Jesus: The Greater Salvation
Greater Than: A Study in Hebrews • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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· 12 viewsFrom the beginning, the Lord has made known to His people of His justice and His law. Throughout the Old Testament, the Lord sent messengers to His people to reveal to them the law that they were under and the justice that He was bound in His nature to keep. In seeing the impending judgment that would result, the Lord also communicated through His messengers the hope of salvation, a salvation that would come through faith and be fulfilled in its entirety in the person of Christ.
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The Weight of the Truth
The Weight of the Truth
We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
Not one command is given in chapter one but rather an encompassing picture of Jesus as the greater truth, the living representation of God.
The writer of Hebrews opens the second chapter much like a pastor. He begins to plead with the hearer that they might listen up and not miss what he is about to tell them.
We are people prone to drift away from God to move slightly to the left and the right the path that the Lord has put before us. The writer pleads that we pay attention and not miss what he is saying and drift way from the truth being shared.
This writer who is very Hebrew points the hearer back to the law, the message spoken through angels. The law was given and it was binding and held with it consequences for not keeping it. The truth that the hearers clung to was the law so lets go back to the giving of the law.
Deuteronomy 6:1-7
These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
The writer references the law for the law was given to lead people into life. The Lord gives the law to the people of Israel and tells them that if they follow the law, He will bless them and they will be led to life. If they do not follow the ways of the Lord, it will go bad for them. God’s plan for mankind, the plan that reached its culmination in the Son who is greater than all, is to lead us to life.
The Greater Salvation
The Greater Salvation
For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 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. God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
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