3 responses to God’s final revelation of Jesus amidst intense suffering
I. Pay More Careful Attention to the Message of Salvation
Hebrews 2:1 - For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.
II. Be Warned by the Consequences of Neglecting so Great a Salvation
Hebrews 2:2-3 - For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation…
A. Consider the problem – Some in the congregation were tempted to turn back to shadows and tastes of grace/mercy to avoid present difficulties
Deuteronomy 33:1-2 - Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death. He said, “The Lord came from Sinai, and dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, and He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones; at His right hand there was flashing lightning for them.”
Galatians 3:19 - Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.
B. Consider the greater salvation
C. Consider the consequences of neglect
Hebrews 4:1 - Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.
Hebrews 12:3 - …so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Hebrews 10:26 - …there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins…
Hebrews 12:15 - See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God…
III. Be Assured by the Authority and Reliability of God's Message of Salvation
Hebrews 2:3-4 - After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.
A. Announced by the Lord
B. Confirmed by witnesses
C. Testified by God through signs, wonders, miracles, and gifts
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