Keys to Successful Living: 12 Ways to Discover God's Best for Your Life by Derek Prince

Author:Derek Prince [Prince, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012120, REL012070
ISBN: 9781441265012
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

The Sequence of Confessing

There is much to learn from the way this theme of confession is built up in the epistle to the Hebrews.

First, in Hebrews 3:1, we are admonished to make the right confession: Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. We then remember the related key we studied in Hebrews 4:14—the third key: “Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.” In speaking of Jesus as our High Priest, Scripture immediately goes on to emphasize our confession—in other words, our confession enlists His ministry on our behalf as our High Priest. And in Hebrews 4:14, we are admonished to “hold fast” our confession. We must not change what we have said. We need to keep making the words of our mouths agree with the Word of God.

Thus, we come to the next step in this sequence, the seventh key: “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering” (Hebrews 10:23). Notice the two added words: without wavering.

If we look through these passages of Hebrews in correct order, we see that, in respect to our confession, there are three successive stages. First, we make the confession. Second, having made it, we hold fast; we do not change. Third, we hold it fast without wavering.

Why do you think without wavering is put in? What does it imply? To me, these words imply—not merely on the basis of logic but on the basis of personal experience—that when we make the right confession, we are going to encounter negative forces and pressures that will come against us. Even though we have made the right confession and are holding it fast, there may come a time when the pressure increases. At that time, it may seem that all the forces of Satan and all the powers of darkness are turned loose against us, tempting us to let go of our confession.

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