Our Sunday School lesson this week includes the difficult words of Hebrews 6:4-8: For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, became companions with the Holy Spirit, tasted God’s good word and the powers of the coming age, and who have fallen away, because to their own hard they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt. For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God. But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end. As is normal for me, let me give you everything I know about these words and then allow you to draw your own conclusions. At quick glance, we would probably say this: the author is speaking about someone
John 10:27-29: My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. We know that the Bible does not contradict itself, and the Bible certainly teaches that our salvation is secure, so what do we do with Hebrews 6? Let's walk a little more slowly and carefully through the text and see what we might learn.
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