March 18, why we must hold fast our hope?

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, 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, Hebrews 6, verses 17 and 18.

God is not inconsistent, He does not exert Himself with promises and oaths, and the blood

of His Son simply to anchor down one end of our security while leaving the other to

dangle in the air.

The salvation Jesus obtained by His blood was everything it takes to save His people, not

just part of it.

So we are prone to ask, why does the writer encourage us to hold fast to our hope?

Hebrews 6, verse 18.

If our holding fast was obtained and irrevocably secured by the blood of Jesus, which it

was, that's the difference between the new covenant and the old, then why does God tell

us to hold fast?

The answer is this, what Christ bought for us when He died was not the freedom from having

to hold fast, but the enabling power to hold fast.

What He bought was not the nullification of our wills as though we don't have to hold

fast, but the empowering of our wills so that we want to hold fast.

What He bought was not the cancelling of the commandment to hold fast, but the fulfillment

of the commandment to hold fast.

What He bought was not the end of exhortation, but the triumph of exhortation.

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