perseverance
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They built arks, left homelands, and offered sons on the basis of promises they would not live to receive. Hebrews 11 parades these witnesses before us not as ethnic heroes but as people who looked past the earthly to the heavenly — strangers and exiles reaching for a city God himself designed. They were looking…
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There were no chairs in the tabernacle — the priests stood because the work was never done. Christ sat down. Hebrews 10 presses that image to its conclusion: one sacrifice, sin dealt with once for all, the veil torn open, the way into God’s presence clear. Draw near. Hold fast. Press on together. We are…