Were you there when they crucify the Lord

Heb 6: 6 Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, 2 instruction about cleansing rites,the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And God permitting, we will do so.

4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age 6 and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.

Were you there when they crucify the Lord?

I once had a dream. It was so real, and it felt like the Lord took me back in time, and I saw Him there being crucified for me. I cried, for I loved Him because I have known the love of God for me. The pain and suffering of Christ at the Cross was too much for me.

Jesus died for a purpose, choosing to die, to take the cup of suffering. There was no other way for man to be saved. Jesus had to die. It was the people of faith, who put Jesus to the Cross. He was led like the sheep obediently to the Cross.

We have as Hebrews say, an elementary teaching, a foundation of the acts that lead to death being unbelief in Jesus as Lord and Saviour, and having faith in God. The water baptism represents the cleansing of sin, and the laying on of hands, for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and one day we may be resurrected when Christ comes.

I have seen many who were once baptized, but now deny Jesus. They don't say it aloud. They may continue to attend church and may even be pastors, but have lost faith that their sins be cleansed or that they need salvation. Their motto is love, loving others forgetting that we cannot love. It is the resurrected Christ in us that gives us the grace to love.

Perhaps it is impossible for them to go out of the grace of God, and they were never saved in the first place for how could we crucify Christ all over again. We crucify Christ over and over again when we who are Christians deny Christ substitution atonement which is the basic foundation of our faith. It is to their loss and shame. Since, we can't crucify Christ over again for He is risen, they may not have been enlightened in the first place.

Have we tasted the heavenly gift? the gift of Salvation in Christ Jesus. There is no longer any striving but resting in the finished works at the Cross. When people come to our churches, do they meet the crucified Lord, the empty tomb. 

Instead at many churches, we spend time crucifying ourselves for the sins we have done or the failure to love others, and crucifying others we deemed more sinful than us. We forget that Christ is crucified already, and we have already been crucified in Christ.

We can't really go beyond the foundation of faith, if we were not there when they crucify the Lord and seen His suffering, agony and pain. It was for us, that we may be blessed, that by His stripes we may be healed, and by His blood, our sins forgiven.

Christ is risen, He has risen indeed, and it is for us, that He may be with us today and one day bring us Home to heaven. Our final Home is not on this earth but heaven above.

The tomb is now empty. One day, our tomb will also be empty when we resurrect to meet Christ coming down from heaven above.