Hebrews 6

Hebrews
{6:1} 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
*The principle doctrines are repentance from dead works and faith towards God. When you start out on a principle you never lose that principle you keep it and build upon it. Baptisms, laying on of hands for healing, resurrection of the dead when Christ returns, eternal judgment, all of this is part and parcel of the foundation and growth upon that foundation. An extension of your beliefs is made, a growing process commenced. Growth in everything is necessary stagnation accomplishes nothing. If God wills we must grow in our Christian walk.
{6:2} Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
{6:3} And this will we do, if God permit.
{6:4} For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost
{6:5} And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come
{6:6} If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame.
*When you fall away - when you deny the truth once you've been enlightened - when you believe Christ never died for you- this is makes it impossible for you to be renewed. You've denied the truth. When you deny the truth you reject the truth. Truth rejected makes it impossible for truth to live in you.
Throughout our Christian walk we will have good times and bad times. We will question our walk with God. We might even question God. We might blame God, we might do a lot of things that reveal just how intensely Satan is struggling to get the victory over us. We might be lulled to sleep and into a life that denies the power of God. The struggle is a real one. The fight is a real one. We lose sight of it all when we deny that we are in a war and our eternal life is at stake. How much simpler would it be if we were in a real physical warfare, a weapon in your hands, a weapon in your enemies hands and the strategy is to stay alive by ducking incoming fire, by returning fire- this is real and men and women around the world in various wars are facing that sort of warfare. Unfortunately they are also battling the unseen enemy. We all battle the unseen enemy and yet our propensity to blame the devil for things is 99% less likely to happen than blaming God. We recognize God but deny Satan. When we accept Christ as our Savior we've declared open warfare on Satan, we've chosen the side we want to fight for and we become targets. The bullets, the daggers, all the bombs and other weaponry used against us comes in so many forms we can't even imagine. It's easy to be beset by the enemy. 'Hebrews {12:1} Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.' See that? Lay aside every weight an the sin which easily besets us! EASILY besets us. Until Christ returns or until we sleep in the grave we will be tempted towards the sins that EASILY beset us. Sometimes we give into that sin and we need to repent and be forgiven. What we can't do is deny the Christ is the Son of God, that Christ died for us and lives again for us. While we might stumble, and heck, while we might dive bomb into despair, we can't deny that Christ is who He says He is. If we deny Christ we can't be renew to repent, because there is none to repent to. If we strip the power of salvation away there is no hope left, there is no salvation, it is impossible to be renewed.
{6:7} For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God
*We need to drink deep of the Holy Spirit sent to us by God, our lives need to bear fruit of the Spirit.
{6:8} But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh unto cursing; whose end [is] to be burned.
*If the fruit we bear isn't edible or useful but rather thorns that only hurt and nothing more then the fruit isn't of the Spirit.

{6:9} But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
{6:10} For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
{6:11} And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
{6:12} That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
*Labors of love, ministering to one another, hoping to the end, these are all good things, right things, things of the Spirit.

{6:13} For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself
{6:14} Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
{6:15} And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
*Patiently endured! The promises of God to Abraham were not immediate. Abraham had to wait many, many years before he obtained the promise. We have an example in Abraham. Patiently endure, the promises are true.

{6:16} For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.
{6:17} Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath
{6:18} That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay holdupon the hope set before us
{6:19} Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil
{6:20} Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
*Anchor of the soul!Anchor of the soul!
Who among us doesn't want an anchor upon us holding us stedfast? Who doesn't want assurance of safety with an anchor on our souls? Christ is that anchor! Christ is our hope! Christ Jesus entered within the veil, Jesus our high priest. We have an anchor, we have a surety, we have a hope in our High Priest, our Savior Jesus.
What good is an anchor if it's not attached to that which needs anchoring? We need Christ attached to our lives, we need to live in the Spirit He sends to us, keeping close to our Lord and Savior now and always the anchor of our souls.
Amen.