Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Let us hold fast our confession of Hope.

Hebrews 10:12-17 tells us that the Anointed One, our Master Yeshua, has offered one sacrifice for sins forever and has sat down at the right hand of God. The passage goes on to quote a prophecy from the prophet Jeremiah 31:33,34 that YHWH will put His Torah in our hearts and write them in our minds, that our sins and lawless deeds He will no longer remember anymore.

The chapter goes on to tell us further in verses 22 to 25 that since we now have a High Priest over the House of YHWH, we are to draw near to Him with a pure heart and we are to hold fast our confession of our hope without wavering.

This injunction to hold fast also comes with a stern warning in 10:26, that if we sin willfully after we have received this Truth, there no longer remains anymore sacrifice for sins. Instead there is fearful judgment and the fiery wrath of God. It is tantamount to trampling the Son of God underfoot.

Hebrews10:28,29
Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
Brothers and Sisters, while we hold fast our confession of our hope in the great promise of our God, that one day the Anointed One will return, let us keep ourselves from sin. Let us obey the Commandments of God.