Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 26
Preaching the gospel, preaching Christ crucified, on the cross, is giving men the power to DIE in the flesh, but the power to LIVE in the spirit.
1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh [Rom 6:23], but live according to God in the spirit.
We preach the gospel, Christ crucified, “that they might…LIVE…IN THE SPIRIT”.
To preach the gospel is to lay down our life (Jesus Christ), so that the dead can LIVE.
THAT is true unfeigned love! That is how we can love others as Jesus loved us.
John 15:12-13 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
If you lay down Christ, you have loved exactly the same way that God loved us (John 3:16,6:33).
Me physically laying down my life in this world, even me dying on a physical cross in this world, like Jesus did, does not give ANYONE eternal life, IN THE SPIRIT!
I have no life in me to give!
John 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John 6:53 … Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
To “lay down your life” for the brethren, is to lay down Christ, as bread, as meat… so people can EAT HIM, and get LIFE!
You say, “What? In order to lay down our lives, we need to “lay down” meat for people?”
Yup! That’s what Jesus did in order to love us!
Hosea 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
John 6:54-55 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
In order to pass from death unto life, we have to eat His flesh. Why?
Because we have to go with Christ through the operation of God… to pass through death, unto life… by going THROUGH HIS FLESH.
Colossians 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
How??? How does a man eat and drink Christ, so that he can pass through death unto life WITH Christ?
How do you LITERALLY eat His flesh?
John 6:60-64 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
The only way to eat and drink Christ crucified, and thus pass with Him through death unto life, is to receive the gospel! A man has to believe and confess HIS WORDS: the WORDS of eternal life.
John 6:67-68 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
To eat Jesus, and to obtain eternal life, is to BELIEVE His WORDS! Those words are OUR LIFE!
And thus, to “lay down” “OUR LIVES” is to lay down HIS WORDS.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
True unfeigned love, is laying down wisdom, laying down the gospel, so that those that receive it, receive LIFE.
Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
This is why we PREACH “Christ crucified”.
Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached…that they might… live…in the spirit.
Laying down “my life” on earth, physically, by my physical death, is laying down a vain thing.
Laying down “my life”, spiritually, by preaching the gospel, is laying down a Rock; a Rock with living water inside of it.
1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Out of that dry flinty stone (Christ crucified), came a spiritual drink of LIVING water. (Deu 8:15, Psa 114:8, Isa 32:2, Neh 9:15, John 7:38)
Giving a spiritual drink of cold water (Jer 18:14, Pro 25:25, Mat 10:42), living water, out of the Rock, is giving ETERNAL LIFE to people.
Giving the gospel to people is “laying down” our life… THAT is true unfeigned love.
There is no greater love than that!
John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Refer back to Proverbs 10:11 and Proverbs 16:22!
Every Christian HAS received that water, that life, in them, and is capable of giving it out to others.
Psalms 84:4-7 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: … 6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 … every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
This is why Peter says our souls have been purified unto unfeigned love of the brethren. Because we are CAPABLE of giving eternal life to people (i.e., to the brethren) out of our mouths!
And because we CAN, we OUGHT TO!
1 John 3:16 … we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
We OUGHT TO “lay down” … or perhaps, “drop down” (4 times – Deu 33:28, Pro 3:20, Isa 45:8, Joe 3:18 – dropping/raining down a drink of WATER!), a SPIRITUAL drink!
This “spiritual drink”, out of the Rock (1 Cor 10:4), that we “drop down” is our WORDS!
Job 29:22-23 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; …
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain…
Psalms 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
That salvation doctrine, that same spiritual drink, that cold, living water, is RIGHTEOUSNESS and JUDGMENT!
Amos 5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Righteousness (Heb 5:13) and Judgment are HUGELY important concepts in salvation doctrine.
And there are two “kinds” of each!
Psalms 96:13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; …
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
The false prophets love that one! Gasp! “You just judged me! You can’t do that! How dare you judge me!”
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
John 8:15-16 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true…
Romans 2:1-3 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. … 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? … 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To [some] … eternal life: 8 But unto [others] … indignation and wrath, [which will you deserve?] 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, … 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, … 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Which one are you? You think you will escape His judgment??
John 5:29-30 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. [which one are you?] 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; …
So which one are you?
Jun 4 2025
Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 26
Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 26
Preaching the gospel, preaching Christ crucified, on the cross, is giving men the power to DIE in the flesh, but the power to LIVE in the spirit.
1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh [Rom 6:23], but live according to God in the spirit.
We preach the gospel, Christ crucified, “that they might…LIVE…IN THE SPIRIT”.
To preach the gospel is to lay down our life (Jesus Christ), so that the dead can LIVE.
THAT is true unfeigned love! That is how we can love others as Jesus loved us.
John 15:12-13 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
If you lay down Christ, you have loved exactly the same way that God loved us (John 3:16,6:33).
Me physically laying down my life in this world, even me dying on a physical cross in this world, like Jesus did, does not give ANYONE eternal life, IN THE SPIRIT!
I have no life in me to give!
John 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John 6:53 … Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
To “lay down your life” for the brethren, is to lay down Christ, as bread, as meat… so people can EAT HIM, and get LIFE!
You say, “What? In order to lay down our lives, we need to “lay down” meat for people?”
Yup! That’s what Jesus did in order to love us!
Hosea 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
John 6:54-55 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
In order to pass from death unto life, we have to eat His flesh. Why?
Because we have to go with Christ through the operation of God… to pass through death, unto life… by going THROUGH HIS FLESH.
Colossians 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
How??? How does a man eat and drink Christ, so that he can pass through death unto life WITH Christ?
How do you LITERALLY eat His flesh?
John 6:60-64 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
The only way to eat and drink Christ crucified, and thus pass with Him through death unto life, is to receive the gospel! A man has to believe and confess HIS WORDS: the WORDS of eternal life.
John 6:67-68 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
To eat Jesus, and to obtain eternal life, is to BELIEVE His WORDS! Those words are OUR LIFE!
And thus, to “lay down” “OUR LIVES” is to lay down HIS WORDS.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
True unfeigned love, is laying down wisdom, laying down the gospel, so that those that receive it, receive LIFE.
Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
This is why we PREACH “Christ crucified”.
Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached…that they might… live…in the spirit.
Laying down “my life” on earth, physically, by my physical death, is laying down a vain thing.
Laying down “my life”, spiritually, by preaching the gospel, is laying down a Rock; a Rock with living water inside of it.
1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Out of that dry flinty stone (Christ crucified), came a spiritual drink of LIVING water. (Deu 8:15, Psa 114:8, Isa 32:2, Neh 9:15, John 7:38)
Giving a spiritual drink of cold water (Jer 18:14, Pro 25:25, Mat 10:42), living water, out of the Rock, is giving ETERNAL LIFE to people.
Giving the gospel to people is “laying down” our life… THAT is true unfeigned love.
There is no greater love than that!
John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Refer back to Proverbs 10:11 and Proverbs 16:22!
Every Christian HAS received that water, that life, in them, and is capable of giving it out to others.
Psalms 84:4-7 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: … 6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 … every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
This is why Peter says our souls have been purified unto unfeigned love of the brethren. Because we are CAPABLE of giving eternal life to people (i.e., to the brethren) out of our mouths!
And because we CAN, we OUGHT TO!
1 John 3:16 … we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
We OUGHT TO “lay down” … or perhaps, “drop down” (4 times – Deu 33:28, Pro 3:20, Isa 45:8, Joe 3:18 – dropping/raining down a drink of WATER!), a SPIRITUAL drink!
This “spiritual drink”, out of the Rock (1 Cor 10:4), that we “drop down” is our WORDS!
Job 29:22-23 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; …
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain…
Psalms 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
That salvation doctrine, that same spiritual drink, that cold, living water, is RIGHTEOUSNESS and JUDGMENT!
Amos 5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Righteousness (Heb 5:13) and Judgment are HUGELY important concepts in salvation doctrine.
And there are two “kinds” of each!
Psalms 96:13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; …
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
The false prophets love that one! Gasp! “You just judged me! You can’t do that! How dare you judge me!”
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
John 8:15-16 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true…
Romans 2:1-3 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. … 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? … 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To [some] … eternal life: 8 But unto [others] … indignation and wrath, [which will you deserve?] 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, … 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, … 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Which one are you? You think you will escape His judgment??
John 5:29-30 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. [which one are you?] 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; …
So which one are you?
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