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I am interested in this group thoughts on how to pursued fellow Christians to stay away from sin regardless of temptation by realizing its affect on us.
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Maybe by begging them to read their Bible, and get some good teaching and preaching on the judgment seat of Christ and presumptious sin.
2 Corinthians 5:10-11 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
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Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
Hebrews 10:26-31 For
if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain
fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me,
I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again,
The Lord shall judge his people.
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It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
(Commentary on Heb 10:26-31
by David Sorenson)
The writer reminds his Jewish readers how that under the
law of Moses, there was no specific sacrifice for willful sin. (See
Numbers 15:30-31 and Deuteronomy 17:12.) Rather, such an
one under the law faced severe punishment, even death.
He then asks his readers to consider how much more
serious it is for one to in effect trod “under foot the Son of God,”
and count “the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified an unholy thing?” The question is rhetorical. The
answer is obvious. If willful disregard of the law of Moses was
serious business, rejecting Christ is even more. Ignoring and
rejecting Christ is doing “despite unto the Spirit of grace.” The
word translated as despite (enubrizw enubridzo) has the sense
of ‘insulting.’ When one turns his back on Christ, rejecting
Him, he also has insulted the Holy Spirit. That is serious
business, approaching the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. There
is a parallel here with the thought presented in Hebrews 6:4-6.
The writer proceeds to remind his readers of the gravity of
such departure by quoting from Deuteronomy 32:35, Psalm
135:14, and alludes to Psalm 76:7. The God of heaven is not
dead or absentee. He is very much alive. He, in His providence,
may judge. Indeed, “it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
the living God.”