You Have Need of Patience Hebrews 10:36

The writer of Hebrews told his readers not to “cast away” their “confidence” because it “has great recompense of reward”, and in chapter ten and verse thirty-six of Hebrews, the writer tells his readers “you have need of patience” where we read:

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God,

you might receive the promise.

The verse begins, “For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God,...”. The writer began with the words, “For” which means “even as, seeing then, no doubt, verily and therefore” “you have need” or “the readers have necessity, duty and business” “of patience” which refers to “endurance, continuance and patient waiting”, “that” or “in order and so that”, “after you have done” which means “after the readers make ready, prepare, produce, construct, form and fashion” “the will” or “the pleasure and desire” “of God” which refers to “the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit”. The readers of Hebrews “needed endurance and patient waiting” as they “prepared and accomplished” God's will.

The verse goes on to say, “...you might receive the promise.”. The writer continued with the words, “you might receive” or “that the readers care, provide, bear, bring and carry away” “the promise” which means “the announcement, pledge, message or assent of good or blessing”. The reason the readers of Hebrews needed “patience” was because after they did God's will, they would “carry away” the “pledge and message of good and blessing” from Him.

When we think through these words in Hebrews, we understand the writer's exhortation to his readers to be “patient” concerning the future “recompense of reward” promised to those who keep faith in Jesus and serve Him. God desires to pour out His blessings upon people who “rely upon, cling to and trust in” Him, and while they “wait patiently” for His “promise” to be fulfilled, they are to be busy about His will. May we be as those who not only obey the “will of God”, but also have long “patience” while waiting for His promise as we serve Him.

Next time the writer shares how “a little while, and he that shall come will come”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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