Holding fast and heeding the things we have heard to prevent any drifting away!
Holdfast to Jesus Christ and Him Crucified
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, :4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
Hebrews chapter 1 brings great revelation of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The declaration is made that Jesus Himself purged us from our sins and sat down at the right hand of God. God calls us not to drift away from the great sacrifice of the cross of Jesus Christ. It is exclusively through Christ Jesus that sin has been dealt with. We must give ear to Jesus Christ if we are to walk in victory. See verse 3 it was first spoken by Jesus Christ! The writers of Hebrews is speaking of the covenant of grace and truth brought exclusive through Jesus Christ.
John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
This grace and truth found in Jesus Christ was confirmed by signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit according to God’s will. God is still confirming with signs and wonders, and gift of the Holy Spirit. Much of the modern church has done the opposite of these verses in Hebrews they have begun to neglect this salvation rejecting the gifts of the Spirit to operate in their churches and even saying the times of signs and wonders are past. This foolishness has made for a hollow religious experience that leaves one still searching and hungering for the fullness of a living relationship with Jesus. Too many have drifted away! Jesus is the same Jesus! He is Savior, Healer, Baptizer of the Holy Spirit, and our soon returning King!
Hebrews 2:5 For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. 6 But one testified in a certain place, saying: "What is man that You are mindful of him, Or the son of man that You take care of him? 7 You have made him a little lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And set him over the works of Your hands. 8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
All things are subject to Jesus! All things are subject to Jesus! In this life we may not see everything subject under Him; however we DO SEE JESUS! Jesus tasted death for everyone! Sometimes we make verses read over verse. We don’t stop and consider what they mean and the ramifications the truth might bring to our lives. The depth of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is our only source for victory; the victory Jesus won for the believer can not be overstated!
Romans 5:18 Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.
The sacrifice of good performance can not take the place of Jesus' supreme sacrifice! Our trust and confidence must ever be in the One Man Jesus Christ obedience to the death of the cross for you and me! The object of our faith must ever remain in Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.
It pleased God to bruise Jesus and make His very soul an offering for sin. When the Father saw the labor of Jesus' soul He was satisfied with the offering for sin. Jesus' supreme sacrifice for sins met justice demands; there can not ever be another sacrifice for sin! The only sacrifice to bring is a living sacrifice. That living sacrifice is also based on the strength of Jesus' sacrifice. The living sacrifice is the sacrifice of praise; the fruit of our lips giving praise to His name!
Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
God’s mighty work takes you from being a sinner and applies the blood of Jesus to make you his child. The Father has qualified us to be partakers; we must exclusively trust in the work that God has done for us! It can never be anything else! Our good works must always be the overflow of the goodness of God. Our good works can never be the factor that brings righteousness to any degree.
John 10:10 "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Jesus' declaration is straight forward. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy; Jesus comes for life and life to complete abundance. Jesus has never done you evil. One may say well that is a given; yet many folks religion and philosophy say otherwise. Jesus already bore the burden, grief, sorrow, and shame of the sin of the world. Jesus has made a way for your release! If you, the believer, are in bondage it is because of a lie the enemy has sold you!
2 Timothy 2:24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
Satan has taken believers into captivity and God wants to set you free. What will set one free; the truth found exclusively in Jesus Christ. A believer in bondage is a believer who has not submitted to the fullness of God’s grace. It is not the will of God for believers to live in depression, sorrows, sickness, or captivity to sin or bondage. The truth of God’s grace brings life. The strength of Jesus' sacrifice is great enough to break bondage, perversion, oppression, or lack of joy in your life.
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Jesus' sacrifice makes you worthy! To believe you are not worthy of complete freedom in Christ is to believe the sacrifice of Jesus is not enough!
Romans 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
The Father is just and He is the Justifier. It is a righteous thing the Father does to make the believer’s in Jesus Christ just as if they never sinned! It would be unjust for me to preach anything else! Your redemption from every and any bondage is found in the Father setting forth Jesus is your propitiation by His blood! Your freedom is not elusive but certain when founded exclusively upon the work of the cross Jesus Christ performed! Turn your eyes upon Him; His promise is to guard you from the evil one!
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