Warning Against Falling Away
Study 6 From The Book of Hebrews Is: Hebrews
5:11 – 6:8
1. 5:11-14. What is he 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?
2. 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?
Notes
1. 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.
2. 5:14. Note the practical
evidence of maturity. Cf. Is. 7:16.
3. 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 Red 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.
