Leave the Elementary School of Law

The anticipation of the coming of the Christ to be the final sacrifice for sins was considered an elementary teaching by the writer of Hebrews (Hebrews 6:1-3).

"Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity..."

He compared the old covenant of law to elementary school, or the ABC’s and 123’s of the coming of the Christ.

Now that Jesus had come and brought righteousness by faith and complete forgiveness, they should graduate from the Elementary School of Law and go on to maturity in the Graduate School of Grace.

As a matter of fact, the writer tells them they should actually be teaching the new covenant of grace, rather than re-learning again and again the elementary teachings of the Book of the Covenant and the prophecies of the coming of the Christ.

Now that Christ has come, died, and resurrected from the dead, providing purifications for all sins and righteousness, they needed to move on by studying and teaching the “Book of Grace”, or the new covenant (Hebrews 5:11-14).

"We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness."

Paul, in 2 Corinthians 3:6, wrote that God had made he and his companions competent ministers or teachers of the new covenant.

"He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

In the same way, the author of Hebrews is encouraging the Jewish people to become competent teachers of the new covenant of grace, teaching people to receive by faith in Christ God's forgiveness and righteousness, and then rest in him from all dead religious works to gain forgiveness and righteousness.

The same is true today.

Many Bible teachers and pastors are not teaching from the Graduate School of Grace.

Rather, many are teaching a combined Elementary School of Law and Graduate School of Grace theology by mixing the two together as the Judaizers did in the early church.

Many Bible teachers and pastors are even creating their own dead religious practices to be followed to gain or keep God's forgiveness and righteousness.

Consequently and sadly, most believers are not resting in what Jesus did for them, thus remaining immature in their faith...that was me for years!

It is vital today that believers, newer and older believers, are taught from the Graduate School of Grace rather from the Elementary School of Law and its dead religious practices.

They need to be taught from the Graduate School of Grace so they can rest in God's righteousness and forgiveness that he has fully, freely, and forever provided for us in Jesus, and as a result, mature in their faith.