Summary The author advances his rhetorical goal for the hearers by affirming the availability of great and timely resources to help them persevere unto the goal of their calling. No less a broker than Jesus has secured access for them to no less a patron than God himself. Rather than succumb to any pressure or hardship they face on the way to their eternal inheritance of honor and homeland, they have every cause to hold onto their confession. Jesus himself provides a model for their own struggle,