Daily Devotional | Our Daily Bread | We Must Have Knowledge of The Scriptures | 11/14/2024

Daily Devotional | Our Daily Bread | We Must Have Knowledge of The Scriptures | 11/14/2024 | Hilari Henriques For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. Hebrews 10:26 and 27 Shall we say we have been deceived in regard to the doctrine of Christ's near coming? Shall we declare that all our talking of his appearing has been in vain? Shall we say that all our work to make ready a people, prepared for his coming, has been for nought?-Never. We are not to become impatient and fretful, because time still lingers. We are to wait patiently for the work of God to be accomplished. “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised; and let us consider one another to provoke”—unto doubts and unbelief, and apostasy?—No, but “unto love and good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”  We must have a knowledge of the Scriptures, that we may trace down the lines of prophecy, and understand the specifications given by the prophets, and by Christ and the apostles; that we may not be ignorant; but be able to see that the day is approaching, so that with increased zeal and effort, we may exhort one another to faithfulness, piety, and holiness. “For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.” Here is a most solemn statement, and one which should often be presented to souls, to show them the danger of entering into sin after they have received a knowledge of the truth of God. We would warn men and women off this ground. All would do well to remember, when tempted to leave the straight path of right, that those who, having received a knowledge of the truth, apostatize, “sin willfully,” transgress the law of God (“for sin is the transgression of the law”),—for such there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sin. “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.”  Questioners, doubters, and apostates say to those who have been looking for the appearing of their Lord, “You are false prophets.” “You have been telling us for years that it was but a little time until the day of God would break; and it is evident that Christ will not come for many, many more years.” Are you not afraid to make such statements? Has not Christ described you in the person of the unfaithful servant who said, “My Lord delayeth his coming,” and who began to eat and to drink with the drunken, and to smite his fellow-servants? The inspired word declares, “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” RH July 31, 1888