"For in just a little while, He Who is coming will come and will not delay. And, 'But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.' But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved." (Heb. 10:37-39, NIV)
Look at this:
1. Jesus is coming, "in just a little while"
2. You and I who love and obey Jesus Christ, "will live by faith."
3. You and I, "do not belong to those who shrink back"
4. You and I are of, "those who have faith and are saved."
Do not fall victim to the present cynical age, "For in just a little while, He Who is coming will come and not delay." Let this reality, this truth be reflected in the way we live, keeping ourselves, "unspotted from the world," and no shrinking back. Jude tells us what company we find ourselves in, "Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, 'Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints....'" Oh, how "I want to be in that number, when the saints go marching in!"-- when, "He Who is coming will come."
All the exhortation from 10:19 through the end of the Epistle is based upon the, "so great a salvation," laid out for us from 1:1-10:19. Who, in their right mind could ever, "shrink back," from, "so great a salvation," from, "so great a [Savior, 'Great High Priest']," as our Lord Jesus Christ? What a day, and it will be a day, no gradual "unfolding" or other liberal garbage which dominates so much of today's church, What a day,
All the exhortation from 10:19 through the end of the Epistle is based upon the, "so great a salvation," laid out for us from 1:1-10:19. Who, in their right mind could ever, "shrink back," from, "so great a salvation," from, "so great a [Savior, 'Great High Priest']," as our Lord Jesus Christ? What a day, and it will be a day, no gradual "unfolding" or other liberal garbage which dominates so much of today's church, What a day,
"When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more
And the morning breaks eternal, bright and fair;
When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore
When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there."
You have come too far now, my friend, to turn back. Let us not be proud or self sufficient in thinking that the warnings of Scripture are not for us also; they are. "Fight the good fight of faith," because it is a fight, but what a, "good fight," it is. I say with utmost confidence in the keeping power of Father, Son Jesus, and Holy Spirit, "But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved"!
Father, in Jesus' Name, I can only affirm such because I am, "kept by the power of [You]." Amen.
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Israel Mission, December 1-9
Daniel Pipes Interview at: www.apf327.blogspot.com
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
