Hebrews 10:30-31
For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Application: 

The most severe form of discipline for spiritual disobedience is physical death (see 1 John 5:16). This was the case in Israel for those who disregarded the Mosaic law (10:28). Their countrymen stoned them. The author says that for the Christian who defies God, there will be a worse punishment than even this. And while we don’t see it happen very often, the very idea demonstrates how serious God is about his holiness. 

In Corinth, some believers became sick and even died because of their disobedience regarding the Lord’s Supper (see 1 Cor 11:27–32). As Paul told the Corinthians: “When the Lord judges us, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world” (1 Cor 11:32).

If you persist willfully in the very sin for which Christ died to set you free, you’ve trampled on the Son of God … regarded as profane the blood of the covenant and insulted the Spirit of grace (10:29). 

Such is the willful rebellion of believers who treat with contempt the high sacrificial price paid by God’s Son to bring us our great salvation. God will not ignore this. The sacrifice that saves you from the eternal consequences of sin will not necessarily deliver you from the consequences of sin in history. The Lord vows to judge his people (10:30). This is not the side of God you want to see, because it is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God (10:31; see Rom 11:22).

Reference: Tony Evans, The Tony Evans Bible Commentary (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2019), 1327.

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