09/15/2026
“BETTER NOT TO HAVE KNOWN”
(Heb.3:12-14) (v.12) “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (v.13) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (v.14) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.”
When we enter into the blood covenant with Jesus Christ, we enter a marriage. Jesus is the Bridegroom and the church (Israel) is His bride. Jesus will not leave us or forsake us, but He won't make us stay either. People can, and do, leave their marriage partner for some whoremonger on the side. In the Old Testament, when a woman was divorced from her husband and married another, she could not go back to her first husband (Deut.24:1-4). This is born out in the spiritual realm also. If you taste of the heavenly gift and reject it for the rudiments of this world, there is no place of repentance for you.
(Heb.12:15-17). (v.15) Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; (v.16) Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. (v.17) For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
(2 Peter:2:20-22) (v.20) “For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. (v.21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. (v.22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”
Too many professed Christians are looking to do the minimum to get into glory. Instead of living holy, they are trusting that “the sinner’s prayer” and a couple of good deeds is enough. Meanwhile never internalizing the commandments of the Lord, this is the Matthew 7 group,
(Mat.7:21) (v.21) “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (v. 22) Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? (v.23) And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Have faith in your salvation walk, but remember this. The scriptures say that your heart is assured by keeping the commandments.
(1John:3:24) “And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.”
(1John:2:1-4) “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: (v.2) And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (v.3) And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (v.4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
(Pro.4:7) “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
