Hebrews chapter 5 versus 11 and we'll be reading through chapter 6 verse 12.

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again, the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food. For everyone who lives

on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice

to distinguish good from evil.

Therefore, let us lead the elementary doctrines of Christ and go on to maturity, not

laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God with instruction about ablutions, the laying on of hands, the

resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

And this we will do if God permits.

For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have been enlightened, who have tasted

the heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted of the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold them up to contempt.

For the land which has drunk through rain that often falls upon it and brings forth vegetation

useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated receives a blessing

from God.

But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed.

Its end is to be burned.

Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation.

For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake

and serving the Saints as you still do?

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance

of hope until the end so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith

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