Hebrews 6

Heb 6:19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, (ESV)

I believe that the reason Hebrews was written was not because the Hebrew believers were mixing Moses ceremonial Law with their faith, but because they had begun mixing the uncertainty of the Mosaic Law with their faith. Under Moses Law one sacrifice was never enough. Week by week and day by day there had to be another sacrifice, another offering, another lamb killed, another expression of faith.

I think that the Hebrew Christians had fallen into a mindset whereby they began to believe that every time they sinned they had to get saved again just like in the law they would have to bring another sacrifice. Thus the author of Hebrews begins with an explanation of the superiority of Christ over the angels, the Law, the sacrifices, and the priesthood. He was establishing a foundation for the truth of this chapter. You can't go back and get saved every week. We have a sure and steadfast hope in Christ which is a one time event. You are secure in that. Getting saved every week does not make you more saved or more secure, in fact it is impossible.

Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (Heb 6:9-12 ESV )

The promises of God are inherited through "faith and patience," not through repetitious ritual or through getting saved weekly. The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians that love "hopes all things." As believers in Jesus  Christ we are a people who live in hope, a living expectation of God's sure and gracious acceptance of us because of Jesus. That is the hope of our salvation. Upon that truth we rest. In that truth we experience peace.

Father, thank you that in Christ my sins are washed clean. May my life be characterized by the living and sure expectation of that truth. Forgive me for the times I have put ritual above rest. In you I trust.

By His grace,
Rick Weinert

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