16. What instance of this obligatory “sacred service” is given in Hebrews 10:23-25?

¹⁶ For instance, God’s Word commands: “Let us hold fast the public declaration of our hope without wavering, for he is faithful that promised.

Heb. 10:23-25.

17. Does the way that the “superior authorities” legalistically brand our obeying the divine exhortation change the spiritual nature of our course?

¹⁷ Undeniably our obedience to this inspired exhortation, even though we suffer for it at men’s hands, is a sacred service to the Supreme Being, Jehovah God. Let the displeased “superior authorities” of the land brand it as they choose to do, legalistically.​—2 Tim. 2:8-10.

18. The “public declaration of our hope” has to do with what government, and so this comes under what mandatory words of Jesus?

¹⁸ The confession or “public declaration of our hope” has to do with God’s Messianic kingdom that will reign for the blessing of all the families of the earth. Regarding such “public declaration,” Jesus said when prophesying concerning “the conclusion of the system of things” these mandatory words: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end [telʹos] will come.” (Matt. 24:3, 14) “You will . . . be put on the stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a witness to them. Also, in all the nations the good news has to be preached.”​—Mark 13:4, 9, 10.

19. Who are the ones who must carry the fulfillment of those prophetic words into effect, and their doing so is part of what?

¹⁹ Who are to carry out the fulfillment of those prophecies that they may be proved true? No others than the dedicated, baptized disciples of the Giver of the prophecies, Jesus Christ, the ones to whom the prophecies were given. Their seeing their duty and their taking part in putting those prophecies into effect is a part of the “sacred service” that they may not sidestep.