I'm preparing a lesson for Saturday and something just struck me as I was studying Hebrews 5:11-12.
The entire book up to this point is dealing with people that are really missing the boat on the basics of Covenant Theology. I'd never really even thought about what that might imply until I came to this section:
It seems like there's something to be said about the nature of the instruction and the care we ought to take to assume that deeper things are actually really being fleshed out in Hebrews. He actually states, ahead of time, he's not going to teach them the advanced stuff, not because he's unable to, but because the readers are like grade schoolers that wouldn't understand it yet if he did.
This just really struck me today as I was listening to a very advanced debate over what the author of Hebrews meant to express by Hebrews 8 and it seems, at least to me, that to look for extremely deep things in Hebrews misses the point that the author himself stated that his lessons were written to be understood by the theologically immature.
Thoughts?