Hebrews 6:10

Heb. 6:10. For God (is) not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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[For God is not unrighteous to forget, etc.] This is spoken in the same sense as that in the 1 John 1:9 if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. God's righteousness obliges him to forgive sinners upon repentance. Vid note on Nehemiah 9:8 and note on Isaiah 45:23.

In the ordination of deacons sermon on Romans 12:4-8 (1739) this text shows that "ministering" refers to meeting of bodily needs. "So when the apostle commends the Christian Hebrews for their charity to the saints he says, Hebrews 6:10…."

The very beginning of The History of Redemption appeals to Hebrews 6:10. The contrary happy lot and portion of God's church expressed in these words, "my righteousness shall be forever and my salvation [from generation to generation]." Who are meant as those that shall have the benefit of this we also learn by the preceding verse, viz. they "that know righteousness and the people in whose heart is God's law," or in one word, the church of God. And concerning that happiness of theirs here spoken of we may observe two things: viz. (1) wherein it consists and (2) its continuance.

1 Wherein it consists, viz. in God's righteousness [and] salvation toward them. By God's righteousness here is meant his faithfulness in fulfilling his covenant promises to his church, or his faithfulness towards his church and people in bestowing the benefits of the covenant of grace upon them. Which benefits, though they are bestowed of free and sovereign grace as being altogether undeserved, yet as God has been pleased by the promises of the covenant of grace to bind himself to bestow them, so they are bestowed in the exercise of God's righteousness or justice. And therefore the Apostle says in Hebrews 6:10, "God is not unrighteous to forget [your work and labor of love]." So 1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us [from all unrighteousness]."