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1 O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.
2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
It were folly to pray against the golden hand which enriches us by its blows.
“Corn is cleaned with wind, and the soul with chastening.”
The chastening cleanses the soul.
The chastening is what my soul needs to be cleaned.
There was a lesser consequence if you sinned unknowingly or inadvertently in the levitical law.
But there are sins where we sin with our eyes open like we are deliberately and willfully sinning against God.
29 You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.
30 ‘But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he has despised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall be upon him.’ ”
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Most of our sins that we commit are willful rarely is there a sin that we don’t willfully commit.
But this willful sin is referring to apostasy.
Apostasy is the rejection of Christ being the only provision for our sins.
The only means to the Father.
18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
He shed His blood once and for all.
10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
If there is a willful rejection of Christ there remains no other sacrifice.
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Under the OT, if an Israelite spurned(reject with distain (not worth of consideration or respect) ) the Mosaic Law and at least two or three witnesses verified his actions, he was put to death.
If reject of an inferior covenant brought such retribution how much more would defiance of a far more superior covenant bring.
Its like the consequence of violating the new covenant would bring greater judgement.
29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
“he was sanctified” refers to someone who is a born again believer. Who is a true Christian.
So these believers are already made Holy through the sacrifice of Christ once and for all.
10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
He makes us perfect forever through the sanctifying work.
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
“To treat “the blood of the covenant” (which actually sanctifies believers) as though it were an “unholy” (koinon, “common”) thing and to renounce its efficacy, is to commit a sin so heinous as to dwarf the fatal infractions of the Old Covenant.”
The writer was not thinking of hell. Many forms of divine retribution can fall on a human life which are worse than immediate death. In fact, Jeremiah made just such a complaint about the punishment inflicted on Jerusalem (Lam. 4:6, 9). One might think also of King Saul, whose last days were burdened with such mental and emotional turmoil that death itself was a kind of release.
Lam 4:6 “6 The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, With no hand to help her!”
Lam 4:9 “9 Those slain by the sword are better off Than those who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field.”