Is God Being Harsh In Hebrews 12Posted by Warner Schwartz on March 30th, 2021 Worldly sorrow doesn’t lead to repentance; it only leads to death. Worldly sorrow does not lead to true repentance because it is not a mourning over one’s sin, but simply a mourning over one’s loss. Worldly sorrow may seem very real, and even be ‘full of tears’ yet it is not a grieving over one’s sin as an offense to God, but is instead full of self-pity. Worldly sorrow is that which Esau displayed. I feel like I am reading my Bible in vain, trying to reproduce the conviction that I once felt. But knowing deep down that that conviction can only come from God, not me and that He gave me numerous chances and i rejected them. pharisees searched scripture looking for eternal life, but Jesus told them He is life. The moment Jacob has gone out, in comes Esau with his savory feast for Isaac. And as Isaac discovers that he's blessed the wrong son, who is the right son in God's plan, he knows immediately that he has been fighting against God. There are two things that I want you to see in verse 33. First, we're told that Isaac trembled violently. It's even difficult to translate that in English. As an adult, God began to convict me that I was not saved . I argued with God that I had to be saved because of my prayer and all of the subsequent works. God continued to convict me, but I kept refusing to listen have I committed the unpardonable sin . It was only after the conviction to turn to Jesus stopped that I truly realized that I was lost. And now, like you both, I fear that I am permanently lost. I had abundant head knowledge but no heart knowledge. But in eating that stew, he was cutting himself off from his one hope, his one source of air, his one source of life. He gave in to his fleshly impulses to breathe something which could not give him life. And he refused to wait for the one thing which could give him life. B. And that’s why we’re so vulnerable to the sin of Esau. For Esau, when he was young, had committed a very great sin against God. He was his father's first-born, and in those times, as now among the rich and noble, it was a great thing to be the eldest in a family. In Esau's case these privileges were the greater, for they were the direct gift of God. Esau, as being the eldest born of his father Isaac, inherited certain rights and privileges which Isaac, the long-expected heir of Abraham, had received from Abraham. My notebook of verses became my lifeline !!! Because, as you said, all I could see was condemnation. I believe Satan was keeping me bound in fear. This might be explained by a change in grammar conventions over the centuries. in a minority of the Greek manuscripts and in several critical editions, including the Greek Orthodox Patriarchal, the Nestle-Aland, and United Bible Societies Greek New Testament. The majority spelling which I have preserved, however goes back to some of the oldest-known manuscripts. When we came back to Christ, we did not automatically start back where we left off. We have to rebuild our relationship with him. Therefore we are weak and Satan was able to lay that lie in our heart and we have believed it. We Can not deny that we have believed the lie otherwise this would of just been a passing thought and would not of tormented us. However, I am not entirely sure that those who feel the loss of the Lord have committed that. “For ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God” … Jacob actually did quite a lot of sinning with his deceit. Thank you for your replies, Maggie, but I’m afraid I still feel completely empty right now, and completely sad, all I can do is sob. I feel like in foolishness and not really counting the cost I’ve squandered my only hope for salvation on small meaningless things in life. I don’t believe that the blood of Christ has a limit. There is not a point at which Christ’s blood can no longer cover your sins. The gospel is the good news that God saves sinners, and if you don’t see yourself in need of saving, then you’re not going to see yourself in need of repenting. It is helpful to also note the definition of repent. Esau seems to have no understanding that he himself had despised the spiritual things, the blessings, the birthright. He seems to have no understanding and appreciation of the uniqueness of this blessing. In Isaac we see a model of real repentance. And in this passage we see God's sovereignty, but in Esau we see no repentance. In fact, as we said in the studies in Galatians, the cross of Christ would be the greatest blunder that this world has ever seen and God would be the one who had committed it. Christ died for the simple reason that there is no salvation apart from the blood that was shed. If there is to be any salvation, that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, should die for sinners. Now, occasionally when we study Jacob and Esau, we are inclined to think, let me put it this way, we are inclined to have sympathy with Esau rather than Jacob. We read through the account and we cannot help but have our heartstrings tugged at by the tragedy of the life of Esau. And when we see Jacob scheming and conniving, this crooked man, we tend to want to condemn Jacob and admire Esau and feel compassion for him.Like it? Share it! More by this author |