In Hebrews 6, the writer proceeds to establish an independent, and greater consolation and comfort for us in Christ's priesthood, based upon God's Solemn Oath to the Son, appointing Him a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. That oath by God to Christ is first recorded in Psalm 110.
God showed the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel to bless and save us, by confirming it by His oath.
God's counsel is immutable. It never changes. It is decided by God forever.
The purpose of God's disclosing His immutable plan of redemption, and promising redemption, and swearing by Himself to redeem His people, is declared to be our strong consolation, our comfort by God, that He will surely perform that which He determined beforehand to do for us, in saving us by Christ.
It is impossible that God should lie about His counsel and His oath to save us!
Those who have believed God's Word, have laid hold of an anchor to our souls, which is embedded in the One that has entered behind the veil of the Holiest in glory. Our anchor is buried in Christ our sacrifice and our high priest, Who is now seated in the heavenly places for us.
The reason these things are our strong consolation and comfort from God is, that God cannot lie about or change His eternal counsel to save us, nor can He go back on His solemn oath to do so.
But God's oath is not primarily to us. The writer of Hebrews focuses more upon this: that the immutable oath of God to carry out His immutable counsel to save His people, was made to Christ Himself!
God determined to save His people by the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus as our high priest, and He has confirmed this by His Own oath to His Son.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
