THE GREAT SUSTAINER

Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. —Psalm 55:22

HOLD FAST TO HOPE BEHIND THE VEIL

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, —Hebrews 6:19

19  Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 
20  by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 
21  and having a High Priest over the house of God, 
22  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 
23  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. —Hebrews 10:19 - 23

2  My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 
3  knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 
4  But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. —James 1:2 - 4

1  Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 
2  through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 
3  And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 
4  and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 
5  Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. —Romans 5:1 - 5

No matter why the trial, you’re a child of God, so it’s God’s trial. If you don’t quit, you can’t lose, for He who promised is faithful.” —Pastor Jason Byars

1. Hold fast to the companionship of the guarantor of hope.

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. —Hebrews 6:16 - 20

20  And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath 
21  (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not relent, ‘You are a priest foreverAccording to the order of Melchizedek’ ”),
22  by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. —Hebrews 7:20 - 22

Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.” —Deuteronomy 31:6

Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” —Hebrews 13:5

10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 
11  None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 
12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins [a]and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” —Hebrews 8:10 - 12

11  But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 
12  Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
13  For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 
14  how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15  And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. —Hebrews 9:11 - 15

For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; —Hebrews 9:24

He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. —Hebrews 9:26

Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. —Matthew 28:20

15  But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16  “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” 
17  then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 
18  Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. —Hebrews 10:15 - 18

And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever. —John 14;16

2. Hold fast to encouragement, because in it is the sustainment for hope.

23  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
24  And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 
25  not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. —Hebrews 10:23 - 25

Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing. —1 Thessalonians 5:11

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. —Jude 1:20

6  Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
7  Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 
8  So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.” —1 Samuel 30:6 - 8