<TITLE>09. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Now, Paul picks it up also in Hebrews 10:40, I believe it is, and said, "If we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a fearful looking for the fiery indignation. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses (no matter who he was). How much more sorer punishment, though worthy (minister, whoever he may be), that's trod the blood of Jesus Christ under his feet, and counted the covenant wherewith he was sanctified with, an unholy thing, doing despite to the works of grace?" I'm quoting Scripture. Let's go back to begin now.
"For if we sin willfully after we've received the knowledge of the truth..."
Now, I realize there may be two dozen ministers setting here tonight (Perhaps are.) of different phases of faith. I want to ask you this, my dear brethren, "What is sin?" If we can find out what sin is, then we could understand what it is if we do it willfully. Smoking, drinking, committing adultery, living lasciviously, those things are not sin. They are the attributes of sin. You do that because you are a sinner.

L-27 I'm not a legalistic; neither am I an Arminian or a Calvinist. But I believe that each one had a doctrine. But they run off on the deep side of it. They just stayed with that and didn't balance the thing up. There's a highway and a way, and the way is the road. A highway has a post way over here and a post way over there, but in the middle of this highway comes a road. You get over in the... You can be in a highway and be in a gutter. But get in the way. Isaiah said, "There shall be a highway and a way." "And" is a conjunction which brings the highway down to a way. And here's where you travel, is in the way. That's where smooth running is in the way.
You remember how they called it "the way," in the Bible? All that was found in "this way." It was called, "a way."

L-28 Notice. Now, "He that sins willfully..." Now, sin is bottled to this. There's two elements. One of them is faith. The other one is unbelief. And unbelief is sin. That's the only sin there is, is unbelief. Think of it. Unbelief... Jesus said in Mat... Saint John 3, He said: "He that believeth not is condemned already." See? You don't have a chance. Now, there's no halfway Christians. You're either a believer or not a believer.
Now, that's belief. What is belief? What is faith? "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, if you believe, you live the life of righteousness. If you do not believe, you can live a halfway life, or hypocrisy, in other words playing the hypocrite. Or you can--or you can make believe, pretend you are. But if you're really a believer, God has made a way that you'll know you're a believer. Now, Jesus said Himself, "These signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name they shall cast out evil spirits, heal the sick," and so forth.

L-29 Now, if this is presented to you... Now, look. "For it is impossible (See?) for those who were once enlightened, made partakers of the Holy Ghost, to fall away again. For if we sin (disbelieve) willfully..." Let it soak. "If we disbelieve willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin."
If the truth of the Gospel has been presented to you in such a way that you have to see it, and because of--of popularity, or something else, that you turn your back to it and walk away and don't want to see it, there's where you cross the line. "For he that disbelieves willfully after he has received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins."


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