Hebrews 10:26-31

Don't Draw Back.

1. The warnings in Hebrews.

   1. From start to finish.

      1. Heb 2:1-3, Heb 3:12-13, Heb 4:1-2, Heb 4:11, Heb 13:17

   2. The structure of Hebrews 6 through 10.

      1. Warning about apostasy, Heb 6:1-8

         1. Assurance, v. 9
         2. Faith lived out pleases God, vv. 10-12

      2. God's promise, Heb 6:13-20

         1. How God works out His promise, Heb 7 through Heb 10:18
         2. How faith is to be lived out, Heb 10:19-25

      3. Warning about apostasy, Heb 10:26-31

         1. Assurance, Heb 10:32-39
         2. How faith was lived out, Chapter 11.
         3. How faith is to be lived out, Chapters 12-13

   3. God both warns us and encourages us to living faith.

• Heb 13:20-21

• The warning of Hebrews 10:26-31.

  1. To receive the knowledge of the truth is to receive the benefits of God's grace.

• Hebrews 6:1, Romans 1:28, 2Peter 1:3, 1Timothy 2:4

  1. To sin willfully is to renounce one's profession of faith and the duties which confirm one is a Christian.

• Heb 10:26 + 10:29; Heb 2:18, Heb 4:15-16, Heb 10:14, Heb 10:20

  1. Woe to the one who blasphemes against the living God, verse 29.

• Heb 3:7; Heb 9:14; John 16:14; 1 Samuel 3:14, Matthew 27:3-5.

• 1. God is a judge who cannot be escaped.

• Psalm 66:7, Hebrews 4:13, Heb 10:30, Deuteronomy 32:39-41, Psalm 1:4.
• Hebrews 10:31, Deuteronomy 5:26, Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 10:31, Hebrews 12:22 & 25, Hebrews 4:26-27.

• Heed God's warning .

  1. Be assured of Christ's person and redemptive power.

     1. Christ has consecrated a new and living way for us, v. 20

• Heb 3:14 & Heb 13:8

  1. It is God's will that He do so:

• Heb 10:10

  1. Draw near with faith. v. 22

• Heb 4:2, Heb 6:12, Heb 10:38.

  1. How could you lose your faith?

• Romans 1:16

  1. Confess Christ without wavering. vv. 23 & 38.

• Consider your baptism.

  1. think about why God instituted baptism

  2. be humbled for behaving like an unbaptized person at times

  3. meditate on the assurance of forgiveness and grace sealed by baptism

  4. draw strength from the death and resurrection of Christ, into whom we are baptized

  5. endeavor to live by faith

  6. behave in holiness and righteousness as those who are called by the name of Christ

  7. walk in brotherly love, as being baptized by the same Spirit into one body.

  1. Fulfill your duties in the Church. v. 24, 25,

     1. Identify with the church, even when it's tough, vv. 33, 34

     2. Review your commitments to the Lord and to one another in the Covenant of Church Membership.