Meditation

It's fitting that our week exploring the attribute of God's faithfulness ends with the declaration, "he who promised is faithful." But the writer of Hebrews is going to take you on a journey to get there this morning.

At 88 words spread over three verses, today's passage doesn't feature the longest sentence in scripture (see Ephesians 1:3-14 for the verse that holds that honor, totaling 202 words in the original Greek)

Koine Greek often employs long, complex sentences needed to express precise relationships between ideas. Usually, these are butchered and repackaged in the English.

Today's verses, however, survived the cut, so as you copy them out, you'll get a sense of the ideas flowing into each other.

In this case, the writer is packaging together Jesus' priesthood, his sacrificial work, and the appropriate confident response we should have as believers in an unbroken, new, and living thread of faith.

Today's text is Hebrews 10:19-23

The verses to copy today are in black.

A Call to Persevere in Faith

¹⁹ Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, ²¹ and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

²³ Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.​
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Encouragement

“For believers the veil is not rolled up, but rent. The veil was not unhooked, and carefully folded up, and put away, so that it might be put in its place at some future time.

Oh, no! But the divine hand took it and rent it front top to bottom. It can never be hung up again; that is impossible. Between those who are in Christ Jesus and the great God, there will never be another separation.”

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Andy

If you have a little more time this morning you might enjoy reading about how a "lived-in" Bible marks a "lived-out" faith here at Biblecopyclub.com. It's a moving two-minute tale.