WILLFUL SIN
(Transcribed Message)

Sunday Morning:  November 11, 2001

Text: Hebrews 10:26  "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"

FOR

Hebrews 10:26  "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"

EXHORTING ONE ANOTHER

Hebrews 10:25  "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."

NO EXHORTATION

Judges 21:25  "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."

WENT OUT FULL

Ruth 1:1  "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons."

RETURNED EMPTY

Ruth 1:20-21  "And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21. I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?"

AFTER KNOWLEDGE

Hebrews 10:26  "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge [epignwsiv deeper knowledge] of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"

THE TRUTH

Colossians 1:5  "For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;"

HOPE IN HEBREWS

Hebrews 6:11  "And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:"

HOPE SET BEFORE US

Hebrews 6:18-19  "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;"

HOPE OF GLORY

Colossians 1:27  "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:"

OUR DESIRE

Mark 10:37  "They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory."

IN THY KINGDOM

Matthew 20:21  ". . . Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom."

PRACTICING SIN

Hebrews 10:26  "For if we sin [present active participle] wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"

THE SIN DEFINED

1 John 3:4  "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."

 

 

LAWLESSNESS

1 John 3:4  "Everyone who practices [the] sin also practices [the] lawlessness; and [the] sin is [the] lawlessness." (NASB)

END OF THE AGE

Matthew 24:3  ". . . what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world [age]?"

LAWLESSNESS

Matthew 24:12  "And because iniquity [lawlessness] shall abound, the love (disobedience) of [the] many (called unto his kingdom and glory) shall wax cold."

NO MORE SACRIFICE

Hebrews 10:26  "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"

THOSE IN THE HOLIEST

Hebrews 10:19  "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,"

HOLY PRIESTHOOD

1 Peter 2:5  "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."

ELI THE PRIEST

1 Samuel 3:13-14  "For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity (lawlessness) which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. 14. And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity (lawlessness) of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever."

PRESUMPTUOUS SIN

Numbers 15:29-31  "Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. 30. But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31. Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him."

AWAY FROM THE ALTAR

Numbers 15:35  "And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp."

PRESUMPTUOUS SIN

Exodus 21:14  "But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die."

ALMOST ALL

Hebrews 9:22  "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."

REFUSE TO HEAR

Deuteronomy 17:12-13  "And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13. And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously."

BETTER NOT TO KNOW THE TRUTH

2 Peter 2:20-21  "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge [epignwsis, deeper knowledge] of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known [epignwskw, deeper knowledge] the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [epignwskw, deeper knowledge] it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."

THE LAW OF THE LORD

Psalms 19:7  "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting [restoring] the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple."

SERVANTS ARE WARNED

Psalms 19:11-13  "Moreover by them (the law of the Lord) is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 12. Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 13. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression."

WORDS AND MEDITATION 

Psalms 19:14  "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."