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0:00Okay, so let's get into chapter [music]
0:01six.
0:02And um this is where we're going to
0:04learn those elementary principles of the
0:06Oracles of God. This is where we learn
0:09the basic fundamentals, the core
0:11principles that everything else is built
0:14upon. So, the kingdom [music]
0:16the church
0:18the ecclesia has core principles.
0:20[music]
0:22And
0:23Hebrews chapter six gives them to us.
0:25Hebrews chapter six verse one.
0:27Therefore,
0:30leaving
0:31the elementary teaching
0:34about the Christ, the Messiah,
0:37let us press on to maturity.
0:40Not laying again a foundation of
0:46So, he's going to tell us what we're
0:47leaving.
0:49And when he does, he's going to reveal
0:51to us what the foundation is.
0:54In your walk with God, if this is not
0:55your foundation, you are not built on
0:57the foundation of Christ.
1:01This is the foundation. These are the
1:03core principles. If you don't have these
1:06points, if these are not the core
1:08fundamentals
1:10that create the worldview expectation
1:13outlook and framework of your whole
1:17Christian project, you are not building
1:20according
1:21to the foundation of Christ.
1:25Okay, let us press on to maturity, not
1:27laying again
1:28a foundation of
1:31repentance from dead works and faith
1:35toward God.
1:37There's the first foundation stone.
1:39Maybe you see it as two, maybe you see
1:41it as one.
1:42But I see it as one. I see repentance
1:46describing renunciation and rejection of
1:50all lordship and
1:53tyranny of human will
1:56apart from [music] God.
1:57That gets of the wrong, Lord, and I see
2:00faith toward God as
2:03turning and redirecting all that faith
2:06formerly directed toward self, now we
2:09put our trust in him.
2:11We put the same sort of default
2:14confidence in him, his goodness, his
2:16word as we once
2:18attributed to self. So, repentance from
2:21dead works and faith toward God. I'm not
2:23going to be saved by the rubbish that
2:26man does without God. Everything in that
2:29category is dead works, and I'm turning
2:31from dead works,
2:33and I'm having faith toward God.
2:35That is the very first foundation stone.
2:39The word repent is the start of the
2:43start of the start. If that does not
2:45describe your beginning,
2:47you don't have the right beginning.
2:50Repentance from dead works and faith
2:52toward God.
2:53Instruction
2:56about washings
2:58or baptisms
3:00is better stated. So, what are the
3:02instructions or the teaching about
3:04baptisms, washings?
3:07Well, there's one baptism. We know that.
3:10One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one
3:13God and Father of all who is over all
3:14and in you all. One baptism.
3:17But, it's twofold.
3:20One part of the baptism submerges your
3:23physical corporal person.
3:27And the other part of the baptism
3:28submerges your soul,
3:31your personality,
3:34your inner man, okay? So, the the first
3:37part of the baptism
3:39is the
3:40submerging
3:42of your body, the flesh that you're
3:45going to live out your faith in. It's
3:47plunging that
3:50into the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
3:53Amen? So, water baptism is when you bury
3:58the corpse of the dead man and his will
4:01that you have died to in repentance.
4:03Water baptism has a burial, calls down
4:06the name of Jesus upon it, and seals
4:09that. And And that's where your name and
4:12identity changes when he gives you his
4:14name, and you are baptized in the name
4:18of Jesus Christ. So, Paul was told,
4:20"Arise and be baptized calling on the
4:25name of Jesus Christ." That's water
4:28baptism. Spirit baptism
4:31is not in water, it's in presence.
4:34It's when the surrounding glory and
4:37presence of God becomes so precious, so
4:41real, that you yield yourself up to it
4:45until the last, even the most unruly
4:48member of your tongue, is overwhelmed
4:52by the presence of God.
4:54Your spirit baptism is very parallel to
4:57your water baptism. One overwhelms the
5:00body,
5:01and the water closes over it, and the
5:04other overwhelms the soul, and the
5:06presence envelops, infuses, and
5:10overwhelms it. So, that's the teaching
5:12of baptisms. So, we got one stone,
5:14repentance from dead works and faith
5:16toward God. Two stones, doctrine of
5:18baptisms.
5:21Okay. Then the next stone is laying on
5:24of hands.
5:26Now, to a Hebrew congregation, which is
5:28what he's writing, remember we're in the
5:29book of Hebrews, they knew exactly what
5:32that meant. Laying on of hands means the
5:35way authority is transferred
5:39in the culture of Christ.
5:42The laying on of hands is how authority
5:46is designated.
5:48When someone is married, the preacher
5:51lays his hand on their heads and he
5:53institutes the marriage as of God.
5:57When someone is ordained to ministry,
6:00the ministry the the eldership lays
6:02their hands on the minister and
6:04institutes him as
6:07authorized by God. Right? The right hand
6:12is the right hand of fellowship. When
6:13someone comes into the church, we extend
6:16to them in Paul's words the right hand
6:18of Christian fellowship.
6:21When someone is sick and we want to use
6:23the authority of God to cast out the
6:27sickness, the Lord stretches forth his
6:30hand through us as we lay hands on the
6:32sick and they will recover.
6:35So, the laying on of hands is basically
6:38church authority. How God's authority
6:40works properly in the church. This is
6:44the third critical foundation stone. If
6:47you don't understand how godly anointed
6:50authority from him is expressed in and
6:54through the church, you don't have the
6:56third critical foundation stone. You
7:00don't have this
7:01core principle.
7:04And then the last stone, the fourth,
7:06resurrection
7:08from the dead and eternal judgment.
7:11And this is the idea of eschatology,
7:14resurrection from the dead.
7:16Where are we going? What is the end of
7:19all of this?
7:20And what is the consequence?
7:23Do you understand? Are we headed toward
7:24a final reckoning?
7:26And is there a final consequence post
7:28that reckoning?
7:30And if there is, then everything has to
7:33be assessed in that light.
7:35If you don't know where you're going,
7:37>> [clears throat]
7:38>> you don't have
7:39the fourth foundation stone. Now, I will
7:42observe that there is one substrata
7:46that exists even beneath
7:49these four stones.
7:51These stones are the four stones, the
7:54four corners of the house of God.
7:57Amen. The four cornerstone, the four
8:00stones where the temple of God, the
8:03church is supposed to be built. These
8:05four truths.
8:07But in order to build a house, you have
8:08to dig down to bedrock.
8:11And then once you find bedrock, you lay
8:14your foundation stones on bedrock and
8:16you build up from there. So, I ask, we
8:19know now what the four stones are. What
8:20is the bedrock? What is the substrata
8:23beneath these stones?
8:25It is answering the question, "Who is
8:28God?"
8:30Because Jesus said, "Who do men say that
8:33I am?"
8:34And when Peter said, "You are the
8:36Messiah, the son of the living God." He
8:39said, "Upon this rock I will build my
8:44church." So, the rock of knowing who God
8:48is,
8:49his nature,
8:51his his form,
8:53his relationship with us. When That's
8:55the substrata. That's the big rock. And
8:58then the building gets constructed on
9:00that. So, in that way you could say five
9:02stones are five core principles. This
9:05one focuses on those that presuppose who
9:09God is cuz the Jews did know who God
9:11was.
9:14He goes on,
9:16"And this we will do if God permits."
9:19In the case of those who have once been
9:23enlightened,
9:25these are the people who have gotten the
9:28core principles and lost them.
9:31In the case of those who have once been
9:33enlightened
9:35and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
9:38and have been made partakers of the Holy
9:40Spirit,
9:41the heavenly gift
9:43is to partake of the Holy Spirit.
9:46And have tasted the good word of God and
9:50the powers of the age to come.
9:54And then
9:55have fallen away.
9:58Now, this this describes
10:02the condition
10:04that the writer is trying to prevent.
10:08I don't want you guys to fall away.
10:11He's bewailing that they're immature,
10:13but he definitely doesn't want them to
10:15lose these four core principles.
10:19They've They've experienced God. This is
10:22not an intellectual conformity to
10:25doctrine. This is These are people
10:27who've been changed. They've tasted the
10:28word of God. They've partaken of the
10:30Holy Spirit, the powers of the age to
10:33come.
10:35And then have fallen away. It is
10:38impossible
10:40to renew them again to repentance.
10:45And this says since they again crucify
10:49to themselves the Son of God and put him
10:52to an open shame.
10:54But that word since
10:56is not in there.
10:58Now, there is no word there.
11:00The translators put a little note
11:02because they don't know how to deal with
11:04this.
11:05But
11:07the better translation would be while.
11:12While they again crucify to themselves
11:15the Son of God. The Amplified gets it
11:17right here. While. Since and while
11:20or during that season.
11:24During that time.
11:26The word's not there, but the grammar
11:28necessitates that.
11:31Or it it does not necessitate it, this
11:34it allows for it in the best way and it
11:36harmonizes, in my opinion, in the best
11:38possible way with where we're going. So,
11:40what does this mean?
11:42They've They know God. They've come to
11:44reality. It is impossible to renew them
11:47again to repentance while they again
11:50crucify to themselves the Son of God and
11:52put him to an open shame. I already told
11:54you
11:55that when they left
11:57the church and went back to the
11:58synagogue, they could not get back into
12:01the synagogue without putting Jesus to
12:03an open shame.
12:05They cannot be made right with the
12:08church until they renounce their
12:10renunciation of Christ. They cannot be
12:13renewed to repentance.
12:16Renew them to repentance means
12:19they were old, but they're made new
12:20again. They were old, they were new,
12:22they were made new again.
12:25You can't get them back in. You can't
12:27restore them to the fellowship. That's
12:29what he means by renew them to
12:31repentance.
12:32If they're still
12:34making Jesus a reproach in the society
12:38of the Jewish community where they
12:40dwell, you cannot have them back in the
12:42church since and while
12:45they again crucify to themselves the Son
12:47of God and put him to an open shame.
12:50They are participating in the crowd that
12:53shrieked crucify him.
12:55You cannot have oneness with that table
12:58and oneness with this table. You cannot
13:00have oneness with that crowd and oneness
13:02with this crowd. You got to pick one or
13:04the other.
13:06Now, look at Look at his justification
13:08and I'm going to use this as proof that
13:11my interpretation is right. Cuz the
13:14Calvinists will
13:15likely get a little bit of uh heartburn
13:18at this point. Verse seven. For the
13:22ground
13:24that drinks the rain
13:27which often falls on it and brings forth
13:30vegetation useful
13:33to those for whose sake it was also
13:36tilled receives a blessing from God.
13:41But if it yields thorns and thistles
13:49which James makes the same as cursing
13:53if it yields thorns and thistles, it is
13:56worthless
13:59and close
14:02to being cursed or ready
14:05to be cursed or almost at a curse.
14:10And it ends up being burned.
14:14He's saying
14:16if you're putting Jesus to an open shame
14:21you're bringing forth thistles and
14:24thorns and you better stop it
14:27cuz you're not going to get back into
14:28salvation. You're not going to be
14:29renewed to repentance that leads to life
14:34if you don't get those thorns and
14:36thistles out of your life. He doesn't
14:39say if you start producing thorns and
14:41thistles, you're cursed. He says you're
14:43ready. You're close. You're almost
14:46there. Which means you can stop. And
14:49that means that it's not impossible to
14:52get them back to repentance. It's
14:54impossible to get them back to
14:55repentance while thorns and thistles are
14:58still coming out of their mouth, while
15:00they're still putting Jesus to an open
15:02shame.
15:03You can't be bashing the church of
15:06Christ lying about them, slandering
15:10them, blaspheming them and show up on
15:12Sunday and pretend to be renewed to
15:15repentance that leads to life. You're a
15:17liar.
15:18That's what he's saying.
15:20But you can repent.
15:22You just can't repent while these
15:24thistles
15:26are still in you.
15:29He's saying, "Don't let these people
15:31drink in the rain
15:33if it's not producing the fruit.
15:36If the rain of church meetings, if the
15:38rain of fellowship love, if the rain
15:41that's soaking into their ground is
15:42producing thistles, don't be kidding
15:45yourself.
15:46They're bad.
15:48And you can't have them back until they
15:50deal
15:51with their problem.
15:53But beloved, we are convinced
15:57of better things concerning you.
16:01And things that accompany salvation,
16:05though we are speaking in this way.
16:07So his burden is for people in the
16:09church.
16:11But he didn't have some fatalistic, "Oh,
16:13you commit sin, you're predestined to
16:15hell." Nor does he have a fatalistic,
16:17"You've crossed the line, you can't be
16:19restored."
16:20He's actually talking to these people
16:22and he says, "I I'm seeing thorns and
16:24thistles, but I'm convinced that you can
16:26get out of this."
16:28We are convinced of better things
16:30concerning you and things that accompany
16:32salvation.
16:34That would be the vegetation useful
16:37for which sake the ground was tilled.
16:40Things that accompany salvation, though
16:42we are speaking in this way. For God is
16:44not unjust
16:46so as to forget your work
16:49and the love which you have shown toward
16:51his name
16:53in having ministered and in still
16:55ministering to the saints.
16:58He says, "It's near to being cursed.
17:00It's not cursed.
17:02God's not going to forget everything you
17:03did.
17:05There are people who become blasphemers,
17:07they did a lot of good before they went
17:08there.
17:10But you got to get out of there or
17:11you're going to be lost. You're near to
17:13being cursed.
17:16And we desire that each one of you show
17:19the same diligence.
17:20He doesn't just want it to be some, he
17:22wants it to be all of them.
17:23So as to realize the full assurance of
17:26hope until the end.
17:28So that you will not be sluggish,
17:31but imitators of those who through faith
17:34and patience inherit the promises.
17:38There's a promise, but you got to stick
17:40with the process. You got to believe in
17:42the process. You got to defend the
17:44process.
17:46For when God made the promise to
17:48Abraham,
17:50since he could swear by no one greater,
17:52he swore by himself.
17:55Saying, "I will surely bless you, and I
17:59will surely multiply you."
18:01And so having patiently waited,
18:05he, Abraham, obtained the promise. He's
18:08telling them, "Be like Abraham."
18:12Don't give up Don't give up.
18:14Don't bring forth Ishmael.
18:16Stick with it.
18:19For men swear by one greater than
18:22themself.
18:24And with them an oath given as
18:25confirmation is an end of every dispute.
18:31In the same way God,
18:33desiring even more to show the heirs of
18:37the promise the unchangeableness of his
18:40purpose,
18:41he interposed with an oath so that by
18:44two unchangeable things in which it is
18:46impossible for God to lie,
18:48we who have taken refuge would have
18:50strong encouragement to take hold of the
18:53hope set before us.
18:56This hope we have
18:59as an anchor of the soul,
19:02a hope both sure and steadfast, and one
19:07which enters
19:09within the veil.
19:12>> Veil?
19:14What?
19:16>> Where Jesus [music] has entered
19:20as a forerunner for us, having become a
19:24high priest forever according to the
19:26order of Melchisedec.
19:30So, he says,
19:32God made a promise and God doesn't lie.
19:35We've got strong consolation. He swore
19:37by himself. You can trust it. Amen? And
19:40he says, we have a hope
19:42that is an anchor of the soul.
19:44But, that hope is not an idea, it's a
19:46person. It's Jesus.
19:48And Jesus, our hope, has entered behind
19:53the veil.
19:54He has gone into heaven itself, [music]
19:56the holy of holies,
20:00where he ever lives. He is He is there
20:03with this earthly connection to us
20:06and this heavenly union with God.
20:10And that's the priest that he is for us.
20:13He's not coming and going from the holy
20:16of holies. He has [music] complete
20:17oneness. Jesus is living, breathing,
20:20walking, talking reconciliation between
20:23humanity and divinity. He is Yahweh and
20:27Adam. Adam's descendants come into
20:29complete fellowship.
20:32Amen? So, he ever lives in this
20:35capacity of reconciliation.
20:38Whenever we call on God, we call on a
20:41God who is both human and divine.
20:44Whenever we tell him our needs, we tell
20:46a God who suffered like us. Didn't just
20:49make us.
20:50He hurt in our skin.
20:52>> [music]
20:52>> He knows us that intimately.
20:55And he is a forerunner. He is leading us
20:58into the presence of his father.
21:01Amen? So, that we can have the same
21:02union with God that he enjoys.
21:06And that's the high priestly service
21:08that he has
21:08>> [music]
21:08>> according to the order of Melchizedek.
21:14>> [music]

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