Mike Balloun | THE BOOK OF HEBREWS 10:32-39

Mike Balloun teaches today. 2020-04-25.
THE BOOK OF HEBREWS 10:32-39

Verses: Luke 17:33; Matthew 24:48-51; 1st John 3:1-3; Revelation 2:5; 4:2

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After the fourth great warning to the Hebrew Christians which we spoke of in verses 26-31, the first church of Jesus Christ, who had stood faithfully for 30-40 years, were then faced with the temptation of abandoning their living faith in Jesus Christ and loving community with one another. Their severe warning is immediately followed by fortifying words not to succumb the temptations set before them in VERSES 32-39. Where it is written, “But call to remembrance the former days… (when you received the supernatural light of the Gospel Covenant followed by your zealous behavior of the enlightened, and willingly suffering persecution and the forfeiting of this world’s goods)…knowing (having sure knowledge) in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better an enduring substance… (according to the received heavenly calling; (Hebrews 3:1) a great contrast with those who received the earthly calling where they were granted all Egypt’s booty, and not even a dog dared bark at them) (Exodus 11:7)…cast not away therefore your confidence, (let the mind be renewed in the sure hope of that calling and cause humiliation and repentance)… which hath great recompense of reward…ye have need of patience, THAT AFTER YOU HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD (righteously by faith in Christ live) YE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE (the promise of His Son’s Coming again with reward)…if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him…who draw back unto perdition;” {destruction, ruin} (this is the similar threat with encouragement in continuance in righteous living with patience given by Christ to the Church of Ephesus just a few years later. “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” [Revelation 2:5]

Is not this the warning’s design, that is, of the great loss of reward for the “faithless saved” (faithless Christian) to put the Christian back in mindful posture to ever be vigilant in his resolve to live a righteous life in order “..to lay hold upon the hope set before us”? That we enlightened Christians might not be subject to any exacting recompense for our contrary doings against the will of God, and that being potentially very severe. Knowing this: the Father will not let His called children abuse their position. He will not hold them unaccountable for living a life like those unregenerate, whom He has promised severe eternal punishment. Is it not modern-day Christendom that takes the place of the Garden serpent and says: “Yea hath God really said..?…. Ye shall not surely die…” (Genesis 3:1,4 and Hosea 4:9) “You are the loved children of God in Christ. Doesn’t the Word say, “for God has not appointed you unto Wrath”? That half-truth deceives Christians into a presumptuous mindset that causes them to willfully stop walking circumspectly before God, and to stray. The are in need of reminding, and sometimes by chastening, that Christians who walk unrighteously will not inherit the kingdom of heavens. (1st Corinthians 6:9-10, Galatians 5:21, Ephesians 5:5)
The Hebrew Christians casting away their confidence equates to the removal of the candlestick/lampstand. (Revelation 2:5) The end result of their actions if they give up is that the power of sustaining grace is removed, righteous living spurred by faith and hope with testimony is lost, and with it the possibility of goodness and acceptability in His Kingdom Coming. “Christ is become of no effect unto you…..ye are fallen from grace.” [Galatians 5:4]

Note as extremely important; the exhortation to not cast away our first works’ confidence and to repent shows the great efficacy of the believer’s repentance in the restoration of grace, (the Divine influence upon the heart) in the turning aside of the threatened and sure sore judgments. We should be able to find ourselves in all the warnings of Revelation 1-3 or in the warnings to the Hebrews.

VERSE 37 “For yet, a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” WHAT IS THE CHIEF NEED OF THIS WORLD?....THE RETURN OF THE CONQUERING KING AND HIS GOVERNMENT. (Psalm 96:9-13)
Revelation 1:19 “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter…” Christ breaks up the future time table in two parts until His Return. “…the things which are (ongoing)…” that is to say....

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