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Seriously, if God asked you that question today...how would you answer it? I mean to say, isn’t that really what God wants of us?: “You have been found justified in your sins for the sake of my crucified Son...on what do presume to come into Heaven?” Do you answer Him with a litany of good works? A recitation of the times you have “decided His Son is part of your life? The day you remembered you were “baptized...for the last time...and this one “took”?

No, I say that the blood of Christ saved me and that I was so grateful for his love and intervention that I promised to uphold my covenant to put the mind of Christ first and foremost in my life, to subvert my will and let the will of Christ reign. And though I did it imperfectly, I'm all the better for obeying.

Taken to the logical extreme someone could just as well say "well yeah, I believed you saved me, but I'm not going to let you live through me. No way. I'm going to keep sinning and doing my own thing and make a mockery of your sacrifice."

Hbr 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Yeah we stumble and yeah we fall but God expects us to turn from sin.

" Hbr 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins "

And just what is that " SIN " ?

The writer of the book of Hebrews was writing to a Hebrew audience.
He's talking about those who just on the verge of true salvation but later rejecting it totally.
The writer of the book of Hebrews explains in chapter 4 and other chapters what this particular sin is.

And what is this sin ?

The sin of unbelief.

Hebrews 4

1. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

Hebrews 3

12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.( there you go, a evil heart of unbelief ).
13. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.( there you go, the writer say to exhort one another lest you fall into the hardness through the deceitfulness of sin, and what is this sin ? unbelief ).
14. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15. while it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18. And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? ( those who believed not )
19. So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

The writer speaks much about unbelief and even calls it " SIN " .
Them coming out of Egypt into the promise land is as the same as us Christians before we got saved into our promised land and rest in Christ's salvation.
Verse 17 of chapter 3 ?

They didn't fall in the wilderness because they sinned or broke God's laws, they sinned because they refused to go into the promised land and didn't believe God that the land was theirs to take.
17. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned ( yeah, there is that word again, sinned, and it does not mean that they sinned and broke God's laws or commandments ) whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
So what is the Holy Spirit trying to show us here by this writer ?
This particular " SIN " is the sin of unbelief.

" Taken to the logical extreme someone could just as well say "well yeah, I believed you saved me, but I'm not going to let you live through me. No way. I'm going to keep sinning and doing my own thing and make a mockery of your sacrifice."

** Heb 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, **

Yeah, I remember the pastors using this tried and true way to keep the people in line and in their control with this verse just like Malichi 3 and beat them over the head with it over and over again.

Yes, I use to believe what you believe and think like that until God had to open my eyes and see what that verse is really saying.

What Hebrews 10:26 is actually saying is that if you go and continue to reject, and refuse God's gift of Salvation in Christ and his grace, if your heart is so deep in hardness and continue to sin the sin of unbelief ?
Then your rejecting the very sacrifice that can save you and the only thing that you can expect is God's wrath.
Those people where not Europains, they were Hebrew Jews who were brought up in the Jewish traditions and laws and they had a taste of Christ but were not willing to go all the way and turned back in to Judaism rejecting Christ's salvation.

If we continue to flaunt, reject, refuse God's salvation in Christ because of the hardness of our hearts because of unbelief after we have received the knowledge of the truth ? then ? there is no more left any hope or sacrifice for our sins because we reject the very thing that can save us.