The Supernatural Neglect - Using our Salvation

A Sermon on Using our Salvation

Hebrews 2:1-4 (NIV)

We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

2 For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,

3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

1. The Offer of Salvation - The Greatness of our Gift

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

2. The Neglect of Salvation - the Slowness of our Drift

Hebrews 2:1, 3

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

3. The Application of Salvation - The Fullness of our Shift

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

3.1 Exclusive Boundaries

Hebrews 2:2 For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

Exodus 20:2-4

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,…

3.2 Listening

Disobedience

3.3 Witness

Hebrews 2:4

God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

Miracles and gifts

1 Corinthians 2:4

My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power

Bring the Holy Supernatural into the unholy natural

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