IV. Final Warnings and Exhortations (12:3–13:25). 1. If these Jews remain under the chastening hand of God and do not seek to escape persecution by renouncing their professed faith in Messiah, that is an evidence that they are saved. But if they do the opposite, that shows they have never been saved (12:3–17) 2. When they come to New Testament truth, they come, not to the thunders of Sinai, but to the grace of Calvary (vv. 18–24) 3. They are warned not to refuse the Lord Jesus, for those who refused