3777 — Knowledge of the Truth, and When We Receive It
By Editor
Please explain Heb. 10:26-29. What is the "knowledge of the truth," and when do we receive it? By the knowledge of the truth in this passage is meant that clear depth of knowledge that comes by conversion to God and harmony with His truth through the Spirit. He who has the knowledge of the truth there referred to is one who has tasted of the good Word of God, who has realized the cleansing of the blood of the Son of God and the power of the Spirit of grace. Now when a man, in the light of this, will turn away from the truth of God, turn away from the means of grace which God has given, there is no other power by which God can reach him. His sin is unpardonable because it is unrepentable. When one, in the very light of the knowledge of the power and goodness of God, turns from that power, he puts himself in a position where he can not tell when good comes. The sad thing of it is not that God's mercy is not just as great as before, not that God is not just as willing to help as ever before; but the man, by his very sinning, takes himself away from the channel from which the help of God flows.