Year 6, Day 110: Hebrews 6

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Discipleship Focus: Bear Fruit

• Bear Fruit: We bear fruit after we grow.  Bearing fruit is ultimately the goal of abiding and the goal of being called into the Kingdom of God.  However, while bearing fruit is our calling, it is not the end.  We bear fruit so that we can then prune, abide, grow, and bear more fruit in another season.  Bearing fruit is not the end, but rather only a portion of the whole rhythm of life into which God has called us.

We’ve spent the last three days taking a good long look at salvation.  In Hebrews 4 we hear the author focus on a concern that people fail to obtain the promise of salvation.  In chapter 5 we hear that the author is concerned that people are failing to mature.  In Hebrews 6 we hear that the author is fearful that some are falling away from faith.

In some respects, I think all of these issues are interconnected.  We fail to obtain the promise if we don’t see the value or if we see more value in something else.  We fail to mature when we do not value growth, leadership qualities, hard work, and the calling of the Lord.  We fall away when we fail to put these things into action.  We fall away when we completely cease bearing fruit.  We fall away when we start bearing fruit in another area of our life in place of bearing spiritual fruit.

How do we hear this from the author of Hebrews?  The author says that all will drink from the rain that comes from God.  Some of the land will drink and produce a good crop and be blessed.  Other parts of the land will drink from the same drink and bear bad fruit, thistles, and thorns.  It is important for us to learn, grow, and then put that growth into practice in a way that bears fruit into the lives of other people as God calls us.

As I finish this post, allow me to assert something that I genuinely believe and I assert that the author of Hebrews teaches here in this passage.  If a person truly has the Holy Spirit within them and is being guided by the Holy Spirit, they do not have anything to fear with respect to salvation.  A person genuinely led by the Holy Spirit will know eternal salvation.

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