Hebrews 5:12-6:2 - For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Hebrews 9:13-14 - For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Matthew 28:19-20 - Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Acts 8:14-16 - Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 6:6 - These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.
2 Timothy 1:6-7 - For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Mark 6:5 – And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
John 5:25 - “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
John 11:25-26 - Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Application:
· Have I progressed in my spiritual life? Am I sound of judgment and discernment?
· Has my conscience been purified from deeds that cannot save due to human sinfulness?
· Baptism is part of the process of the great commission
· If I belong to Christ, I have the Holy Spirit
· Laying on of hands is done for healing, the gift of the Spirit and commission to a ministry
· Laying on of hands fans into flame the gift of God
· Jesus chose not to do miracles where there was unbelief
· The spiritually dead will hear Jesus message and believe
· If I have genuine faith in Christ I will live
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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