Readings for Hebrews 6:4-6

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Notthemama1984

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Writing a paper on who is being referenced in these verses.

What do you believe is the heavenly gift and powers of the age to come?

Also any recommended writings on the verses?

Thanks
 
Beeke/Smalley vol. 3 has a good portion on this.

What are the things you have already read?
 
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I have NIGTC, ICC, a few articles from Chafer, WTS, Bibliotheca Sacra, etc. Basically whatever my Logos package has. LOL You say Beeke/Smalley Vol 3. I apologize, but volume 3 of what series?
 
I did not realize he had a systematics.

Shows what I know. LOL.

I have Horton, Bavinck, and Grudem (yeah yeah yeah) systematics on the shelf. I can check those too
 
Hello Bob @Notthemama1984 ,

As I'm far away from my library, and don't have the book before me, I nonetheless had previously excerpted and printed up the portion you are enquiring about, Heb 6:4,5,6,7,8 (I add the last two verses as they are most relevant), and so can attach it below. In years of study and reflection on this passage I have found that Herman Hoeksema in his book, Believers and Their Seed (long out of print, yet still available used) has the best understanding. In the book the section in question begins at page 141, in the chapter, "The Reprobate in the Sphere of the Covenant". I think this section (derived from online records) is true to the book.

Here's the excerpt:
 

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A poem by J.A. Alexander, which I think has some relevance.


There is a time—we know not when, a point—we know not where,
That marks the destiny of men to glory or despair;
There is a line, by us unseen, that crosses ev’ry path,
The hidden boundary between God’s patience and His wrath.

To pass that limit is to die, to die as if by stealth;
It does not quench the beaming eye, nor fade the glow of health;
The conscience may be still at ease, the spirit light and gay;
That which is pleasing, still may please, and care be thrust away.

But on that forehead God has set indelibly a mark,
Unseen by man, for man, as yet, is blind and in the dark;
And yet the doomed man’s path below like Eden may have bloomed,
He did not, does not, will not know nor feel that he is doomed.

He thinks or feels that all is well, and ev’ry fear is calmed;
He lives, he dies, he wakes in Hell, not only doomed but damned!
Oh, where is this mysterious bourn by which our path is crossed,
Beyond which God Himself hath sworn that he who goes is lost?

How far may we go on in sin? how long will God forbear?
Where does hope end, and where begin the confines of despair?
An answer from the skies is sent, “Ye that from God depart,
While it is called “today” repent, and harden not your heart.”
 
Thanks for sharing that, Neil! Here's another:


The Mystery of the Call
Why is it that some will hear His call​
recognize His voice,​
and follow​
willing in a heartbeat​
to forsake all​
for love of Him whom others cannot even see​
as He is, of all loves​
the most choice​
Some, when they hear Him​
hate Him​
as dark deeds, and their doers​
hate light​
exposing them​
and so harden, turning away​
to where even noon is night​
like those fanged who hate the day​
Why is it that hearts are so​
given to such love and hate,​
the one to embrace exposure​
reveling in His embrace,​
the other turning back​
to bloom in the shade ?​
In your own choosing is your fate,​
the proof of what you are made.​
 
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