10:23
Believing in Christ involves making a confession, and here it refers to this as a “confession of hope”. Our hope is that we have been spared judgement because of the cross, that we will be raised from the dead, that through the Spirit we are sanctified, transformed. That we will become like Christ, that we will have eternal life, that we will see God face to face. This confession is ongoing, it is this hope that motivates us in life and sustains us. We should hold fast to it without wavering, and should do so because “He who promised is faithful”. We are basing our lives on the promise of Jesus Christ. If the Hebrews went back to the Law they would be putting their hope in something other than Christ. If we ever turn away from Christ we are putting our hope in something else, and that something else will inevitably let us down, Christ will never let us down.
10:24
This is not just an attitude of mind. We are to “consider how to stir up one another to love and good works”. I once heard that the phrase “to stir up” is the same term as used in stirring up a riot. We are to be agitators for “love and good works”, and faith in Christ provides the basis for doing this.
Believing in Christ involves making a confession, and here it refers to this as a “confession of hope”. Our hope is that we have been spared judgement because of the cross, that we will be raised from the dead, that through the Spirit we are sanctified, transformed. That we will become like Christ, that we will have eternal life, that we will see God face to face. This confession is ongoing, it is this hope that motivates us in life and sustains us. We should hold fast to it without wavering, and should do so because “He who promised is faithful”. We are basing our lives on the promise of Jesus Christ. If the Hebrews went back to the Law they would be putting their hope in something other than Christ. If we ever turn away from Christ we are putting our hope in something else, and that something else will inevitably let us down, Christ will never let us down.
10:24
This is not just an attitude of mind. We are to “consider how to stir up one another to love and good works”. I once heard that the phrase “to stir up” is the same term as used in stirring up a riot. We are to be agitators for “love and good works”, and faith in Christ provides the basis for doing this.
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