Let Us Go On To Maturity

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

Key Verses 6:1,2

Read 5:11-15. What does “milk” vs. “solid food” stand for? According to this passage what distinguishes the mature from the immature (or simply an “infant”)? How does one grow out of the state of an infant to that of a mature person? What determines the speed of one’s [spiritual] growth?

Read 6:1-3 and think about the following steps: 1) [learning] the elementary truths about Christ; 2) repentance from acts that lead to death;3) faith in God; 4) baptisms; 5) the laying  on of hands; 6) the resurrection of the dead; and 7) the eternal judgment. What do these steps indicate about: 1) what hinders man from going on to maturity; and 2) the way of going on to maturity?

Read verses 4-6. What does “heavenly gift” mean? What do “the powers of the coming age” refer to? Consider those who have: 1) been “enlightened”; 2) “tasted” the heavenly gift; 3) “shared” in the Holy Spirit; and 4) “tasted” the goodness of the word of God and powers of the coming age. What do these experiences have in common (9)? Why would anyone “fall” away after experiencing these? (10-12)

Read verses 7-8 and describe the two lands – one that is productive, another which is unproductive. What do they stand for? Why is it that one land becomes productive, while the other remains unproductive? With what result? 

Read verses 9-12. What does the author want us (or “you”) to do? Why? 

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