SPIRITUAL
DIARY FOR Date: 05-17-03
My
Worship Time Focus: Christ is the Only Sacrifice for Sin
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 10:26, 27
1. Message of the verse: “26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after
we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume
the enemies of God.” (NASB) “Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning
after we have received a full knowledge of the truth, there is no other
sacrifice that will cover these sins.
There will be nothing to look forward to but the terrible expectation of
God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.” (NLT)
As in the
other exhortations that are in this book there are different views on whom the
author is writing about, whether he is speaking to believers or to
non-believers. As in all of the other
exhortations that are in this book I believe that the author is writing to
believers and am encouraged from reading the writings of Dr. Warren Wiersbe to
strengthen my beliefs along this line of thinking. In verse 26 the author is speaking about
sinning deliberately and the fact that in the OT their was not a sacrifice for
this kind of sin, a sin that David committed and fell upon the mercy of God
because he knew that there was no sacrifice to care for it.
The
exhortations that are in Hebrews continually go spiritually downward in
direction and this is the furthest downward for a believer to go, and that is
despising the Word of God. The despising
of the Word of God is a willful sin as seen in the latter part of verse 26
where is says “the knowledge of the truth.”
I want to say that this can also pertain to an unbeliever who continues
to turn down the offer that God has given to him for salvation and there is no
other sacrifice for him if he indeed rejects the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for
his salvation. There comes a time in an
unbelievers life when the Spirit of God will give up on Him and he will someday
experience the “raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.”
2. Spiritual meaning for my life today: This is a warning that I as a believer need
to take very seriously and also on a personal level pray for Andy that he would
stop his downward spiral and get his life back on track so that it will be
honoring to the Lord.
The Word of God was challenging to my heart as I read it
this morning.
My
Steps of Faith Today: To
continue to trust the Lord to give me victory over fear, to continue to trust
the Lord for peace in our financial problems that we are going through at this
time in our lives.
Memory verses for the week:
Psalm 40:12,13
12. For
evils beyond numbers have surrounded me; My iniquities have overtaken me, so
that I am not able to see; They are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
And my heart has failed me.
13. Be
pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; Make haste, O LORD, to help me.
Lord I love to praise Your name, I’m so glade Your in my
heart. You came from heaven to earth to
show the way, from the earth to the cross my debt to pay, from the cross to the
ground, from the ground to the sky, Lord I lift Your name on high.
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