Hebrews 6:9-12

I.  Continue to serve through love.

-convinced = peitho = persuade; perfect passive

-accompany = echo = have

 

  II.  Maintain zeal for our hope until the end.

-diligence = spoude = earnestness, diligence, great zeal

-full assurance = plerophoria = fullness, full assurance, certainty, conviction

-Guthrie "Verse 11, however, again bears witness to a basic, though often neglected dynamic in this author's sermon - the uncertainty that surrounds any evaluation of another person's status before God apart from continued manifestations of God's grace. In other words, if the outward manifestations of genuineness dealt with in 6:9-10 cease, confidence in that genuineness evaporates."

-I John 2:19; Gal. 5:22-23

 

 III.  Follow the example of faithful endurance.

-sluggish = nothros = dull, sluggish

-imitators = mimetes = imitate, one who is like another

-patience = makrothumia = longsuffering, patience, patient endurance

-Matt. 24:13, Phil. 1:6, I John 2:19