How shall we escape....

Heb 2:1-3 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him


Every transgression
Every disobedience…


…will receive its just reward.


Make NO mistake people! No mistake! We have to give EARNEST HEED to what we know, because if we don't, if we just let what we know of salvation slip away we will NOT ESCAPE! If we neglect salvation we will NOT ESCAPE! It's not automatic, eternal life in Christ is NOT automatic. What is automatic is eternal death if we neglect the great salvation of our Savior.


Are you giving earnest heed to your Salvation? What happens when you stop heeding salvation? What happens when eternal life ceases to be a concern and all that matters is the life you have right here on earth now? Should thoughts of salvation be daily thoughts? Should the eternal be a daily contemplation or just something you think about once in a while, from time to time? Should our eternal life be something like retirement? You think about it occasionally and even make a few plans for it, you accept a few conditions here and there about investing in your retirement fund, but it isn't something you bother yourself with every day. Maybe the older you get the more you think about it and then as it approaches you have constant thoughts. If we treat our eternal life in the same way there is a great chance that we will have neglected salvation. No, you say? You will have saved up for eternal life? You will have put away a little something? It doesn't work like that. It's not retirement, it's not a new phase of life as you wait for inevitable dying. Eternal life is just that - eternity. It's so much more important than any sort of retirement. Eternal life needs earnest heeding. Eternal life needs to be experienced every day, constantly. Eternal life needs to be part of our daily life now, not something we think about later on.


How else shall we escape?


Do you really believe that life is nothing more than birth, aging, and death? Do you really believe that here and now is all that life consists of? The real world is the eternal world, not this world we are living on right now. The real world exists beyond this one. Satan would have us believe that this is the real world and all there is and everything else is mere fantasy. Satan would have us believe that we don't have to concern ourselves with heeding earnestly anything spiritually discerned- if we keep our thoughts in the real world, on real problems, on real life will we be okay- that's Satan's plan for any and all he can convince.


Heb 2:1-3 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him


Unless we recognize our sinning and seek salvation through repentance and the grace of our Lord and Savior, unless we realize our need of constant salvation through the righteousness of God's Son, we will have to pay a price for every sin, for every transgression. Our Savior paid the price for us, but we have to live in Him, making that gift available to us. Salvation is the gift of God and it's a gift we have to have in our hearts at all times, a salvation pacemaker if you will. Something with us at all times, working at all times on our behalf. We cannot accept salvation and like a real pacemaker forget about it being there after awhile, we need to be aware of God always. We need to be aware of God's love and the gift of God always. Once you accept Christ as your Savior you are choosing to live for Him.


Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.


The only way this verse if pertinent is if we are praying daily, right? Our Lord and Savior would have us praying daily, He would have us living in Him daily.


Joh 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
Joh 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Joh 17:13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Joh 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Joh 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Joh 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Joh 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Joh 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Joh 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Joh 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Joh 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Joh 17:25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.


By the grace and mercy of our Lord! By His will! Please Lord, please… let the love that God the Father loved His Son with be in us , and Christ be in us now and always! In His righteousness, in His amazing love!


Amen.