Hebrews 10:35-36
Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

Application: 

Not only is there severe discipline for those who rebel, but there is reward for those who obey: Don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward (10:35). The author calls them to endurance so that they may do God’s will and receive what was promised. 

God always keeps his promises. But notice what the writer says: you receive what was promised after you have done the Lord’s will (10:36). The promise, the reward, the inheritance—some of which is granted in history and the rest in eternity—is attached to performing the will of God.

The longer the obedience takes, the longer it takes for the promise to be fulfilled.

Israel should have possessed the promised land in a minimal time. However, it took them forty years to enter—not because the promise changed, but because they refused to do God’s will. And sadly, in the end, it required a new generation of Israelites to accomplish the work and receive the promise.

Remember the three-fold process discussed in the commentary on 3:7–11? Deliverance, development, and destiny are each parts of God’s process. You never get to skip the development stage. God wants to change your character, not just your circumstances. He’s working to make you more like Jesus.

Reference: Tony Evans, The Tony Evans Bible Commentary (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2019), 1328.

To God be the glory!

Our Lord Jesus Christ created everything! By Him, For Him!

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