Hebrews 10:23

‘Let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not, for he is faithful who promised,'

The writer now applies this to his specific purpose in writing, to maintain their faith and testimony. Because of all this they are not to waver but to hold fast the confession of their hope (compare Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 6:11; Hebrews 6:18; Hebrews 7:19). The thought of ‘hope' fixes their thoughts on their future hope, emphasised with regard to God's true people in chapter 11, where it is constantly stressed that they endured because of the hope set before them. Yet here it is also in the light of their present experience of God. As a result of being purified by the blood and transformed by the Spirit, and of having full direct access to God, they must be faithful witnesses to Jesus Christ, and what He offers for the future, recognising that He who made the promises is Himself faithful and will not fail them. They must trust in the faithfulness of God (1Co 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:24) and recognise the certainty of the fulfilment of His promises, and make that confidence apparent to others, confessing their confident hope. For ‘he who confesses Me before men, him will I confess before My Father in Heaven' (Matthew 10:32).