Having Tasted the Good Word of God Hebrews 6:5

The Hebrew writer began to share how 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 in chapter six and verse five of Hebrews he includes those who “have tasted the good word of God” where we read:

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

The verse begins, “And have tasted the good word of God,...” The writer began with the words, “And have tasted” which means “tried the flavor of, partaken and enjoyed” “the good word” or “the honest, better and goodly utterance, saying, spoken and command” “of God” which refers to “the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit”. Those who were “once enlightened” also “partook and enjoyed” God's “good word”.

The verse goes on to say, “and the powers of the world to come”. The writer continued, “and the powers” which means “the strength, ability and influence” “of the world” or “the unbroken age, perpetuity of time and eternity” “to come” which means “to be about, intend, think to and have in mind”. These “enlightened” ones also knew about the “strengths and influences” of future “time and eternity”.

When we consider these words in Hebrews, we note additional ideas with which these “enlightened” were familiar. They knew “God's good word”, and they knew of “eternal” powers that promised for the future as well. There is no doubt these were actually “believers in Jesus Christ”, and the writer of Hebrews believed it necessary to identify them as such. We should ask ourselves, “have we tasted the good word of God”? Do we know about “the powers of the world to come”? Lest we be placed within the group of the “impossible” let us examine ourselves in these important doctrines.

Next time the writer shares what happens, “if they shall fall away”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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