October 23rd - Don't Through Away Your Confidence

“Therefore, do not throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet in a very little while,  HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, and will not delay. But My righteous One shall live by faith; and if He shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in Him. But we are not of those shrinking back to destruction, but of faith for the procuring of the soul.” (Hebrews 10:35-39)

Confidence and Faith in what? 

The return of Jesus!

What is the will of God for humanity? God wants us to endure as we wait in faith for the return of Jesus to save humanity out of death.

“Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven…and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” (Acts 1:11; Hebrews 9:28)

Most of humanity do not know about the return of Jesus. And most who have heard are shrinking back from believing Jesus will return. That displeases God because humanity needs to hear and believe the good news. God is going to...

“…send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you, whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time..” (Acts 3:20-21)

Hearing and believing this promise gives me peace in our troubled world.

“...the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Chief Messenger and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we, the living, who are surviving, shall at the same time be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and then shall we always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)

"But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be ALL in All." (1 Corinthians 15:20-28)