"Therefore do not cast away your confidence (your evidence), which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: 'For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry (delay). Now, the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him'. But we are not of those who draw back to perdition (destruction), but of those who believe to the saving of the soul. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Now faith is the substance and evidence by which we believe to the saving of the soul! Faith is the realization and confidence that the Holy Spirit brings to us (by the direction of Jesus Christ) by which we are awakened, stand, persevere and become victors through/in Christ Jesus! Like a blueprint reveals to a contractor how to build a structure, faith in Jesus Christ will produce a place for "He who is coming" to dwell.
"And shall not God avenge His own elect, who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes (returns), will He really find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:7,8)
Will the Son of Man find this substance and evidence on the earth? Or, how much of it will He find? Will He find us devoted to this confidence? His reward is in His hand!
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