Keep on Doing

DEVOTION

HEBREWS

KEEP ON DOING 

Heb 10:19-25
19 Therefore, brothers, 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 in full assurance of faith, 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. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching. 
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Here is what everything before has been pointing to, the therefore, brothers. Because of everything we have been seeing so far, we have the confidence to enter the Most Holy Place, the very presence of God, standing if not in the physical, surely in the spiritual at this very moment, all because of the blood of Christ. There is no further need to put any faith in our good deeds, our sacrifices or offerings of works or attempts to live a just and holy life, for there is a new and living way that Jesus opened for us. We can therefore simply draw near to God in full assurance, without fear of not being worthy because of our sin since Jesus has already cleanse us from our guilt. We cannot allow anything to distract us from this fact, we must hold unswervingly to this hope we profess, we cannot be move, we must not move. There is nothing anyone could do or say that would persuade us not to believe this truth because we know the one who made this promise to us is faithful. At some point in time every person who has ever promised something has failed to keep their promise, but God will never fail to keep His promise, ever. So because we are all in this together as one body, as one temple of God, as one with Christ as He and the Father are one, we need to consider how we might spur one another on toward love and good deeds. There is a mighty truth in this phrase. We cannot simply live our own life, independent of everyone else. We cannot just go our merry way, living and letting live. We cannot just be concerned about our own relationship with Christ, but we should consider others relationship with Christ as well. We need to find ways to spur them on, to encourage them toward love and good deeds. Now once again these good deeds are not acts of righteousness for the sake of salvation, but simply acts of love and goodness towards others as a response to the act of love and goodness God did toward us. The greatest way we can love another is to share the Gospel message with them, giving them the truth, the light and the way. The greatest acts of good deeds we could ever do for them is to show them what a difference Jesus makes in a life surrendered them Him. We cannot simply be believer who hear the word on Sunday, who gather together to get encouraged by the Word. It is us who should be gathering together to encourage each other. That is why we should gather, if we stop gathering we are all alone and thus cannot be encouraged or can we encourage and since the day of His return could be any moment, we should keep on doing it all the more.