"....How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation...?" (Hebrews 2:3)
Ah, Hebrews again. What a delight; the first book of the Bible I read when I was just beginning to read, reading it from a KJV Bible my paternal grandparents gave me on my sixth birthday; my Grandpa Barnette's "favorite" Book of the Bible. Anyone who reads this Epistle will see why. Hebrews addresses the Covenant. I don't like to say, "Covenants," because I believe there is only one Covenant. What seems to be several covenants are really just various ways of foreshadowing the One Covenant which would be revealed in the appearing of Jesus Christ, what the writer refers to as, "a better covenant." Just as the first verse of chapter one says, "God, who at sundry times and divers manners spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son...." Biblical Theology teaches that all prophecy, all Scripture is fulfilled, revealed, completed, "in these last days...by (in) His Son," Jesus. Hebrews is an "outline" of the Bible, a summation of what the German calls, Heilsgschichte, "Salvation History."
Our text is a "famous" passage of Hebrews. The question here is rhetorical; no people who, "neglect so great a salvation," escape." This, "so great a salvation," is the only Salvation of, "Our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13).
Read Hebrews 1, the foundation of the question in our text. No greater exultant revelation of Jesus exists anywhere, "heir of all things.., made the worlds.., brightness of [Father's] glory and express image of His Person, upholding all things by the word of His power,..purged our sins,..better than... angels,..a more excellent name." And Father commands, "Let all the angels of God worship Him." Father declares, "Your throne, O God is forever and ever .... You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain.... You are the same, and Your years will not fail------- so great a Salvation"!
The world system has neglected this, "so great a salvation," to its undoing, tragic devastation, hatred, bitterness, wars, emptiness, despair. But to those of us who embrace, give our all, "press on," to walk in Jesus Christ, our, "So Great a Salvation," there is joy, peace, deliverance, unspeakable comfort and total victory.
Father, in Jesus' Name, forgive me when I may have sought joy, peace, and unspeakable comfort in anything else. Thank You for, "so great a Salvation."
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Read of Methodist General Conference "Repentance" at:
Unreached People Group: www.apfunreachedpeoples.blogspot.com
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
