Monday Night Bible Study Lesson 18-Hebrews 6
QUESTIONS
Day 1:Read Commentary Notes
1. What interested you most from reading the Commentary Notes?
2.What did you learn from the lecture?
Day 2:Read Hebrews 6:1-3[Open NIV][Open NKJV]
3.What does the author of Hebrews want you to move beyond? What does he want you to move toward?
4. What are the “elementary” teachings (doctrines) mentioned in verses 1 and 2?
5.Thought Question: Why is it important to move beyond the elementary teachings mentioned verses 1 and 2?
6.Personal Question: What does verse 3 mean? What lesson or principle is being expressed? How might you apply that lesson or principle to your own life?
Day 3:Read Hebrews 6:4-6[Open NIV][Open NKJV]
7.Make a list of the spiritual experiences mentioned in verses 4-6. (Use words from your Bible, don’t paraphrase)
8.From today’s verses, what is said to be impossible?
9.What main warning is being given in today’s verses?
10.Thought Question: According to verse 6, how does one’s “falling away” reflect on God’s Son?
11.Personal Question: What are you doing to safeguard against falling away from the Lord?
Day 4:Read Hebrews 6:7-9, John 15:5-8[Open NIV][Open NKJV]
12.What will be blessed by God and burned by God?
13.Thought Question: What spiritual principle is being illustrated in verses 7 and 8?
14.Thought Question: Why do you think producing a crop (or bearing fruit) is important for a Christian? (Hint: Read John 15:5-8 before answering this question:
15.Personal Question: Using verse 9, to what group did the Hebrews’ author believe the readers belonged…those who will be blessed by God or burned by God? Of which group are you confident you belong and why?
Day 5:Read Hebrews 6:10-12[Open NIV][Open NKJV]
16.Personal Question: What about verse 10 would encourage the 1st century readers of this letter and yourself?
17.Personal Question: Has there ever been a time in your life when you thought God had forgotten you? Explain your answer.
18.Using just verse 12, what negative attribute does the author warn against and with what should it be replaced?
19.Personal Question: Who do you know whose faith/actions are worthy of your imitation? What is the main trait you would like to emulate about them?
Day 6:Read Hebrews 6:13-20[Open NIV][Open NKJV]
20.To whom did God make a promise in verse 13? By whom did God make a promise in verse 13? What was the promise God made in verse 14?
To Whom?
By Whom?
What?
21.What was Abraham’s role in receiving God's promise, according to verse 15? In other words, what did Abraham have to do to get what God wanted to give him?
22.Personal Question: What promise of God have you been waiting on for a long time? How do today’s verses encourage you?
23.In verse 17, how did God confirm his promise to Abraham?
24.Thought Question: Using verses 17 and 18, what are the “two unchangeable (immutable) things in which it is impossible for God to lie?” (Hint: See the NKJV for the two things that are closely related.)
25.Using verses 19 and 20, write down something you learn about hope in God.