What is Hebrews 10:26-27 saying to us? Who wrote the book of Hebrews? Did Paul? It is talking to Christians who are saved. “For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a fearful looking for judgement and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries”. I believe in the eternal security of the believer but what I am getting out of this is that if Christians purposefully choose to walk in and live in sin with no repentant heart over it they will answer to God and lose rewards. It is one thing to struggle with sin as we all do. Paul said he does the things he doesn’t want to do and does not do the things he wants to do. But when a Christian willfully sins and is not even ashamed for what they are doing that troubles me. Jeremiah 6:15-16 says when he was calling the Jews to repentance, “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush”. We have the same thing going on today in the church age. God’s people sin and don’t even blush or are ashamed for what they do. It is no wonder that Jeremiah is called the weeping prophet. This is just a burden laid on my heart over the condition of the church in general. Here is one commentary found in the E-Sword bible app:
Hebrews 10:26-39
BEWARE OF BACKSLIDING
The willful sin here referred to does not consist in isolated acts, but in a determined course of action, persisted in until the very desire for a better life wanes and dies out of the soul.
These strong remonstrances were needed in those days of sore persecution. Three considerations are adduced, urging steadfastness: (1.) The certain punishment which must follow on the rejection of the greatest gifts that God can make, so much richer than anything presented under the Mosaic covenant. (2.) The sufferings already endured, the reward for which would-be forfeited, if these harried souls were now to draw back. (3.) The near advent of the Christ, who would not fail to compensate His faithful servants.
Then we are reminded that the just-those who have been accepted in the Beloved-live; that is, may derive all the reinforcements of soul strength and patience that they require, from the unseen and eternal world where Jesus waits to succor and uphold.