Question

I am looking for your interpretation of Hebrews 10:26 in context with the passage which says, "For if we sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins."  In desiring to use the Word of the Lord accurately, I have often used this passage in sharing with people who would consider themselves Christians and desire to continue to live with their girlfriends, or Christians who justify getting divorces.

Answer

I think that it is the non-Christian it is talking about.  I think it is talking about a person intellectually convinced of the gospel who knows it but goes on living in sin, willfully already knowing the truth, and if he rejects the sacrifice of Christ--there is no hope.  I think that it is basically another one of the warning passages that are all through the Epistle of the Hebrews.  Those warning passages are directed at people who are intellectually convinced of the truth of the gospel, but will not separate themselves from sin and come to Christ.  The warning there is, "If you keep on doing that, you are really treading underfoot the Blood of the Covenant, and counting it an unholy thing."  In other words, "You are trampling the Blood of Christ, you are ignoring that, and there is no other sacrifice for sin."  So, I think it is a message to an intellectually convinced unbeliever who won't break with his sin.  Now, you may be giving it to the right people, and they may say they are Christians, but if they continue in a protracted state of sinfulness, there is a good chance that, that might be their case. 

Question (continued)

Do you know what might be a better approach to someone who is a Christian, at least from God's perspective, when somebody is continuing to sin?

Answer (continued)

Romans six, "Shall we sin, that grace may abound?  God forbid......and if you died with Christ and risen, then you better walk in newness of life, and mortify the deeds of the flesh, so shall you live."  I would hit Romans six.  And then Romans seven, the cry of Paul, "Wretched man that I am!"  Who wants to see himself delivered from that kind of thing.  But, Romans six, he says, "You were the servants of sin, but now you have become the servants of righteousness."  If you are not a "servant of righteousness," either you are not saved or you are contradicting everything that you salvation means.