Things Men Can Do

Look diligently so as not to fall of grace and permit bitterness to defile the soul

Hebrews 12:15-16  

15 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

16 See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.

Refuse God and incur His wrath to destruction

Hebrews 12:25  

See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?

Have grace again to serve God or be punished with fire

Hebrews 12:28-29  

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,

29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”

Go to perdition by drawing back

Hebrews 10:38-39  

38 But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.”

39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.

Fall through unbelief as did others

Hebrews 4:11  

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

Became slothful and fail to inherit the promise

Hebrews 6:12  

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.