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Any willful sin will cut one off.
all sin is willful sin, there is no such thing as unwillfull sin, stop fooling your self and trying to make excuse for your own sin, while condemning others.
If we sin willfully after coming to a knowledge of the truth and having been sanctified by the blood then no sacrifice remains but only a fearful expectation of judgment. That is what the Bible plainly teaches.
yeah it does. but lets look at context.
10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Our sanctification is once and for all. Not like the animal sacrifices which were offered continually but could never take away sin. As he said next
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Unlike those sacrifices, His one sacrifice PERFECTS THOSE FOREVER, those who are BEING SANCTIFIED, or growing in Christ. And he goes on to say he will put his law in our hearts, and out minds, and their lawless deeds he will remember no more. not just the past in, but the present sin and future sin, why? because there is no more offering for sin, Christ paid the price in full
“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”[d] 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Then he tells us to live in faith, without wavering, for we have a high priest who does not have to enter year after year, but one whihc made the one sacrifice which takes away sin forever.
Then he gives those he is talking to a warning. He already exposed the legalist trying to return to law. And he gives them a stern warning (remember, If they sinned, they needed to sacrifice either personally, or the high preist at the end of every year. so if they sinned willfully and expected work to pay for that sin, they trample the grace of God,
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”[e] says the Lord.[f] And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”[g] 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
1. They heard the gospel. but that is all they had head knowledge,
2. The law says one is judged with two or three witnesses, And you can expect fearfull judgment if you broke the law. Now if you return to it, that is all you can expect.
Unlike those who are saved, who are not given a spirit of fear but adoption.
3. How more sever do you think the punishment will be for those who recieved the word. But trample God underfoot by returning to law? And in doing so, say the death of Christ is just a common thing, It does not remove all sin, if it removes any at all (oh if you only understood, this is talking directly to you!!)
4. They have insulted the spirit of grace, and tries to replace it with works.
5. Remember the context of the WHOLE PASSAGE. Ceremonial law and sacrifice, vs the cross.
You can't take a part of a passage out and form a doctrine in it. You must take the whole context.
An individual either forsake all their rebellion or they don't. If you sin you are of the devil. If you do right then you are righteous. It is not hard to understand.
So your of the devil? You sin, I sin we all sin?
No if your living like the world. You were never saved, But if you are born of God, as John said, you can;t live in sin.
It takes a theologian to obfuscate the truths of scripture.
The problem today, due to repentance not being preached correctly, is that very few people are actually coming out of their sins in the first place. They come into the kingdom under a false assurance that they are actually saved believing that their old man is crucified by degrees over a period of time. Thus they erroneously believe that a good tree can produce good and bad fruit and that one can be double-minded and still be in Christ.
I agree, repentance is not taught at times, thus we have many who believe, but have no faith. Thus they still live in sin, because they have not been made new creatures. But the fact is, they were never saved. Thus they had nothing to lose.
What the problem is is others want to take the grace of God and make it works. a merit based system on how good they are. Instead of coming to God with humility, and be made alive based on his promise, so we can be made new from the inside out.