Warning: Grow Up!

Hebrews 5:11-6:3

About the Sermon

Growth. An expectation that is built into the fabric of our human existence. The assumption that something that is healthy and alive will keep growing and maturing. And, just as people are expected to exhibit certain physical characteristics in keeping with their natural age, there is a compelling Scriptural expectation for believers to grow spiritually. True believers persevere in Christ to the end, and all believers must constantly pursue maturity to avoid falling away. Join us in considering Hebrews 5:11-6:3 and the author’s warning to the spiritually immature to wake up and push deeper into Christ and his Word, lest their complacency leave them an eyelash away from apostasy.

About the Series

“I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly” (13:22). That’s how the author of the book of Hebrews ends his letter. While the book of Hebrews is famous for its exposition of the Old Testament in light of Christ, showing Christ to be our great high priest, all of that teaching is for an urgent exhortation: do not fall away. Or, as he put it in 2:1 , “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” Jesus is an anchor for our souls. He is anchored in heaven and his work is perfectly fitted to keep us in the midst of every trial and temptation.
“I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly” (13:22). That’s how the author of the book of Hebrews ends his letter. While the book of Hebrews is famous for its exposition of the Old Testament in light of Christ, showing Christ to be our great high priest, all of that teaching is for an urgent exhortation: do not fall away. Or, as he put it in 2:1 , “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” Jesus is an anchor for our souls. He is anchored in heaven and his work is perfectly fitted to keep us in the midst of every trial and temptation.

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