Music Christians struggle with sin because we Christians in this life are sinners. Still, the presence of sin in us will not be eradicated until that glorious day when we will see Jesus face-to-face, and what a glorious day that will be! But until then, we fight sin by faith, and we can experience assurance inside of that fight. However, we also believe that there are forms of willful sin that evidence a heart that has not been saved, patterns of willful sin that show the heart is not truly converted. This leads to today's question from Josh: "Hello pastor John. My question is regarding some of those hard verses in the book of Hebrews, specifically Hebrews 10:26-29. The writer seems to be speaking to the ability to lose salvation by engaging in willful sin, as it has been called. My question is, what is the opposite of a willful sin? Is it an accidental sin or something else? It seems to me that due to the presence of the Holy Spirit's conviction, all sin done by the believer is done willfully. Is there something I'm not seeing within these verses?" Josh is right that Hebrews 10 and Hebrews 6 often give people the impression that a person possesses the fullness of salvation and then loses it. These texts can easily look that way, but there are clues that this is not what the author of Hebrews wants to communicate. So Josh's question is twofold: Do these verses teach that we can lose our salvation? And what does verse 26 of chapter 10 mean by referring to sinning deliberately or willingly, since in one sense all sin is an act of the will and thus deliberate? The key verse that he's referring to is verse 26 of chapter 10. In the ESV,...
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