Dr. David Christensen
January 17, 2010 at Galilee Baptist Church

"Immunized to Christianity"
(Hebrews 6:1-8)


1. How we progress proves what we believe. (6:1-3)

2. Whether we persevere proves who we follow. (6:4-6)

3. What we produce proves what we are. (6:7-8)

Continuance is the test of reality.

The Bible Text

Hebrews 6:1-8

1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.
3 And this we will do, if God permits.
4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
7 For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;
8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.