Hebrews 10:35-39 (KJV) Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Simply going on enduring all things and keeping faith in Christ in spite of anything that happens – this is what every believer must do. And the writer is confident that they will do so (v 39). We should have the same confidence.
God counts men righteous when they believe Him. Having been counted righteous they begin a life of faith which goes on to the end of their time on earth. In Hebrews the emphasis is on this living by faith and persevering to the end by faith.
“We”– he means true believers in Christ (he knew he was one, and they had given much evidence that they were. “If” they “draw back”, God will not be pleased; it will mean destruction for them. But the inspired writer says they will not draw back. Some say even true believers may draw back, commit sin and be lost forever.
The writer indicates that they will not. Faith is much more powerful than some people think. It is stronger than the world. It can move mountains and make seemingly impossible things possible.
It enables us to see the invisible. It is the instrument God has chosen to save men and to keep them saved so it must be the very best instrument for that.
Will an instrument God has selected fail to achieve His purpose? It is an object of Christ’s special prayer for believers. Will it, then, fail? The writer to Hebrews expresses his confidence that it will not. True believers in Christ go on believing to the final salvation God has promised them. In the next chapter he shows something of the power of faith.
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