This coming Lord’s Day, we will be looking at the vision of a healthy church from Hebrews 10:23-25.  v.23 urges us to hold on to our confession of Jesus for one big reason: The One who promised is faithful.

Writing on this, Ligon Duncan tells Christians to realize the brilliance of this: “You are a Christian.  You are struggling with assurance.  A dear friend and Christian comes to you to encourage you by turning you to the promises in the Word made to you.  You say back to him, “Well, you see, that’s my problem.  I am having a hard time believing that God could be so good to make those promises to me.”  The author of Hebrews has already figured you out.  He is saying, “Your confidence is not based ultimately on the promises that God has made to you, but the promises that God has made to Christ.  Do you doubt them?  Do you doubt the promises that God the Father has made to His Son?  When God the Father promised to make Him a priest according to the order of Melchizedek forever and when God the Father promised His Son that He would give you into His hands, do you doubt that promise?  You see, it is easy sometimes to doubt that God might be faithful to us.  That is because our lack of faith.  But you know, even when we are struggling with our own faith, we know enough about God to know that He is not going to break a promise to His Son.”

Hope to see you this Sunday as we think about this faithful, promise-keeping God and the calling He’s placed on our lives.