Hebrews 2:1-4 | What's the connection?
What Have We Heard?
Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.
-Hebrews 2:1
-Hebrews 2:1
We are faced with a fairly broad context when reading this verse. We may understand the instruction to give more earnest heed. We may even understand the warning of drifting away. That, however, does not answer what we are to give the more earnest heed too. Could it be the testimony of the prophets and what God had spoken to them? Could it be those things spoken by the angels? I think it most likely is those things spoken by the Son. For God,
2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds
-Hebrews 1:2
The context of Hebrews 2:1 goes back to Hebrews 1:2. The point that the author of Hebrews is getting at is that we should heed the words of Jesus. But again... what words?
2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds
-Hebrews 1:2
The context of Hebrews 2:1 goes back to Hebrews 1:2. The point that the author of Hebrews is getting at is that we should heed the words of Jesus. But again... what words?
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
-Hebrews 2:3
-Hebrews 2:3
The words that we are to give the more earnest heed to are the words pertaining to salvation. If we are to give more earnest heed to the things we have heard, and what we have heard are those things pertaining to the Son, and it is the Son who brought forth the proclamation of salvation, should we not give more earnest heed to those words?
Remember the audience that is being considered here. There are many who are departing from the faith and denying the Son so that they may come into the good graces of Rome and the Synagogue. They are giving heed to the voices of the prophets as interpreted by the Jewish leaders of the day. They are not heeding the words of God through the Son. There is a challenge given to those who may be on the fence. There is a risk they are taking should they not heed the words of the Son. What does the Son say concerning those who do not heed His words?
Remember the audience that is being considered here. There are many who are departing from the faith and denying the Son so that they may come into the good graces of Rome and the Synagogue. They are giving heed to the voices of the prophets as interpreted by the Jewish leaders of the day. They are not heeding the words of God through the Son. There is a challenge given to those who may be on the fence. There is a risk they are taking should they not heed the words of the Son. What does the Son say concerning those who do not heed His words?
26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.
-Matthew 7:26-27
-Matthew 7:26-27
The fall is great for any who would fail to heed these words concerning salvation. Jesus is the only way. There is no other. The question then becomes do they fear the Lord, or do they fear man?
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