Crucifying the Son of God

Heb 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,
Heb 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
Heb 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.


Crucifying the Son of God. Putting the Son of God to open shame.


As sinners we sin.
As sinners we are faced with numerous temptations and often temptations we ultimately find too hard to resist and fall prey to. There is a certain sense of despair of ever being sin-free, of ever being able to overcome the sins that easily beset us. We cry out how wicked we are doing things we don't want to do. We even sometimes lose some hope and slowly fade away from our walk with Christ letting sin reign in our lives trying not to care any longer because we feel hopelessly lost to that sin. Is this the falling away talked about here in Hebrews 6:4-6? No.


What is talked about here is this…

Falling away-

G3895
parapiptō
par-ap-ip'-to
From G3844 and G4098; to fall aside, that is, (figuratively) to apostatize: - fall away.


APOS'TATIZE, v.i. To abandon one's profession or church; to forsake principles or faith which one has professed; or the party to which one has been attached.


You can backslide into sin without believing Jesus is NOT the Son of God.
You can sin knowing that the Son of God was crucified for You, and not have fell away.


To repent you have to believe you are in need of repentance.
Those who become fully apostate have no desire to repent, they believe in their hearts they have NOTHING to repent of, that there is NO repentance found in the Son of God, that the death of the Son of God was meaningless. You can not be renewed to repentance when you- like those who put the Son of God to death, having Him crucified- do not believe He is the Son of God.


To -

Crucify the Son of God. Putting the Son of God to open shame is what keeps those-- who have had the knowledge and experience of the Son of God as their personal Savior, having once believed in Him as the Son of God, knowing Him in that way-- from being renewed. They knew the Son of God, they believed the Son of God, and then they choose to no longer believe. If you don't believe, if you don't have faith, you are lost.


This isn't talking about a situation like Peter denying Christ three times… if it were we could say Peter believed and then turned around and denied Christ, he fell away. We could say it's like Paul talking about what a wretched man His is- doing things he doesn't want to do, but it's not like that either! This is denying Jesus' God-hood. This is denying Jesus' power. This is denying Jesus' divinity and returning to a state of belief that God's Son never came to earth, God's Son never died for You, this is denying the Son of God in every way- and you can't be renewed to repentance ever if you believe that there is no Son of God, no innocent Son of God crucified. It truly is crucifying Him all over again and like the Pharisees who had the Son of God killed it's NOT believing that the Son of God was truly here on earth and died for you, to take away your sins. This is a falling away that cannot be renewed because the heart is set against the Son of God entirely.


Remember this parable--

Luk 8:5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
Luk 8:6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
Luk 8:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
Luk 8:8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Luk 8:9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

Luk 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

Luk 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Luk 8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Luk 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
Luk 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Luk 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.


THEY- hear and the devil takes away the word out of their hearts LEST THEY SHOULD BELIEVE AND BE SAVED! NOTE: They DON'T believe.


THEY - hear, receive the word with joy, and they have no root, which FOR A WHILE BELIEVE AND IN TIME OF TEMPTATION FALL AWAY. NOTE: FOR A WHILE BELIEVE- obviously after a while they NO longer believe.


THEY - have heard and go forth and are CHOKED with CARES and RICHES and PLEASURES of this life, having NO fruit. NOTE: They heard and their belief is killed, they cannot flourish, the belief is dead-choked.


THEY - hear and KEEP believing!


Only through belief in the Word of God- the Son of God and Him crucified for our sins are we kept from falling away into apostasy.


When belief is gone, when hope is gone, then logically… there can be no believing, no hoping, and no renewing.

As long as there is hope, as long as there is belief in that hope, as long as we truly accept the Son of God as our Savior there is hope no matter that hardship you've been going through, no matter how far you've slid back into sin there is hope if you believe in the Son of God as Your Savior. You might think you are UNWORTHY of being saved and you know what? We are ALL unworthy of being saved! Being unworthy isn't what keeps you from being saved, not believing, having no hope in the Son of God is what keeps you from being saved. We can't hope in ourselves, there is NO hope in ourselves. All our hope must be in the Son of God.


So yes, there will be those who have once believed who choose to no longer believe and there is nothing a person can do to restore that belief to them and they will perish in their unbelief. I pray to God that I am NEVER counted among those who fall away and find it impossible to be renewed to repentance.


When these people were being talked to about not being perpetual spiritual children but growing up into spiritual adults if God willed, they were then told this very, very, very adult information. They were not given milk at this point. The meat was on its way and if God permitted they would spiritually grow as they listened to these words and studied them. We have to grow in Christ. We have to keep spiritually growing and never be satisfied with stagnating with the milk only fit for babes.


2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.


Amen! Amen! Amen!