Hebrews: Better - How Genuine is Your Faith in Christ? - Hebrews 6:4-12

The image this week was really shocking, if you saw it... the foreign minister from the Pacific island of Tuvalu was dressed in his best suit, but there he was, standing knee deep in seawater as he spoke a video message to the COP26 conference in Scotland. His point was that rising sea levels are threatening his people’s very existence. That’s the power of a negative example for you. And the writer to the Hebrews is, metaphorically speaking, rolling up his trouser legs and walking out into the rising seawater to record his stark warning to Christians. The confrontation about apostasy that he started in 5:11 continues now with perhaps the severest warning on the pages of the New Testament. Basically it’s a stark warning about the genuineness of those who say they follow Christ. And so the question for you and me: How genuine is your faith in Christ? The text here comes in two halves.