Full Assurance of Hope
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Hebrews 6:9–20 “
9 But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.
10 For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
Contrast:
8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.
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What is the fruit? What are the “things that accompany salvation..” ?
The love of God
In Ministry to the saints.
What does that remind you of from our time in Exodus?
The fruit of salvation looks like the service of a priest.
A holy priest to God.
Ministering to His holy saints.
Knowing what the fruit looks like, what might the thorns and thistles look like?
Particular: If someone were to have ambitions for ministry, what does this text say is essential for that calling?
Universal: If we desire to bear the fruit of salvation more fully, where ought we begin?
Cultivating the love of God in us!
What is the root of this fruit that is the love of God?
11 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,
12 so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
What’s the character of the fruit listed here?
Diligence
Not Sluggish
What’s the root of the fruit?
full assurance of hope
faith and patience
In what???
What might a diligent faith in the wrong thing look like?
What are some things we wait for that aren’t guaranteed?
An apparent contradiction:
What’s the difference between being sluggish and being patient? Those can kind of look similar don’t they?
What’s the difference between resting on the Sabbath and being lazy?
Patience admits there are things I cannot do myself.
Patience trusts that there is something better coming.
Laziness admits there’s something I can do but won’t
Laziness can be fatalist. Even if I work it won’t change anything.
There is a sinful diligence and righteous resting.
What does this righteous diligence look like?
Faith, hope, and patience in what?
The promises of God!
13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
14 saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”
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Genesis 12: The promise of God to bless
Genesis 15: The promise of God to multiply
Abraham believed and it was reckoned to him as righteousness!
This belief in the promise bears fruit!
8 Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.
14 Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the Lord it will be provided.”
16 and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 “In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
15 And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.
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The promise is sure from the very beginning. Because it’s sure it’s deserving of a faith which justifies and bears fruit in patience and obedience. There are no thorns or thistles here. It’s in the context of this fruit that Abraham receives the promise. His son which he offered up to God in faith and obedience was given back to him by means of a substitute, a ram in the bush.
We get a different perspective on perseverance here.
Those who are of faith are those who persevere in patience, waiting for the promise they hope for.
The golden calf:
Unbelief and impatience led to idolatry. That day some were deprived of the promise because they did not persevere, but more importantly they did not believe in the promise of God for them. They were not true sons of Abraham because they did not believe in the promise.
The root of this fruit of patience is faith in the promise of God.
What are some areas of our Christian walk we might be tempted to grow impatient?
How does our faith in the promises of God address that temptation?
16 For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.
17 In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,
There is no arguing/ dispute as to whether or not this promise is going to come about.
To those who’ve received it by faith it is unchangeable because it is God who purposed it. He sworn by His own name to bring it about.
What promises do we have in Jesus that are certain according to God’s unchangeable purpose?
How should we respond?
18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.
19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,
We have a strong encouragement and reason for hope!
This is an anchor for our soul because it is outside of us and greater than us. It is sure unlike us. It is steadfast unlike us at times.
The way has already been paved so that we may follow:
20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
