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.
2Â For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
3Â 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.
4Â 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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