What is Grace? (Part 7)

God’s grace is effective for all sins as the Christian regularly repents and confesses his sins, but what about someone who rebels against God? Will grace cover that person’s sins? The book of Hebrews covers this topic. Some Jewish Christians renounced Christianity and turned back to Judaism. The book was written to encourage Christians to stay faithful and warn what would happen if they abandoned Christianity. Hebrews 10:26-29 says: 

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

The Holy Spirit says that those who sin willfully no longer have the protection of the blood of Christ. Instead, they may expect condemnation if they continue in their disobedience. By so behaving, they trample the Son of God, reject Christ’s blood, and insult the Spirit of grace. Can one do such and be saved? No. Grace does not admit such abuse; the Spirit will not tolerate so being insulted.

Jude also points out how immoral false teachers had changed God’s grace into lewdness. “For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ” (Jude 1:4). Jude condemns these men who were abusing grace through impenitent immorality. Grace does not cover rebellious sin.

God bless you, and I love you.

Kevin Cauley