Hebrews 6:9-20 Our Sure Hope

Our desire is to be a church that holds God’s Word as our highest authority, and this morning we are going to study what God’s Word says from Hebrews 6:9-20.

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Intro

One day, everyone who trusts in Christ will stand on the day of Judgment forgiven.

Instead of receiving God’s just and righteous wrath for our sins, we will receive the fullness of God’s grace.

He will wipe away every tear from our eye, and death will be no more, neither will there be mourning or crying, or pain anymore, because the former things will pass away and we will finally be with God in glory to experience the blessed joy of eternal life!

This is the hope of our salvation. This is the inheritance that is promised to everyone who believes in Jesus Christ.

And if we want to receive that inheritance, then we must live all of our lives focused on that hope. We must fix our lives on Christ and his gospel.

Because if we are going to stand forgiven on the day of judgement, it will only be because we stand in Christ by God’s grace, covered in the blood of Jesus and his sacrifice on our behalf.

And that hope, that promise of salvation, is guaranteed to everyone who trusts in Jesus.

And because that hope is guaranteed to us, God calls us to persevere through every trial, temptation, and suffering, and hold fast to Christ so that we will be found in him on that day.

Hebrews 6:9-20 urges believers to persevere in their faith, by taking God at his Word. By trusting in his promises and holding fast to Christ no matter the cost. In this passage,

God calls us to persevere in our faith trusting he has guaranteed our salvation in Christ.

In Christ, God promises to keep us by his grace so that we will inherit the promises of his salvation. So that we will stand forgiven on the day of judgment.

And that promise is guaranteed through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Everyone who believes in him will be saved on that day.

And because that’s true, God calls us to persevere in our faith. We must follow Jesus and keep following him every day of our life, or we will not inherit what God has promised us.

Not because we earn our salvation by persevering. But because Perseverance is the fruit, the natural outworking of true salvation.

If you are saved, you will persevere and follow Christ all of your life, because you know there is hope in no other name but Jesus.

There is no where else to go. Salvation is in him alone. And so those that God has truly saved will persevere and cling to Christ all their life thereby guaranteeing they will inherit the promised hope of salvation.

And this is a crucial message for us in our day. It seems like everyday we see people and entire churches who are abandoning Christ only to go back to loving the world.

And we need to know, that God’s Word says without perseverance, we do not have the fruit of salvation and we will face the Day of judgment condemned in our sins.

Let me say it clearly, without perseverance, you are not saved.

The question then is how? How should we persevere? What does it look like for Christians to persevere in Christ and hold fast to the promises of the gospel?

Hebrews 6:9-20 tells us three ways we must persevere because God has guaranteed salvation in Christ and in him alone. The first is that we must...

I. We Must Persevere Earnestly

Hebrews 6:9-12 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation. 10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. 11 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish.

When the Author says Though we speak in this way, he is referring back to the first part of chapter 6 where he warned the Hebrews about their potential apostasy.

In that passage, the Author warns us that if we fall away from Christ, if we fail to persevere in following Jesus, then we will not be saved when he returns. Not because we can lose our salvation if we aren’t as faithful as we should be, but because our perseverance is the evidence, the spiritual fruit of God’s grace working in our lives.

It is false converts according to Hebrews 6:8 that instead of producing the spiritual fruit of perseverance, only produce thorns and thistles, dead works that do not save anyone from the judgment of God.

Now it would have been easy for the Hebrews to hear that warning and look at the spiritual fruit of their lives in that very moment, which was almost non existent, and start to worry, Oh no. Am I too far gone? Is it too late? Am I going to be someone one who is destined to be burned because right now, I only have thorns and thistles?

But here, the author turns to encourage them and says yet in your case, beloved we feel sure of better things - things that belong to salvation.

In other words, we have confidence that you are saved and will be saved in the end. That you will persevere and receive the salvation promised to you through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And what gives him this confidence? I mean he has been warning them this whole letter about falling away from the gospel! Why is he now , all of a sudden, so sure that the Hebrews truly are children of God?

Because he’s seen God’s grace at work in them. Verse 10, For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

God is not unjust. He is not so cruel that their present sin, all their sluggishness and immaturity in the faith, would make him forget all the good works and love the Hebrews showed God when they first believed.

Now that’s not saying that God is looking at the Hebrews and saying well all your good works from earlier currently outweigh your bad ones so I guess I’ll still love you right now while I still have to. That is a gospeless works based understanding of salvation.

Instead, what this passage is saying is that God will not overlook or forget the love and good works the Hebrews showed when they first believed because all of those acts of love and good works were evidence of their true, genuine salvation.

What that tells us is that God’s love for us is not fickle. He does not love you based on how good of a Christian you’ve been the last couple of days.

God loves you solely because of his grace and Christ’s work on your behalf.

So Dear Christian, when you feel tempted to believe that God is angry or disappointed with you because you aren’t as faithful as you should be, remember God’s grace!

God does not look at you and say, “What have you done for me lately?” Instead, he sees all of your life in Christ and loves you because his grace has covered you in the blood of Jesus!

He is not unjust so as to overlook or forget the work and love you’ve shown for him in response to his grace. Even if you are not currently walking faithfully with the Lord right now, God does not hate you.

He loves you and he invites you to return to him and show the same earnestness for following Christ that you had when first believed.

Hebrews 6:11 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish.

The Hebrews weren’t always this way. They weren’t always contemplating going back to Judaism just to avoid persecution. In fact, Hebrews 10:32-34 tells us that they used to have such a passion and zeal for Christ that they joyfully endured suffering and persecution knowing that their hope was not in their life here and now, but in heaven.

And so when the Author says we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness, he is saying, I want you to go back to that! I want you to go back to living all of your life for Christ where no price was too high for worshiping him!

That is what he means by earnestness.

The word translated as earnestness means an eager effort. A Diligence. A Zeal. A Haste. An urgency to keep following Jesus.

And he wants them to go back to the earnestness they had at first so that they may not be sluggish.

Sluggish means lazy, slow, unreceptive. Uncaring. So in this context, the Author wants the Hebrews to recapture their zeal for following Christ so that they would not be stagnant and dead in their faith.

He wants them to show the same earnestness for following Jesus that they had at first.

To confirm their salvation, with the fruit of perseverance, by making every effort to earnestly live a godly life.

His argument is basically, because you know God has promised to save you, and your perseverance is the evidence that you can look at to have the full assurance of hope that God has destined you for salvation, then don’t settle for sluggishness.

Go back to the same passion and zeal you had a first. Go back to when worshiping God for his salvation was the sole focus of your life. Go back to earnestly holding fast to Christ every moment of every day.

So the Author’s application for the Hebrews, is the same application for us. Don’t settle for a sluggish, stagnant, and complacent faith. Instead, earnestly persevere and hold fast to Christ!

In all of your life make every effort to live for him because God has destined you for salvation, not judgment.

So what does that look like? How do we earnestly hold fast to Christ? Its one thing to say we need to live for Christ, its another thing to actually do it.

I think the answer lies in the word earnest. If earnestness means making an eager effort, then...

Persevering Earnestly means making a plan and sticking to it.

And those words sticking to it are important because they imply initiative or action.

All of us have areas of our Christian walk where we wish things were different. Whether there’s some specific sin in our life that we wish we didn’t struggle with or some Christian discipline we wish we were stronger in to grow in Christ more effectively, all of us have areas of our faith that we know we’ve become sluggish in.

The key to earnestly holding fast to Christ is not just wishing things were different. Its making a eager effort to actually change by his grace.

Just to get really practical with you, that means you need to make a plan and stick to it.

Without a plan you can always push off the work, push off the growth till tomorrow. But with a plan, by God’s grace you can war against complacency and spiritual laziness by practicing mature spiritual discipline and actually start growing in Christ.

Let me give you an example from my own life. An area of my faith that I feel particularly weak and sluggish in is prayer. Most of the time, if I were to be honest with you, I feel like my prayers don’t get any higher than the ceiling and it just feels like I’m saying the same empty words every day.

And I’ll tell you I’ve struggled with this ever since I became a pastor. When I became a pastor, I felt so overwhelmed with being faithful to what God has called me to, that I knew I needed to pray, but every time I tried it just felt like I didn’t know how.

A few weeks ago, I knew something needed to change. That I wasn’t just going to grow in prayer by wishing I had a better prayer life. So I made a plan. I started reading a book on how to pray and I wrote down a prayer plan. In that prayer plan...

I start by confessing my sins.

After that I praise God for who he is.

Then I move onto prayers of thanksgiving thanking God for what he’s done in my life.

Next, I make requests and supplications to God asking him for things I need.

And finally, I pray for others. For my family, our church, evangelism opportunities and anything else that someone has asked me to pray for.

And I will tell you, I’m not perfect. But I do feel like I’m growing in my prayer life because I believe one of the most practical ways for Christians to grow is by making a plan and sticking to it.

That is what it means to earnestly persevere in Christ. Is there some area of your faith you feel sluggish and ineffective in? Then prayerfully make a plan and stick to it.

So maybe you want to earnestly hold fast to Christ and kill the sin of impatience and anger in your life. You are absolutely sick of coming home from work and letting the stress of work creep into your home to cultivate division and anger within your family.

So pray. Say God, I want to put this to death in my life. And then, make a plan. Maybe that looks like you sit in your driveway for 5 minutes to pray for God to give you patience. Or maybe you pray through your burdens and stress and hand those things over to God before walking inside.

Then you also make a plan that any moment something gets on your nerves and you want to unload or lash out, you are going to stop, and pray right then and there for God to help you be patient like he is patient.

And then you get to work and stick to it. And I promise you, by earnestly making an eager effort empowered by God’s grace, you will grow in Christ.

The same thing can be true with Bible reading. It can be so much easier when you have a plan and know what to read instead of trying to play Bible bingo everyday. Start small and say I’m going to read 1 chapter from John everyday until I’m done, and then I’ll pick another book. And get to work.

The Big Idea here is that if God really has saved us, then we will follow him with everything we have. we will not be sluggish, we will be earnest.

We might hit some speed bumps along the way, but by his grace we will throw off any spiritual laziness we might have and make an eager effort to earnestly persevere in Christ.

But not only must we earnestly persevere in Christ we must also....

II. We Must Persevere Patiently

Hebrews 6:12-15 So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, 14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

Here the author says that not only does he want us to persevere earnestly, but we also need to persevere patiently.

He says the reason I want you to make an eager effort to follow Christ is so that you wouldn’t be sluggish, but you’d be like the saints who went before you.

And like them, you would persevere patiently so that you will not give up, and inherit the promise of God’s salvation.

Remember, the Hebrews are suffering persecution and thinking about going back to Judaism, and the author is saying, don’t give up too soon! Be patient! Your salvation is coming! Keep following Jesus because if you want to receive what God has promised you, you will need to patiently wait for it in faith.

And then the author gives the greatest example of patient faith he could have possibly given to these Jewish believers who were struggling to trust God’s promises.

He reminds them of Abraham, and how Abraham persevered by patiently trusting God’s promises with faith.

He wrote For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, 14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

God said this to Abraham in Genesis 22:17 after Abraham was commanded to offer up his son Isaac as a sacrifice to the Lord.

Now the Hebrews would have been familiar with the whole story, and so for you to understand exactly what the Author is saying here, I need to know it as well.

Back in Genesis 12, God called Abraham and promised to bless him and make him into a great nation. And that all the nations of the earth would be blessed through his offspring. And God would be their God and they would be his people.

Now at the time, Abraham, who was 75 years old, was childless. He and his wife Sarah had never been able to have children.

But Abraham believed God, left all his friends and family to follow God to the Promised Land.

Years later, the Lord came to Abraham again and Abraham said, “God, I still don’t have a child. I’m not getting any younger over here and Sarah definitely isn’t getting any younger so are you just wanting me to choose someone in my household to be my heir?

And so God takes Abraham outside and says Genesis 15:5 Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.

God says No, Abraham. I’m going to give you a son and I will bless all the nations of the earth through him. Just be patient.

And the Bible says that Abraham believed the Lord, and it was counted to him as righteousness.

And so Abraham patiently waited on God. In fact, when it was all said and done, Abraham waited 25 years for his son Isaac to be born by Sarah. Genesis 21:5 says that Abraham was 100 years old by the time Isaac was actually born. 25 years he waited on the Lord trusting in his promises even when it looked less and less likely every day.

And then, a few years later, God did something that must have really confused Abraham. He came to Abraham and said, “Abraham, I want you to take your son, your only son Isaac whom you love, and I want to offer him as a sacrifice.

And so Abraham obeyed. He had faith. He knew that God promised to make him a great nation through Isaac. He knew God had a plan to bless all the nations through his offspring. So Abraham patiently endured the greatest trial of his life trusting God all along the way.

You see why this might be encouraging to the Hebrews and why it is encouraging to us.

And As Abraham raised the knife to slaughter his son, the Lord called out, Abraham Stop! Now I know that you fear me.” And God provided a ram as a substitute for Isaac pointing to Christ who would one day die as our substitute, and then God reaffirmed his promise to Abraham, part of which is quoted in Hebrews 6:14.

Genesis 22:16-17 By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 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 so, Hebrews says Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

In response to his patient, persevering faith, God gave Abraham a guarantee that he would fulfill what he had promised him because God swore by himself meaning God said he was going to do what he said he was going to do no matter what.

And the Author uses this story to say to the Hebrews, in the same way that God guaranteed that he would bless Abraham, God has guaranteed that he will save you in Christ.

And in the same way that Abraham patiently waited trusting in God’s promises, you need to patiently wait, and trust the Lord.

So Don’t give up. Don’t go back. Keep going. Keep persevering. You will receive the salvation that God has promised you if you wait for it with patience like Abraham. And that is what God says to us.

Even Jesus promised this in Matthew 10:22 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

So our goal as Christians is to run the race set before us with patient endurance. to finish the marathon and not tire out at mile 10.

Our goal is to walk by faith one step at a time trusting that God is faithful to his promise to save us.

The question then is how do we do that? How do we cultivate patient endurance in our lives today so that we can have the faith to keep following Jesus tomorrow?

When someone is impatient, it is hard to hold their attention. They are easily distracted constantly moving from one thing to the next. They don’t ever make any progress on one thing because they give up before they are even able to.

I see this all the time with my son. You see, Owen loves to read but the problem is he will bring me a book, look at me hold it up, and grunt, (that means he wants me to read to him). So I’ll pick him up, sit down to read, and two pages in he’s already climbing out of my lap going to grab another book.

He doesn’t have any patience. He loses focus.And so he never gets to the end of the story.

The same thing can be true in our faith. Our hearts and minds can drift from Christ where other things become the sole focus of our devotion and attention.

Where we start living for something else and we lose our focus on living for Christ.

So persevering patiently means we need to keep focus. This is an application for the renewing of your mind.

You need a mind shift where we have the patience to keep focusing on Christ even as everything else vies for our attention. To live for Jesus as the sole focus of our devotion, and worship, and purpose, each and every day.

Like Hebrews 12:1-2 says let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith.

If we want to run our race with patience, we need to be like Abraham and fix our eyes on God and his promises so that by doing so, we can stay the course and walk in God’s will. So we can live for him and his glory.

So because God has guaranteed our salvation in Christ, we must 1. persevere earnestly, 2. persevere patiently, and 3...

III. We Must Persevere Confidently

Hebrews 6:16-18 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. 17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, 18 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.

When the Author says For people swear by something greater than themselves, he’s pointing back to what God said to Abraham.

When God reconfirmed the promise to Abraham, God swore by himself. When people want to guarantee a promise they’ve made, they make an oath where they swear on something great or important, they’ll say my mother’s grave, on my life, as a way of saying I will definitely do this.

And when God swears on a promise he does it on his own name to essentially say, As sure as I am the God of all the universe where nothing is outside of my power, I will fulfill my promise.

And in verse 17, the author moves from God making an oath to Abraham, to God making an oath for us.

Hebrews 6:17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,

The heirs of the promise are believers. It is us who trust in Christ.

The promise given to Abraham was that God would bless all the nations through his offspring. And in Galatians 3, Paul says that this offspring was not Isaac, but Jesus Christ.

So the promise was that God would bless the nations by bringing his salvation to all people, Jew and Gentile, through the life death and resurrection of Jesus.

And through faith in the gospel, we are adopted as sons and daughters of God making us heirs of the promise through faith. We are blessed because we are saved by Jesus Christ.

But God in his grace towards us, wanted to confirm his promise even more convincingly that he would save everyone who trusts in Christ that he even went so far as to guarantee it with an oath.

Its not as if God made an oath because he can not be trusted to keep his Word. God never lies.

Instead, God guaranteed his salvation with an oath for our benefit so that we would have no room to doubt the gospel is true and really does save sinners.

That begs the question, where did God make that oath. Where did he swear that he would save us through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ?

Well the Author is picking up his line of thought from Hebrews 5:6 where he started to talk about Jesus as our Great high priest by quoting Psalm 110.

In Psalm 110:4 God said The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

God’s oath was that Christ will forever be our great high priest. He will forever be our mediator who reconciles us to God through his sacrificial death on our behalf.

The gospel of Christ really does have the power to save sinners because God has sworn and will not change his mind.

All of our sins were placed on Christ once and for all, and when we stand before the Lord on the Day of Judgement, there will be no wrath left for us only grace.

And this promised salvation is sure for everyone who trusts in Christ because the author continues...

Hebrews 6:18 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.

The two unchangeable things are God’s promise to save us in Christ, and God’s oath that Jesus will forever be our great high priest.

Our salvation is guaranteed. It is set in stone because it is impossible for God to lie. When he said John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life, God was telling the truth.

All of our sins really are forgiven in Christ. All the wrath that God had against us was fully paid for in his own Son who died in our place so that we could be forgiven. And God could be our God and we became be his people, just like God had promised Abraham.

We who have fled to Christ for refuge from the coming judgement have a strong encouragement, a confidence, to persevere and hold fast to Christ who guarantees our promised hope of salvation.

This is why I say we must persevere confidently. Our salvation doesn’t depend on our earnestness or our patience. We are not saved by those things. Those are the fruit of our salvation.

Instead, we are saved solely because God is faithful to do what he has promised. God is faithful to take our sin, lay it on Christ, and forgive us though his death and resurrection.

God is faithful to seal us with the Holy Spirit who Paul says in Ephesians 1:13 is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it.

And God is faithful to keep us every second of every day in Christ so that we would be saved from the coming judgement.

We have a strong encouragement to persevere and cling to Christ earnestly, patiently, and confidently because all of our salvation rests on God and his faithfulness to fulfill his promise.

He is the one who swore by himself to save sinners, and as surely as he is God he will do it.

In fact our salvation is so sure in Christ, that the Author says Hebrews 6:19-20 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

The hope we are able to have because God is so faithful to his word is a sure and steadfast anchor for our soul.

Just like a ship anchored at sea will not be moved by the wind and the waves, so we will not be moved from God’s grace because God has promised and sworn by his name that Jesus will save us.

Then the author says something rather confusing. The hope we have enters into the inner place behind the curtain where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf. What in the world does that mean?

Well the Author is saying that our hope that we will one day dwell with God and worship him in glory, that we will stand in his presence made holy by the blood of Christ, is a sure and steadfast anchor for our soul because our hope is with Jesus who has already entered God’s presence as our forerunner.

The inner place behind the curtain refers to the holy of holies in the temple where God’s very presence dwelt among his people.

So the Author is saying our hope that we will be saved from sin to worship God in his presence is with Jesus who today is seated at the right hand of Father.

As our forerunner, Jesus guarantees that we will not be rejected by God and cast out of God’s presence on the Day of Judgement into hell like our sins deserve.

Instead, we will be welcomed into his heavenly presence to worship him for eternity, to live in blessed eternal life, because Jesus has reconciled us to God as our great high priest.

How we apply these verses is not so much an action as it is a belief.

As heirs of the promise, we must rest in God’s grace knowing that he saves us solely because of what Jesus did on our behalf.

It can be so easy to hear a sermon that says persevere earnestly and persevere patiently and think that its all up to you to secure your own salvation. To make sure you will be saved by relying on your own faithfulness.

But the good news of the gospel, the hope that we have that is guaranteed and secure, is that God does not save us by our faithfulness, but by his.

When God saves us by grace in Christ, he works his grace in our hearts to change our desires so that we start loving him more than our sin.

And when we love God more than our sin, we actually want to persevere and follow Christ. We actually want to live all of our lives for Christ’s glory.

What that means is that the way you persevere earnestly and patiently is not by your will or effort. Its by God’s grace.

We don’t persevere in Christ in order to get God to love us. We persevere in Christ because God has loved us.

No matter how hard, or difficult, or bleak following Jesus becomes, those that are truly saved will keep persevering earnestly and patiently, because we are confident that the reward is guaranteed. God is faithful. He will deliver on what he has promised.

So all of our earnest and patient perseverance is really just the fruit of confidently resting in God’s grace, wholeheartedly believing that he is true to his Word.

Like Philippians 1:6 says And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Conclusion

God calls us to persevere, trusting that he has guaranteed our salvation in Christ.

God is faithful to his promise to save sinners because he is faithful to himself.

As 2 Timothy 2:11-13 says

If we have died with him, we will also live with him;

12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;

if we deny him, he also will deny us;

13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful—

for he cannot deny himself.

And because that is true, because our salvation is sure, we can have confidence to bank all of our lives in Christ and keep following him.

That is what it means to persevere. To follow Christ, and to keep following Christ by living solely for his glory.

So because God is faithful to save, persevere earnestly making every effort to follow Christ in all of your life.

Persevere patiently keeping your focus on living for Christ and his kingdom no matter what temptation or distraction might come your way knowing that God will deliver on his promise.

And finally persevere confidently knowing that you will be saved when Christ returns not because you are faithful to God, but because God is faithful to his Word and Christ has secured your salvation as your Great High Priest.

Let’s Pray

Scripture Reading

2 Peter 3:10-14

the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish

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