Jesus Our High Priest: Part II – No Turning Back

Hebrews 6:1-8

Purpose: Building the case for secure salvation in Jesus Christ

1. No Turning Back! (Heb 6:1-6)

Defining “elementary teaching” (6:1)

The key word is “washings” referring to OT practices (6:2)

Defining “tasted” (6:5)

OT people can be described by all of these!

            The readers are to leave OT shadows (“elementary teachings”) and go to NT
            realities

            If the readers go back in the OT shadows, it is impossible for them to be saved!

            Jesus Christ, the cross and His resurrection, changes everything forever!

            Now that Jesus has fulfilled the gospel, it is impossible to go backward and be
            saved!

            Only in the gospel of Jesus Christ can anyone (Jew or Gentile!) be saved

                        First for the Jew and then for the Gentile (Rom 1:16)

2. Parables of Salvation (Heb 6:7-8; Matt 13:1-23)

3. Jesus Christ, the High Priest of “Eternal Salvation” (Heb 5:9, et. al.)

• Hebrews 5:6; 6:20; 7:17 Jesus is “A PRIEST FOREVER” & “a high priest forever”
• Hebrews 5:9 Jesus is “the source of eternal salvation”
• Hebrews 7:24-25 Jesus “holds His priesthood permanently,” “Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.”
• Hebrews 7:27-28 Jesus “once for all” offered Himself, “a Son, made perfect forever”
• Hebrews 9:12 Jesus, through His own blood, “entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption”
• Hebrews 9:15 Jesus is the mediator of a new covenant, so that … those who have been called may receive the promise of the “eternal inheritance.”
• Hebrews 10:10 Believers are “sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
• Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord

Three Options Concerning Salvation:

A Non-Christian is not saved

A False-Christian = false profession (Matt 7; 23:27) = not saved

A True-Christian will persevere = “perseverance of the saints” = eternal security