Thursday – Fake?
Focus Passage: Hebrews 6:4-8
Read: 2 Peter 2:20-22; 2 Corinthians 13:1-10
I have a friend who has years of experience in the jewelry business. He can spot a fake piece of jewelry pretty easily. One of the most beautiful and common pieces of jewelry is a diamond. Interestingly, it is also the most counterfeited. Through the years it has gotten increasingly difficult to tell whether a certain diamond is a fake or not. You can put two diamonds in a jewelry case, and from the perspective of our naked eyes, they would be identical. However, for an experienced jeweler, spotting a fake is easy. There are clear markers in the diamond that can identify its proof of authenticity.
In this same way, there are many people who have counterfeited Christianity. They have seen the working of the gospel in people’s lives…they have had full exposure to the gospel impact. Yet they become pretenders…actors on the grand stage of false Christianity. They pretend…but don’t possess salvation. Sadly, we probably all have seen this. People that look and even act like believers, walking away as if it wasn’t real.
As believers, we have to question how genuine we look. Our lives should identify the proof of an authentic relationship with Christ. Christianity cannot be lived in ambiguity.
1. How does the illustration in 6:7-8 shed light to the context of 6:4-6? Why is it impossible to restore them to the place of repentance again?
2. What areas of your life would you describe as authentic and genuine? Fake and unauthentic?
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