“Yep, Hebrews Ch 6 scares the bejeezus out of the OSAS crowd.”
Why should it, since it’s summed up with
“But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.”
The entire book is a warrant for security and hope. Better promises, superior to Angels, once for all, by the power of an indestructible life, a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, able to save to the uttermost, how much more will the blood of his Son cleanse your conscience from dead works, Today!, etc. (all from recent memory).
I encourage every believer to read Hebrews and revel in the supremacy of Jesus Christ and His ETERNAL salvation.
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Paul's expressed confidence in his sheep was based in the fact that he constantly rooted out the “dogs returning to their vomit.”
Really the dogs outnumber the sheep in every congregation; that is exactly why Paul and Peter issued those stern warnings to the sheep they loved.
Matthew 7:
[13] Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
[14] Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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