LET US GO ON TO MATURITY

Hebrews 5:11-6:20

Key Verse: 6:1a

“Therefore, let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on maturity…”

1. What was the situation of many of the Hebrew Christians? (11) Immaturity and maturity distinguished by diet, what kind of diets do we need as Bible teachers? (12)  Why is “infant” an apt description of spiritual failure? (13) What is the result of not practicing truth? (14)

2. Why must we come to a point where we no longer raise questions or harbor doubts about the fundamental things of our Christian faith or of our salvation? (6:1-2) What is the condition that the state of immaturity may become a permanent state? (3)

3. Why is it impossible for one to be restored who has knowingly and deliberately and publicly repudiated God’s work in his life? (4-6. Cf. Esau in Heb 12:17)

4. Two kinds of land production vividly portray the reason to go on to maturity (7-8). How does each characterize our life?

5. In view of past service to the saints, what hope does the author see for better things to come (9-9)? Why? (10) Why should we show diligence not laziness in our spiritual life? (11,12)

6. What is the reason for introducing Abraham here? (13) What was God’s promise to Abraham and how did he make it a sure and unchanging promise? (14) What was Abraham’s real hope? (11:9, 10)

7. What is our relationship to this promise? (18) How do we take hold of it? (19)  How can we be sure that we are not among those who fall away?  How does Jesus help us to go on to maturity in our faith race? (20)