What God Expects of His People

The Book of Hebrews was written to prevent Hebrew Christians from losing their faith in Jesus Christ by returning to the dead system of faith in the Mosaic Law.

In chapter 5 the author informs them that the reason they are contemplating returning to Moses is because of their own failure to incorporate the basics of the teaching of Christ into their own spiritual DNA and because they had failed to develop spiritually.

In this section we can learn what God expects of us by looking at their failures. Here we go.

- The new Christian should be attentive in learning the basic tenets of Christianity (5:11-12).

- Once the basics have been learned it’s time to move on to other things… like teaching. At some level all Christians should be able to teach… even if it is a parent teaching a child (5:12).

- The developing Christian needs experience in “the word of righteousness”. Professor Experience is a powerful teacher and his lessons are not soon forgotten (5:13).

- A Christians “senses” need to be used and exercised. Otherwise those senses are handicapped when it comes time to differentiate between good and evil (5:14).Developed senses can keep us on the right path to spiritual completeness.

- A Christian, with all his effort and energy, should “press on” to become spiritually complete (6:1).

- And finally the spiritually complete Christian is like seed planted into deep and rich tilled soil that receives regular rain. That seed will not fail but will receive rich blessings from God (6:7-8).

Follow this formula and never look back and all will be well.