Take your Bibles this morning if you would turn
to Hebrews chapter 6 we're gonna Look at these
last few verses of Hebrews 6 before we move on
into our formal study of the Melchizedekian priesthood
of Jesus that begins in chapter 7 Which the writer
has already said are hard things to explain But
we look forward to tackling these hard things
in the weeks ahead and so be in prayer for us
as we prepare these messages that will come.
But today, as the writer kind of wraps up this
pastoral word of encouragement to his people,
who he has harshly, firmly... warned about their
sluggishness, their ears having become dull through
their neglect of the things of God, the word
of God, he writes to encourage us. And I think
sometimes we really need to be reminded of the
many encouragements that God gives us throughout
scripture because life is hard, right? There
is difficulty that we have to deal with throughout
our lifetime. It seems more for some than others.
And so we just simply need to be reminded of
the faithfulness of God. That's what we sang
about this morning, God's faithfulness and the
fact that we can trust God's word. We can trust
in the purposes and promises of God. That's really
what we're gonna be talking about today. So in
Hebrews chapter six, these last few verses that
Neil, dealt with a couple of weeks ago, we were
urged to be a people who have full assurance
of hope to the end. I mean, that's what he said
to us there in that 11th verse of chapter six.
We desire each one of you to show the same earnestness
and to have the full assurance of hope. until
the end. We're to be a people whose lives are
characterized by hope. And as we know, we've
said many, many times before, that word hope
in the New Testament is not just wishful thinking,
but it is confidence, a confident assurance that
we can trust God, we can trust the Word of God,
we can trust in the purposes of God for our own
lives and for our lives as a congregation. we
can trust that God is at work and that he is
going to accomplish all that he has set out to
do. So we're to be a people of hope and not only
that, but he goes on to say that we might become
imitators of those who through faith and patience.
inherited or inherit the promises. So again,
our lives are to be characterized not only by
hope, but by faith, belief, belief in the Lord
Jesus Christ, belief in God's word, and we are
to patiently endure these struggles that we go
through as human beings, knowing that God is
in control, that God has a plan for our lives,
again, a plan, as Jeremiah says, for our good,
and that he is at work. even as we sang today,
whether we can feel it, whether we can see it,
God is at work on a thousand different levels,
working things together for our good. And we
just need to trust that. And then of course,
as we begin the next verse and the final paragraph
of Hebrews 6, Abraham is identified as one of
these. men that we should imitate. Again, a life
that was characterized by faith and patience
as ours should be. And of course, when we look
at the life of Abraham, I just want to kind of
go through kind of a historical purview just
to kind of give you an idea of the patience that
this man endured throughout his life. And again,
we read in scripture, in Genesis chapter 12,
the very first time that God speaks to Abraham.
And again, you know, and if you don't, you will,
Abraham was not a man of God. Matter of fact,
his family, they were worshipers of the moon.
And yet God speaks to this man, chooses this
man for himself, calls him to leave his home.
and to travel to a land that God would show him.
I always think it's so interesting when I read
those verses. God didn't say, I want you to go
to such and such a place. He just said, I want
you to go and I'll show you where you're going
as you go. Isn't that how life kind of feels
sometimes? We're on this road and we're really
not certain completely of where this road will
lead throughout the years of our life, but what
we can be certain of, as Abraham was certain,
is that God would show him. the place that he
was going to, we can be confident that God will
guide us. And again, that's really what this
whole passage of scripture is about. So God first
speaks to Abraham there in Genesis chapter 12,
and he promises Abraham at that point, he says,
I will make of you a great nation, and I will
bless you, and in you all the families of the
earth shall be blessed. Now that's a pretty great
promise. What we need to understand is that Abraham
was already 75 years old. when God spoke to him
and made this promise. All right, 75 years old.
And then in Genesis 15, quite some time has passed,
we're not exactly sure how much time, but Abraham
begins to grow a little impatient and he expresses
his concern to God saying this, he says, oh Lord
God, what will you give me? For I continue childless.
The heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.
And it's at that moment that God assures or really
reassures Abram, he said this man will not be
your heir. Your very own son shall be your heir.
So God has promised to make of him a great nation
to bless him, to bless all the families of the
earth through him. Abraham knew that that would
involve him and Sarah having a child and here
they are after these many years still childless.
wondering how God's purposes can possibly come
to pass under these circumstances. He doesn't
even have an heir to pass the promises onto that
is in his bloodline, and yet God reassures him,
you will. You will have a son, your very own
son. And then God instructs Abram with these
words, words we're familiar with. He says, look
to heaven and number the stars. And if you're
able to number them, and then God again renews
his promise by saying, so shall your offspring
be. So you're not only gonna have offspring,
but you're gonna have offspring as numerous as
the stars of heaven. And it's here, of course,
that we read of Abraham's faith. It says he believed
God and he counted it. God counted it to him.
as righteousness. So the years are going by,
concerns are coming up, and every step of the
way God is assuring and reassuring Abraham of
his faithfulness. Then when Abraham is 99 years
old, that's when God changes his name from Abram,
which means the father of many. To Abraham the
father of a multitude again Abraham doesn't have
a single child at this point God promises Abraham
again. He says Sarah your wife shall bear you
a son and again Abraham and Sarah were both physically
speaking Beyond the age of childbearing even
in their day in time So God was making this seemingly
impossible promise, but of course Abraham believed
the Lord. And of course it was the next year
when Abraham was 100. So 25 years after first
calling him out of his homeland, Abraham now
has a child, Isaac is born. And of course we
know it was some years later. We don't know exactly
how old Isaac was. He was an older teenager,
perhaps even a young man. God... tests Abraham's
faith at this point, and this is what he says
to him. He says, take your son, your only son,
Isaac, who you love, and go to the land of Moriah
and offer him there as a burnt offering on one
of the mountains, which I shall tell you now.
Can you imagine God asking you to do or commanding
you to do such a thing? But Abraham responds
with no hesitation whatsoever. The next morning
he arises early, he calls his son, and off they
go. to do exactly what God had commanded him
to do. And of course, it is there, and we know
what happens as Abraham begins to go through
the whole process to offer his son Isaac as a
sacrifice. God stops him, and of course the lamb
with its horns caught in the thicket becomes
the lamb that God had provided for Abraham. It
is there in that moment when all of this is taking
place that God again renews his promise. He reassures
him once again, and it is there where he swears
by himself, as we're about to read. He swears
an oath, and of course, because there's no one
higher than God that he can swear to, he swears
by himself. It's here on Mount Moriah that he
does that. And he says this. He says, because
you have done this and not withheld your son,
your only son, I will surely bless you, and I
will surely multiply your offspring as the stars
of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore.
And of course, again, this promise of a multitude
of offspring, and yet Abraham has but one child
of promise, Isaac. It's not too many years that
go by. Sarah, Abraham's wife, passes away. She
dies at the age of 127. 12 years later, when
Abraham is 140 years old, it is then that Isaac
marries Rebekah. And then Abraham, of course,
dies at the age of 175. having lived what the
Bible characterizes as a life of faith and patience
and having inherited the promise of God. Now
we know if we go back and we read those texts,
and certainly as we read about those texts in
the New Testament, we know that not every promise
that God made to Abraham had been fulfilled in
time. Obviously Abraham received the promises
of God. That's what verse 15 says, Abraham having
patiently waited obtained the promise. But I
believe that this life of Abraham, this example
of Abraham is given to us because when we really
understand the life that Abraham lived, the difficulties
that he confronted, we understand a little bit
more about how our lives are going to go and
why it is necessary for us not only to be people
of faith, but to be people who patiently wait
for the promises of God to be fulfilled in our
lives. I don't know about you, patience is one
of the struggles in my life. Is that true for
anybody else? I've told this story before, you
know, years ago when you used to go through the
drive -through. I guess some banks still have
drive -through lines. I don't see them as much
as I used to, and I certainly don't go through
them when I do my banking anymore. But, you know,
I would have everything written out. My deposit
slip, my check will be signed with the account
number on the back. I'm all ready to go. If I'm
getting any cash back, I've got that all laid
out so that all these teller has to do is look
at what I've written and... and deposit my check
and give me my cash. And I'm on my way, I'm out
of there. It won't take me two minutes. And inevitably,
when I would pull into the drive -through line,
no matter which lane I picked, and there were
usually three, it would be the slowest lane.
And I would wait and wait and wonder what the
people were talking about as they conversed with
the teller. I'm like, what are you talking about?
And then the person in front of me, I'd finally
get in that last car, I'm almost there, and I'd
see the hand go out and press the call button,
and the drawer open, and they reach in and grab
a deposit slip, and I'm thinking, you've been
sitting in line all this time, and you don't
have a deposit slip. Patience, often not our
strong suit. Not only must we be people of faith
when it comes to God, our walk with the Lord,
but we have to be people of patience. God's at
work, but he's not at work on our schedule. And
often, our schedule, which we grow impatient
with, is designed by God for our good. Abraham,
perfect example of how God works throughout the
life of an individual that he has called to himself
and faithfully fulfills The promise, Abraham
obtained the promise because the promise was
guaranteed by God. That's really what I want
us to focus on today. The promise of God is a
guarantee. God doesn't make promises that he
doesn't keep. God doesn't say things that he
doesn't mean. God doesn't call you into some
area of ministry where he does not equip you
to perform that. Our God, as we sang today, is
faithful. And that's what the writer of Hebrews
is going to remind us today. Yes, life will be
difficult. Yes, following Jesus is not always
easy. It was never intended to be easy. It wasn't
easy for Jesus to fulfill his role in coming
to this earth to die for us on the cross, and
it will not be easy for us to fulfill the role
that God has called us to. That's why we rely
on God's faithfulness and God's strength and
the support and encouragement of our brothers
and sisters in Christ, because the Christian
life is not an easy life. It is a life to be
lived faithfully and... And so let's read together
these last few verses of Hebrews chapter six,
beginning in verse 13. It says, for when God
made a promise, and if you don't have your Bible,
they're right up here on the front, you can read
along. For when God made a promise to Abraham,
since he had no one greater by whom to swear,
he swore by himself, saying, surely I will bless
you and multiply you. And thus Abraham, having
patiently waited, obtained the promise. For people
swear by something greater than themselves and
in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
So when God desired to show more convincingly
to the heirs of promise the unchangeable character
of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath.
So that by two unchangeable things in which it
is impossible for God to lie, We who have fled
for refuge might have strong encouragement to
hold fast to the hope set before us. That's really
the thrust of this text. God gives us this assurance
so that we might live faithfully, patiently,
hopefully, again clinging to that hope that God
has set before us. And he says we have this as
a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul. A hope
that enters into the inner place behind the curtain
where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf,
having become a high priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek. Let's pray, and we're gonna
look at these evidences, proofs of God's faithfulness
that ought to cause us to leave here rejoicing
and looking forward to not only this life, but
the life that is yet to come. Hopefully, let's
go to the Lord. Father, we are thankful today
for God's word. Father, God's word is what we
need. God's word is what we can build our lives
upon. It is faithful as he is faithful. It is
true as he is true, Father. It is sure as he
is sure. His promises for us will indeed be fulfilled,
Father. Though they may not always be fulfilled
in the time that we Prefer and so we just acknowledged
today father help us to understand that your
timing is perfect You are never late You are
always right on time You always do the right
thing in the right moment And again, I pray that
we would just believe that today because the
circumstances of our life will put that that
belief to the test. But Lord, you prove yourself
time and again faithful. And so I pray that we
would heed the encouragement, the hope that is
being portrayed here and that our lives, Lord,
would be characterized by that hope as we serve
you now and as we look to an eternity of service
in glory. And so we just ask all of this, Lord,
in Jesus' name, amen and amen. The first thing
that we need to deal with here is this whole
idea of God making a promise. When God made a
promise to Abraham, when he had no one greater
to swear by, he swore by himself. And here's
the reality that we all know is true. God makes
promises, right? And not every promise in the
Bible is a promise that we can claim personally,
all right? But when God makes a promise, he fulfills
that promise. And the example of Abraham here
is assuring us that just as God made a promise
to Abraham and after many, many years and after
doubts and concerns on the part of the one to
whom the promise was made, God ultimately came
through and did what he said he was going to
do. And the idea here is that that is how he
always does. God always keeps... His promises,
and of course a promise is simply a declaration
of intent. When we promise to do something, we
are promising to carry out the intent of our
heart. That's what a promise is. And so the question
that is before us today is this, how certain
is a promise when God makes it? Can we trust
God to fulfill his promises to us and I know
these sound like basic questions and they're
not hard questions everybody out there I hope
is saying well of course we can trust God to
keep his promises of course we can we can believe
that God will do what he has said he will do
but I want us to think for just a moment as we
as we say that how obvious this might be is that
how often in your life have you come to the place
where perhaps you've doubted God a little bit
Where you've wondered is Abraham wondered look
God you made this promise and it's been many
many years since you made this promise And I'm
still childless Are you really going to do what
you said? I'm getting older every day The physical
likelihood of Sarah and I having a child is becoming
Well less and less with each passing year. Are
you truly going to fulfill this promise? We get
that way in our lives about some things don't
we God are you really gonna do what you said?
Are you really gonna work this thing for my good?
How could you possibly work this thing for my
good? What good could possibly come from this?
You ever had those kind of thoughts? Well, this
passage of scripture is for you. When God makes
a promise, let me tell you, he keeps his promise.
In Ezekiel 12, 25, we read these words. Now,
they're the words of God, but it's God speaking
about himself. He says, for I am the Lord. I
will speak the word that I will speak. and it
will be performed. In other words, when I say
something, you can count on me doing what I have
said. That's what God said in Ezekiel 12, 25.
And then just a few chapters later in 17, 24,
God makes a very similar declaration. He says,
I am the Lord, I have spoken, and I will do it.
Again, he is reminding his people of his faithfulness.
tend to get our eyes on the faithfulness of men,
primarily ourselves. And we learn very early
on in our Christian life that as much as we may
desire to be faithful to God, it's hard for us
to always be faithful, isn't it? We fail, we
falter, we stumble, we fall. God never does.
And so again, when we think about faith, we cannot
limit our faith to faith in ourselves or faith
in others. Often, once we realize, okay, well,
I'm not the guy that I should be looking to for
this, we find somebody else that we can follow,
that we can kind of hitch our wagon to. And then,
what inevitably happens? Well, he falls. We hear
about it all the time. These great men of God
who... who have these setbacks in their lives.
And then we begin to wonder, who can we look
to? Who can we have faith in? And God says, look,
it's me. I'm the one that you should put your
faith and trust in. I'm the one who alone have
spoken and will do it. I will never go back on
my word. My promise is just that. It is my promise
and it will be. fulfilled, and so as we think
about the Word of God, and that's really what
we're talking about today, and we're talking
about our salvation. God's promise to Abraham
was of generations of offspring, and of course
Paul lets us know in Romans that if you're in
Christ, you're the offspring of Abraham. So when
God made this promise to Abraham way back in
the beginnings of Genesis, He was talking about
me and you. We are, in a certain sense, the fulfillment
of God's promise to Abraham. We are offspring
of Abraham because we are in Christ. Of course,
the promise, as it is explained in Scripture,
was of Christ himself. Christ was the offspring
that God promised to Abraham, but now all of
us who are in Christ... have become further fulfillment
of that great promise. So God makes promises.
He made a promise to Abraham which he fulfilled.
Abraham having patiently waited, obtained the
promise. And then God does an unusual thing here
that we don't see very often in scripture. Matter
of fact, I'm not sure that there's any other
place in scripture where he does this. But after
he makes this promise to Abraham, he ensures
his promise by making a pledge to Abraham, an
oath. He swore by himself. He guaranteed it with
an oath, is what the writer of Hebrews says.
Now, a pledge or an oath is meant to confirm
or to bind one to their promise, all right? And
we do this in life. Oaths or pledges are a guarantee.
We are assuring someone that we are going to
do what we've said. We're going to fulfill the
promise that we have made. Jesus, of course,
tells us in John 17, 17 that God's word is truth.
So the reality is, there was really no need for
God to confirm his promise with an oath. He had
made the promise, that was enough. He is God,
as he says in Ezekiel. I'm the Lord, and what
I've spoken, that's what I'm going to do. So
there was no need for God to confirm his promise
with an oath, and yet, he does. Of course, Numbers
23, 19 says this, God is not a man that he should
lie. or a son of man that he should change his
mind, has he said and will he not do it? Or has
he spoken and will he not perform it? Writer
of Hebrews of course simply says it's impossible
for God to lie. However, because of the nature
of this promise, again, the eternal nature of
this promise, the significance of this And because
God's desire, as we read about there, God's desire
for His children to absolutely be assured of
its fulfillment, He follows up this promise with
a pledge. He swears an oath. So we have God's
promise, and then we have God's pledge, the two
unchangeable things that the writer of Hebrews
speaks of here. These two things combined are
intended to fill us with that hope, that confident
assurance that our future is secure in Christ.
Now, I don't know about you, but I bump into
people every now and then who struggle with the
security of their salvation. You ever have struggles
with that? You ever find yourself involved in
some activity and you begin to wonder to yourself,
you know, these are the kinds of things I used
to do when I was lost. Could I really be saved
and do this thing? Or maybe you ask yourself
something like this. Maybe it's not some big
sin in your life that you've fallen back into,
but maybe it's just a lack of following after
the Lord. You think, well, you know, where am
I serving God? In what way am I loving the people
of God and serving the people of God? You know,
maybe I'm just not doing that the way that I
should. Am I really saved? I've had people over
the years of my ministry ask me on countless
occasions about the genuineness of their salvation.
Could I really be saved and live a life like
this or do these things or not do these other
things? And again, this passage of scripture
is written for all of you who may be having doubts
like that. God has promised us that all who call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And
of course, through this promise to Abraham, he
has pledged to us that I will fulfill my promise.
You can count on it. I will complete the work
that I have begun in you. You know, one of the
things you always need to remember when you find
yourself in questionable territory is this. You
know, God's not finished with you yet. God's
still at work in your life. God's still conforming
you to the image of Christ. You're a long way
from where you will be one day. Long way. God's
still at work. That ought to give you confidence,
assurance. Now that doesn't mean that we ought
to just go out and live any old way that we choose
to. Certainly we should be concerned when our
lives begin to characterize the life that we
left behind when we confessed our sin, repented,
and came to Christ in faith. But we should never
let temporary failures cause us to doubt the
promise of God. God has promised and He has...
He is guaranteed, your salvation is guaranteed
by God. Because it was God's purpose from the
very beginning. When God desired to show more
convincing, and I love this because it speaks
to the heart of God. When God desired to show
more convincingly to the heirs of promise, the
unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed
it with an oath. God wants you to be sure. You've
heard that before, right? He wants you to know
that you know. How does he do that? Well, he
guarantees his promise with an oath. He speaks
of his purposes as being unchangeable in character
because God's character is unchangeable. You
know, that's one of the attributes of God, right?
Immutability, we talk about, you know, being
a big word church, immutability is a big word.
It just means that God doesn't change. He never
changes. God's purposes are unchangeable in their
character because God is unchangeable in his
character. So again, swearing an oath, God swearing
an oath indicated an even greater determination
on the part of this one who has made the promise
of himself to fulfill what he has declared as
his intent or his purpose. God wants us to be
thoroughly convinced. He wants us to be thoroughly
confident. He doesn't want us to have doubts.
So he strengthened his promise by swearing an
oath. Well, the supreme oath in Israel, right
up to this very day, is if you want to swear
an oath, you swear an oath on Yahweh, right?
As Yahweh lives, as surely as Yahweh lives. That's
a typically Israeli or Hebrew oath. In American
courtrooms, of course, Witnesses pledge or swear
to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but
the truth. So help me God. And often we put our
hand on a Bible when we do that. Again, that's
the idea here. We are intensifying the very promise.
It is an implied promise when you step into that
witness box that you're gonna tell the truth.
But to intensify that, to make it even greater,
we swear an oath that we are here and we are
going to tell the truth. the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. So the addition of such
an oath simply intended to strengthen the force
of the guarantee or the trustworthiness of one's
testimony, putting an end as the scripture says.
to all argument. It's the final confirmation.
It puts an end to all disputes. And so that's
what God is doing here. He's wanting us. His
desire is for us to be confident that He will
keep His promise, that He will do what He has
said. And He goes to this length. He didn't have
to. His word is truth. But He swears by Himself,
intensifying this promise that He has made. And
again, all for the purpose of encouraging the
heirs of the promise. And again, that's us. We're
talking about Abraham imitating his life, how
God kept his promise in Abraham's life. And of
course, in the day, Abraham was the heir of the
promise. But now in Christ, we are the offspring
of Abraham. We are the heirs of promise that
the writer of Hebrews is talking about here.
So God wants us, his children, to live lives
of confidence, courage. He desired to show more
convincingly to the heirs of promise the unchangeable
nature or the unchangeable character of his purpose.
So again, God wants us to be thoroughly convinced
that his promise of eternal life will be completely
fulfilled in our lives. And again, he sought
to demonstrate this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
And again, the word unchangeable. God is unchangeable.
His word is unchangeable. And it means exactly
what we think it means. Not capable of, not subject
to change. So God's purpose to save His people
is unchangeable. God will not fail in this purpose.
God doesn't fail in any of His purposes. Paul
rejoices in Ephesians 1 verses 3 through 6. I
want to read this to you. He says, blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who
has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places. Now think about
that for a minute. Paul is praising God for the
blessings of God. He has blessed us with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. And
then he continues, even as he chose us in him
before the foundation of the world. Now that
ought to always blow your mind when you read
those words. That God's choice of you, the establishment
of his purpose for you took place before the
foundation of the world. Pretty remarkable. So
that we should be holy and blameless before him.
In love, he predestined us for adoption as sons
through Jesus Christ according to the purpose
of his will. Again, this was God's plan. This
was God's intent. This was God's purpose, God's
desire. God's will was to save you to the praise
of his glorious grace with which he has blessed
us in the beloved. God's purpose for his children
is to preserve them through this life right on
in. to the next life, and let me tell you, he's
gonna keep that promise. And if that isn't enough
of an argument to make you say, okay, I believe
you, I trust you, I'll live my life with confident
hope as I await the return of Christ, then God
gives us one more proof, one more evidence, one
more thing that we should know and think about
as we contemplate the difficulties of life and
the sureness of his word. Well, it's Jesus Christ,
our priest. We have this he says as a sure and
steadfast anchor of the soul a hope there's that
word again a confident assurance that enters
into the inner place behind the curtain this
picture of the Tabernacle and the Holy of Holies
Where Jesus has gone once and forever? Again
as our forerunner on our behalf having become
a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek
Jesus Christ Our great high priest has entered
into this heavenly holy of holies, the real holy
of holies. You know, the tabernacle in the wilderness,
the temple in Jerusalem, these were man -made
replicas of the true holy of holies. Jesus is
in the true holy of holies, seated at the right
hand of the Father, where the Bible says that
he always lives. to be our intercession, to give
us access to the Father. Not only has Jesus entered
into this place behind the curtain, but because
He is there, we are there, seated with Him in
the heavenlies, assured of our eternal salvation.
That's the picture that's being painted for us
here. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor
of the soul, the soul representing our whole
life. Our whole life is secure. in Christ, not
just our eternity, but our present life. Whatever
it is that you may be going through, we can trust
that God is at work and that he's gonna complete
his purposes. He's gonna keep his promise. Jesus
Christ, our eternal high priest, has taken our
anchor. Remember we talked about this a few weeks
ago, this word forerunner. speaks of a small
boat that was carried by the big ships, and what
would happen is, is occasionally a ship would
arrive at its destination, and because of the
tide, they would not be able to enter the harbor.
But in order to... to secure the ship, the forerunner,
the small boat, would be lowered into the water.
The anchor would be placed into the forerunner.
The forerunner, who could manage the shallow
waters or the rocky waters, would go into the
harbor, secure the ship's anchor, and even though
the ship was not yet in the harbor, it was safe
because the anchor was set in the harbor. And
that's the idea here. Of course, Anchors on ships
sink into the depths of the sea. The anchor that
we're talking about now has ascended into the
highest of the heavens. That's where our anchor
is. It's in the heavenly place Christ has secured
for us. We're not in the harbor yet. But it's
absolutely certain that we will be. And because
our anchor is secured there by Christ himself,
we are safe now. That's the idea. We are secure
because he has secured it there for us. It says
that on our behalf as a forerunner on our behalf.
Christ has done this for us. He has entered once
and for all into the presence of God. Because
of that we have this hope, this confident assurance
that we too will one day take possession of this
great promise. And for now we wait with faith.
and patience for Christ's promised return. So
can we trust God to fulfill his promise? Are
our lives secure in Christ? Is our hope for an
eternal future with the Father in heaven a reality?
Absolutely. We are spiritually, we're already
there in Christ. We are anchored there because
he is our forerunner, has tethered us to the
very throne of God. We are safe. and we will
forever be safe in Christ. So the question is
this, are you in Christ? Has there come a time
in your life when you've realized that you're
a sinner who needs a savior? Have you come to
Christ repenting of your sins, placing your faith
and trust in him? If you've not done that, you
can do that this very moment. So again, God has
promised that all who call upon the name of the
Lord will be saved. That promise is for you if
you're in Christ.