Blessing for patience people(Hebrews 10:35~39)

Blessing for patience people

(Hebrews 10:35~39)

 

³⁵ Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

³⁷ For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

³⁸ Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

³⁹ But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

 Today I want to preach about ‘blessing for patience people.’ Jean-Jacques Rousseau who was a thinker of France said “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

To all of us, enduring is painful process. However if we endure our life with constant good works, we will get sweet fruit as a reward.

This is basically what the author of Hebrews want us to know. Then what kind of blessing can we receive?

A) Big Reward.

Verse 35 says “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.”

 Having confidence here means the heart that does not even afraid of death

Jesus says in Matthew 5: 11-12 “¹¹ Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

¹² Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

We will be happy even if with the small reward from God, but instead God says will give us bigger reward.

 

Last February, The person who gave first gold medal to Korea in Sochi was speed skater Sang Hwa Lee. She had thigh that 2~3 times thinker than common people, and her feet was very ugly for a women. Those changes on her body show how hard she prepared for this Olympic. She must be really painful during the preparation however her reward was sweet.

For all most everything we have to wait. For example, honey we eat is result of forty two hundred times of round trip between their hive and flowers by bees.

Piano song writer, Hayden wrote 8 hundred time songs to write his most famous work “The Creation” in his age of 66.

“The Last suffer” by Michelangelo was also the product of over 2000 sketches during 8 years of preparation.

 

Like them, we need to set our religious goal, to be more like Jesus and learn and pass His love. The hardships that you face by carrying the cross with Jesus will be rewarded because God is fair.

James 1: 12 says “ Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

 

B) You will earn the promised blessings by God if you wait.

Verse 36 says “For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”

Let us see the example of Abraham. Hebrews 6: 13-15 says

“¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

¹⁴ Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

¹⁵ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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When God promised him a son, he was 75 years old. When God’s kept his promise? It was 25 years later. It must be really hard to 75 years old grandfather to wait 25 years for a son.

 

God trained Moses for 40 years in the wilderness before exodus.

 

It is easy to make miss judgment on God, and say God is very slow. But it He is not, His clock is very accurate.

 

Also Joseph had to wait fairly long time before he became the prime minister of Egypt. During the process, his brother tried to kill him, and he was slave for 10 years and he went to jail for 3 years.

 

Let us see the Job’s case.

 James 5:11says “ Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”If there were no hardships Job would had chance to get closer to God. Whenever we are in hardship we have to depend on God more. Faith from hardship is real hardship.

Also after the hardship, God blessed Job more than before.

D) Being Patient pleases God.

Verse 38 says “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” Verse says person live by faith will not draw back.

Romans 4:17-23 says Abraham was good example of man of faith.  

 

" ¹⁷ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹ And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

²⁰ He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹ And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

²² And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

²³ Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

" Ancestor of Faith is not for any body.

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Patient makes real faith. If you hold on to your faith during the hardship you will have true faith.

Romans 5:3-4 says “³ And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

⁴ And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”

 

All the heroes in the Bible have passed hardships. In the Book of Revelation, there are part that people in white cloth praises God under His throne. However, these people in white cloth are people who passed the hardships. What I am trying to say is we also need to endure significant pain to wear that cloth.

D) Patience will saves us.  Verse 39 says“But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul”. 

James 1:2-4 says “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

 

Patience is material to make us whole. The process of enduring is like a Clam having pearl in the. Clam produces fluid that makes particles of send to be more smooth and cohesive. Clam has to do this process over and over and ultimately, countless send particles becomes a pearl. So, there is no pearl without pain.

James 5:7-8 says “⁷ Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

⁸ Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”

So, perfect salvation is a salvation which is not embarrassing.  What we need to seek is a salvation with great reward up in the Heaven, we should not be satisfied with barely saved.
Conclusion)

Beloved, brothers and sisters!

Our Jesus left the Heaven and his glorious throne to save low and vile bodies like us. He endured pain and died. There is no sweet fruit without pain and hardship.

So do not stay in the comfort, share cross of Jesus gladly.

I hope and pray we all emulate Jesus, finish race of enduring, receiving big rewards from Jesus, please God and complete the salvation of Jesus.