No Way Back

Good morning and welcome in everybody.  Today, we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture from the book of Hebrews.

Hebrews 12 ¹⁶ Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. ¹⁷ For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

The Apostle refers to Esau as a profane person, and when someone is profane, they treat things that are sacred with irreverence and disrespect. Esau had been given something very special, but in the end, it really wasn’t worth anything to him at all, because he threw it all away. When we become a Christian, God grants us the opportunity to become a new creature. It is the greatest treasure that one could ever possess, and it needs to be treated as such. Through the gospel, sinners are given a chance to eventually obtain eternal life, but there are requirements to access that world that is coming. God gives us great and precious promises, but in order to obtain them, we need to continue in our faith, turn from our sinfulness, depart from iniquity, and go on unto perfection. God blesses those who choose to abide in the faith, and walk according to His will.

James 1 ²¹ Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. ²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. ²³ For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: ²⁴ For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. ²⁵ But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

God will reward every man according to their works.

Romans 2 ⁷ To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: ⁸ But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,⁹ Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; ¹⁰ But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: ¹¹ For there is no respect of persons with God.

In the case of Esau, he didn’t care enough about what he had been given to abide in his birthright. Judas did the same thing when he forsook his apostleship, and betrayed the Lord. Both of them turned away from their inheritance because they loved something else more. 

Matthew 27 ³ Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, ⁴ Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. ⁵ And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Each of them were sorry about what they had done, but at that point it was too late. Many people will strive to enter into Heaven but will not be able, because some of them are going to do the exact same things. They possess no fear of God or reverence for the one who laid down His own life for their sins, and in full knowledge of the teachings of scripture, they will cast caution to the wind, choosing to sin willfully and without any concern about the consequences for their own actions. 

2 Peter 2 ²¹ 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. ²² 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.

Willful sin is egregious with God, and those who commit such deeds will not find a place of repentance with Him. This is because they take the things that they have learned in our faith, and by their own disobedience, throw it right back in his face.

Hebrews 6 ⁴ 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,

⁵ And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, ⁶ 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. ⁷ 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: ⁸ But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. ⁹ But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Rather than abiding in an obedient love for God, they love their sins more. 

“Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;” 2 Peter 2:15

Our greatest love, above and beyond anything or anyone else in this world, must be our precious Lord Jesus Christ. Genuine love for Him is proved through our faithful obedience to His will. He must be our greatest treasure, and our pearl of great price. 

Matthew 13 ⁴⁴ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: ⁴⁶ Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Judas sinned against Christ for 30 pieces of silver, proving what he really loved. Moses on the other hand, could have obtained all the riches in Egypt, but he walked away from it all. His actions proved that his greatest treasure was to obtain Spiritual riches that are found in our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Hebrews 11 ²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;

²⁵ Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

²⁶ Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

Jesus taught in the parable of the sower that some people who began the Christian Life were not going to make it all the way to the end. Rather than walking in the faith and abiding in Holy Scripture, they will turn their ears from the truth, and be turned unto fables. Rather than being obedient to what they have been taught, they will rebel, and choose their own path instead. I’m sure a lot of them are going to regret it later, but at that point it will be far too late to do anything about it. No matter how much grief or sadness they might feel, they will not be able to find a place of repentance with God. They have cast in their teeth at Him, spurning the treasure that has been freely given to them, and just like Judas and Esau, the only thing that they are going to find out, is that there is…

…..No Way Back

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