Inheriting the Promises (Heb. 6:9-20)

[Sung Psalm: 105]

Last week we looked at the warning against apostasy – how there are those who only believe for a time – who taste of the heavenly gift, share in the Holy Spirit, and even partake of the powers of the age to come, but who fall away. They are like a supposedly fertile field that produces thorns and thistles – it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

But Hebrews does not leave us in despair. Having set forth the danger of apostasy, he now launches into a discourse on the certainty of God's promises.

And he starts with Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac...