![]() ![]() "Cast not away therefore your Confidence, which hathgreat recompence of reward" (10:35). Thoughlove for Christ is the primary motivation for all Christian action, it is also appropriateto note that our future Heavenly reward will be for the works that we performed becauseof our confidence in God. ![]() "Let us hold fast the profession of our faithwithout wavering (for He is faithful that promised )" (Hebrews 10:23). Notice how God's faithfulness is foundational to anyone who desires to obey the commandto "hold the fort". "For we are made partakers ofChrist, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end" (3:14). These PrimitiveChristians needed encouragement to persevere, though they had "not yet resistedunto blood, striving against sin" (12:4). "But Christ asa Son over His own house whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidenceand the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end" (Hebrews 3:6). Perhaps some are unaware of our necessity tocooperate in our own perseverance in faith, holiness, and righteousness for, it'snecessity can be clearly seen in the Epistle to the Hebrews. The LORD Jesus said, "Andye shall be hated of all men for My name's sake: but he that endureth to the endshall be saved" (Matthew 10:22). There is such a thing as the Perseverance of the Saints, that is, that the True Saintsmust and will continue in a righteous walk until the end. "Thou hast cast all my sins behindThy back" (Isaiah 38:17). "ForI will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquitieswill I remember no more" (Hebrews 8:12). "As far as the east is from thewest, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:12). This Judgment Seat of Christ is also commonly known as the Bema Seat Judgment ofChrist, where the Saints' works will be judged to determine the nature of their Heavenlyreward- without any mention of punishment for already penitently confessed, Divinelyforgiven, and Providentially forgotten sins. And, since"God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye haveshewed toward His name" (Hebrews 6:10), He has appointed a time that "wemust all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every onemay receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whetherit be good or bad " (2Corinthians 5:10). Our gratitude for this "So Great Salvation" (Hebrews 2:3)results in a "faith which worketh by love" (Galatians 5:6). "For bygrace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God"(Ephesians 2:8). Salvation is a free gift from God, which is accepted by simple faith. "We shall all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ" ![]()
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