Good morning and welcome in everyone. Today, we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture, but before we do that, I wanted to tell you a little story.
The Challenger Deep is the lowest point in the Mariana Trench, believed by some to be one of the deepest places in all the oceans of the world. They claim that it is almost 36,000 ft deep, and stretches approximately 1500 miles along the western Pacific. The pressure at that depth is completely unbearable and reaches over 7 tons per square inch. Imagine setting the entire weight of a semi tractor on your finger, then you’ll know the extreme weight that we are talking about. There have been ships that have sunk into the ocean that are unretrievable because of their depth.
Some people are unretrievable too. No matter how much you care and love them, they make themselves completely unsalvageable because they shipwreck their faith. They sink their souls just like a sub heading to the bottom of the ocean, into a place of impenitence, and unrepentance. With God all things are possible but when people reject Christ and his teachings, it is impossible to lead this group of people back to a place of repentance. It’s impossible to get them to change their mind. It’s impossible to get them to rethink what they are doing. It’s impossible to get them to change their course or direction.
Hebrews 6:4-8 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
A submarine can be torpedoed, lose control and sink all the way to the bottom of the ocean. Someone who professes to be a Christian can do the same thing. Judas betrayed Jesus and went to the authorities. Esau gave up his faith for a morsel of meat. In the Christian Life there is no turning back from your faith. It’s the Pearl of great price. It’s the greatest treasure that you could ever find. It was worth so much to Moses that he turned away from all the treasures of Egypt to obtain it.
But for the people spoken of in this passage, they take the greatest riches that they could ever possess, and throw it right back in God’s face. They take the heavenly gift of God’s mercy and forgiveness, and reject it because of their impenitent heart. They never used God’s grace to bring about a change in their life. The gift that they were given was received in vain, never resulting in a new direction or a moral purpose. Punishment is coming.
Hebrews 10:26-31 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Purposeful, wilful sin is very grievous because it is sinning against God’s grace.
2 Peter 2:20-22 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Once you become a Christian there’s no turning back.
Let’s think about these things for right now, and Lord willing, we will talk with you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye bye everybody. ❤️
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