Tried With Fire

From my notes on Pastor Ryan's sermon on Hebrews 10:26-31: - Those who are Christ's will not lose their salvation. - This describes those who outwardly accept the Gospel but inwardly are devoid of the Gospel. - If the Gospel of grace has taken hold of us, it will change us. - Sinning deliberately is a setting aside of the Gospel. "I am not going to change. I am not going to embrace what Christ says I need to embrace." By denying the Gospel, we stand in open judgment. - If you reject Christ, you are rejecting the only true sacrifice for sin . There is no other sacrifice. There is no other sacrifice that will avail. - It is a rejection of the Son, rejection of His work, rejection of His Spirit. Pastor Ryan used the example from Zechariah 3 of Joshua standing before the Angel of the Lord with Satan accusing him. The Angel of the Lord removes his filthy garments and clothes him in clean garments. Pastor Ryan said that a rejection of Christ would be as if we were stan...

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 spurned 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 This was the text from today's sermon . This afternoon, my daughter and I talked about the sermon for a long time. It was a very sobering message. We couldn't listen to it and not think of her dad. Although only God knows the true state of his heart...