DirkW
Mar 2, 2008
hebrews 10:36 talks about the promise. What promise is this? And why do they need patience? And how does this apply to me today as a christian?
Could someone help me?
hebrews 10:36 talks about the promise. What promise is this? And why do they need patience? And how does this apply to me today as a christian?
Could someone help me?
I'd say in this context, it's 'eternal life'. Or, one could think of it as the rest of what has been promised, of which the Holy Spirit is the token or the earnest; that is the end of our hope, our salvation, or: resurrection from the dead.What promise is this?
Ha Dir,
I think the promise can be found in the preceeding verse:
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath [b]great recompence of reward.
In the gospels Jesus also promisses rewards.
I think Matthew Henry says it well:
6. He presses them to persevere, from that recompense of reward that waited for all faithful Christians (v. 35): Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. Here, (1.) He exhorts them not to cast away their confidence, that is, their holy courage and boldness, but to hold fast that profession for which they had suffered so much before, and borne those sufferings so well. (2.) He encourages them to this by assuring them that the reward of their holy confidence would be very great. It carries a present reward in it, in holy peace and joy, and much of God's presence and his power resting upon them; and it shall have a great recompense of reward hereafter. (3.) He shows them how necessary a grace the grace of patience is in our present state (v. 36): You have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise; that is, this promised reward. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. They must first do the will of God before they receive the promise; and, after they have done the will of God, they have need of patience to wait for the time when the promise shall be fulfilled; they have need of patience to live till God calls them away. It is a trial of the patience of Christians, to be content to live after their work is done, and to stay for the reward till God's time to give it them is come. We must be God's waiting servants when we can be no longer his working servants. Those who have had and exercised much patience already must have and exercise more till they die
Jeppe
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