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Hebrews 6:1–8 – Press On and Heed the Warning

What happens: The writer urges leaving elementary teaching to press on to maturity. He warns about those who fall away after tasting the heavenly gift; it is impossible to restore them while they crucify the Son again. The land that drinks rain and bears thorns is near to being cursed.

What it means: God calls believers forward, not backward. Apostasy is real and grievous, and God is just. Holy fear should push us toward earnest faith and fruit.

Hebrews 6:9–12 – Better Things That Belong to Salvation

What happens: He expresses confidence of better things in them, seeing their love shown to the saints. He urges diligence to the end so they inherit the promises and not be sluggish, but imitators of the faithful.

What it means: God remembers love done in His name. Perseverance and hope mark true salvation. Examples of faith spur us on.

Hebrews 6:13–20 – God’s Oath and the Anchor of Hope

What happens: God swears by Himself to Abraham, showing the unchangeable nature of His purpose by promise and oath. By two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we have strong encouragement. We have a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul that enters the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner, a high priest forever after Melchizedek.

What it means: God’s promise and oath reveal His faithfulness and unchanging character. Hope in Christ is secure and brings us near to God. Jesus anchors our future within God’s presence.

Application

  • Pursue maturity with urgency and heed the warning against falling away.
  • Be diligent in love and endurance to the end.
  • Hold fast to God’s oath-grounded hope anchored in Jesus.
  • Let the certainty of God’s character steady your soul.

Bible

1Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

2Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

3And this will we do, if God permit.

4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

7For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

8But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

11And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

14Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

16For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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