1. So let us go on to grown-up teaching. Let us not go back over the beginning lessons we learned about Christ. We should not start over again with teaching about turning from acts that lead to death and about believing in God.
2. We should not return to the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of the raising of the dead and eternal judgment.
3. And we will go on to grown-up teaching if God allows.
4. Some people cannot be brought back again to a changed life. They were once in God’s light. They enjoyed heaven’s gift, and they shared in the Holy Spirit.
5. They found out how good God’s word is, and they received the powers of his new world.
6. And then they fell away from Christ! It is not possible to keep on bringing them back to a changed life again. For they are nailing the Son of God to a cross again and are shaming him in front of others.
7. Some people are like land that gets plenty of rain. The land produces a good crop for those who work it, and it receives God’s blessings.
8. Other people are like land that grows thorns and weeds and is worthless. It is about to be cursed by God. It will be destroyed by fire.