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More Hebrews commentaries
Hebrews 3:1-6
Jesus is Greater than Moses
Hebrews 3:7-13
Hearts are Hardened Through Sin
Hebrews 3:14-19
Failure of the Wilderness Wanders
Hebrews 4:1-11
The Promise of Rest
Hebrews 4:12-16
Christ is Greater than the Priesthood
Hebrews 5:1-10
Qualifications for the Priesthood
Hebrews 5:11-14
The Rebuke of Immaturity
Hebrews 6:1-8
The Warning of Apostasy
Hebrews 6:9-15
The Encouragement to Go On
Hebrews 6:16-20
The Certainty of God’s Promises
Hebrews 7:1-10
Melchizedek the Priest
Hebrews 7:11-17
Jesus Like Melchizedek
Hebrews 7:18-22
The Greatness of the New Priest
Hebrews 7:23-28
An Unchangeable Priesthood
Hebrews 8:1-6
The Better Sanctuary In Which Christ Ministers
Hebrews 8:7-13
The Promise of the New Covenant in the Old
Hebrews 9:1-10
Limitation in the Earthly Sanctuary
Hebrews 9:11-15
Christ Opens the Inner Sanctuary
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The Warning of Apostasy
Hebrews 6:1–8
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If we are going to grow as a Christian, we have to leave the elementary teachings of Christ behind and go forward in Spiritual growth (vv. 1-3). This next passage is perhaps one of the most difficult and controversial passages in the entire Bible (vv. 4-6). The issue centers around whether or not a born-again believer can lose his salvation. The four most common views of this passage given by Bible scholars are as follows:
I personally do not believe the first view because it is not consistent with other Scripture such as John 10:27-30 which states that salvation is a work of God that cannot be reversed. However, I do not believe we can be dogmatic in our teaching of any of the last three views. There are many good men of God who differ on these. The author could have had any one of these views in mind as he penned these words, and certainly we can make application to all three. Regardless of the view held, we can see from these verses (vv 4-5) how these Hebrews being addressed here had at least five great advantages: (1) They had been enlightened, (2) tasted of the heavenly gift, (3) partaken of the Holy Spirit, (4) tasted the Word of God, and (5) tasted the powers of the age to come. The farming illustration (vv. 7-8) further describes the argument presented in the passage above.
Application
If I am saved it is impossible to lose my salvation. Those who are lost can be saved for all eternity if they simply admit they are a sinner, tell the Lord they are sorry for their sin and invite the Lord Jesus to save them. Just as in real life once I am born I can not get unborn.
Hebrews 6:1-8 (English Standard Version)
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
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