Hebrews 6:4-8 | What's the connection?

As we examine this particular Scripture, it is important that we properly examine the context. For a passage such as this, there is a very broad scope that we need to consider, and this is where many can get lost on their attempt to exegete the passage. Most other Scriptures can be looked at in a more immediate context. This one requires a deeper study.

Let's begin with considering the audience. The audience is Jewish believers. They have come to confess that Jesus is the Messiah. What they are running the risk of is disavowing Jesus in order to go back to the old law and return back to the old sacrifices. They would depart from the new and resurrect the old. This would be done out of an effort of self-preservation and entering back into a legal religion, seeing as how Christianity was against the law and legal to persecute. So those that are being addressed are those who would have been enlightened, tasted of the heavenly gift, partakers of the Holy Spirit, tasted of the good word of God and powers of the age to come. If those who have been apart of this depart in such a manner, what can be said of them?

If we look contextually at Hebrews 6 and what precedes it, we see something very interesting. There has only been one sin mentioned the whole time - the sin of unbelief. The problem for the one who departs in such a way is that they'd depart in unbelief and nowhere in that unbelief is there any renewed repentance. There is only one solution and it is found in Jesus. To go back to the old sacrifices would not produce in them any repentance. The old system would require Jesus to be crucified afresh. But that work has already been accomplished. They would disgrace Him publicly. To draw back is to declare insufficiency of the Son of God. To draw back is to shame the finished work. The problem ultimately is unbelief. For even if one drew back to the old system, to believe what the old system perpetuated would lead to the promised Messiah. Contextually, we must understand that this passage is written of the one who would draw back to the old sacrificial system in unbelief.

What connections are you making in this passage?