Hebrews 10 Part 2

Incarnation – Sanctification – Consummation

One of the things God loves to do in his Word is to link together two types of truths: indicative and imperative.

An indicative is a simple statement of fact; it’s something that is simply true. Indicatives tell us: This is true!

An imperative, on the other hand, is an authoritative command; it tells us something crucial that we must do.

Imperatives tell us: So go and do the only reasonable thing in light of this truth!

So after this glorious indicative—Jesus is our great High Priest, whose flesh makes a living way for us to get back to God—he follows with three imperatives:

1) Let us draw near to God, fully assured in faith.

2) Let us hold fast to confession without wavering.

3) Let us consider how to stir one another up to love and good works.

Hebrews 10:22

22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Strong’s 4102 pístis (from 3982/peithô, "persuade, be persuaded") – properly, persuasion (be persuaded, come to trust); faith.

Faith (4102/pistis) is always a gift from God, and never something that can be produced by people. In short, 4102/pistis ("faith") for the believer is "God's divine persuasion" – and therefore distinct from human belief (confidence), yet involving it. The Lord continuously births faith in the yielded believer so they can know what He prefers, i.e. the persuasion of His will (1 Jn 5:4).

[4102 (pistis) in secular antiquity referred to a guarantee (warranty). In Scripture, faith is God's warranty, certifying that the revelation He inbirthed will come to pass (His way).

The root of 4102/pistis ("faith") is 3982/peithô ("to persuade, be persuaded") which supplies the core-meaning of faith ("divine persuasion"). It is God's warranty that guarantees the fulfillment of the revelation He births within the receptive believer (cf. 1 Jn 5:4 with Heb 11:1).

-Hebrews 10:23 “23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;”

Hebrews 10:24 -25 “Therefore... let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”

The author of Hebrews would not have us neglect good works, but would have us look to the cross, enter into the holy place by faith, and from that position, vigorously pursue love and works. We are to stir one another up to these things.

We go from Words of Exhortation to Words of Warning (Consequence):

What we face if we choose not to follow through on the “imperative”