Jesus, the perfecter of our faith

Jesus, the perfecter of our faith


Heb 11:39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, 
didn't receive the promise, 
Heb 11:40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that 
apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a 
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so 
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 
Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the 
joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is 
set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 


Heb 11:39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, 
didn't receive the promise…
What was promised?
According to the Prophecy of the book of Joel and as quoted by the Apostle Peter, 
what was promised was the Holy Spirit.
However, the people mentioned in the previous verses of the Hebrews 11 had been before the prophecy of Joel, therefore, what was promised could be seen through the covenants that God had with these people.

God told Abram, I am the Almighty God, walk before me and be thou perfect.
Perfection that God requested of Abram was impossible in human capacity after 
Adam had sinned. Therefore one has to look back at the time when the word 
perfect was attached to any man. And that man was Noah.

Gen 6:9 – These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in 
his generation, and Noah walked with God.

However, before this, we have established that Adam’s Sin had corrupted man and 
even God confirmed that.

Gen 6: 5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that 
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

If that was the testimony of God about man, what differentiated Noah. It is written that Noah found grace in the eye of the Lord.Gen 6:8

Therefore, when God told Abram to be perfect before Him, obviously God not 
being evil, gave Abram access to grace, which made Him perfect before God.

Geness 18: 1 As soon as God had finished speaking with Abraham, the Lord 
appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: 

Now the Lord here is Jesus Christ who was with God before the beginning. He 
represented, so to say, the physical form of God on earth. Now, it is written in the 
book of John that Jesus Christ was full of Grace and Truth.

It is also written that Jesus Christ is the source and perfecter of our faith –

Hebrews 12: 2
Therefore, as it is written, Jesus Christ promised us the Holy Spirit, therefore He 
has given us the Holy Spirit to be the perfecter of our faith.

We can come therefore to the major conclusion that by faith, we receive the Holy Spirit and we are made perfect.
During the Mosaic law, God asked or demanded the perfection of the Hebrews, 
that is, an out ward manifestation of it. Perfection in God’s eyes towards us is 
complete being in Jesus Christ, our manifestation of perfection is where we 
continue to improve day by day. But God said of the Hebrews that :

Deu 5: 29 – O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their 
children for ever.

Therefore, as the Apostle Paul wrote seeing that the old covenant had some fault, God gave them the new covenant which is received when a person gives their lives to Jesus Christ. By this they receive the promise of Grace and by this a covenant which promises a renewed heart and with which people can now be obedient to the commandments / instructions of God growing from level to level, from faith to faith as it is written: See Ezekiel 36

Rom I: 16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of 
God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew, and also to the greek, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the Just shall live by faith.

The greek here is a representation of anyone outside the Hebrew nation.

… run with endurance the race that lies before us Hebrews 12: 23

The race that was before Jesus when he walked the earth was the assignment of the ‘cross’ being the Christ, therefore, God has given each one of us a race, that is our purpose, which we would achieve with the help of the Holy Spirit of God. In Jesus 
name, Amen.

You who have read this and have not given your life to Christ Jesus prior to this time, but NOW you want to do so; please pray this prayer: 


“I believe that Jesus Christ the Son of God is the Lamb of God who has taken away my sins by shedding his blood, and dying on the cross, I believe that God raised Him on the third day and He has ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, the Father. I am now born again. Amen.”
Congratulations. You are now Born Again. And you are now a partaker of all the eternal inheritance in Jesus. 

Do join a Bible believing Church for you to continue to grow in Christ. Pray that God guides you to the church that will be best for your spiritual growth.

Thanks for reading.

Oladimeji Obidairo 

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