More Qualifiers (Continued)

“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation” Hebrews 9:28).

Notice the Evangelist does not say “to bear the sins of all”, but rather “to bear the sins of many”. Not everyone will be saved.

And who would that “many”, be? Simple, it is “…them that look for him…”

Are you “looking” for Christ? What does that mean anyway, to “look” for Christ?

To look is a process, an on-going and continuous process.

Expectation, waiting, hope, patience: “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God….And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” (Romans 8:19, 23-25).

Wait and be confirmed: “So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 1:7-8).

“For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith” (Galatians 5:5).

“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord” (Psalm 27:14).

“The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord” (Lamentations 3:24-26).

Look, wait, and hope in the Lord, these are all part and parcel of the ongoing process of salvation.

Bill Hitchcock