When Christians Check Out (Heb 6:4-8) Part III

When Christians Check Out
(Heb 6:4-8)
Part III
C. Lack of Deference (v.4-8)
a. Present Spiritual Position (v.4 - 5)
1. As previously demonstrated, the author addresses the audience as believers. (v. 4-5)
1) Enlightened (phōtizō - to shine upon or illuminate).
2) Tasted (geuomai - to partake or experience the heavenly gift, Heb 2:9) [Jn 4:10; Acts 2:38, 8:20, 10:45, 11:17; Rom 5:15, 17; 2 Cor 9:15; Eph 3:7, 4:7; Heb 6:4].
3) Partakers (metochos - a mutual sharer in an event or undertaking) of the H.S., as they are with Christ [cf., 3:1,3:14].
4) Tasted the Good Word
5) Tasted of the Powers of the Age to come.
b. Possible Severe Punishment (v.6 - 8)
1. The consequences of regression [cf., 2 Tim 2:24-26] (v. 6)
2. An illustration from nature (v.7-8)
Roger Nicole, “Some Comments on Hebrews 6:4-6 and the Doctrine of the Perseverance of God with the Saints,” in Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation, ed. G. G. Hawthorne (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), 356.
J. Dwight Pentecost and Ken Durham, Faith That Endures: A Practical Commentary on the Book of Hebrews, Rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2000), 104-05.
Charles R. Swindoll, Hebrews, Swindoll’s Living Insights New Testament Commentary (Tyndale House Publishers, 2017), 96.

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