神的应许
希伯来书六章11至20节
11我们愿你们各人都显出这样的殷勤，使你们有满足的指望，一直到底。
12并且不懈怠，总要效法那些凭信心和忍耐承受应许的人。
13当初神应许亚伯拉罕的时候，因为没有比自己更大可以指着起誓的，就指着自己起誓，说：
14论福，我必赐大福给你；论子孙，我必叫你的子孙多起来。
15这样，亚伯拉罕既恒久忍耐，就得了所应许的。
16人都是指着比自己大的起誓，并且以起誓为实据，了结各样的争论。
17照样，神愿意为那承受应许的人格外显明他的旨意是不更改的，就起誓为证。
18藉这两件不更改的事，神决不能说谎，好叫我们这逃往避难所、持定摆在我们前头指望的人可以大得勉励。
19我们有这指望，如同灵魂的锚，又坚固又牢靠，且通入幔内。
20作先锋的耶稣，既照着麦基洗德的等次成了永远的大祭司，就为我们进入幔内。
信息分享
神在祂每个儿女的身上有甚么计划呢？
这几节经文告诉我们：神希望祂的每个儿女都可以像亚伯拉罕一样，靠着神的应许来踏上信心之旅。
让我们回想亚伯拉罕的一生。他等待了漫长的25年，才与撒拉生下他们的儿子。但神接着却要考验他的信心，要他把儿子奉献给祂；尽管神最后为他预备了一只羊来代替他把儿子献上。而且，亚伯拉罕在离世之前，还未曾看见神的应许全部成就。
亚伯拉罕深信神的话语，许多时候，他惟一能够凭借的就只有神的应许，但他却已感到心满意足。神同样将祂的一切应许赐给我们，我们大可以放心信靠祂。
同时，神的应许也是我们盼望的所在。我们的盼望不在于属世的事物，而是在于神自己，以及基督已进到神的面前，不断为我们代求的事实。
圣经所言的「盼望」，不仅限于我们日常含意。当我们说：「我盼望这事成就」，我们实际上是不能肯定事情会不会照我们所想的那样发生。然而，圣经却绝对肯定神必成就祂的应许。神定意成就祂的应许，而祂的计划正一步一步地使祂的应许成就。
「神必成就祂的应许」这个事实，岂不成为我们信仰的重要基石吗？神的话语是出于神自己，我们当然可以放心信靠祂了。
唱诗：
「耶稣所流出的血和成就的义，正是我们盼望的缘由。」
THE PROMISES OF GOD
Hebrews 6:11-20
11 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end,
12 that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
14 saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.
17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,
18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Message
What is God's plan for each of his children?
These verses tell us: it is to walk by faith believing God's promises in the same way as those who have gone before, such as Abraham.
Think about Abraham. How long did he have to wait for a son? 25 years. Then God asked for the son to be given back to him. Abraham even died in faith without ever seeing the complete fulfilment of God's promises.
Abraham believed the Word of God. That was all he had but that was enough. In the same way we have all the promises of God and we can trust them.
Here is our great hope. It does not rest on earthly things but on God himself and on the fact that Christ Is already there in God's presence.
The Bible word, 'hope' is far stronger than the meaning we give to it today. We say, 'I hope so' meaning we are not sure if it is going to happen or not. But the Bible word gives the absolute assurance that what God promises is within his power to fulfil. He wants to fulfil his promises and he is planning to do just that.
Isn't this fact a tremendous foundation for our faith? Behind God's Word is God himself and we can always count on him.
Can you sing
'My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness'?