(Please read verses 1-8)
"But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that ACCOMPANY salvation, though we speak in this manner. 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. And we desire that each one of you SHOW THE SAME DILIGENCE TO THE FULL ASSURANCE OF HOPE UNTIL THE END, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises."
"For 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 promise. For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel (unchangeableness of His purpose), confirmed it by an oath, that by TWO IMMUTABLE (unchangeable) THINGS, in which it is impossble for God to lie, we might have 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.
"And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom..." (Matthew 27:50,51)
"And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last. Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom." (Mark 15:37,38)
"Then the sun was darkened(obscured), and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, 'Father, into your hands I commit My spirit.' Having said this, He breathed His last." (Luke 23:45,46)
At the cross, Jesus Christ committed everything He had, the depth of who He was, in obedience to His Father. In that, He was blessed to sit at the Father's right hand and the Father's kingdom multiplication began. God's blessing to "us", the body of Christ, continues for multiplication, Jesus Christ being the firtsborn of many brethren. The Way for us: flee for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us; confident to trust in the Lord with all our heart, understanding what is the hope of Jesus calling, that the Father indeed raised Him from the dead!
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