This sermon deals with the controversal interpretations of Hebrews 6:4-8. It attempts to examine each of the four of the major interpretatives perspectives, including David Allen's position, and explains why some work better than others and what seems best in light of the Words of our Lord in Matthew 7 and 13.
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. 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.
