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Keep your confidence

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Keep your confidence "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. (Heb.10.35) The reverse of cast away is to keep. Keep your confidence. Confidence is an essential ingredient in approaching God's throne.  The Bible says we should come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in times of need. Another word for bold is confidence. Confidence is necessary.  "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Heb.4.16) Our text says that confidence is ours to cast away or to keep. And that if we keep it, it has great recompense of reward. If you look at those three last words - great recompense of reward . The best explanation I can give is that it has a double reward system attached to it. But what it actually means is that multiple rewards are attached to your confidence. Case in point, the prodigal son in Luke 15- he was...