Warnings For Backsliders From The Book of Hebrews:
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1. Pay much closer attention to what we have heard (fear of
drifting away): 2:1
2. We are His house if we hold fast our confidence and the boast
of our hope firm until the end: 3:6
3. If you have heard His voice, don’t harden your heart: 3:7-8
4. Beware of an evil unbelieving heart in falling away from the
living God: 3:12
5. We have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast the
beginning of our assurance firm until the end:
3:14
6. Fear while a promise of entering His rest remains (don’t fall
short): 4:1
7. Be diligent to enter His rest, don’t fail through
disobedience: 4:11
8. Beware of becoming dull of hearing: 5:11
9. Beware of sloth or standing still instead of progressing: 5:12
10. If we do fall away from Christ it will be
impossible to renew us to repentance: 6:6
11. If our life is yielding thorns and thistles
instead of good vegetation we are close to being cursed: 6:8
12. Do not be sluggish but rather imitate those
who through faith and patience inherit the promises: 6:12
13. If we go on sinning after receiving a
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for our sins, but a
terrifying expectation of judgment (the fury of fire which will consume the
adversaries): 10:26-27.
14. Backsliding is trampling under foot the Son
of God, and thus backsliders will receive a much greater punishment than those
who rebelled against Moses in his day:
10:28-29.
15. Vengence is His, He will repay, and He will
judge His people (judgment will start with the House of God): 10:30.
16. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the
hands of the living God: 10:31.
17. If we shrink back instead of living by
faith, His soul has no pleasure in us :
10:37-38.
18. Don’t refuse or turn away from Him who warns
from heaven (you shall not escape) :
12:25