Good morning and welcome to our second service on Sunday mornings. We are going through the Bible book by book and chapter by chapter and verse by verse.

And today's text is going to be Hebrews chapter 6 verses 1 through 6.

And for those of you that are here, I'll ask you to stand. You can follow along as I read. Those of you online, follow along.

Beginning in verse one, where the writer of Hebrews, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says,

therefore, let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward

to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death and of faith in God,

instruction about cleansing rights, verse two, the laying on of hands,

the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment, and God permitting, we will do so.

It is impossible, verse four, for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

who have tasted the goodness of the Word of God, and the powers of the coming age, verse 6 who have fallen away to be brought back to repentance.

Oh dear.

To their loss, they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.

Did you get that?

Should we just self-explanatory, right?

We just close in prayer and fellowship, no?

We better pray, yeah. Father in heaven, we readily admit and are keenly

aware that the text we have before us today is such that it's going to require the Holy Spirit to give us

understanding, to open the eyes of our understanding. Otherwise, we have no hope of getting this

and seeing what it is that you want to show to us or hear and receive that which you desire

today to speak to us. So Lord, we're going to ask you at this time, as only you can, by the Holy Spirit, to settle our hearts

and enable us to focus our attention so that you can minister to us and speak into our lives

in and through your word. Lord, we ask you for this and thank you in advance

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