Assurance of God’s Promise and the High Priesthood of Christ

Pastor Martin Saine continues teaching through Hebrews 6 – Part 3

High Priest: “Mediator” – between man and God, and God and man…

1Ti 2:1  Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 

1Ti 2:2  for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 

1Ti 2:3  For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 

1Ti 2:4  who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

1Ti 2:5  For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, 

1Ti 2:6  who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time, 

Heb 6:7  For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; 

Heb 6:8  but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

Mat 5:43  “You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ 

Mat 5:44  But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 

Mat 5:45  that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 

Mat 5:46  For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 

Mat 5:47  And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? 

Mat 5:48  Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. 

Act_24:15  I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. 

1Pe_3:18  For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, 

Rom_5:8  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

Salvation with repentance examples:

Judah with Tamar- Genesis 38…

David with Bathsheba – 2Samuel 12…

Peter with denials of Christ – Mark 14 & John 18…

Appearance of salvation without repentance

Baalam…

King Saul – 1Samuel 15 – King Agag of the Amalekites..

1 Samuel 28- witch of EnDor…

Judas – hanged himself…

Heb 6:9  But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner. (Things that accompany, not things that EARN!)

Heb 6:10  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.

See Matthew 25:30-46…

See Mark 9:35-42

Mat 7:15  “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 

Mat 7:16  You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 

Mat 7:17  Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 

Mat 7:18  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 

Mat 7:19  Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 

Mat 7:20  Therefore by their fruits you will know them. 

Mat 7:21  “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 

Mat 7:22  Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 

Mat 7:23  And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ 

Heb 6:11  And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence (same as who?  See below…) to the full assurance of hope until the end, 

Heb 6:12  that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 

The warnings in Hebrews 6 are not that your salvation is fragile and fickle, but rather a doctrinal statement to make your calling and election sure, and make sure your works are done FOR Christ and nothing else.

Make sure your works accompany salvation, not replace salvation!

Read vs 13-20

Heb 6:13  For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 

Heb 6:14  saying, “SURELY BLESSING I WILL BLESS YOU, AND MULTIPLYING I WILL MULTIPLY YOU.” (Genesis 22:17)

Heb 6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 

Heb 6:16  For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. 

Heb 6:17  Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 

Heb 6:18  that by two immutable things (God’s promise, God’s oath), 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. 

Heb 6:19  This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 

Heb 6:20  where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.