Surely I Will Bless You
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Despite what people often think God is quick to bless and slow to anger.
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Surely I Will Bless You
- 4. Our great desire is that each of you keep up your eagerness to the end, so that the things you hope for will come true. 12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised. 13 When God made his promise to Abraham, he made a vow to do what he had promised. Since there was no one greater than himself, he used his own name when he made his vow. 14 He said, "I promise you that I will bless you and give you many descendants." 15 Abraham was patient, and so he received what God had promised.
Editor's Notes
- The Book of Hebrews was written to Hebrew believers that where wavering in their faith. One possible occasion for the book was:The occasion for this epistle may well be the influence of Judaizers on the Jewish Christians whom Barnabas had evangelized in the Lycus Valley. These Judaizers had almost certainly gained strength after the death of Paul and arrest of Timothy, for their influence, based as it was in Ephesus, had a powerful effect on all of Asia Minor. Although Barnabas’ churches were perhaps largely Jewish, his gospel was the same as Paul’s. With Paul’s death, however, the Judaizers could attack with a vengeance—even to the point of claiming that the Gentile mission had no basis at all.25Thus the occasion for the final publication of this epistle was the urgent situation which was facing one of the Jewish house-churches in the Lycus Valley. This church had already separated themselves from the main body of believers and were beginning to defect back into Judaism. The pressure was on—not just from the Judaizers, but also from the reports from Rome about Nero’s pogrom against Christians. (https://bible.org/seriespage/hebrews-introduction-argument-and-outline)
- Keep Up Eagerness – Passion Leaks: Many faith projects fail because vision (passion) is overcome by reality.“What kind of man makes it through the testing? That’s hard to say. But I do know—generally—who WON’T MAKE IT. There are a dozen types who fail: the weight lifting meatheads who think that the size of their biceps is an indication of their strength, the kids covered in tattoos announcing to the world how tough they are, the preening leaders who don’t want to get dirty, and the look-at-me former athletes who have always been told they are stars but have never been pushed beyond the envelope of their talent to the core of their character. In short, those who fail [spiritually or in character] are the ones who focus on the SHOW [How will this look? What will they think? How can I benefit from this instead of that? Are they impressed with how I look or how I talk or what I seem to know or what I seemed to have done or accomplished?]. Almost all the men who survived possessed one common quality. Even in great pain, faced with the test of their lives, they had the ability to step outside of their own fear and ask: How can I help the guy next to me? They had more than the “fist” of courage and physical strength. They also had a heart large enough to think of others, to dedicate themselves to a higher purpose.” (LT. Commander Greitens, NAVY SEAL from Wall Street Journal, 5/7/11) 2:00 p.m.Don’t become Lazy - laziness represents a peculiarity which reflects in low energy level and passive behavior, procrastination is a kind of a defence system which serves to avoid difficulties which may occur during the completion of a task or obligation. ”Laziness is a fence between you and your dream.” “Laziness is a habit to rest until you are tired.” Be Patient – Patience is a fruit of the Spirit, it means sometimes outlasting all the opposition. Patience provides God the time He needs to work to redeem every situation. Receive – Be ready, be expectant despite waiting always be like one of the wise virgins. God Promised – God is not a man that He may lie, His word is good enough. But because He wanted us to be sure He even took an oath and promised. He cannot promise by any higher than Himself so He swore an oath on His own name that He will bless you.
- Hebrews 6:19Which hope we have as an anchor - The apostle here changes the allusion; he represents the state of the followers of God in this lower world as resembling that of a vessel striving to perform her voyage through a troublesome, tempestuous, dangerous sea. At last she gets near the port; but the tempest continues, the water is shallow, broken, and dangerous, and she cannot get in: in order to prevent her being driven to sea again she heaves out her sheet anchor, which she has been able to get within the pier head by means of her boat, though she could not herself get in; then, swinging at the length of her cable, she rides out the storm in confidence, knowing that her anchor is sound, the ground good in which it is fastened, and the cable strong. Though agitated, she is safe; though buffeted by wind and tide, she does not drive; by and by the storm ceases, the tide flows in, her sailors take to the capstan, wear the ship against the anchor, which still keeps its bite or hold, and she gets safely into port. See on Heb_6:20 (note).The comparison of hope to an anchor is frequent among the ancient heathen writers, who supposed it to be as necessary to the support of a man in adversity, as the anchor is to the safety of the ship when about to be driven on a lee shore by a storm. “To ground hope on a false supposition,” says Socrates, “is like trusting to a weak anchor.” He said farther, ουτε ναυνεξἑνος αγκυριου, ουτε βιονεκμιας ελπιδος ὁρμιστεον· a ship ought not to trust to one anchor, nor life to one hope. Stob., Serm. 109.The hope of eternal life is here represented as the soul’s anchor; the world is the boisterous, dangerous sea; the Christian course, the voyage; the port, everlasting felicity; and the veil or inner road, the royal dock in which that anchor was cast. The storms of life continue but a short time; the anchor, hope, if fixed by faith in the eternal world, will infallibly prevent all shipwreck; the soul may be strongly tossed by various temptations, but will not drive, because the anchor is in sure ground, and itself is steadfast; it does not drag, and it does not break; faith, like the cable, is the connecting medium between the ship and the anchor, or the soul and its hope of heaven; faith sees the haven, hope desires and anticipates the rest; faith works, and hope holds fast; and, shortly, the soul enters into the haven of eternal repose. (Clarke’s Commentary)