The Encouraging Promise of Christ

Hebrews 6:16-20

Hebrews 6:16-20 “For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

I. Introduction

A. We have been urged towards Maturity in Christ.

i) Even as Abraham had been tested and forced into maturity in his faith, even so we must press foward into maturity in Christ.

B. We have an incredible promise made to us as we grow in Christ.

II. The unchanging Nature of his Promise

A. The Example of an oath

i) As Yahweh Lives Was the Supreme oath in Israel. F.F. Bruce

ii) Genesis 14:22 “But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth,”

iii) In Israel an oath was always taken upon one that greater than yourself.

B. The Essence of God”s oath

i) Psalm 110:4 “The Lord has sworn And will not relent, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.””

ii) The Lord has know Higher to sware to than himself.

C. The Endurance of God’s oath

i) Romans 11:29 “For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”

Ii) Hebrews 11: 9 “By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;”

III. The unshakeable Nature of his Promise

A. The Promise of God

i) Our hope and God’s promise are not tied to this present world, but to that wich is to come which is eternal.

B. The oath that God Has made upon himself

i) God’s Promise is tied to his exsistance which is eternal

C. we are thus anchored to an immoveable object : The throne of God

i) Christ has crossed for us the Veil which separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies in the Temple.

ii) Christ has entered into the Throne on high Hebrews 1:3 “who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,”

IV. The unending Nature of His Promise

A. Christ is our High Preist

B. Christ is forever after the order of Melchisedec