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Pre-class
Time for any questions?
Heb 6:
Imagery of OT wilderness wandering
Crucifixion
tantamount to speaking about the gas chambers
Apostasy is crucifying Jesus again.
Why?
Joining the executioners
Rejection of Christ is attempting to add shame upon Jesus and deter unbelievers from coming
How important is a word?
Impossible
Heb
Warning passages
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What do they all have in common?
Party
Seth
Was Christian, not anymore
Study
What’s happening?
What have we learned about Jesus?
Warning
Dull of hearing - can’t learn any more about Christ’s priesthood
Dullness - the inability to hear and be affected by explanation
Dullness can be seen.
How? Through inaction from the Gospel and deeper truths
Teachers, and utilization of spiritual gifts is the outcome of knowing You
Dullness to be combatted
Re-explanation of the Gospel
Or, someone who’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Or, someone who’s about to fall away
What are the basic principles of the oracles of God?
Milk, not solid food
Basic imagery - Baby feeding on mother’s breast.
Dependence, what we can all eat
Steak and solid food not for babes.
High priesthood too much?
Go back to learning about Christ being better than your institutional understandings - Prophets, angels, moses, etc.
Living on Milk
What does it mean to be unskilled in the word of righteousness?
Being a child, not an adult
Evidences itself somehow - not manifesting the works of Christ in our life
Milk is not bad!
It’s AMAZING in context.
The Gospel of Jesus is never exhausted.
Thank you, Jesus :)
We must never wean ourselves off milk
A milk-only diet is not what we need
Solid Food
Maturity expands our diet
maturity expands our responsibility to know what is true and what’s not
To distinguish good from evil
When you listen to Joel Osteen, your stomach turns instead of wanting to learn more
maturity expands our responsibility for being active in the Church
maturity expands our teaching, and thus our lives
Elementary Doctrine of Christ
Surprising that there is a rebuke, and then a transition to maturity
Who’s the audience?
Foundation
Repentance from Dead Works
Faith toward God
Instruction about washings
laying on of hands
resurrection of the dead
eternal judgement
Core foundations of our faith, the MILK!
The GOSPEL.
Jesus, I see you in each of these.
Lord willing, we will move on together
Evidence God and His will for our lives by Him taking the toddlers by the hand until they’re old enough to sit at the table and eat grown-up food
It is Impossible
Notoriously ambiguous
We come to the text with presuppositions
All agree that it is a stern warning
What are the interpretive challenges?
Some have been enlightened.
Describing them
“tasted heavenly gift”
“Shared in the Holy Spirit” - Big one.
Were they saved?
“tasted the goodness of the word of God and powers of the age to come” - Ecclesiology and Eschatology.
What do these mean?
They then fell away, and it’s “impossible to restore them again to repentance”
What’s happening?
Some had fallen away, and they end up looking like Judas, playing a contemptuous role in the crucifixion of Jesus
Is it that they were saved by repenting and they can’t repent again?
Is it that they never originally repented, so a second repentance is impossible because that would demand another crucifixion of Christ?
All views see the individual in trouble
Author speaking of Jew who thought he was a believer, but actually wasn’t
Can’t restore what hasn’t been lost
Can’t resuscitate someone who wasn’t born
Imagery and wording indicates Wilderness wandering
Not meant to be a personal analysis, but a corporate confrontation that individual unbelievers make up
Also, Greek indicates a distance between the one who experienced and actual Christian experience
By what means did they fall?
Parable of the seeds.
Which were they?
Can the soil that had shallow roots and got swept away just try harder and get more fruit?
No, because its roots were never deep, it wasn’t a plant of the vineyard
The soil would need to be cultivated again properly and re-seeded
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