10:31
“It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Any notion that judgement has gone out of the window is utterly false and misguided. Christ has taken our judgement, He has taken our punishment. If we neglect or reject Christ, then we still have a judgement to face, and that is not a sensible thing to do.
10:32
Hebrews contains some of the most severe warnings in the New Testament, but the warning passages are often followed by a passage of encouragement. The warnings are given with the intention and expectation that the readers will not fall into the traps that the writer warns against. So here the writer urges his hearers to remember the earlier times when they, having received the light, “endured in a great conflict full of suffering”. Why did they do this? Because they had been filled with the joy of the gospel. But after a battle it is easy to forget, and that is often when we are at greatest risk.
“It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Any notion that judgement has gone out of the window is utterly false and misguided. Christ has taken our judgement, He has taken our punishment. If we neglect or reject Christ, then we still have a judgement to face, and that is not a sensible thing to do.
10:32
Hebrews contains some of the most severe warnings in the New Testament, but the warning passages are often followed by a passage of encouragement. The warnings are given with the intention and expectation that the readers will not fall into the traps that the writer warns against. So here the writer urges his hearers to remember the earlier times when they, having received the light, “endured in a great conflict full of suffering”. Why did they do this? Because they had been filled with the joy of the gospel. But after a battle it is easy to forget, and that is often when we are at greatest risk.
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