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Brief Summarys: The Five Warnings Of Hebrews

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In this paper we will see the three of the five warning of Hebrews. The warnings of Hebrews provide stern warnings and positive encouragement for all Christians to persevere in faith. These warnings are many times misunderstood as warnings of losing salvation or as tests for whether a person is truly saved. These warnings simply explain to the reader that true believers may be challenged in the Christian life and may fall victim to sin as a result.
The Original Audience of Hebrews was composed of Jewish Christians. At the time that this book was written, Jewish converts to Christianity were under persecution from the Roman’s and their families. These Christians were in danger returning to Judaism in order to become accepted by their families …show more content…

It is God’s will that you should be holy ….without holiness no one will see the lord (Matthew 5; 8). In Hebrew 12:15-16 the writer of the book gives two example of sin: sexual immorality and godlessness. Sexual immorality was a very common sin in new times and new believers and new churches were always in danger of being defiled by it (1Corinthians 5:1)
The second example is godlessness. Isaac’s son Esau was godless ,because in exchange for a small earthly benefit he gave up his God-given inherence rights his rights as the oldest son .One day Esau was very hungry and asked his younger brother Jacob being crafty agreed to give Esau some food in exchange for Esau’s inheritance rights . Because of his great hunger Esau agreed (Genesis 25:34). In this way Esau missed God’s grace. His sin was this: He desired the pleasure of this world more than the blessing of God.
After Esau had given up his birthright he tried to get it back but could not. Esau never truly repented of his sin of rejecting it, and wept with sorrow over his sin. Because when a man rejects God‘s grace. Yes he later regretted it, and wept with sorrow over the blessing he had lost but he never wept over his sin. Because when a man rejects God’s grace his heart becomes hardened and he loses all inclination to repent (Hebrews

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