{"id":107781,"date":"2020-12-29T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=107781"},"modified":"2020-12-26T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T14:29:47","slug":"18-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/29\/18-e\/","title":{"rendered":"18.e. “How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God,”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John 12:44\u00a0 <\/span>And Jesus cried out and said, \u201cWhoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment\u2014what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>1 John 4:14<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Luke 9:26<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Hebrews 2:3<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Hebrews 10:29-31<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?\u00a0\u00a0For we know him who said, \u201cVengeance is mine; I will repay.\u201d And again, \u201cThe Lord will judge his people.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Hebrews 12:25<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cfor I did not come to judge the world but to save the world\u201d – In the first advent, coming of Jesus, Jesus came as redeemer, savior, sacrificial lamb.\u00a0 <\/span>He came to bring light to the world – God with us.\u00a0 <\/span>He came to proclaim the day of salvation, redemption, forgiveness, eternal life.\u00a0 <\/span>He came to give hope and display God\u2019s grace, mercy, and love.\u00a0 <\/span>He came to shine light into and onto the darkness – the void and separation from God created because of sin.\u00a0 <\/span>He came to redeem each person from this void and separation.\u00a0 <\/span>This void has bright lights as it were.\u00a0 <\/span>This void and separation have bright lights and worldly lures that entice the soul to reject the Light of Jesus Christ. The light of this world shines bright on self and offers to each person what the world has to offer.\u00a0 <\/span>It tries to entice, lure, blind us from the Love of God.\u00a0 <\/span>Sad to say, when the choice is given, we choose to run toward this-worldly light and we grab hold of its blinding power. Pride, lust, greed, hate, anger, fear, anxiousness, self-reliance, self-worth, self-first, and self-satisfaction are all manifestations of those who are captivated by this worldly light.\u00a0 <\/span>It offers temporary tangible things of this world with the promise that it will satisfy your soul but in the end, it leaves the soul hungry and thirsty for more.\u00a0 <\/span>This light is a lie.\u00a0 <\/span>This lie leads people away from the Light of Jesus Christ. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The true Light from God is displayed in Jesus Christ. \u201cFor God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.\u201d Belief in the Light of Jesus Christ is more than a head nod or acknowledgment of who Jesus Christ is and what He has done.\u00a0 <\/span>It is a life-changing new birth.\u00a0 <\/span>When the Light and Gospel of Jesus shines into the soul and exposes sin, darkness, void, and separation from God, an understanding of the consequences of sin – eternal hell, torment – is revealed by this Light.\u00a0 <\/span>But, at this same time there is an understanding of the grace, mercy, and love of God through Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and an urgent call to your soul to confess, repent, trust, obey and believe in Jesus Christ for the redemption of your soul.\u00a0 <\/span>This trust and faith is a new birth for each person who believes.\u00a0 <\/span>All things are new.\u00a0 <\/span>Old ways of thinking and living are cast aside because their worth has become meaningless in the Light of Jesus Christ and the hope of eternal life. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Staying in God\u2019s word will keep the lights of this world recognizable and enable each believer to reject and expose them for what they are, lies and distractions from living to give honor, glory, obedience, and praise to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John 12:44\u00a0 And Jesus cried out and said, \u201cWhoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If anyone hears my words … Continue reading “18.e. “How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God,””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1157,528,2469,5647,999,4844,2363,8377,2243,458,531,448,2235,530,83,1524,539,2855,38,12959,1854,479,14717,5028,187,1428,4164,2531,5802,5486,14713,14712,14711,4363,2448,315,4036,14715,14716,4171,322,14714],"class_list":["post-107781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-ashamed","tag-authority","tag-believes","tag-commandment","tag-cried-out","tag-declared","tag-deserved","tag-do-not-refuse-him","tag-earth","tag-escape","tag-eternal-life","tag-father","tag-fearful-thing-to-fall-into-the-hands-of-the-living-god","tag-glory","tag-grace","tag-great-salvation","tag-heard","tag-hears","tag-heaven","tag-holy-angels","tag-i-will-repay","tag-judge","tag-judge-his-people","tag-last-day","tag-light","tag-neglect","tag-outraged","tag-receive-my-words","tag-rejects","tag-save-the-world","tag-savior-of-the-world","tag-seen-and-testify","tag-sees-me","tag-sent-me","tag-son-of-man","tag-spirit","tag-spoken","tag-trampled-underfood-the-son-of-god","tag-vengeance-is-mind","tag-warned","tag-world","tag-worse-punishment"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107944,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107781\/revisions\/107944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}