Hebrews 2:1
Dangers of the Current
Outline:
I. \\#1:1-3\\ Meet the New Speaker
II. \\#1:4-8:6\\ The New Is Better
A. \\#1:4-14\\ Jesus Was MADE Better Than the Angels
B. \\#2:1-4\\ A Warning
C. \\#2:5-8\\ Jesus was MADE Better Than the Angels
\\Heb 1:1-4\\ We have been introduced to the new Spokesman for God,
His Son. In the remainder of the chapter, we found out that Jesus
was MADE BETTER than the angels. The writer made that abundantly
clear. In the first four verses of this chapter, he made it clear
that any who will not listen to the God’s Son, is in great danger.
Heb 2:1 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.
I. Note the CURRENT.
Heb 1:1 …lest at any time we should let them
slip.
A. The writer was warning people not to slip.
1. People do not fall on purpose.
2. They slip and fall.
3. The implication is that something could happen to those
who do not listen to the Son, even those who do not
intend, for it to happen.
4. What? They could fall away from Christ.
a. That very terminology is used three times in New
Testament.
Heb 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into
that rest, lest any man fall after the same
example of unbelief.
Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, (it is
impossible) to renew them again unto
repentance…
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give
diligence to make your calling and election sure:
for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
b. What is the cure to make certain one does not FALL
AWAY FROM CHRIST?
(1) Go back and read Peter’s use of the word.
(2) If you do not want to fall away from Christ, make
certain you are His THEN "YE SHALL NEVER FALL."
(3) Making sure that you are saved is the solution.
(4) Why? Because saved people don’t fall away.
5. Listen carefully: Anyone who falls away from Christ, falls
away from Christ because they were not saved.
a. Saved people do not "fall away" because they are kept
by the power of God.
1Pe 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the
last time.
Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent
me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come
into condemnation; but is passed from death unto
life.
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and
they shall never perish, neither shall any man
pluck them out of my hand.
b. But the writer of this book has a concern that some
who are reading it are not saved, so he will speak to
them—quite often actually.
(1) He will warn them that they could slip or fall
away from Jesus—not the saved folk but the
unsaved folk.
(2) Some read what the writer directs to the unsaved
folk, and they think the writer is writing to
the saved folk.
(3) Well, he isn’t.
(a) How do I know?
(b) Because I have read the rest of the book.
(c) Saved people cannot fall away from Christ.
(d) If they can, the whole Bible is a fraud and
there is nothing to fall away from!
B. But the Greek word for slip means more than to slip.
1. The Greek word means "to flow on."
2. Some prefer the word "drift."
a. One drifts because of the current.
b. If there was no current, you would not need your
automated trolling motors to stay in on your fishing
spot.
c. It is the current that pulls you along.
3. The writer is not just saying you can slip and fall.
a. He is also saying there is a pull or a force working
to pull those who are not hearing the Son from
Christ, away from the Bible, away from church.
b. "Be careful," the writer says, "lest you get pulled
away from Christ."
4. The question becomes, "Who or what is doing the pulling?"
a. In the beginning, the devil pulls you away from the
things of Christ.
(1) Why? He does not want you to be saved.
(2) All of those activities, all of those friends,
all those unexpected problems and opportunities
that can only be done on Sunday and only during
church are the devil’s designs to damn your
soul.
b. But after a time, God might push the lost away from
Christian things.
(1) That sounds harsh, but I would wish that God
would do just that for all who will not be
saved.
(2) Why?
(a) To show you that you are lost.
1Jo 2:19 They went out from us, but they were
not of us; for if they had been of us, they would
no doubt have continued with us: but they went
out, that they might be made manifest that they
were not all of us.
(b) People who won’t get saved but get religion
lull themselves into religion without
salvation.
(c) Religion without salvation is damnation!
(d) I wish God would push every lost religious
person away from their religion: their
church, whatever book of beliefs they have,
their rituals, everything—so that person
might not use religion as a reason to stay
lost!
II. Note the ENCOURAGEMENT.
A. Notice the writer never made a command in this verse.
Heb 1:1 Therefore we ought to….
1. That is not a command. It is a suggestion.
2. But it is the best suggestion you will get.
3. To do what?
Heb 1:1 …give the more earnest heed….
B. To "give heed" means we should listen and obey what is being
said.
C. But then the writer added, "give the more" heed, he was saying
give special diligence to listen and to obey.
D. It is sad beyond comprehension that so many are so close to
salvation, yet so far from it.
1. They sit in churches, mosques, and cathedrals, some with
Bibles, but they are not hearing the words of the Bible.
a. In many cases, it is because the Bible is not being
spoken.
b. In others, it is that they are not listening to them.
2. While this may in fact be the last generation that does
this, it definitely isn’t the first.
3. Jesus told the people of His day:
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye
think ye have eternal life: and they are they
which testify of me.
E. So the writer encourages the people to listen and obey with
diligence to what is being written to them.
III. Note the DANGER.
A. If we are pulled away from Christ—saved or lost—there is
danger.
B. What makes being pulled away from Jesus dangerous?
1. Because of Who is doing the speaking.
a. The Speaker is no longer a mere prophet or even an
angel.
He 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by
his Son….
Heb 2:3 …which at the first began to be spoken
by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them
that heard him]
b. The words of God’s angels have been absolutely true.
Heb 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was
stedfast, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just recompence of
reward;
c. But the point the writer has been making is that Jesus
is better than the angels, and He is.
(1) And His words are far more sure.
(2) In addition, the angels are limited in what they
know and to whom they can speak.
(3) The new Spokesman, God’s Son, knows all and tells
all.
(a) Like most tell-all books, the ones that are
being written about don’t like the Bible.
(b) He is telling us:
i. That there is a heaven for the saved
and a hell for the lost.
ii. That hell is torment and lasts forever.
iii. That the decision of who will go to
hell and heaven has already been made!
aa. People who trust Jesus will go to
heaven.
bb. Everyone else will go to hell.
iv. That once death comes, it is too late
to change your mind.
v. That the conditions of salvation are
faith and repentance.
(c) But the more God tell us, the more we get
angry with God.
(d) Friend, it’s a warning not a threat.
d. Listen with diligence and obey!
2. Because of the signs that came with the words.
Heb 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with
signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and
gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own
will?
a. God’s Son did not just speak these words to us.
He backed them up with miracles.
b. And while it is possible that most of those who saw
Jesus had already passed, the apostles who continued
to carry His words, also backed them up with
miracles.
(1) You and I are in a time period where we do not
get to hear the words of either one of those or
see the miracles that they did, but we get
something better than all of the generations
that come in-between.
(2) We get to see their prophecies come to pass!
(a) Israel is already a nation again.
(b) There has been a great falling away.
(c) The great delusion appears to already be
underway.
(d) And there are some who "think to change
times and laws" \\#Dan 7:25\\.
(3) What better proof is there?
3. Because even the words and actions of the angels brought
severe judgment.
a. Ask Sodom and Gomorrah.
Ge 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at
even….
Ge 19:13 For we will destroy this place, because
the cry of them is waxen great before the face of
the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy
it.
Ge 19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and
upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD
out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the
plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and
that which grew upon the ground.
b. Ask the Egyptians who had one angel move through their
land simply referred to as the "destroyer."
c. Ask the people of Israel.
1Chron 21:14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon
Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand
men.
15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to
destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD
beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said
to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay
now thine hand…
d. Friend, if the judgments of the angels were severe,
how much more the judgment of the Son?
(1) The writer asked the question:
Heb 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so
great salvation…
(2) He will answer his own question later:
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we
have received the knowledge of the truth, there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment
and fiery indignation, which shall devour the
adversaries.
While there is ample hope and opportunity for you to be forgiven,
forgiveness only comes though the blood of Jesus Christ. Reject Him,
and there is no other hope.
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