Living by Faith Versus Drawing Back.
Scripture : Hebrews 10:35-39
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
In the first part of verse 38 we see repeated the biblical injunction we read earlier in Romans 1:17: the just shall live by faith. This is not an option or a suggestion, it is a command, one that goes all the way back to the Old Testament where we see these same words recorded in Habakkuk 2:4. In the New Testament, this same commandment is repeated in Galatians 3:11. Throughout the Bible, the Lord makes it abundantly clear that He expects those who are righteous to manifest that righteousness by following a consistent lifestyle of faith.
Now notice in the second part of that same verse the Lord\’s attitude toward anyone “who draws back from this consistent lifestyle: my soul shall have no pleasure in him. God has no pleasure in those who cave in, compromise, and draw back from the life of faith. That doesn\’t mean that He doesn\’t love them, only that He is not pleased with them.