Hope Anchored in God’s Promise

Yep, so we're at Hebrews chapter 6 verses 13 through 20. You know what I just realized? I've got your almonds in my coffee Hiding down and then yummy. No. Well, good morning morning. Welcome to coffee and devotions this morning We're at Hebrews chapter 6 verses 13 through 20. We're gonna be talking about what is Example of a faith that perseveres. So let's have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into God's Word Heated it up.
I heated it up. It's just for you. Yeah. Yeah, I know you you you ground them up and they got in there So you don't want to drink some make some coffee, okay, you want to pray you want me to pray okay, okay Lord, thank you so much for this day. Thank you for time together. Thank you for your word.
Lord, we pray that you would please help us. Help us to understand it. Help us to be a hope. Help us to attend there unto with diligence, preparation. Lord, we pray that we would receive it with faith and love laid up in our hearts. In Jesus's name, amen. Alright, we are at Hebrews chapter 6. I'm gonna finish off this chapter verses 13 through 20 All right. How about you read the first paragraph?
13 through 18 Or when God You're okay But when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the he obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by greater an oath for confirmation is for them at the end of all dispute. Thus God determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. by two mutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie. We might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever. according to the order of Melchizedek. All right, so we got three questions we need to ask ourselves. A, what is this about? B, what's the best for us to summarize? And C, what are we called to do? What are we called to do? Okay, so it's a little bit rough and difficult reading 13 through 18, but we're going to work through this kind of Bits at a time, right?
So In the previous verse God had talked about that we needed to have diligence and not be sluggish But we need to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises And so what example is he giving here as an example of enduring enduring patience?
Abraham good for when God made a promise to Abraham because he could swear by no one greater than himself if he swore by God swore. God made a promise to Abraham and he swore he would do these things. He took an oath, a vow to do these things. And what name did he make the vow in? His name is used. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Right. Saying, surely I will bless you and multiplying. I will multiply you. Right. That's what he said in Genesis chapter 22. So God made an oath. I will do this. Surely I will do it. Right.
And so after he had patiently endured, who's the who's the he who patiently endured? Who patiently endured? Abraham. Abraham. Good. So after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. And what promise was that? To multiply. Yeah. Notice how many kids did Abraham have? Yeah. It would certainly become a multitude, wouldn't it? Yeah, Isaac would have Jacob and Jacob would have 12 sons and it would go on and on and on and the nation would grow like crazy. And then in verse 16, For men indeed swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of the dispute. Right?
So if you and I are going to hash it out, And I say, no, I swear to the Lord that this is true. Does that end the dispute? Sometimes. Well, I mean, if it's just between the two of us and there's no other witness and I say, God is my witness, I swear to you, I didn't do this. Couldn't it be a dispute? Yeah, I could certainly end a dispute, right? Because do you know that I fear God? Yep.
So what am I doing? I'm calling God's judgment down on me, right? I'm calling God as my witness. But who is God's witness? God, you can't get higher than Him. That's the whole point with this, right? Thus, God determined, this is verse 17, look at this with me, this is really cool. There's a big word used twice, one in 17 and one in 18.
That's God determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise, notice what it said? Yeah, the immutability of His counsel. What does that mean, immutability? Yeah, what do you think immutability means? You want me to tell you? Not changing. Not changing. Good job. Nice. Yeah. So gods, he wanted to show abundantly to the heirs of the promise, the unchangeableness. Just kind of thought like immutability changing. Yeah, like if something's mutable, right? If it mutates, it changes, right? But immutability means it doesn't change. So does God's counsel change?
No. No. God determined that he was going to bless Abraham. And what did he do? He blessed him. Right. And so because he wanted to show that his his promises were immutable, his counsel was immutable. He confirmed it by an oath so that by two immutable things. And what are the two immutable things? in which it is impossible for God to lie. Yeah, so it's the first thing is his truthfulness. And the second thing is his counsel confirmed by an oath. So there's two things that God swears upon right here, right?
And so these two immutable things, it is impossible for God to lie that we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold of this hope set before us. So do we have a hope? Yep. And how do we know that that hope is true? Because God is true and does God change his mind this is this council mutable or immutable Change Yeah, it's immutable. Yeah. So it doesn't change.
And so has God made promises and oaths to us? Even better than that, has God made promises and oaths to Jesus? Yeah, the father has made promises to Jesus, right? He declared today, you are my son. I have begotten you. I will make your enemies a footstool for your feet. And if God has promised, if God has said it, That's like a check we could take to the bank. Yeah. So what's the result of that? Verse 18. Was the very first part of verse 18.
All that theology and going back to Abraham, who's waiting on the promises, how does that affect Bubba? that we know God doesn't change and that we know that his promises are true to us. And so our hope isn't based on fake stuff. Yeah, our hope isn't faked on fake stuff or changing things.
But it's a what's the illustration that uses here in verse 18? Did you notice the the word picture in verse 18 or verse 19? Sorry. It's an anchor of the soul. Sometimes they're all weak anchors. Yeah, we used to have an anchor watch on the ship, even for an aircraft carrier, right? Because you wanted to make sure that the ship wasn't drifting.
But if you get a good anchor, and it gets a good bite on the sea bottom, I think the, uh, I think the anchors on our ship were 30, 30 tons or 30,000 tons, 30 tons. Yeah. 30 tons each. Uh, so 30 tons each, but that one 30 ton anchor could hold a ship that was 1,132 feet long. Oh, I forget how many times it was. It was a lot more than 30, but it could hold essentially a building a ship, the size of the empire state building. It would have a circle radius that it can move around, but was it ever going to drift off?
No, right? You laid the anchor. You can have a hope at the point as you're firmly fixed on the sea bottom. Right. And so, um, notice that there's, there's a big part here that something changes, right? Verse 19. We have this hope because of who God is, what he's promised, both sure and steadfast, in which, now notice verse 19, in which enters the presence behind the veil. What is that getting at? When Jesus died, the veil was ripped. Okay. When Jesus died, the veil was ripped. Where was the veil?
Connecting the holies to the holy place. Yeah, right. So the holy place so holy of holies, right? But that picture was a picture of something in on earth or in heaven heaven So Jesus as a great high priest in the tabernacle in heaven Where did he go? Did he just stay in the holy place or in the outer court and went to God himself. Yeah, he went to the Holy of Holies, right to the very throne room of God himself.
That's right. So where the forerunner has entered for us, even. Jesus. And Jesus is what the very last part here in verse 19 or verse 20. What's the very last thing this says about Jesus in verse 20? Let's flip the page here. What's the very last thing about Jesus entering behind that veil? Why is he able to do that? Because it's the order of Melchizedek. Yeah, he's the priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
Right. So. God made promises to Jesus greater than the angels, better than anything else he had ever made promises to. And so. What does that mean for you? that we actually get to know God and not in a way that we have sinned and that we have to cowl before. Oh, that's a wonderful calling. We don't have to cower before him. Right, because of our sin, but we can come to him. Knowing that Jesus went before us, right? I think that's an anchor for our souls.
God made these promises and are they going to change? Nope. God made these promises. And is somebody going to change his mind? Nope. God made these promises to Jesus. And is he going to say, you know what, Jesus, I know you died on the cross, but Nathan's just too bad. All right, we can have hope that perseveres, that keeps on going, like Abraham. Abraham trusted in God. And God was good to his promise. We can have that same type of hope. Oh, we kind of did A and C. What do you think is the best verse? What would you underline? Best verse to summarize. We did a whole bunch of verses here. Which one would you choose?
Probably do 19 through 20. 19 through 20? Okay. Okay. Yeah, I have the first part of 19 underlined as well. I have verse 17 entirely underlined in my Bible. I can see 19 and 22. Maybe somebody else will say. I think something else though. They'll tell us on their keyboards what they think. So you want to pray or you want me to pray? Okay.
Lord, thank you so much for Jesus Christ, the hope of our salvation, our high priest and the order of Melchizedek. God, we pray that you would please help us to love you and follow you, to trust you to our dying days. Give us perseverance. Lord, we pray in Jesus name. Amen. My Lord bless you. May you rest in Jesus Christ. May you be an anchor for your soul. May you know that God's promises never change and that Jesus has truly entered behind that veil. We'll see you next time. Say bye. Bye. Bye.