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1 Hebrews 6:20-20 Hebrews 6:10-12 for God Is Not Unjust to Forget Your Work and Labor of Love Which You Have Shown Toward His Na Hebrews 6:20-20 Hebrews 6:10-12 For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. God remembers. We can sometimes get discouraged by thinking that God forgets all we did for Him and His people, but He is just. He sees and remembers. People may forget our work and love, but God never will! we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end The author encourages us, like a coach, to press on and imitate those who inherit – not earn God’s promises. If we fail to do this we can become sluggish. but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises Imitate those who found the key to obtaining God’s promises – faith and patience, as demonstrated by Abraham, who the author will turn to next. Hebrews 6:13-18 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, “Surely 1 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. 17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Remember how long Abraham waited for God’s promise of a son? From the time God first called Abraham in Haran, when he was 75 years old, to the time when his “son of promise” Isaac was born, over 25 years went by. It is tempting to wonder whether God will really come through and just take things into our own hands. that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation The two immutable (unchanging) things are God’s promise and God’s oath. Strong Consolation as described by Spurgeon: It is a strong consolation that can deal with outward trials when a man has poverty staring him in the face, and hears his little children crying for bread; when bankruptcy is likely to come upon him through unavoidable losses; when the poor man has just lost his wife, and his dear children have been put into the same grave; when one after another all earthly props and comforts have given 2 way, it needs a strong consolation then; not in your pictured trials, but your real trials, not in your imaginary whimsied afflictions, but in the real afflictions, and the blustering storms of life. To rejoice then, and say, ‘Though these things be not with me as I would have them, yet hath he made with me an everlasting covenant ordered in all things and sure;’ this is strong consolation. (Spurgeon) who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us We can think of this refuge of hope like the cities of refuge commanded by the Law of Moses, as described in Numbers 35. The city of refuge was a place where someone accused of a serious crime could go and be protected from revenge. Jesus is our refuge. Hebrews 6:19-20 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. An anchor would have been a understandable symbol of hope in the 1st century. It is the idea that we are secured by something firm but unseen, like an anchor. Like a ship, our anchor needs to be secured to the ocean floor, but also attached securely to our ship. Our anchor is Jesus. The rougher the weather, the more important the anchor becomes. But the time to test the connection of the anchor to the ship is not during rough weather. Our connection with Jesus must be maintained daily so that when the storms of life come, we are secure. 3 and which enters the Presence behind the veil 20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, This is a reference to the High Priest who would enter into God’s presence in the Holy of Holies behind a curtain through only he could pass. Jesus was the forerunner who gives us direct access to the presence of God. A forerunner (the ancient Greek word prodromos) was a military reconnaissance man. A forerunner goes forward, knowing that others will follow behind him. We should follow hard after Jesus, and run hard after Him. He has gone before us and He is our pattern. having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. The author of Hebrews is now going to expand Melchizedek and Jesus as our High Priest. Remember we first saw Melchizedek mentioned in chapter 5 where the author called Jesus a “High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek.” Remember the Christians he is writing to in the book of Hebrews were from a Jewish background. Jesus did not fit the mold of a High Priest. He was not of the tribe of Levi or the family of Aaron. In Chapter 7, the author is going to try to get these Christians to move beyond their intellectual problem with Jesus being our High Priest. This was preventing them from moving forward into mature Christians. We can get hung up on intellectual problems as well. Instead of concentrating on our relationship with Jesus, we can get distracted by issues like creationism and evolution. Hebrews 7:1-3 4 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually. We first meet Melchizedek in Genesis 14:18-20 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said: “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Kings who were once allies waged war in the Siddim Valley, and during this time, Abram’s nephew Lot was taken prisoner. Hearing of this, Abram sets out to reclaim his relative and his possessions. This is a great show of the power Abram had (see reference to his 318 trained fighting men), we sometimes forget the sheer amount of clout the man carried with him, but what is most important in this passage is that Melchizedek is clearly superior to Abram. As Abram returned from his victory over Chedorlaomer, the King of Sodom, the King of Salem (an ancient name for the city of Jeru-salem) came to meet him. Melchizedek was this King of Salem and a priest of God Most High. While the king of Sodom seeks to wheel and deal over 5 the plunder Abram has just acquired, Melchizedek brings bread and wine with him and speaks a blessing over Abram. After receiving the blessing, the first recorded tithe is given to a priest showing his high rank. Melchizedek was not merely a worshipper of the true God. He had the honored title priest of the Most High God. First being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace”: The name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness,” and he was also “king of peace” (because the name Salem means “peace“). Melchizedek is called “king of righteousness.“Then he is called “king of peace.“ As always, righteousness comes before peace. Righteousness is the only true path to peace. People look for peace in escape, in avoidance, or in compromise, but real peace is only found in righteousness. We have peace with God because Jesus first paid the price on the cross to make us right with God. We cannot have peace with God without Jesus on the cross to satisfy God’s righteousness. without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life There is nothing said about the genealogy of Melchizedek in the Genesis 14 passage or anywhere else. Though commentators disagree with each other on this point, some think that without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God means that Melchizedek was a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Himself. but made like the Son of God, 6 It really isn’t that Jesus has Melchizedek’s kind of priesthood.
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