19And so, dear brothers and sisters,* we can boldly enter heaven"s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. 20By his death,* Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.
21And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God"s house, 22let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ"s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
23Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
26Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. 27There is only the terrible expectation of God"s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
28For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.It is finished....
29Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God"s mercy to us. 30For we know the one who said, "I will take revenge.
I will pay them back."*
He also said,
"The Lord will judge his own people."*
31It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ.* Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. 33Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. 34You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.
35So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God"s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.
37"For in just a little while,
the Coming One will come and not delay.
38And my righteous ones will live by faith.*
But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away."*
39But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.
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The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. Zephaniah 1:14
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Because I was sure everyone would focus on the New Testament part of it, and that was the Old Testament..... And I figured I would get flammed about it being O.T.
Instead someone notices and calls me out for leaving it small..... There is no pleasing this group.
He he he LOL
A little editing there , that is in the NEw testament quoting the Old as it should be.
Can't pass that by me, LOL
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The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. Zephaniah 1:14
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Hebrews 10:26-27 "If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God."
Merely "receiving the knowledge of the truth" does makea person saved. Knowledge itself doesn't save.We know that there are millions who have knowledge but are not saved. John says, "No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him." 1John 3:6 Can we than assume that such a behavior is indicative thata personwas never saved?
1John 2:19
"They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us.
For if they had belonged to us, (Once Saved)
they would have remained with us; (Always Saved)
but their going showed that none of them belonged to us."
The precious truth of Hebrews 10
