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The argument of Hebrews 10 is so often missed in the conversations around verses 26-27.
“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.��
Let us consider the entire chapter.
V1 – The Law is a shadow of truth, that is Christ.
V2-8 – The Law of sacrifices cannot take away sin or guilt.
V10 – Christ replaces the law of sacrifice with his own sacrifice, trading the blood of animals for the blood of Christ.
V11-14 – Jewish priests continually sacrifice, yearly, because animal blood can’t forgive sin. Contrasted with Jesus’ blood which forgives sin once and for all, Jesus, who is affirmed as God’s priest and king forever.
V15-18 – God has given a new heart to believers, upon it written his law (which is the law of Christ’s sacrifice), and on account of that new law, God remembers their sin no more, being forgiven in Christ.
V19-22 Believers have the assurance of their forgiveness and can draw near to God (directly) because of the blood of Christ.
V23 – “Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.”
V24-25 – Encourage one another through this mutual faith to love and goodness.
V26-29
“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?”
The writer of Hebrews draws a contrasting parallel between the Law of Moses and the Law of Christ and His blood. Under the Law of Moses, if you sin, you offer a sacrifice for that sin. Under the Law of Christ, that sacrifice has already been made. If you, as a believer, have accepted the truth of God’s Son, that His sacrifice, that his blood has made payment for your sins, if you then return to the Law of Moses to offer sacrifices for your sins, or you look for some other means by which to attain God’s grace, you only have the fearful expectation of judgment, because you have rejected the God’s new covenant wherein the blood of Christ has the power to ACTUALLY forgive sins. You trade the blood of Jesus for the shadow, the system that by its own design and perpetuity, could not take away sins.
Verse 26 is sandwiched between a lengthy explanation that the Law of Moses did not take away sins, in fact, COULD NOT take away sins, verses 1-14. Jesus blood does, in fact, take away sins. Then verse 26. Then back into the same topic, being found guilty under the Law of Moses, versus being guilty under the Son of God. The same contrast. Verse 26 does not just show up without context. Of necessity, the verse CANNOT mean that believers never sin, ever. We sin all the time. This is a core part of RCC doctrine, hence the need for confession. Confession of what? Of sins. But a strict reading of v26 would have one believe that if believers continue to sin, there is no hope for them! The author of Hebrews has already rejected that conclusion. Jesus’ blood is the sacrifice for sins. For your sins yesterday. For your sins today. For your sins tomorrow. The believer has God’s law written on his heart and mind. This does not make the believer functionally perfect. If it did, then I dare say that no human since Christ has achieved that status and all remain under judgment. This is not true for the believer. This is the author��s point!
Verse 17-18 – “17Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” 18And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.“
Sins are forgiven in Christ. When a follower of Christ sins, no further forgiveness is needed, that sin has already been forgiven in the blood of Christ.
The deliberate sin, in light of the entire chapter, is not generic sins, violations of the Law of Moses. There is only one Law for the believer: Jesus Christ. This is God’s command, to believe in the name of his Son and to love one another. The end. This is the Law that God writes on the hearts of believers. To deliberately sin is to reject THAT Law, THAT covenant, namely that the blood of Christ has accomplished the work of forgiveness, that the believer stands justified before God by Jesus' blood alone. No further action is required of a believer than to believe in this promise, whereafter he is joined to Christ in faith. If a believer deliberately rejects this Law of faith, and returns to a system of continual sacrifices for the forgiveness of sins, then he has rejected the Son, His blood, which the author has already said,
“Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” 18And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.“
This is especially pointed for the RCC, who make the case that in order to enter into heaven, one must enter in a state of grace. That state of grace is granted by confessing sins to a priest who then offers absolution and penance. This, I dare say, is a rejection of Hebrews 10 in its entirety. Jesus blood forgives sins. The end. If you reject this, or worse, build something else on top of it to restrict that forgiveness behind systems, processes, institutions and acts of men, priest and penitent alike, you have created a new Law, similar to that of the Law of Moses. God offers salvation, by grace through faith, to those who believe in the name of Jesus Christ. If you reject that simple offer, there remains no sacrifice for sins for you. How could there? Animals couldn’t do it. Jesus’ blood did. And yet some reject that blood and seek after some other means of forgiveness. There is none. Only the fearful expectation of judgment that will consume all adversaries.
Who are the adversaries to God? Those who reject that Jesus is the Messiah, those who say that Jesus’ blood is not enough to forgive sins, that there exists something else, some other thing or person or process that must be followed in order for sins to be forgiven. Believers are not adversaries. Believers who sin are still not adversaries. The adversary is the same liar in 1 John 1:22 “Who is the liar, but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.” This is the same adversary in Hebrews 10, The adversary of God is the one who denies that the blood of Christ, the blood alone, forgives sins.
He who rejects that, or gatekeeps it behind human processes or institutions, he is the antichrist. He is the adversary who rejects the blood of Jesus. He is the one who deliberately sins, by rejecting God’s commandment, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased, believe in Him.”
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In life, I struggle, I suffer, I’m tempted, I’m tested, sometimes I feel so weak. But when I am weak, I am strong. Because Christ, He is my hope, He is my strength, He is a firm foundation that never fails. Jesus is worthy of it all. May He be glorified always, not just on the mountain tops, but even in the valleys.
“Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge.”
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I wrote on this last year. Anyone who cares to read….here it is:
Dates this far out are an attempt to put a gap between the event and the accounts so they can push the legend narrative.
John AT Robinson, a liberal theologian dated most of the new testament early. If liberal theologians dont get the gap they have to deal with the gospel accounts as historical record.
Marks gospel is based on peters eyewitness testimony. He is his scribe. Luke says he investigated what eyewitnesses had already handed down.
They didnt take a 40 year nap and then suddenly remember Jesus. The great commission sent them out immediately and the creed is the earliest summary of that message.
Soon after pentecost the risen Jesus appeared to saul of tarsus on the road to damascus….transforming him and leaving him temporarily blinded.
The Lord directed him to ananias who prayed for him…..restored his sight and baptized him (Acts 9:10–19).
Ananias feared paul because he was killing christians but Jesus told ananias that paul was his chosen instrument.
Immediately after his conversion paul began sharing his testimony of encountering the risen Christ wherever he went.
He says he didnt immediately meet with the apostles but first went to arabia. He then returned to damascus and 3 years later visited jerusalem where he spent 15 days with peter and also met james the Lords brother.
Many scholars believe this is when paul received the creed…either in damascus soon after his conversion or during that jerusalem visit dating it to a few months or a few years after the resurrection (30–33 AD).
The creed highlights the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Paul is the earliest source to cite it in 1 corinthians 15:3–7 where he says he received it and handed it on as of first importance.
1 corinthians was written 20 years after the crucifixion and the creed paul quotes in it is obviously older than the letter itself so we know it existed between 33-53AD.
In an oral culture that creed was a memorable summary of the message of the cross that was already being preached under the great commission.
The creed came first then the written gospels emerged rooted in eyewitness testimony. Matthew, mark and luke came first with john after.
Conservative scholars argue that the new testament (excluding rev) was completed before 70AD because none of the writings mention the destruction of the temple.
An event so massive it wouldve been referenced if those books were written afterward especially since Jesus prophesied its destruction in 33AD.
The gospels werent written by random anonymous people decades after the fact. They were written within the lifetime of the eyewitnesses.
It simply doesnt take 40–70 years to write 28, 16, 24 and 21 chapters. Even if matthew wrote one verse every one or two days (1071 verses) it would take 3–6 years to pen his account.
What teaching did the early followers of Christ devote themselves to?
Acts 2:42 says they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching: the Lords ministry, his teachings and the fulfillment of the old testament messianic prophecies.
Once the Holy Spirit came the apostles didnt take a vacation. Acts 2 says that peter preached on the day of pentecost.
They hit the ground running!
Jesus told the eleven apostles to teach and observe EVERYTHING he had commanded.
How exactly do you do that across cities, countries and generations without writing it down first?
The Holy Spirit not only empowered their witness but inspired them to write the new testament record.
From the beginning christians preserved the message of the resurrection through the old testament sriptures, oral tradition, eyewitness accounts and then the gospels and letters to the churches.
The core of the faith was proclaimed and transmitted in a remarkably short time by those who saw the risen Christ themselves.
Unto Jesus, not unto men
In our lives, Jesus wants to be Lord of all. Rev 3:16. What version of Jesus do you believe? The false preached Jesus that following doesn’t come with a cost? The one that keeps you comfortable, the one that keeps you just the way that you are? The one that tells you everything that you want to hear? Or the True and Risen Jesus? The one that calls you out of your comfort? The one that calls you to give up your sinful and selfish will? The one that calls you to sacrifice? The one that does come with a cost and calls you to fully surrender and submit to Him no matter the cost? The True and Risen Jesus is who we should all desire to believe and follow. Not the American version, the watered down version, or the Jesus we made up in our mind. But the true Biblical version. Because that Jesus is the one that lives and sits on the throne, the only one that can save, the one that heals, and the one that transforms.
“Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:31-32