Grace gives without any expectations.
To disobey God is to say in your heart that you don’t trust that His will is the right way for you.
Disobedience results in failure to enter God’s rest.
How One Forfeits the Forgiveness of Sins – blog 1/26/24
While it’s true there’s always hope from our perspective since only God knows who’s blasphemed against the Holy Spirit, the fact is that apostasy implies forfeiture of any future chance for salvation. As mere humans, we don’t know who the true apostates are in this world. We only know that they exist.
How One Forfeits the Forgiveness of Sins – blog 1/26/24
God is the judge. Holy Scripture teaches us that in the case where a person wholly rejects the convicting ministry of God the Holy Spirit regarding the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they have effectively forfeited any chance of salvation. Don’t ask me for any more detail than what is in Holy Scripture. That’s what we’re given, so that’s what we need to believe, even if it may seem like a difficult pill to swallow. The timing and severity of rejection is a scale that God alone owns. We just know that it exists.
Forfeiture is final.
The writer introduces the motif of the impossibility of a second repentance after apostasy.
When a person is given the truth, they understand it, and still reject it, God holds them accountable.
The urgency of obedience is a function of the severity of punishment that disobedience carries with it.
