The Warning of Sin as a Way of Life

Last week, I had someone ask a really great question about forgiveness and sin. If forgiveness is readily available, then what keeps a person from sinning.

“For if we go on sinning deliberately”

Sin ought to be the exception and not the rule

The difference between occasionally falling prey to temptation and volunteering ourselves to it. (willfully, deliberately, voluntarily)

“After the knowledge of the truth”

To go on sinning is to take advantage of the grace that God has provided

This is speaking about an individual who has obtained salvation. They know that forgiveness is at their disposal and so they take advantage of it, forgetting the way that they ought to live and resort to the former way of living.

Outlaw identifies this as a threefold definition of apostasy

Habitual or continuous sin

An act of rebellion against God- willful

A committed follower of Christ

“There no longer remains a sacrifice for sins”

If Jesus is the only way, and that way is abandoned, there is no other way

“But a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of file that will consume the adversaries”

Once God and His way of living has been rejected, there are just two things that will happen at that point.

Adversary- those who oppose God

We have to keep in mind that sin is no longer our desire. It becomes something that we hate rather than something we continue to come back to.