July 17, 2010 Lesson 6 of Hebrews 5:11-6:8

July 17, 2010 Lesson 6 of Hebrews 5:11-6:8
5:11-14. What is the writer’s complaint about his readers? What does he imply are the conditions of spiritual growth? By these standards, considering how long I have been a Christian, by this time what ought I to be? Answer: The writer is saying that we can not continue to live only knowing about the grace of God. We are to learn and study what is in the Word and put it in our heart so that we do not become tempted, allowing the Word to transform us. Where am I? Not where I could be.


6:1-8. What teaching constitutes the foundation of the gospel? See Acts 2:38; 20:21; 26:18. What reason is given here for not laying this foundation again? What were the only possibilities now open to such people? Answer: Repentance, it is for all, having faith in Jesus, understanding you are not worthy; basically all that it says in Mat 5:3-8. These foundational points are important to understand and live by but there is sooooo much more to the Word than that.


Notes
5:11. As the writer is about to begin his exposition of the Melchizedek priesthood of Christ, he is arrested by a sense of the difficulty of expounding it to those who have become spiritually so dull of hearing.
5:14. Note the practical evidence of maturity. Cf. Is 7:16.
6:4-8. To understand these verses compare the writer’s earlier reference to the Israelites in the wilderness. It was impossible for Moses to take them back into Egypt, and to bring them out through the Passover and the Read Sea a second time. Either they must go on with God and enter in, or come under God’s judgment, and be finally shut out. See 3:10-12.