Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 6

Therefore leaving the principles –

The rudiments, the elementary truths, –

Of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;—

Let us go from the school to the university, let us have done with our first spelling-books, and advance into the higher classics of the kingdom.

Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Let us make sure that the foundation is laid, but let us not continually have to lay it again. Let us go on believing and repenting, as we have done; but let us not have to begin believing and begin repenting; let us go on to something beyond that stage of experience.

Let us take these things for granted, and never dispute about them anymore, but go on to still higher matters.

We must keep on going forward; there is no such thing in the Christian life as standing still, and we dare not turn back.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away,—

Note that Paul does not say, "If they shall fall;" but, "If they shall fall away,"—if the religion which they have professed ceases to have any power over them—then, it shall be impossible—

To renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

If all the processes of grace fail in the case of any professors, what is to be done with them? If the grace of God does not enable them to overcome the world — if the blood of Christ does not purge them from sin, what more can be done? Upon this supposition, God's utmost has been tried, and has failed. Mark that Paul does not say that all this could ever happen; but that, if it could, the person concerned would be like a piece of ground which brought forth nothing but thorns and briers.