My very good friend, Gene Redlin, likes to write about Heaven as though he has been there, which may well be for all I know. Paul got a glempse (II Corinthians 12:2-5) , maybe Gene did too. He used the following text as part of his most recent blog, so I wanted to clear things up for his benefit and perhaps others.
Hebrews 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, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
The people of whom the writer of Hebrews was speaking were the same people John described in the prologue to his Gospel of Jesus as “sons of God” (John 1:12).” Matthew calls these people the “chosen” (Matthew 20:16). These are the most fortunate of all human beings, who are born of the spirit and who live every moment of every day with God, the Creator of the World, living within them. As John went on to point out, these people did not obtain this marvelous status by jumping through some man made hoop. They were chosen by God for reasons known only to God and in God’s own time.
The Holy Spirit was always available to them as The Spirit was to the people in the Old Testament, from a distance, but when The Spirit entered into their body and became their life time companion, the relationship became much more intimate. The Spirit of necessity does what these people do and goes where they go. The Spirit is therefore taking a great chance.
It is of little wonder that God would make no attempt to bring them back into the fold, if they choose to depart. As Hebrews 6:6 points out, “they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.” The issue is not Heaven or Hell. The issue is fellowship with the Spirit and The Abundant Life. Chances are that the end will be unpleasant, but what is worse than that is that a life of joy, service and contribution to the Kingdom of God will be lost.
Keep the Faith,
Earl
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4 comments:
Pretty good theology, wrong verse--
The bad news is I had the right idea, but hit the wrong key.
The reference was for Hebrew 6:2.
What in the world are we all going to do when we stand before Jesus and explain what we did or didn't do with the gift he placed in us.
This is the eternal judgement mentioned in Heb 6:2.
A pretty good dissertation on all this is here.
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