“Supreme Insult”

Hebrews 10: 29: “How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?” This is one of those verses many of us would like to erase from the Bible because it doesn’t fit our ‘anything goes, God understands’ theology. Bad news – it’s in here, and we have to deal with it. We can focus on the word ‘deserve’ and remind ourselves that God doesn’t give us what we deserve, but you can’t ignore words like ‘trampled,’ ‘unclean,’ and ‘insulted.’ Do you think you can continually insult the Holy Spirit forever and not have it affect your relationship with God? Don’t think so …