Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Hey y’all.

Y’all good?

Everyone alright?

Cool cool.

So question for you?

Have any of you ever missed out on something nice because you just didn’t really pay attention?

or look in to it?

Someone mentioned something to you and you were like, yeah i’ll look in to it!

and you never did?

Or you didn’t go on some trip your friends went on to and it turned out to be the greatest trip ever or something like that?

Anyone know anyone who missed a field trip cause they didn't get the permission slip signed?

So i didn’t miss a field trip but I am reminded yearly of an opportunity i missed out on.

Every year around may or something i am reminded, through of all things, facebook.

in i think 2011 my buddy Ben had wrote on my facebook wall, which i’m not even sure is still a thing, but he wrote, “What the heck even is Bitcoin?

haha”

anyone familiar with cryptocurrency?

I know some of you are.

if you aren’t familiar let me give you a bad explanation because i’m still not sure how it works.

but basically its a form of currency that is digital, it it not tied to a bank or anything, that’s kind of the draw, it has no real value.

it is all digital.

Idk really how it works but what I do know is in 2011 it was worth about .50 cents per coin.

in 2011, I almost tried to buy some, i had about 100 bucks i could have spent on it, but i didn’t understand it, still don’t understand it, the 5 min google search i gave it just didn’t really help me out.

anyways, i shrugged it off, didn’t think anything of it.

fast forward to last year around may, that coin that was worth about 50 cents was worth 72 thousand dollars.

so if you had a 100 bucks, bought 200 coins, you would have had about 14 million dollars last may.

kinda fumbled the bag there.

I mean sort of.

but anyway i tell you that just so you can have in your mind this idea of neglecting something and it turns out to be true.

Thats going to be part of the idea we are looking at tonight in hebrews,

So if you have a bible, go ahead and flip over to hebrews 2, does anyone need a bible?

I have ordered new ones, we were running low, so I have some more.

anyone need one?

throw a hand up if you need one.

I want you to bring your bible.

I want you to have the word in front of you.

there is something about having it in your hands.

So last call for bible, anyone need one?

Context

okay cool, so Hebrews 2, we were in Hebrews on last week.

So while you’re getting over to it, let me give you some context.

Remember the main over arching thing i this letter is, Jesus is Greater.

We looked last week that Jesus is the Perfect Prophet, the Perfect Priest, the Perfect King.

That God is knowable, that God speaks to us through His word.

That God is not hidden, but that He is there wanting to know us and us to know Him.

That Jesus is Greater.

So the idea we are looking at tonight is that Salvation given to us by God is greater than anything because of how salvation is given to us and from what salvations aves us from.

So with that in our minds lets read this first chunk then we will get to the second chunk in a second.

but before we do that, let’s pray for our time in the word tonight.

pray

Okay cool, let’s read this first chunk together and look at it.

Okay so what do we have here?

First thing we see is a therefore, so what is the there there for?

Think of it as a “because,” linking what we looked at last week to this week.

because Christ is Greater, because God is knowable, because our God is active a working, Because God has made a way for us to know him, Because God has made a way for salvation.

‘Because of this’ “we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.”

God is speaking to us through His word, pay attention, do not neglect.

This is a warning, the author is warning us to not take lightly the words we have heard.

Look at verse 3 “how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,”

The Lord spoke through Christ, revealed Himself perfectly in the person and work of Christ and the people, the disciples, the followers of Jesus carried this message, the surrounding world has seen the power of the Gospel, the Holy Spirit is working.

Pentacost was with in living memory.

You don’t have to flip to it but listen to what they would have remembered and experienced Acts 2:5-11

The Holy Spirit has come upon them.

Some of them would have been there and could attest to what they saw.

This is saying do not neglect what you have heard.

Don’t neglect the gospel.

Salvation is offered to us

What do we take form this? First thing we need to see is Salvation is offered to us.

Salvation is offered to us.

You and I and everyone you have ever met has been born with a sin nature.

We are born in to a world corrupted by sin.

Sin permeates this world.

In the garden when Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree, they disobeyed God.

They brought sin in to the world, sin seeped in and began corrupting everything.

Who has their own car in here?

anyone scratched it pretty good?

where it gets up under the paint?

like through the clear coat, through the paint and in to the metal?

anyone have that?

That metal when it gets wet will rust, the metal will start to deteriorate.

It may not look bad at first, but you have to get in there and clean the rust out and seal it to keep it from getting after your car.

Ever seen a car in the woods?

That thing is rusted out.

Sin is like Rust, it slowly eats at this world.

Adam and Eve sinned and now sin is in this world, death is now in this world.

God offers us salvation from sin, from the effects of sin, for the effects of our sin nature.

Verse 2 “For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,”

Sin will be punished, every sin will be made right.

The wrath of God will be poured out on sin.

Salvation is offered to us, and what is this saving us from?

Sin, Death, Eternal separation from God.

The King of the Universe, the one who will make all things right offers us salvation.

And not just salvation but He offers us Himself, he offers us His righteousness, He gives us the offer to become a son and daughter of the King.

Taking the enemy in and making them His son.

That is the salvation offered to us.

The author is saying to not neglect what you have heard, do not take lightly what you have heard.

If we take lightly the salvation offered to us, we will drift away.

Thats the second thing i want you to see here in this first chunk.

If we neglect salvation, if we neglect what we have heard, we will drift away.