KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:
Good evangelism’s foundation is mercy.
Why Are We Not All Dead? – blog 12/29/23
•To summarize…sin, in God’s eyes, is a capital offense.
•Then why are we not all dead?
•If we all got what we deserved, we’d all get God’s justice and we’d all be dead and in Hell.
•Remember, God has never been unjust. He’s never punished a soul who didn’t deserve it.
A truly virtuous characteristics of a person (aka, Biblical humility, faith, hope, love, etc.) proves its authenticity by bearing good fruit.
William Lane on Ch 3
A major them in Hebrews is that Christians are the people of God who, like the generation in the desert, experience the tensions of an interim existence between redemption and rest, between promise and fulfillment.
God has placed conditional promises before us. To obey (e.g, to have faith) is to receive them.
God, for His own sovereign purposes, will decree a forfeiture of salvation of those who have been enlightened by Truth, have understood God’s salvific plan, Christ’s Gospel, and rejected it. We call this apostasy.
The writer introduces the motif of the impossibility of a second repentance after apostasy.