WE HAVE AN ANCHOR

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Abandoned Ship

Hebrews 6:4–6 NKJV
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
This passage of Scripture is regarded as the most difficult passage in Hebrews and many will say it is the most difficult in all of the N.T.
There are several possible interpretations. One says that this is dealing with believers who in return may loose their salvation. Another, is that it is dealing with false converts who believe they are saved but have not experienced true salvation. However, I tend to believe the third view which is that it this passage is dealing with individuals who came close to Jesus but then turned away.
Hebrews is written to Jews who where familiar with the O.T. law and miracles.
They tasted the heavenly gift probably is a reference to the mana and quail in the wilderness. Some tasted the heavenly gift but did not trust in God.
This is the person who has almost made it but turned away. They beheld the ship, even toured its beauty, but then left. They saw but never experienced.
Thalassophobia is an irrational fear of deep, dark bodies of water and what may lurk beneath the vast surface. This fear can cause someone to become scared of sea travel and being far away from land.
It ay be that some people come close to God but the fear of placing all of their fear in Him and going to places of unknown may be to much.

Beached Ship

Hebrews 6:7–9 NKJV
For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned. But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner.
The believer who was unable to sustain serving God. Thus, they can bare no fruit, the have not abandoned the ship but are no longer making progress. They are stuck. This is the believer who is not growing.
The Golden Ray.
the freighter Golden Ray headed out of the Port of Brunswick on what has long been a routinely commonplace maneuver in these local waters. Then something went wrong. Sometime after 1:30 a.m., while making a final starboard turn in the sound before heading out to sea, the massive ship listed heavily to starboard.
Then the Golden Ray listed heavy to port — and kept rolling, capsizing in the sound directly between the resort islands of Jekyll and St. Simons. With nearly 400,000 gallons of oil in its fuel tanks, 4,200 vehicles in its cargo hull, and 24 crewmen onboard, all 656 feet of the ship pitched calamitously onto its port side.
The inbound car carrier Emerald Ace scooted past the havoc and continued to the Port of Brunswick, just as the half submerged Golden Ray’s port side hull found uneasy an purchase on the sound’s sandy bed. (The Emerald Ace’s passing had no connection with the wreck of the Golden Ray, officials told The News.)
The Golden Ray came to a shaky rest just south of the shipping channel, on the Jekyll Island side of the sound.
This is the believer who is not growing

Drifting Ship

Hebrews 6:10–12 NKJV
For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Sluggish represents the believer that does not have the strength to fight the waves or a raging ocean.
The Christian who is not anchored and easily moved by storms.

Anchored Ship

Hebrews 6:18–20 NKJV
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
This is the believer who has is anchored in Jesus. This person can withstand storms because they have an unmoveable hold.
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