STOP SAYING SORRY


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 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Hebrews 6:4, 6, 9 KJV

The book of Hebrews is a contrast, which starts out "in the past", and contrasts that with "but in these last days". In Israel, God's people experienced cycles of redemption, victory, followed by disobedience, decline, and repentance. When we now experience the same cycle, we tend to view it as part of the normal Christian life. But IT IS NOT SO. Christ has died. Christ has risen. This is not like the covenant God made with our ancestors (Jer 34:18, Heb 8:9). No longer will prophets come and go to shepherd us back into the fold when we stray. God has spoken. Christ has sat down. We are to enter His rest. No longer will one man say to another "know the Lord", because we will all know Him. (Jer 31:34, Heb 8:11).

 2 Cor 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. 


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