Pray that the Lord would give you the eyes to see where He is leading you. He made it clear to Israel that He was taking them to the Promised Land. They even saw all that it held. Know that the Lord is faithful to carry you through what He has instructed. Draw near in faith. Ask Him for a clear vision for your life.......

62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”-Luke 9:62 This concept of drawing back to the old is something frequently condemned in Scripture.When the Israelites were in the wilderness, just after the amazing exodus, crossing the Red Sea, and seeing the Lord show up in amazing ways, they started complaining and wishing to go ...

I was sobbing... hysterically. Both of my parents enter into the room and find that I am being tormented by my older brother who has me pinned down. He lurches up the moment my parents step in. As they see that the situation was nowhere near the severity my crying had made it out to be, they gave an instruction to each of us. To me, I was told to stop crying. My brother was told not to touch me. T...

There is a clear warning undergirding the text here that is very clear to us. Most of us interpret it in such a way as to understand that we don't want to draw back. Even in having the clarity that we may concerning what the text is talking about, there is and should be a great fear in departing from the living God. Imagine the great insult in the Lord giving His Son to set His people free, and af...

As we examine this particular Scripture, it is important that we properly examine the context. For a passage such as this, there is a very broad scope that we need to consider, and this is where many can get lost on their attempt to exegete the passage. Most other Scriptures can be looked at in a more immediate context. This one requires a deeper study.Let's begin with considering the audience. Th...

What we have this week is one of the most complicated sections in Scripture to properly exegete. A surface level reading of the text will leave many believers trembling at the idea that they have gone too far and cannot be renewed to repentance. Otherwise, they worry about friends or family members who have walked away. Typically, these believers would hold fast to Scriptures like that of the prod...

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.7 For the earth which drinks in the rain tha...

Pray that the Lord would highlight where and what He wants you to grow in. Understand that He is invested in your sanctification and wants to see your growth. He is not opposed to you on this journey. He is for you. Hold open everything in your life and ask for His direction.......

12 Not that I have already attained,  or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Chr...

The instruction that the writer of Hebrews gives here is to go on to perfection, moving beyond the elementary principles of Christ. Many of us may wince at such words. "But we will never be perfect! We cannot be perfect!" The objections are out of our mouth before we even consider what obedience might look like. As such, I have found so much stagnancy in the walks of many. There are many places we...

I remember a moment where I was pacing back and forth, fuming due to a conversation I had just had. One of my buddies that was with me paid me what I recall as a snide remark, "You just don't know how to quit." I was in a debate with someone who simply didn't know how to accept reason. The conversation was not supposed to be a complicated one. It was a very simple subject that should have been eas...

We are given a list of the elementary principles of Christ. For the sake of the progression of the week of devotions, I want to address each one of these in part.Repentance from dead works. This is something that I have actually found most churches struggle to teach on. We usually error on the side of repenting from bad works instead of dead works. The problem here is that we think that there is s...

Solomon spoke truly when he highlighted in Ecclesiastes that there is nothing new under the sun. The same problems that were had in the day of the book of Hebrews being written are the same problems we face today. I have seen this problem in just about every church I have gone to. It may be the most spiritual church; it may be the most biblically sound church. The reality is that whatever church y...

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do if God permits.-Hebrews 6:1-3......

Truthfully seek the Lord as to where you are in this journey. Be humble to what He reveals to you. Do not be deceived in thinking you are farther than you think or that you are more immature than you think. The Lord may confirm more maturity, or He may highlight growth areas. See that the Lord is invested in your sanctification and desires to partner with you in your growth. So humbly submit yours...