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Hebrews 6 — God Is Not Unrighteous to Forget Your Work and Labour of Love
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection. It is impossible for those who were once enlightened... if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance. But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed toward His name. When God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself — two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus.
“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;”
— Hebrews 6:19
- v.1-3 Go on unto perfection
- v.4-8 The warning against apostasy
- v.9-12 Better things accompanying salvation
- v.13-20 God's oath; the anchor within the veil
The comforting hinge after the warning. God remembers acts of love done for His name's sake. No labor is wasted; no kindness lost.
A weight for the discouraged servant. What no one notices, what no one records, He remembers. His memory is the disciple's deepest reward.
Two immutable things — God's promise and God's oath. He bound Himself twice, knowing how fragile human hearts are. The redundancy is for us.
Strong consolation. Not weak comfort; strong. The certainty of God's word is meant to anchor the trembling believer.
Anchor of the soul. The deepest image of hope in Scripture. Below the surface, where the storm cannot reach, the anchor holds in the bedrock of God's own promise.
Within the veil. The anchor is set in the Most Holy Place, where Christ has gone. Our hope is not anchored in earthly conditions; it is fixed in the heart of God's presence.
Verse 19 is the verse to repeat in the worst storm. Your anchor is within the veil — set where the storm cannot reach. Whatever shifts at the surface, the anchor holds in the holiest place, where Christ has gone for you. Drop the anchor again. The storm is loud; the holding is silent and sure.
Christ is the forerunner who has entered the veil for us (v.20). The anchor of our hope is tied to the same Christ Hebrews has been describing — the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. The chapter's warning and comfort both rest on Him: to abandon Him is unrecoverable; to hold Him is to be anchored in the presence of God.
The most debated passage in Hebrews. The warning is real and severe — those who finally and willfully turn from Christ after enlightenment cannot be brought back. The author is not theorizing; he is sobering apparent believers in danger of drift.
Crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh. The apostate aligns with the crucifiers. To turn from Christ after knowing Him is to re-execute Him publicly.