I. EXORDIUM:
Can backsliders be restored?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that we need to be keep on burning with love and on fire for GOD, keep on reminding ourselves with GOD's Love for us - the LORD JESUS, thru His WORDS and GOD will do the impossible for us, thru His HOLY SPIRIT, He will also remind us constantly about Him.
IV. TEXT:
Hebrews 6:4 (Amplified Bible)
6:4 For it is impossible [to restore and bring again to repentance] those who have been once for all enlightened, who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift and have become sharers of the Holy Spirit,
V. THESIS:
I am fanning the flame, I am ablazed with my relationship with GOD, established in the righteousness and WORD of GOD, because of the HOLY SPIRIT that keeps on teaching and reminding me of everything I've learned from the WORD.
VI. TITLE:
Impossible To Restore Part 1
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Date of writing: Before AD. 70
B. Style of writing: Best Greek style
C. Authorship: Not specific, but generally attributed to Apostle Paul. Can be also ascribed to Barnabas, Luke, Apollos
D. Audience: Hebrew Christians
E. Theme: Christ is superior to the prophets; Christ is superior to angels—J. Vernon McGee's Thru The Bible
F. Purpose: The chief doctrinal purpose of the writer was to show the transcendent glory of the Christian dispensation, as compared with that of the Old Testament.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
G. Keyword: better
VIII. MAIN BODY:
Impossible came from the Greek word: "adunatos" meaning:
1. without strength, impotent, powerless, weakly, disabled
2. unable to be done, impossible
Several things are defined by the Bible to be "Impossible", these are:
1. It's impossible for men to save themselves
Matthew 19:26 (Amplified Bible)
19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, With men this is impossible, but all things are possible with God.
Mark 10:27 (Amplified Bible)
10:27 Jesus glanced around at them and said, With men [it is] impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.
Luke 18:27 (Amplified Bible)
18:27 But He said, What is impossible with men is possible with God.
2. Impossible is also considered "impotent" in the Bible: Like it's "impossible" for a man crippled from birth to walk.
Acts 14:8 (Amplified Bible)
14:8 Now at Lystra a man sat who found it impossible to use his feet, for he was a cripple from birth and had never walked.
3. The Law is "impossible" to save us:
Romans 8:3 (Amplified Bible)
8:3 For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice],
4. Impossible is also considered "weak" in the faith, in the Bible: We bear the "impossibilities" of the weak as strong in the faith
Romans 15:1 (Amplified Bible)
15:1 WE WHO are strong [in our convictions and of robust faith] ought to bear with the failings and the frailties and the tender scruples of the weak; [we ought to help carry the doubts and qualms of others] and not to please ourselves.
5. Impossible to restore a backslidden CHRISTian
Hebrews 6:4 (Amplified Bible)
6:4 For it is impossible [to restore and bring again to repentance] those who have been once for all enlightened, who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift and have become sharers of the Holy Spirit,
6. Impossible for GOD to lie
Hebrews 6:18 (Amplified Bible)
6:18 This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us].
Hebrews 6:18 (The Message)
6:18 God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go.
Hebrews 6:18 (New International Version)
6:18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged.
7. Impossible for blood of bulls to to take our sins away
Hebrews 10:4 (Amplified Bible)
10:4 Because the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take sins away.
8. Impossible to please GOD without faith
Hebrews 11:6 (Amplified Bible)
11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].
A. Those who have been once for all enlightened
"For it is impossible [to restore and bring again to repentance] those who have been once for all enlightened,"
Matthew 5:13 (Amplified Bible)
5:13 You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (its strength, its quality), how can its saltness be restored? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men.
Matthew 12:31-32 (Amplified Bible)
12:31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy (every evil, abusive, injurious speaking, or indignity against sacred things) can be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the [Holy] Spirit shall not and cannot be forgiven.
12:32 And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Spirit, the Holy One, will not be forgiven, either in this world and age or in the world and age to come.
John 15:6 (Amplified Bible)
15:6 If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned.
It's our cooperation, our part and responsibility to "stick" and "remain" with GOD and in His Words, GOD can't do it for us. Every relationship has it's own responsibilities.
B. Who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift
"who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift"
Hebrews 10:32 (Amplified Bible)
10:32 But be ever mindful of the days gone by in which, after you were first spiritually enlightened, you endured a great and painful struggle,
Prophet Balaam once a mighty prophet in the LORD who sees visions clearly when in backsliden state, were not been able to be restored in the LORD, he eventually became a false prophet.
Numbers 24:15-16 (Amplified Bible)
24:15 And he took up his [figurative] discourse, and said: Balaam son of Beor speaks, the man whose eye is opened speaks,
24:16 He speaks, who heard the words of God and knew the knowledge of the Most High, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes open and uncovered:
If evey relationship has it's own responsibility, then our "tiny" responsibility with GOD and one that is possible for us to do is "constantly remind ourselves of GOD's love for us" because GOD has done the huge and impossible things for us in this relationship with Him.
C. Who have become sharers of the HOLY SPIRIT
"and have become sharers of the Holy Spirit,"
Hebrews 2:4 (Amplified Bible)
2:4 [Besides this evidence] it was also established and plainly endorsed by God, Who showed His approval of it by signs and wonders and various miraculous manifestations of [His] power and by imparting the gifts of the Holy Spirit [to the believers] according to His own will.
Acts 15:8 (Amplified Bible)
15:8 And God, Who is acquainted with and understands the heart, bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit as He also did to us;
Galatians 3:2 (Amplified Bible)
3:2 Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the [Holy] Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing its works, or was it by hearing [the message of the Gospel] and believing [it]? [Was it from observing a law of rituals or from a message of faith?]
Galatians 3:5 (Amplified Bible)
3:5 Then does He Who supplies you with His marvelous [Holy] Spirit and works powerfully and miraculously among you do so on [the grounds of your doing] what the Law demands, or because of your believing in and adhering to and trusting in and relying on the message that you heard?
We share the same HOLY SPIRIT, that's why the Bible told us so, it's impossible for a backslider to be restored, don't try to restore him/her, but you can still pray for him/her.
IX. CONCLUSION:
I am fanning the flame, I am ablazed with my relationship with GOD, established in the righteousness and WORD of GOD, because of the HOLY SPIRIT that keeps on teaching and reminding me of everything I've learned from the WORD.
2 Timothy 1:6 (The Message)
1:6 And the special gift of ministry you received when I laid hands on you and prayed—keep that ablaze!
2 Timothy 1:6 (Amplified Bible)
1:6 That is why I would remind you to stir up (rekindle the embers of, fan the flame of, and keep burning) the [gracious] gift of God, [the inner fire] that is in you by means of the laying on of my hands [with those of the elders at your ordination].
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