Hold Fast

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Hold Fast

• Common Admonition Hold Fast
• Gk. Katecho (katecw)
• From kata (down), and echo (hold)
• to hold firmly, hold fast (Vines)
• to hold fast, keep secure, keep firm possession
  of (Thayer)

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Hold Fast

• That Which is Good (1 Thess. 516-21)

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1 Thessalonians 516-21

• Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18
  in everything give thanks for this is the will
  of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench
  the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21
  Test all things hold fast what is good.

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Hold Fast

• That Which is Good (1 Thess. 516-21)
• The Form of Sound Words (2 Tim. 113-15)

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2 Timothy 113-15

• Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you
  have heard from me, in faith and love which are
  in Christ Jesus. 14 That good thing which was
  committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who
  dwells in us. 15 This you know, that all those
  in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are
  Phygellus and Hermogenes.

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Hold Fast

• That Which is Good (1 Thess. 516-21)
• The Form of Sound Words (2 Tim. 113-15)
• The Faithful Word (Titus 17-9)

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Titus 17-9

• For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of
  God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not
  given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
  8 but hospitable, a lover of what is good,
  sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled, 9
  holding fast the faithful word as he has been
  taught, that he may be able, by sound
  doctrine, both to exhort and
  convict those who contradict.

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Hold Fast

• That Which is Good (1 Thess. 516-21)
• The Form of Sound Words (2 Tim. 113-15)
• The Faithful Word (Titus 17-9)
• Hope (Heb. 34-6)

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Hebrews 34-6

• For every house is built by someone, but He who
  built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was
  faithful in all His house as a servant, for a
  testimony of those things which would be spoken
  afterward, 6 but Christ as a Son over His own
  house, whose house we are if we hold fast the
  confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to
  the end.

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Hold Fast

• That Which is Good (1 Thess. 516-21)
• The Form of Sound Words (2 Tim. 113-15)
• The Faithful Word (Titus 17-9)
• Hope (Heb. 34-6)
• Our Profession (Heb. 414-16)

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Hebrews 414-16

• Seeing then that we have a great high priest,
  that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of
  God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we
  have not an high priest which cannot be touched
  with the feeling of our infirmities but was in
  all points tempted like as we are, yet without
  sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the
  throne of grace, that we may obtain
  mercy, and find grace to help in time
  of need. (KJV)

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Hold Fast

• That Which is Good (1 Thess. 516-21)
• The Form of Sound Words (2 Tim. 113-15)
• The Faithful Word (Titus 17-9)
• Hope (Heb. 34-6)
• Our Profession (Heb. 414-16)
• The Confession of our Hope (Heb. 1019-23)

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Hebrews 1019-23

• 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.

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Conclusion

• We need to keep firmly in our possession the true
  words of the gospel, and the hope we have for
  heaven. Thus equipped both with the means and
  motivation, we can reach eternity with God.