585 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 49 - Turning Your Back Scornfully

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 49 Turning Your Back Scornfully Hebrews 6:4-10 We’re going to be searching the Scriptures, and be comparing Scripture with Scripture. So we’ll begin again in chapter 6, and verse 4. But first, for a little bit of introductory comment, I started Hebrews chapter 6 with a statement sort of like this, "I feel like I’m almost bungling into an area that even angels fear to tread because this chapter 6 of Hebrews has probably precipitated more questions in our mail and phone calls than almost any other portion of Scripture. It has caused a lot of people to have fear that shouldn’t. Remember, we used that word several programs back that we’re warned not to take these things lightly. These things are serious business because we’re dealing with eternity and we’re dealing with the Living God, as Hebrews puts it. That the admonition to these Hebrews is to move on, don’t stay back there in Christ’s earthly ministry. Paul never addresses one word to the unsaved world, but, what’s the end result? It’s written primarily to Jewish believers who have come out of Christ’s earthly ministry. So we’ll just jump right in now at verse 4. Remember, Paul has stated up in verses 1 and 2 that they were to "leave the words of Christ." Well, that isn’t what God wants. "For (Paul says) it is impossible…" It’s a fact that many people teach that you can be saved and lost and saved and lost. Well you see, this is what God expects us to do with Paul’s Gospel. Not just taste it. Oh, they’ve tasted it, they’ve picked at it, they’ve had a little bit of an enlightening, they’ve had an experience, but they were never saved. Safe! Well, the analogy of course is that this is a lot of Church people. Well, about the same time two phone calls came in. You believe once saved always saved?" You mean he’s still saved?" And without even thinking, I said, "He never was." When people do things that you wonder how can a believer behave like that and God does nothing to bring them back, they were never saved in the first place. Do you love the Lord? Do you love His Word? "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, "it’s impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakes of the Holy Ghost" (or the Holy Spirit). Alright, let’s go back and see what the Scripture says and first, let’s go back to I Samuel and we’re going to look at King Saul. Now I know a lot of people, a lot of Sunday School writers, think that Saul’s going to be in Glory, because they think he was a believer. Saul is another one of the typical candidates that Hebrews 6 is talking about. He was enlightened. And he spent a period of time under the influence of the Holy Spirit, but it never registered. I Samuel chapter 10, drop in at verse 6, and you all know the story. How that Samuel went and found Saul of the Tribe of Benjamin - a big, tall, good looking fellow - and anointed him King. 7. And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee." Alright but now let’s go on over to chapter 13 still in I Samuel, and drop in at verse 9. "And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. Alright now then, you come on down to verse 13. I "Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever." (but because of Saul’s rank disobedience, here it comes.) Now goodness sakes, even a novice in Scripture would know that this is something that a man of God would never do. I Samuel 28:7 "Then Saul said unto his servants, Seek me a woman that has a familiar spirit, (what’s he looking for? Chapter 31, still in I Samuel at verse 3. Now remember what’s been happening. I Samuel 31:3-4 Also II Samuel 28: 16 tells us: "The LORD had become Saul’s enemy." Judas! The others never caught on that he was an unbeliever and a fake. John 6:70 John 6:71 Now Paul gives us an example of one as well in Colossians chapter 4. Now these aren’t men that were at one time saved and totally in – no they were merely walking on the outside, they had never really partaken of the things of God. Now let’s just drop down to verse 12, so we pick up the flow. Paul is just rehearsing the men that had been working with him. Colossians 4:12-14 Alright, now let’s go over to II Timothy chapter 4 and verse 10. Let’s just again, for sake of picking up the flow, go up to verse 8. 9. Do thy diligence (remember he’s writing to Timothy) to come shortly unto me. Some fell on rocky ground, only had a little bit of topsoil. It died and it never amounted to anything. Some fell on thorny ground. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible