Falling Away

[Phil.b]

Hebrews 6:6

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.

Ok, I may not agree with everything that Spergeon says. But there is so much of it today that I rather be on the side of caution and not fall away into sin, just to find out if I could enjoy myself and still be save. There is only one Salvation and one only. John 10 says that noone can pluck us out of His hand. But this does not give us the right to sin and enjoy it and fall away so to speak and think we have the privilege and assurity that we are going to go to heaven despite what I do. I feel that this would give us a license to do anything we would like to do as a Christian.

And then the apostle says, that the greatness of their sin which they would incur, if they did fall away, would put them beyond the bounds of mercy. Christ died, and by his death he made an atonement for his own murderers; he made an atonement for those sins which crucified him once; but do we read that Christ will ever die for those who crucify him twice? But the Apostle tells us that if believers do fall away, they will "crucify the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." Where, then, would be an atonement for that? He has died for me; What! though the sins of all the world were on my shoulders, still they only crucified him once, and that one crucifixion has taken all those sins away; but if I crucified him again, where would I find pardon? Could heavens, could earth, could Christ himself, with bowels full of love, point me to another Christ, show to me a second Calvary, give me a second Gethsemane? Ah! no! the very guilt itself would put us beyond the pale of hope, if we were to fall away?

And one thought more. There is nothing in Scripture which teaches us that there is any salvation, save the one salvation of Jesus Christ

Edited November 7, 2009 by Phil.b