-Hebrews
6:4-6; 10:26 My pastor scares
me about sinning when he uses these scriptures? This has really depressed
me as I fear of losing my salvation.
Before we get into what Paul
is saying in these scriptures about the
matchless sacrifice of Emmanuel
the Christ,
let's look at our part.
Paul throughout the book
of Hebrews is making a comparison between the Old
Testament.old
covenant sacrifices and its priesthood and the New
Testament.new
covenant much greater sacrifice and much greater priesthood of Christ.
Hebrews
10:1,2 talks of the 'once purged from sin' effect of having no need
to again worry if one had later sinned. Christ's sacrifice was so great
that it covered all sins of everyone, for all time, past present and future.(Hebrews
9:26,28; 10:14,17;
Romans
6:10) (perhaps later also see 'Sin
No Longer Counts').whereas
the sacrifices under the First or old covenant could not accomplish this:.Hebrews
10:2-4,8.
We already
have forgiveness of sins. So Christ came.(see
'Why Christ Came').to
take this inferior covenant away.(Hebrews
10:9).and
establish the much better one.(Hebrews
9:10,14), the one in which Christ's
sacrifice took care of all sin forever:.Hebrews
10:12.
Because of what Christ has
done, Creator-Father-God no longer is
interested in sinful man and is pursuing the rest of His plan of redemption.(Hebrews
9:12; Colossians 1:14; Ephesians
1:7), having dispensed
with what has already been done in His plan of redemption, the removal
of sin once and for all and exchanging
sin.(Isaiah
53:6).for
the free gift of righteousness given to
all, even those who don't know that yet.
Hebrews
10:17,18 tells us that because of Christ's incredibly important sacrifice,
that no other offering for sin was ever again needed as was necessary
annually under the old covenant:.Hebrews
10:3. That is because His sacrifice was so much greater, that
it didn't just cover sin, as the sacrifices did under the old covenant,
but it eradicated
all sin, past present and future. It eradicated its effects,
that is regarding
God, that is, if one believes that it has.
Belief is
so important. That's why it takes faith
to believe. Once that sacrifice, actually
a gift.(*),
has been applied to you.(you
accept it, that's it), you are thereafter
always and forever holy,
perfect
and
righteous in the Father's eyes.
Because of all this, we can
now have boldness in a relationship
with the Father and not be fearful and get
depressed
over sins still in our lives:.Hebrews
10:19-24; 1John 2:1.
The sin.(original
for word 'sin' is 'missing the mark').now
is not realizing that you are righteous in the Father's eyes and can have
a confident relationship with Him thanks to Christ.(1John
5:10-15).and
that other sins no longer cause any death penalty and cannot take away
your salvation:.1John
5:17.
Once
born
of God.(by
believing
in Emmanuel the Christ and wanting a relationship with the Father).the
sinning part of us no longer counts, as 1John
5:17 shows that we know that we are now in possession of the gift of
righteousness:.Romans
5:17.
So Hebrews
10:26 is saying that if we sin willfully.(know
to do better but don't).after
we have received this knowledge, realize that there is none other sacrifice
than the one of Christ that has taken care of sin.(again
Hebrews
10:9,10,12,14).and
cautions these Christians to not be thinking that they should have to again
sacrifice as was necessary under the old covenant to cover sin, because
without Christ.(understand
what
Christ is).and
with the old covenant having been abolished, all you are left with is the
fear of punishment: Hebrews 10:27-29.
Verse 29 here, refers to."doing
despite...".by
rejecting Christ's sacrifice.(as
none other is now acceptable to God, the Old Testament ones being now
defunct).and
does not refer to any sins that you may have and still do, as doing despite.
They cannot. They have all
been all looked after by Christ's matchless sacrifice, once for all
sin, for all time.
That does not mean that
various
trials and sufferings will
not still be there. These are there to work character
so that we can be established
in righteousness:.1Peter
5:10 "But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal
glory
by Christ Emmanuel, after that you have suffered.(experienced
some of the heartaches life offers so we can develop a perspective).awhile,
make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you."
Being established in strong
good character, means one can handle the vicissitudes
of life which come along.
2Thessalonians
2:16,17 "Now our Lord Emmanuel the Christ himself and God, even our
Father, which has loved us and has given us
everlasting.consolation.(or
'an everlasting relationship' as the original has it).and
good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and stablish you in every
good word and work.(both
words
and work are important for growth in
character).".See
'Relationship
with God'.
1Thessalonians
3:13.(from
the original)."To
the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God
our Father, when Christ's nature of love is present
in your heart."
And we have our
part too:.James
5:8.(from
the original)."Be
you also patient; stablish your hearts, for the presence of the Lord is
always near.".(a
statement of comfort, as is Hebrews
13:5 ".....he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.".{word
'near' is in the perfect tense in Greek and corresponds to the perfect
tense in English and describes an action which is viewed as having been
completed in the past, once and for all, not needing to be repeated}).
Also
2Thessalonians
3:3; Romans 16:25.
On Hebrews
6:4 part of your question, please see
here.
-Matthew
27:5 comparing with Acts 1:18. Why
are there seemingly contradictory accounts of the death of Judas who betrayed
Emmanuel?
Both accounts are true. Matthew
records the mode in which Judas attempted his death by hanging. Peter speaks
of the result. Judas probably took off from the temple in great haste and
perturbation
of mind:.John
13:21-30. Judas sought a place where he might perpetrate
this crime and get the money the chief priests were to pay him:.Matthew
26:15,16. These priests were typical cabal types, hiding behind the
scenes, getting others to do their dirty work, as
prevalent today.
Later, in Juda's anguish,
his haste, his desire to die, Judas seized upon a rope and suspended himself
and it is not at all remarkable or indeed unusual, that the rope might
prove too weak and break. Falling headlong, that is, on his, face, he burst
asunder
and
in awful
horrors died, a double death with double pains and double horrors,
the reward of his aggravated
guilt:.Matthew
27:3-5. One does reap what
he has sowed.
-Philippians
2:3.and.James
2:8.In Philippians
2:3 it says to esteem others as.better.than
ourselves, yet in James 2:8 it says to love others.equal.to
ourselves? How is this to
be understood?
-Matthew
5:41.What
about this being compelled
to go a mile by some authority?
Click on the scripture for
the answer.
-Romans
7:6.What
does it mean to."serve
God in newness of Spirit"? and what is the
law being talked of here?
The law being talked of here
refers to verse 1 in the same chapter:.Romans
7:1 "Know you not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the law.(most
people have no idea of their ego and the rules and regulations society
has to keep the flesh from going
nuts), how that the law has dominion
over a man as long as he lives?".Paul
gives an example of it in the verses that follow, showing an analogy
of a woman who had a husband who is now dead and how she was bound to him
by the law until he died, now being made free. This has nothing
to do with marriage and divorce
as it's only an analogy:.Romans
7:2-4.
-Romans
8:2 What is this."law
of the spirit of life in Christ Emmanuel"?
The law Paul
was meaning here is the law of love:.Galatians
6:2; 5:14; Matthew
22:36-40.
The spirit of life.(and
contrast the law of sin and death in the same verse).mentioned
in Romans 8:2,.is
the spirit of wholeness which is called the Holy
Spirit. Wholeness comes from lack of a belief
in separation from the Infinite One.
-Genesis
9:13 Was this bow in the sky at the time the great flood was over,
a rainbow? If so, how come no one back then saw a rainbow before? Is this
the first 'making' of a rainbow?
The bow in the sky described
in Genesis 9:13 is a rainbow from as much information as we can gather.
It was a special sign from the Creator that He would never again destroy
all
flesh on the Earth with a flood:.Genesis
9:11,13,15.
The reason no one saw a bow
in the sky like this before is because up to the time of the flood no one
had seen any rain, as a mist watered the Earth:.Genesis
2:5,6.
This was the first seeing
of
a rainbow by humans. The Sun that produces rainbows when there are
showers, was not seen before due to the heavy continuous mist.
-Revelation
1:19 What were the things mentioned in this scripture that would come
hereafter?
The messages to the seven
churches back then:.Revelation
chapters 2 and 3; the ongoing fact from that time.(Revelation
22:10).Christ
would always be there for us:.Revelation
22:13; John's incredible visions: Chapters 4
to 22.
-Genesis 2:9 and 3:22 What
is the significance
of this tree of life as compared to the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil?
Genesis
2:9 "And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Genesis
3:22 "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also
of the tree of life and eat and live for ever.".And
then humanity would have lacked the opportunity to overcome the nature
that was now to be developed in him, the nature of the
ego, the nature of low consciousness. Man now needed some struggle,
some
feedback on his thoughts and actions, in order to progress into higher
consciousness, why man is here on Earth.
The verses show it's not
in God's plan for anyone to live forever unless he or she is of the mind
to be on the good side
and to ensure this, one
has to live a life that evinces
his heart over time.
Note
the differences between these two trees. They both looked nice and produced
food. One was in the middle of the garden. The other was off somewhere
else. One tree freely offered eternal
life and the other tree was not the opposite
of that, which would have been eternal death, if there were such a thing;
see on Death.
One tree was for eternal
life in bliss.
The other was a tree of knowledge. This shows that when
one is in eternal life, he does not need this thing called knowledge
contrasts; the good and evil.
Knowledge is gained through
experience.(Hebrews
5:14), otherwise it is not much
more than a fanciful.notion.
But man chose not the tree of life and so he lives his life on Earth and
learns
as he goes along, hopefully gaining knowledge along the way which enables
him to live better. But this is all about the physical life. What about
beyond the physical?
With eternal life in a person,
he
is in all knowledge; he has instant knowing of whatever his attention
may be on; he has access
to it all.
Man, being the creature of
curiosity
that he is and with the nature
he came with.(*),
wanted it all. He wanted to know what both trees would provide by experiencing
what each provided. God wanted the eternal life tree kept away from those
with the consciousness to instead select that other tree. And we are all
like this until we hit the
different pathway.
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