Shalom, everyone. I would like you, please, to turn with me to the book of Hebrews, and we are going to continue today in our study of the book of Hebrews. We are going to read in chapter 6, verses 13 to 20. And I begin the reading. "For when God made promise to Abram, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, "Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained a promise. "For men verily swear by greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife." "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.

Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Yeshua, made an high priest forever after the order of Malki Tzedek." Beautiful verses, dear brothers and sisters, are these verses found in Hebrews chapter 6, verses 13 to 20. And these verses just followed after the passage that we have studied in our last meeting together, which was really Hebrews chapter 5, verse 11 to Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 12. In these verses, the Lord is seen as the one that desiring to see progress and maturity in the believers. So the writer, the apostle, who wrote these exhortations to our Hebrew brethren of all, wrote to them, desiring for them to grow up, to progress to maturity, and then he told them, especially at the end of the portion we have studied last time, in verses especially 11 and 12, giving them, speaking to them, he says, "For we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end, that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promise." And you see, in the chapter before, chapter 5, verse 11 into chapter 6 and verse 12 of Hebrews, the apostle who wrote to his Hebrew brethren simply wanted to exhort them to grow up, to progress to maturity.

And he developed all these, which we have already spoken about in our last message together. Today, I would like to focus on verses 13 to verse 20, which those verses really deal with the basis for the believer's security. You see, when you and I became believers in Yeshua, the Messiah, have to realize that we are secure. We are eternally secure. And our security does not depend upon our performance, but depends totally upon the work of Yeshua, the Messiah. God had given promises to his people in the past. God made an oath. And God wants to direct us to the person of his son, to the person of Yeshua, the Messiah.

And so in these verses, first of all, we can see in verses 13, 14, and 15 of this chapter, Hebrews chapter 6, we want to see that God made promises in the past, and he intended to keep those promises which he has made. And like we have today in the present day dispensations as believers, part of the assembly, part of the church of Yeshua, the Messiah, God had given us promises that he is going to keep them. Just a promise, for example, we read in John chapter 3 and verse 16, a very clear verse that Yeshua is speaking there and telling us about his love, that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.

That's what God did. And that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. This is a wonderful message that gives us assurance that the believer in Yeshua, the Messiah, have everlasting life. Now, so here in Hebrews chapter 6, the apostle emphasizes the promises of God. First of all, you notice in verse 13, it says, For when God made promise to Abraham. Notice, Abraham, Abraham is the father of our nation, the father of the Hebrews. And we read here that God made a promise to Abraham. And we read here because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself. And what did he say in the promise to Abraham?

It says here in verse 14, saying, Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. You see, he is quoting Genesis chapter 22. If you please turn with me for a moment to Genesis chapter 22. And in Genesis chapter 22, we can see the testing that God had tested Abraham, our father, when he asked him to take his son, Yitzhak, Isaac, and to offer him upon one of the mountains thereof. You remember how wonderful this event was when Abraham went to Mount Moriah, and he took his son, Isaac. And you remember we have that which is called Akedat Yitzhak, the binding of Isaac. Isaac may ask his father, if you remember, Abraham and Isaac was walking together, and we said in Genesis chapter 22 and verse 7, Isaac spoke to his father.

And he said, my father. And he said, here am I. And he said, behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And you remember what Abraham, Abraham answered his son, Yitzhak, Isaac. And he says, Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself for a burnt offering. And they went both of them together. Here the writer of Hebrews takes us all the way back to Genesis chapter 22. And here he is really referring to the event that occurred there on Mount Moriah. After Isaac was taken by his father Abraham. And Abraham bound Isaac to the altar. In Hebrew we call it Akedat Yitzhak, the binding of Isaac.

He took Isaac, he bound him and he laid him on the altar, which he had built. He tied him. And then he took the knife and he lifted up his hand to slay his son, Isaac. And then if you remember how wonderful it says that Abraham stretched forth his hand and he took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven. And he said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, here am I. He, Nemi. And he said, lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him. For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and he looked and behold, behind him a ram was caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and he took that ram and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son. What a wonderful truth we learned there. Here we see that God had provided a ram instead of Yitzhak, instead of Isaac. And Abraham took that ram and he offered this ram instead of Isaac, his son. And you remember he called the same place. Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh or Yehovah Yireh. The Lord, in the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

Looking to the future day, the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen. Meaning that one day is going to come when the Messiah will come and God will reveal the Messiah in the Mount of the Lord. Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will provide. One day he will provide the Redeemer, the Messiah. And you see, you remember God made him immediately. He made a promise to him in this next verses, in verses 16 and 17 of Genesis chapter 22, where we read that God, the angel of the Lord, called unto Abraham. This is verse 15, out of heaven the second time. And he said, "By myself have I sworn," says the Lord.

"For because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and in the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies." Look at this, beloved brothers and sisters, how precious we see here the promises of God to Abraham. He promised him. He said, "Because you have done this thing, and you have not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." He said, "Listen, in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven." Verse 17b.

And as the sand which is upon the seashore, and in thy seed, this is singular. "Zar-Acha" in Hebrew, in thy seed, namely, really speaking of the coming seed, the coming Mashiach, which we have in Galatians 3 and verse 16. "The coming seed, this seed shall possess the gates of thine enemies." Verse 18 even says, "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice." Dear brothers and sisters, what a precious promise God had made that the writer to the Hebrew believers emphasizing these promises and this promise in verses 13 and 14, and actually also verse 15, where he is promising that he is going to present one day the Messiah, the seed.

And that through the seed that is going to come out of Abraham, this is the Messiah himself, there will be salvation, there will be blessings to all the nations of the earth. And so you notice, it says in verse 13 again, "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could not swear by no greater he swore by himself." And he says, "Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." Now it speaks of Abraham's seed to be multiplied, more of Abraham's descendants will come, but in the future it leads us to the time when the Messiah will come, and he will be the one that will bring blessings through the nation of Israel to all the world.

So those Hebrews needed to hear it, they were Hebrew believers. They needed to realize that God made a promise to their forefathers, and he is going to fulfill it. And God making promises to us, and he is going to fulfill the promises that he made to everyone that have trusted in him. And so, notice what it says in verse 15 of Hebrews 6, "And so after he had patiently endued, he obtained a promise." What does that mean that he obtained a promise? You remember, in connection with verse 14 of this chapter, God says, "Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." In other words, when the descendants of Abraham will be multiplied.

And Abraham waited for that, and it sure came to pass. Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob, Jacob began the 12 tribes of Israel. In other words, the beginning of the multiplication of the nation of Israel. Israel as a nation had been brought into fruition, became a great nation. Now Abraham had not seen everything, but he did receive the promise in that fact that he saw his family growing and his family developing. Look what it says again, I'm reading in Genesis chapter 22, where it says in verse 16, "By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this, and hast withheld not thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee.

And in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore." Well, according to Hebrews 6 and verse 15, it says, "And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." The thought that the writer to the Hebrew believers want to communicate is the necessity of endurance and waiting on the promises of God. You see, these Hebrew brethren of ours have experienced persecution. They experienced misunderstanding by their own brethren. Just like today, by the way, in the land of Israel, among our people, many times our own brethren, according to the flesh, the religious community, do not understand why we, as believers in Yeshua the Messiah, believe in what we believe.

And why we claim that Yeshua is the promised Messiah of Israel. They don't understand it. They need to be enlightened. They need to see this truth as the Lord will reveal this to them in due time. But they still need for patience by the believers, just like Abraham needed after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promises. And so, this is the first thing that he tried to communicate with the Hebrew believers, that the basis for the believers' security is the promises of God. God made a promise. God will keep his promises. God is the one that made a promise. God is surely going to keep his promises.

So, patience is important. Abraham was patient. And God kept his promise. And by the way, later on, after Isaac was born, later on, you could see that the promises had been given to Isaac. And you remember, even as I just mentioned, God had made a promise to Abraham that his son will be born and that Isaac will come to this world. And now he's asking him to offer him as a sacrifice. So, Abraham needed to trust God's promises. And by the effect that Isaac was preserved, it's a proof to us that God had fulfilled his promises. And through Isaac, the development of the family of Abraham came to pass.

Well, look now, let's move on into the next verses. And the next verses from verses 16, 17, and 18, the Hebrew writer is emphasizing the oath that God had made. God not only made a promise to Abraham, but God's promises in the next verses, we see his oath. And now it is God's promises to the Hebrews, not only to Abraham, because in the next verse, it says this, look, verse 16. It says, For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife, wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, the heirs of promise, obviously, those are the descendants of Abraham, the immutability of his counsel, he confirmed it by an oath.

Verse 18, that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie. And so you see, he is emphasizing here, verses 16, 17, and 18, he's showing to us that God affirming what he's saying, there is no one that is greater than him. As it says in verse 16, for men verily swear by someone who is greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. In other words, when somebody swear and make an oath by someone who is greater than him, it ends all the strife. It puts an end of all the strife. So what we read is that God now, in verse 17, he made an oath.

He doesn't need to make an oath by somebody who was greater than him, because it says here that God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise. Who are the heirs of promise? These are the descendants of Abraham, and all believers. And specifically in this context, the Hebrew believers that we have here in the book of Hebrews, to whom the writer was writing this book. And so you see, God willing more abundantly to show unto the believers the immutability of his counsel, the unchanging counsel of God. Unchanging, dear brothers and sisters, God is not going to change his promises. And here we can see those two unchangeable things that God has given to us.

Number one is his promise, which God will keep. And number two is his oath, which he had made. The promise he had made. He says something is going to happen in the future day. Abraham, you are going to be blessed. Abraham, you are going to be multiplied. And surely God had fulfilled it. But not only that he made a promise, he swore by no other, but by himself. He made a promise by himself. Look at what it says in verse 17. Verse 18, God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, he confirmed it by an oath. And here in the next verse, verse 18, he tells us this two immutable things.

What are those two immutable things? It's number one, the promise. Number two, the oath. It says in verse 18b, in which it was impossible for God to lie. We might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us. And so we learn here from these verses that God made a promise and an oath. God made a promise and an oath. So really, actually, we see the promise in verse 13, 14, 15. And we see the oath in verse 16, 17 and 18. Really, that's what we see. Those are the two immutable things in which it is impossible that God will lie.

You know, I often think of the verses that is found in the book of Romans where the apostle Paul wrote to the believers at Rome and he said to them simply, he said, God forbid. He said, let God be true and every man a liar. In other words, God's promising justification to someone. God will fulfill it because God is true and man by nature is a liar. And that's why we can trust God's word because what God says in his word will surely come to pass. This is wonderful, dear brothers and sisters, to get a hold of these truths as we start in the book of Hebrews.

So here we are. We are in these verses of Hebrews chapter six, verses 13 to 20. And we see that God's promises will never fail. That's what he's trying to tell his Hebrew brethren, the apostle emphasizing that God promises can never fail because God made the promise and God made the oath. He made a promise to Abraham and he made a promise to the Hebrews. He made a promise and it came to pass when he promised to Abraham and he made a promise to the believers, to the Hebrew believers and to you and I, and it will surely come to pass. These are the basis upon which a believer can be assured of his security or her security.

Finally here, dear brothers and sisters, at the end of chapter six, we have the last two verses, Hebrews 6 verses 19 and 20. And here we see that he emphasizes his son, the Messiah Yeshua himself. Well, it is such a joyful thing to know that a believer in Yeshua have God's promise, have God's oath, but we also have God's son, God's anointed one, the Messiah himself, Yeshua himself. So look and listen, please, to this next verses, verses 19 and 20. Which hope, he said, we have as an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil. Wither he is the forerunner for us, he entered even Yeshua, made an high priest forever after the order of Malki Tzedek.

Well, in these verses, we can see that our salvation is sure because Yeshua, the Messiah, is in heaven, he is in the presence of God. You remember what we read in Psalm 110 and verse 1, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit down on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. And so the writer, to the Hebrews, to his own brother, is saying, look, he has just talked earlier in verse 18 that we are to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us. What is the hope that is set before us? We have entered, we have come into refuge, we have come into the person of Yeshua, the Messiah, and we have a hope to be with him.

This is not, I hope to be with him. Maybe yes, maybe no, no. This is not what we read here. This is a sure hope. This is a hope of being with the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, forever. We are to lay hold upon the hope that he set before us. This is a sure knowledge that we are going to be with him. That our salvation is secure. That our redemption is eternal. And that the basis for our security is the promise of God. And it is the oath of God. But here we see it is depend upon the work of the Son of God, who have entered into the presence of God the Father.

So it says which hope we have as an anchor of our soul. It is an anchor to our soul, to the soul of those Hebrew believers, to your soul and mine. This is an anchor to our soul when we realize what happened when Yeshua finished the work for us on the tree. It says here, it is a sure and a steadfast, in which enters into that within the veil. You see, this expression, entering into that within the veil, it's really taking us back to Leviticus chapter 16. Again, if you remember Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, dear brothers and sisters, when the High Priest entered within the veil.

What did he enter within the veil into the Holy of Holies there? He entered once a year within the veil into the Kodesh HaKodeshim, the Holy of Holies. And there, beloved brothers and sisters, within the veil, the High Priest have laid and placed and spread the blood there, as we read in Leviticus chapter 16 and verse 15. "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and he will bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat." You see, brothers and sisters, he shall make an atonement for the holy place, for the tabernacle, for the children of Israel because of their uncleanness.

That's what Aaron of old have done to our people Israel when the tabernacle was standing. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, he entered into the presence of God. And there, at the Holy of Holies, he took the blood of that goat that he killed for the sin offering. And that blood was for the people. And he will bring the blood within the veil, and then what he will do with the blood? He did it with the same thing as he had done with the prior, with the bullock's blood. He will sprinkle it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. And the mercy seat is the place where God have dwelt, where God could provide mercy to the nation of Israel, to our own people, where atonement can be made for the uncleanness of the nation, the national atonement.

And so there was an assurance of God's forgiveness and God's atonement when Aaron went within the veil into the Holy of Holies. But he only could have done that once a year, beloved brothers and sisters. You remember, he couldn't do it every time he wanted. He had to enter in on the Day of Atonement, on Yom HaKippurim, only once a year. One day of the year on Yom HaKippurim. But what happened with Yeshua, the Messiah, our Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah? As the writer says to those Hebrew brethren, he said to them, listen, the entrance of Yeshua to the presence of God into heaven, the heavens of heavens, assure us the fact, give us an assurance of security, assurance of salvation, because his work was finished.

God was satisfied. Not only atonement was made, but a removal of sin from the presence of God have happened. When Yeshua himself have entered into the presence of God. Actually, the Bible tells us in the same book of Hebrews, again speaking specifically in chapter 9 and chapter 10, tells us of the fact that the Messiah entered in, but he did not enter in, beloved brothers and sisters, by the blood of others. But he entered in the presence of God into the presence of God. I know I am ahead here, but in Hebrews chapter 9 and in verse 12 it says, "He is neither by the blood of goats and of cows, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." What a wonderful truth to get a hold of, my dear brothers and sisters.

Praise God for the fact that Yeshua, our Mashiach have done this for us. And so we read that we have this hope, verse 19, as an anchor of the soul. "But sure hope, both steadfast hope, and which entereth into that within the veil." Our hope is not here. Our hope is within the veil where our blessed Lord, Jesus the Messiah, our blessed Savior, is in the presence of God. It says here, in the last verse of chapter 6 of Hebrews, it says, "We there, the forerunner, is for us entered." You see, we are all running. We are all moving ahead. We are one day going to be in the presence of God with our blessed Lord Yeshua.

And He became our forerunner. He is running ahead of us. He has gone into the presence of God, there to be in the presence of God for you and I. And so it says here, even Yeshua, the one that became the forerunner who entered into the presence of God. Even Yeshua. What does that mean, even Yeshua? Well, look, this same Yeshua, this same Yeshua was once rejected and despised by men. He was misunderstood by our own nation, Israel, and was not accepted at His first coming. He was this Yeshua from Nazareth. And you shall call His name Yeshua, for He shall save His people from their sins.

The Hebrew word Yeshua means salvation. And you will call His name salvation, for He will save His people from their sins. That's what He did. When He died on the cross. When He suffered by the hand of men, but ultimately by the hand of a holy and a righteous God. He suffered, He was judged, the just for the unjust, so He will bring you and I to God. And so when He was judged, He finished the work on the tree. He entered into the presence of God within the veil into the Holy of Holies. And He entered by His own blood. And once He does not need to repeat it as the high priest of ours of old Aaron had to repeat it every year, every year, every year.

But Yeshua had entered in once. Once and for all. And when He entered in, He became our forerunner, even Yeshua. And you see, notice, beloved brothers and sisters, now He is now moving on in the last statement. In verse 20b of chapter 6, He uses this expression, He made or made a high priest forever after the order of Malki Tzedek. You see, He now entered into the presence of God and He became now the high priest or the great high priest. And just like Aaron was a high priest to represent Israel before God, Yeshua the Messiah is the great high priest representing the believers before God.

And when He is presenting there, He presents in the value of His own blood. He entered in and presenting and lifting up holy hands as the high priest on behalf of His own redeemed people. And it says that He became a high priest, now notice, forever. Not for a short time, not until the high priest dies, because He is never going to die, this high priest. He ever liveth to make intercession on behalf of His own people. And you notice, it is not after the order of the Levitical order, as it says here in verse 20 of chapter 6 of Hebrews. It's after the order of Malki Tzedek.

Malki Tzedek. And if you remember, Malki Tzedek, we find him in Genesis chapter 14. He appear and he disappear. And if you remember, it was Abraham that met Malki Tzedek. And this is a beautiful story in Genesis chapter 14 and how Abraham had met this Malki Tzedek on his way. Beautiful, beautiful chapter. And I just wanted to point one thing. And it says here, Malki Tzedek, this is Genesis 14 verse 18. Malki Tzedek, the king of Shalem, brought forth bread and wine. And he was the priest of the Most High God. And he blessed him. This is Malki Tzedek blessing Abraham. And he said, blessed be Abraham of the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth.

And blessed be the Most High God, which has delivered thine enemies into thine hand. And he, this is Abraham, gave him, this is to Malki Tzedek, a tithe of all. I read the verses 18, 19 and 20 of Genesis chapter 14. You see, Malki Tzedek is a type and a picture of Yeshua the Messiah. He is the one that symbolizes what Yeshua the Messiah is in his priesthood. Malki Tzedek, history, we don't read about him from his beginning. We don't know. We don't need to read of his history, his beginning. We don't read of his ending. We don't read of his death. He came and he appeared and he disappeared.

He became a type of Yeshua the Messiah. Who has an eternal existence. He is the eternal Son of God. He is the eternal One. Who became a man. Ever now to be a man. But this time after he died for us on the tree. After he was buried. And he rose again on the third day. And he was ascended. And now he is seated at the Father's right hand. There to be the great High Priest forever. He entered into the presence of God after the order of Malki Tzedek. The word Malki Tzedek means Melech Malki means my king. And Tzedek means righteousness. The my king of righteousness.

Or the righteousness that provided for us through the king. Through the Messiah himself. What a wonderful passage dear brothers and sisters. We have here in Hebrews chapter 6 and verses 13 to 20. So to sum it up in closing. I would like us to recognize that in these verses we have simply the basis. For the fact that each believer have an assurance. A security of his eternal relationship with God. Because of what God had promised. And because of what God had swore. God's oath. And thirdly because of God's Son. The Messiah Yeshua himself. What reason we have to praise him. To worship him. To worship him. To adore him.

For what he have done for us. May God bless you. And may we be encouraged to continue to follow after Yeshua the Messiah. To seek to live for him. To seek to honor him. To seek to please him. And that we will focus on him. As he's the one that's seated at the right hand of the Father in majesty there. Waiting the day when he's going to come to take us. To be with him in glory. We will praise him for all what he have done for us. Well, we praise the Lord for his goodness. And his provision for us through Yeshua our Messiah. May the Lord bless those thoughts to all of us.

And will help us as we move on in our lives following the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Can you say Amen? Thank you very much.