We can try to reinvent what sin really is, but I prefer the biblical definition because we are told not to lean on our understanding, but let God direct our ways. Pro 3:5-6
This is God directing our ways through His Word that we are not to add to Pro 30:5-6
1 John 3:4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
This truly can't be any plainer. The law Paul points to define sin is the Ten Commandments- breaking one we break them all James 2:10-12 and why Jesus also said not to break or teach others to break the least of these as one would be least in heaven and in fear of sin and judgement again quoting from the Ten Commandment. Mat 5:19-30
So Hebrews 10:26-30 means exactly what it states.
Heb 10:26 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,” [g]says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
We can't believe in Christ but not have faith to do what He asks. This is called dead faith and why Jesus in His own Words said many will say Lord Lord at His Second Coming but He won't know them because if He resides in us, we will have His righteousness and Truth Psa 119:172 Psa 119:151 as He imputes that in us and as a result we will live differently than the lost. Rom 8:7-8
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
All is not lost yet, He calls on us if we have not harden our hearts- will we listen? Heb 3:7-8 but His arrival is soon and I pray we will all be read and can stand before Him and meet Him in the Clouds.
This is God directing our ways through His Word that we are not to add to Pro 30:5-6
1 John 3:4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
This truly can't be any plainer. The law Paul points to define sin is the Ten Commandments- breaking one we break them all James 2:10-12 and why Jesus also said not to break or teach others to break the least of these as one would be least in heaven and in fear of sin and judgement again quoting from the Ten Commandment. Mat 5:19-30
So Hebrews 10:26-30 means exactly what it states.
Heb 10:26 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,” [g]says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
We can't believe in Christ but not have faith to do what He asks. This is called dead faith and why Jesus in His own Words said many will say Lord Lord at His Second Coming but He won't know them because if He resides in us, we will have His righteousness and Truth Psa 119:172 Psa 119:151 as He imputes that in us and as a result we will live differently than the lost. Rom 8:7-8
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
All is not lost yet, He calls on us if we have not harden our hearts- will we listen? Heb 3:7-8 but His arrival is soon and I pray we will all be read and can stand before Him and meet Him in the Clouds.
I liken myself to the tax collector in the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Instead of being confident of my own righteousness and looking down on others, I don't even look up to heaven, but beat my chest and say, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ (Luke 18:9-14)
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