34.Read verse twenty-eight in another translation for clarity.

Christ was offered once to take away the sins of many people, and to those who eagerly await His coming He will appear a second time, not as a sin offering but to bring salvation.

When the Lord comes the second time He will bring with him the redemption of our bodies. This is the promised salvation, the restoration of all that was forfeited in Eden.

The redemption of our body will mark the removal of all unrighteousness from our personality. All unrighteousness, unholiness, and disobedience will be gone. For eternity we shall be able to serve the Father in absolute purity of personality and behavior. We shall be filled with eternal life. We shall be crowned with eternal life, the Life of God, so we will be able to enforce the laws of the Kingdom of God wherever we are. This is the eternal inheritance of the sons of God, of the royal priesthood.

Salvation is deliverance from sin. Total deliverance from sin will be brought to those who are looking for Christ to come. When we compare this thought with the writings of Paul, especially in the sixth and eighth chapters of the Book of Romans, we understand that we are not just to wait for release from sin to come at the appearing of the Lord. There are some actions we must take now if we are to be eligible for such release when the Lord returns.

We are to work out our own salvation, our own deliverance from sin, in the present hour. We do this by living as a disciple; particularly by confessing our sins and renouncing them vigorously. After that we are to resist the devil. It is a daily warfare against the evil that seeks to destroy our new eternal life, our new born-again nature.

If we do not live as a disciple, do not present our body a living sacrifice, do not take up our cross and follow Jesus, do not obey the commandments of Christ and His Apostles found in the New Testament, do not confess and renounce our sins, do not continue in the daily warfare against Satan, then we will not be prepared for the final act of redemption. We have slain our salvation through neglect. This is what the Book of Hebrews is emphasizing.

Let no believer be deceived concerning the need for genuine discipleship. This is the true God and eternal life. It is those who keep His commandments who love Christ and are of Christ. There are many false apostles in the world of today who teach otherwise, and they are heading toward destruction along with their followers. The trumpet is sounding in Zion today. Can you hear it?