God: he abandons God as his Savior only to meet him as his Judge.” So the author concludes, “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” He is trying, quite literally, to scare the hell out of them! Are you playing loosely with this perilous process of deliberately turning from the gospel of Christ? When pressure comes to turn away from Christ due to persecution or temptation to sin (Ed: Mk 4:7, 18, 19), he shows his true colors by repudiating his faith in Christ. In whirlwind and storm is His way, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet. In time, sin always brings heaviness to my heart. And yet this is just your case. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. Charles Spurgeon tells about a church that was asked to accept as their minister a man who did not believe in hell. 'You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien who sojourns among them. 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." Hebrews 10:24-25 gives four biblical reasons why Christian assembly is a requirement for every follower of Jesus Christ. This is a serious and hopefully sobering warning. The Apostle John (Rev. 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. 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." In the rejecting of Christ's sacrifice, they discover that there is no other acceptable sacrifice for sin. We find there a twofold treatment of the supremely important event which we commemorate, ROMANS ix. It is doing what one what one wants to do even when he knows it is wrong. Anyone who confesses and forsakes his sins has the assurance that God not only forgives but forgets (Heb 10:17). 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? And yet within two years after the European tour, in about 1948 Templeton’s life and worldview was beginning to go in a different direction than Graham’s (who obviously had resolved his doubts about the authority of the Scriptures). Spurgeon, Vol. . I believe the Genesis account of creation because it’s in the Bible. The person who spurns God’s grace in Christ deserves far greater punishment than physical death by stoning. But first let’s back up! If ever the devil had an agent, I have been that one. Many came to a saving knowledge of Christ that day. They said, “You have come to tell us that there is no hell. After a person leaves God, it makes little difference where he then goes. If such an spiritual transaction has not occurred, then such a person should be very careful to perform a self-examination (cp 2Cor 13:5+) to be absolutely certain there is tangible evidence a person is a possessor of Christ and not simply professor of Christ. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. Everything depends on where we carry the law of the Lord. 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. Subject: File Descriptions: Author: HEB 1:1-11:4: Sermon Series by Gil Rugh (Senior Pastor, Indian Hills Community Church, Lincoln, Nebraska): A captain of a ship, sailing between two harbours on a rocky coast, was once asked by an anxious passenger if the coast was not very dangerous. "By one Offering He Hath Perfected Forever them that are Sanctified" (Heb. He is there because of his own sinful choices. . A thought is never secure until it has passed from the mind into the heart, and has become a desire, an aspiration, a passion. 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+!) This is the will of God, even your sanctification.' Christ, help me! Others, including my family, suffer consequences due to my sin. Have you so vain an imagination as to dream that there will be a second ransom offered for those who have not escaped the wrath to come, and that God the Holy Ghost will again come and strive with sinners who willfully rejected Him? He knew the Lord intimately. If the Law of Moses had stiff penalties for disregarding it, the penalty will be much greater for spurning the Son of God who fulfilled the Law (Heb 10:28-29-note). Having Him I have obedience, rest, patience and everything I need. And was he not afraid? After layering one truth on top of another in explaining the supremacy of Jesus Christ in his person and sufficiency in his redemptive work, our writer gives a series of summarizing applications. The sermon was not new to Edwards since he had preached it previously in his own church of Northampton, MA. We would therefore expect similar attitudes toward forgiveness of sin. Had he believed, he would have become an apostle. All Rights Reserved. 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