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May 19 - Hebrews 6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's a Monday, it's the 19th of
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  May and I don't know about you, but I had a fantastic weekend
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  with a family wedding, everyone together celebrating.
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  Oh so good. But I guess if we did this.
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  Every weekend it'd drive us. Crazy but but boy, so good to be
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  able to celebrate like that. I wonder.
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  What your weekend was like. Hopefully you had a moment to
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  stop, get to do something that filled you up, filled up your
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  bucket ready for the next week. And here we are on a Monday,
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  ready to empty our buckets on the.
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  Good things that we're going to achieve in the world.
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  Well, maybe you're on holidays and this is just a moment to
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  chill and continue filling your bucket or wherever you are,
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  whatever's going on, great to have your company because we are
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  going to peel open our Bibles once again.
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  Yes, the bookmark is still there in the book of Hebrews as we are
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  working through this crackerjack of a book, discovering the
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  depth, the power and the implications of everything that
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  Jesus has done for us. Oh, I'm keen to keep on going.
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  Do you want to join me? Oh, you.
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  Betcha, let's do it. Let's.
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  Read together Hebrews chapter 6. So let us stop going over the
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  basic teachings about Christ again and again.
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  Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding.
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  Surely we don't need to start again with the fundamental
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  importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith
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  in God. You don't need further
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  instruction about baptism, the laying on of hands, the
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  resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgement.
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  And so, God willing, we will move forward to further
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  understanding. For it is impossible to bring
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  back to repentance those who were once enlightened, those who
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  have experienced the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy
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  Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the Word of God and
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  the power of the age to come, and who then turn away from God.
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  It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance.
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  By rejecting the Son of God. They themselves are nailing him
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  to the cross once again and holding Him up to public shame.
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  When the ground soaks up the falling rain and bears a good
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  crop for the farmer, it has God's blessing.
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  But if a field bears thorns and thistles, it is useless.
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  The farmer will soon condemn that field and burn it.
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  Dear friends, even though we are talking this way, we really
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  don't believe it applies to you. We are confident that you are
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  meant for better things, things that come with salvation.
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  For God is not unjust. He will not forget how hard you
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  have worked for Him and how you have shown your love to Him by
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  caring for other believers, as you still do.
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  Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as
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  long as life lasts in order to make certain that what you hope
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  for will come true. Then you will not become
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  spiritually dull and indifferent.
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  Instead, you will follow the example of those who are going
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  to inherit God's promises because of their faith and
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  endurance. For example, there was God's
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  promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater
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  to swear by, God took an oath on his own name saying, I will
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  certainly bless you, and I will multiply your descendants beyond
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  number. Then Abraham waited patiently,
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  and he received what God had promised.
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  Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater
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  than themselves to hold them to it, and without any question
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  that oath is binding. God also bound himself with an
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  oath so that those who received the promise could be perfectly
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  sure that he would never change his mind.
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  So God has given both His promise and his oath.
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  These two things are unchangeable because it is
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  impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to
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  Him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the
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  hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and
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  trustworthy anchor for our souls.
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  It leads us through the curtain into God's inner sanctuary.
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  Jesus has already gone in there for us.
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  He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of
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  Melchizedek. Oh, what a gift this is to us.
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  We read here that the hope that you give us, Jesus, is a strong
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  and trustworthy anchor for our souls.
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  What a beautiful image that it's in you and everything that you
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  have achieved for us that we can rest in and that we can have
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  hope IN and we can drop anchor the strong and trustworthy
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  anchor for our souls to sit in the sure knowledge of all that
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  you've done for us. Jesus, that it's through you
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  that we are forgiven. It's through you that we are
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  members of your family. It's through you that we know
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  that we are loved intimately. Oh, we're so grateful for this.
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  Help us today as we go about the busyness of whatever it is that
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  we face, to be able to rest and to drop the anchor of our soul
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  into those promises and not the shifting tides and currents of
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  this world. We love you and we're so
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  grateful for you and all you've done for us, Jesus.
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  And we pray all of this in your name, Amen.