There are three encouragements to persevere, to hold on, and through faith and patience we inherit the promises! What exactly is promised? Often it is not specified but it becomes clearer as the epistle moves on. Heb. 10:36 says, "For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised." • we learn it is "an inheritance" (11:8), "the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God" (11:10), "a homeland" (11:14), "a better country, that is, a heavenly one" (11:16), "a city" (11:16), later on we read, "we seek the city that is to come" (13:14)! Earlier in the epistle, it was entering into God's rest (4:11) In short, its heaven, to be with God, everlasting life, a world without end, etc. — have access to God through Jesus' high priestly work.
I. Encouragement One: God's promise and Oath II. Encouragement Two: Our hope [is "a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul"] III. Encouragement Three: Jesus [has gone ahead "on our behalf"]
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Dr. Mark Herzer has been the pastor of Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church (P.C.A.) in Warminster, PA since 1997. Before this, he was ordained to labor as an Assistant Pastor of Korean United Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia (1992-1995). He received his M.A.R. and Ph. D....