Hebrews 10:31

A fearful thing. The dread that overtakes sinners when ushered into the presence of a righteous God is awful to imagine (cf. Rev. 6:14-17). How much more terrible it will be to go through that experience!

Fall into the hands. Many forget that although God is, indeed, “merciful and gracious,” nevertheless He “will by no means clear the guilty” (Ex. 34:6, 7). Those who despise God’s mercy should never forget that “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Gal. 6:7).

The living God. God lives! His warnings of retribution are not to be taken as idle threats, such as those made in the name of a heathen deity, which is but wood or stone (see Isa. 37:19).