Leaving the Basics

Hebrews 6:1

Elementary Teaching to be Left Behind

• Repentance

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it

is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,

(Luke 24:45-46 ESV)

Elementary Teaching to be Left Behind

• Repentance

• Faith

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is

the gift of God, (Ephesians 2:8 ESV)

Elementary Teaching to be Left Behind

• Repentance

• Faith

• Washings/baptism

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the

glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4 ESV)

Elementary Teaching to be Left Behind

• Repentance

• Faith

• Washings/baptism

• Laying on of hands

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for

knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect

comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I

reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror

dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully

known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

(1 Corinthians 13:8-13 ESV)

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for

knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect

comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I

reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror

dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully

known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

(1 Corinthians 13:8-13 ESV)

Elementary Teaching to be Left Behind

• Repentance

• Faith

• Washings/baptism

• Laying on of hands

• Resurrection & eternal judgment

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins

in accordance with the Scriptures, (1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV)

After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus. And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control

and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.”

(Acts 24:24-25 ESV)

What do the “basics” accomplish?

• Enlightened

…having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which

he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is

the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the

working of his great might (Ephesians 1:18-19 ESV)

What do the “basics” accomplish?

• Enlightened

• Taste the heavenly gift

…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift,

through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, (Romans 3:23-24 ESV)

What do the “basics” accomplish?

• Enlightened

• Taste the heavenly gift

• Partakers of the Holy Spirit

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has

granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may

become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

(2 Peter 1:3-4 ESV)

What do the “basics” accomplish?

• Enlightened

• Taste the heavenly gift

• Partakers of the Holy Spirit

• Tasted the good word of God

Like newborn infants, long for the pure

spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into

salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the

Lord is good. (1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV)

What do the “basics” accomplish?

• Enlightened

• Taste the heavenly gift

• Partakers of the Holy Spirit

• Tasted the good word of God

• Power of the age to come

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left

house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the

kingdom of God, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in

the age to come eternal life.” (Luke 18:29-30 ESV)

What Happens if one Falls Away?

• Note: It IS possible, one CAN fall

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

(Galatians 5:4 ESV)

What Happens if one Falls Away?

• Impossible to renew… in THAT state

• The fruitful one is blessed

• The unfruitful ends up being burnt

We are left with 3 choices

• Try to put a hold on learning– Defies the inspired writer– Leads to further problems

We are left with 3 choices

• Try to put a hold on learning

• Can fall back– Make the Hebrew’s mistake– Make repentance difficult– Become useless and burnt

We are left with 3 choices

• Try to put a hold on learning

• Can fall back

• Can press on to maturity– Receive a blessing– Be remembered by God– Realized the full assurance of hope