There’s another warning here about producing good fruit instead of thorns. There is a judgment of our works. Are we producing fruit, what is a blessing to others, or are we producing thorns, that which only harms?

Are we loving others?

You can be saved on your death bed and your only good work is confessing your sin and calling on Christ to save you. I’m not saying we need to earn salvation through works. That person will be judged on their work of turning to Christ for salvation.

But if you are saved before that moment, you need to live in that salvation. You need to keep looking to Christ as your savior. Christ alone produces the fruit. Branches don’t do anything but hold out their arms to the sun/Son. It’s the Spirit in us that produces the fruit. We look to Him. He does the work. Keep looking at Jesus. He is your life, your salvation, your every hope today and always.

We have nothing good in us. Our fruit will be rotten if we are trying to give God anything of ourselves.

But as the writer of Hebrews says, he feels “sure of better things” for you, “things that belong to salvation.”

You belong to salvation. Jesus is salvation. Give Him your life. Belong to Him. His Spirit in you will produce good fruit. His Spirit in you is love poured out. Love is the fulfillment of the law.

Don’t serve the saints to earn salvation. Serve the saints because you have been loved, deeply and perfectly loved, undeservedly loved.

We have a sure hope in our salvation because our hope isn’t in our ability to be good or in our good works. Our hope is solely in Jesus.

He is a steadfast anchor that holds us fast in God’s presence through His righteousness, holiness, redemption. He became those things for us. He became those things in us. He is our righteousness, our right standing before God. He is our sanctification, our holiness that separates us to God. He is our redemption, our purchase price to buy our lives back from death.

And He is our wisdom that keeps us relying solely on Him, looking solely to Him for our salvation, day to day, moment to moment.

His salvation is God’s promise and God cannot lie.