Building Upon a Foundation

Moving into this important sixth chapter of the Letter to the Hebrews, we begin to see how the concerns of chapter 5 lead into the warning of chapter 6. There is an immediate call to not lay again the foundation that was already laid. The teachings that these Hebrew Christians once received are not something to which they can return (as if they are sufficient in themselves). Instead, they are a foundation that is meant to be built upon. Just as a bare foundation is incomplete, so too are these teachings if they do not lead to the finished work of Christ. To hold to an unfinished foundation is an affront to the call and revelation of God.