_CHARACTER BUILDING_ ‘The principles of the doctrine of Christ.’ Hebrews 6:1 In building any great structure, the first thing which the builder sees to is to lay, firm and strong, his foundation, and then when he has done that he is limited in two ways: he must not build where there are no founda... [ Continue Reading ]
_FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIANITY_ ‘Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION_ ‘Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands.’ Hebrews 6:2 The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews in giving his hasty review of fundamental religion, passes at once, and quite naturally, from repentance—i.e. recognition of sin and human weakness, and of fai... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOLY COMMUNION_ ‘Of resurrection of the dead.’ Hebrews 6:2 It is as a present fact of practical everyday importance that the Christian teacher insists on the resurrection of the dead. For it means that the life he is developing, the mind he is informing, the body, soul, and spirit which he is mo... [ Continue Reading ]
_ETERNAL JUDGMENT_ ‘Of eternal judgment.’ Hebrews 6:2 In the incarnate life of the Son of God we have been allowed to see once for all what a perfect life might be, lived under the conditions of a world like this, such as we know it. I. WHO, THEN, IS SO CAPABLE OF JUDGING AS HE WHO KNOWS WHAT ma... [ Continue Reading ]
_THINGS THAT ACCOMPANY SALVATION_ ‘Things that accompany salvation.’ Hebrews 6:9 It would seem that the things mentioned before were not necessarily marks of salvation. There was no love or faith. Out of the many biographies in the Bible, there is not one of an individual who was certainly once a... [ Continue Reading ]
_ANCHORED_ ‘An anchor of the soul.’ Hebrews 6:19 It is a strange and bold metaphor which connects what is so spiritual with what is so material and so substantial—‘An anchor of the soul.’ It would be difficult to conceive that any image could be so appropriate and so comforting. Look at some of... [ Continue Reading ]