Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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THE FOURTH WARNING.
Chap. X. 26-39.
Of them that sin wilfully and draw back.
XCIII.
OF WILFUL SIN.
X.—26. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of
the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,
27. But a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire
which shall devour the adversaries.
In mentioning those who forsake the assembling together of
God's people, the writer has touched one of those sore places
which, to him, are the symptom of imminent danger. This
neglect of Christian fellowship is at once the indication of that
indifference which is so dangerous, and the cause of further
backsliding. All this leads him once again to sound the alarm,
and to point
out how neglect of outward, apparently secondary
duties, opens the way to positive sin and eternal loss. He has
scarcely finished his wondrous exposition of the glory of the
heavenly Priest and the heavenly sanctuary and the way into it,
he has only just begun to speak of the life and walk to which
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