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A Guy’s Guide to Hebrews: It is time to Grow Up (5:1-14)  Time Magazine’s list of the 50 worst inventions ever is a collection of colossal failures, missed opportunities, and failed potential. Some of the items on their list are debatable such as crocs, plastic grocery bags, and the Segway. Other inventions on the list have little in the way of anything remotely resembling success. Inventions such as New Coke, subprime mortgages, hair in a can, and the Ford Pinto not only failed to make the world a better place, some cost their inventors their jobs, and others even did damage to their entire industry. The graveyard of failed inventions is filled with tombstones that read, “Unfulfilled Potential.” These inventions failed to live up to what was in some cases seen as unlimited promise. Instead of taking the world by storm, however, they ended with little more than a whimper. The writer to Hebrews ends chapter five by chastising his readers for failing to live up to their enormous potential as well. Unlike some of the most famous failed inventions, the audience of Hebrews had only themselves to blame. They were not fulfilling their promise simply because they had made a decision to stop listening. Instead of becoming more mature as believers and increasing their spiritual depth they had actually regressed. The spiritual life is one that is always in motion, forward or backward. The original audience of the book of Hebrews was one that was in motion the wrong direction. Instead of being teachers, they were still students. Instead of eating meat, they were still subsisting on milk. Instead of knowing the difference between good and evil, they lacked the ability to discern. Before they could ever really grasp the wonder of Jesus Christ, their great high priest after the order of Melchizedek they were going to have to start growing up. Questions for Discussion/Reflection 1. What areas of your spiritual life are you immature in? 2. Compare your walk with God today to the past. Are you moving forward or backward? 3. How discerning are you? Staff Writer: Aaron Sharp |
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