Hebrews 10:35-36 Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence

Hebrews 10:35-36 (KJV)  Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 

The writer of Hebrews instructs us on the finer points of faith’s practice and reward, exhorting us to continue steadfast in the faith. Following Christ is a daily counting of cost for there is apparently much to lose, as we count loss the gains of this world. 

The writer assures the believers in affliction, persecuted as a result of their faith in Christ, not to be dismayed, the reason is that there is a great recompense of reward for the faithful. 

As such, they must not “cast away” this confidence. What is this confidence? The courage or “boldness of mind” to steadfastly hold on to their faith in Christ. This is the fruit and effect of their faith. It is such “a frame of the spirit”, that the writer exhorts the believer to hold on to. This is the spirit of persevering prayer.

Hebrews 4:16 (KJV) Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

This boldness or confidence and courage to proclaim the gospel is recorded well in

Acts 4:13 the narrative at the Gate Beautiful where the lame man was raised to walk again by the prayers of Peter and John and their subsequent preaching the gospel where many came to believe and the Jewish leaders began to persecute them.

Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 4:12 (KJV) Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

The opposite of this confidence is, may I say, “the bondage of fear and unbelief”. Let not such fear weaken our mind not to stand fast following the Lord. Amen.