How Shall We Escape?

Q: What does the Bible say about the importance of heeding the Gospel?

The Bible emphasizes the need to give earnest heed to the Gospel message, as it is the ultimate truth revealed by Christ. In Hebrews 2:1, it states that we ought to give the more earnest heed to what we've heard from Christ, our final messenger. This admonition underscores the gravity of the Gospel and its significance, as neglecting such a great salvation could lead to spiritual peril. The author of Hebrews, emphasizing Christ's superiority over angels and prophets, urges believers to pay attention to the truths presented in the Scriptures, underscoring that once God has spoken through His Son, there will be no further revelation. It is crucial for believers not to allow the truths of the Gospel to slip away due to distraction or indifference, as they carry the weight of eternal consequences.

Q: How do we know Christ is superior to angels?

Hebrews explicitly states that Christ has obtained a more excellent name than the angels, affirming His supreme authority. In Hebrews 1:4, it is declared that Christ, being the Son of God, has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than the angels. This superiority is further affirmed throughout the book of Hebrews by contrasting Christ's divine nature and mediatorial role with that of angels. Angels, though they are powerful messengers of God, do not possess the authority or the redemptive agency that Christ holds. As the one who upholds all things by His power and who is the express image of God, Christ's superiority is essential for understanding His unique role in salvation, affirming that He is not just a messenger but the very embodiment of God’s revelation and grace.

Q: Why is it critical for believers to remain under the preaching of the Gospel?

Remaining under the preaching of the Gospel is vital as it is the primary means by which God communicates His truth and grace to believers. In the sermon, it is highlighted that the greatest gift from God to any community is the preaching of the Gospel. This significance is rooted in the belief that the Gospel is the means through which God imparts grace, strengthens faith, and urges obedience. The preacher warns against the dangers of removing oneself from the places where the Gospel is proclaimed, citing examples of believers who left for worldly opportunities and thus endangered their spiritual well-being and that of their children. Forsaking the preaching of the Gospel leads to neglect of the great salvation that Christ offers and can result in spiritual decline and loss of communion with God. Therefore, the ongoing reception of the Gospel message is essential for growth in grace and understanding of truth.

Q: How are we to escape if we neglect so great salvation?

Neglecting the great salvation offered by Christ leads to dire consequences, as there is no other means of salvation than through Him. Hebrews 2:3 poignantly asks, 'How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?' This rhetorical question emphasizes the gravity of disregarding Christ's sacrifice and the message of grace He brought. The text underscores that salvation is not just a casual offering; it is of utmost importance because it comes from the One who is the author and finisher of faith. The implications of neglecting such a profound gift are severe, as it reflects a heart hardened to the truths of God's grace. In the counsel of Scripture, it's made clear that those who refuse to heed the message of salvation risk falling under judgment, as the Gospel is the only path to reconciliation with God and eternal life. Therefore, believers are urged to embrace and carefully consider the salvation made available through Christ.

Q: What role does Christ's suffering play in our salvation?

Christ's suffering was essential for our salvation, as it perfected Him as our mediator and high priest. The sermon describes how Christ's suffering is integral to our salvation; it was necessary for Him to be made perfect through suffering in order to fulfill His role as our mediator. In Hebrews 2:10, it states that Christ, who was made lower than the angels for a time, was crowned with glory and honor after tasting death for every man. This suffering was essential not only to bear our sins but also to secure the means of salvation by fulfilling God's justice and righteousness. By experiencing human trials and suffering, Christ can relate to our weaknesses and provide the necessary grace to those who are tempted. This deep connection and understanding He offers as a result of His suffering is what makes Him a merciful and faithful high priest, capable of interceding for us.

Now let's open our Bibles again
to Hebrews, but this time to chapter 2. Chapter 2 of Hebrews. You note that this chapter begins
with the word, therefore. Therefore. That's the reason
that I had John read chapter 1, because what he has to say
in this second chapter relates to what he's already said. Therefore,
therefore, since God has spoken to us by his Son, look back there
at chapter 1, verse 1, God, who at sundry times and in divers
manners fake in time past unto the fathers, but the prophets
hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. Since God has spoken to us by
his Son, and since we have a full revelation, in him dwelleth all
the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Who is this Son? Look back at
chapter He's the one, in verse 2, by whom, or whom he hath appointed
heir of all things. He's the one by whom he made
the worlds. He's the one who reveals and
is the brightness of his glory. He's the one who is the express
image of his person. He is the one who upholdeth all
things by the word of his power. He is the one who by himself
purged our sins. He is the one as mediator who
is sat down at the right hand of God, in whom all fullness
dwells. Therefore, since Christ, who
is infinitely above all angels and all prophets, and that's
what the book of Hebrews is all about. That's what it's about. If you can catch and get hold
of that one keep. Christ is more excellent than
the angels. Christ is more excellent than
Moses. Christ is more excellent than
all the priests. Christ is more excellent than
the old covenant, the old law, and his sacrifice is that perfect,
effectual, sufficient sacrifice. To get hold of that, you can
learn the book of Hebrews. That's what it's all about. And
since Christ, who is infinitely above all angels, and above all
prophets, and above all priests and sacrifices, we ought to give
the more earnest heed to what we've heard from him and of him."
Hebrews 2, verse 1. Therefore, since all these things
are true, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things
which we've heard. From whom? From here on, he's the last messenger. There'll be no more signs. There'll
be no more signs in the heavens. There'll be no more miracles.
There'll be no more special messengers. He's the messenger of the covenant.
There won't be another one. There will not be another one.
He's the last messenger. God has spoken by his Son. Don't expect God to send anyone
else. because it'd be anticlimactic
for anybody else to come. He's the exact image of God. He's the brightness of his glory.
God has spoken by his son. He that has seen me has seen
God. He that has heard Christ has heard God. Don't expect any
other special sign, messenger, or miracle. It's not coming.
Not coming. Since these things are true,
and we've heard from him, we ought to give more special, earnest
heed, lest at any time we let them slip. Let them slip, or
the margins have run out, as from a leaky vessel. Now, how
does a person let these things slip, these things that we've
heard of Christ? One way is by not receiving the
Word when it's preached. Not receiving the Word when it's
preached. How many times does God have
to say something to us? And when God, through His Son,
through His Word, through the Gospel, speaks to us, don't let
it slip by not heeding and obeying what He says to us. Secondly,
we can let them slip by being taken up with other things, and
neglecting the truth of the gospel. Being taken up with other things,
like the seed sown among the thorns. It springs up, but also
the thorns spring up and choke it, and the thorns are the deceitfulness
of riches in this world, letting other things hinder us. from hearing that gospel and
walking in that gospel. Another way that we can let them
slip is by, for any reason, whatever the reason may be, and I don't
mean just moving away, whatever the reason, but by removing ourselves
from where that gospel's preached. By removing ourselves from where
that gospel's preached. greatest gift that God can give
to any community, or any people, or any family, or any person,
is a true messenger of the gospel of his grace, which is the gospel
of truth. And to leave for any reason,
it doesn't matter what the reason is, but to take yourself out
from under The preaching of that gospel, and take your children,
this is what I grieve over as much as anything, not only over
the people that remove themselves from the hearing of the gospel,
but under God, how do they do that to their children? Take
them out from under the gospel. I was in a certain place preaching
where the gospels preached, and a couple there with two We went
out one night after service, and they sat across the table
from me. And the lady said, I've gotten a promotion. I've gotten
a job in another city, 300 miles from here. It's a great promotion. It's a great salary. It's a great
opportunity. What are you going to do about
it? I'm going to take it. You mean you're going to leave the
gospel? There's no gospel down there. There's no church preaching
the grace of God down there. And you're going to go down there?"
She said, we're going. I said, biggest mistake you'll
ever make. Biggest mistake. Not only for your sake, but for
that little girl sitting beside you. She's not going to hear
the gospel. And that's how you let them slip.
You let them slip by not receiving in what is preached, by being
taken up with other things. We're busy people. We're too
busy for our own good. By removing ourselves from where
the gospel is preached, and I'll tell you another thing. By hardness
of heart. Hardness of heart. Bad attitude.
Bad attitude. The gospel only bears fruit in
a contrite heart. I guarantee you that. The proud
God-resistant. God-resistant. Not only man resists
the pride, God resists the pride. proud look. I hate a proud look. The haughty spirit goes before
a fall. It'll come sooner or later, because
God will not bless an arrogant, proud heart. He won't do it.
The seed of God is sown in fallow ground. I do a little gardening. I left the gardening, and Delphus
back there enabled me to get one of the best tractors. I'm
going to give you a little plug here, Delphus. reasonable, and
it just tears that soil all to pieces. Just tears it up. And I tear it up, beat it up,
tear it up, because the plants will grow better. We tear it
up, you know, and beat it up, and shake it up, and dig it up,
and get all the dross out of it, and the lumps out of it. It just grows so pretty. And
that's how the gospel fares best. In a heart God is proud. tore
it up, just tore it up, busted it, busted the clod, dug out
the roots, and all the stumps, and just that ground prepared
by the Spirit of God. And it brings forth forty, sixty,
and a hundred fold. But that, you can let it slip. And listen to it again, verse
1, chapter 2. Therefore, you're not going to
hear from anybody else. He's already come. He's the last
messenger. He's the Son of God. We ought
to give them more earnest heed to the things which we've heard,
which we can hear. Barney used to say that. He said
a man's not only responsible for what he hears, he's responsible
for what he could have heard and won't, for whatever reason. What he could have heard. Lest
you let him slip. Let him slip. And notice the
word is slip. The man doesn't just say, I'm
going to quit the gospel. He doesn't say that. It amounts
to the same thing, but lets it slip out. And he's got a bucket
of water with a hole in it, and it keeps on running out, and
he gets to his destination, and he didn't mean for it to all
be gone, but he looks at it, and it's all gone. And we're
going to come to the end of this life and this destination, look
around, it's all gone. We let it slip. Let it slip. All right, read on. Here's the warning. The book
of Hebrews is a book of promises and warnings. Brother Jeff Thornberry
used to say, God has hedged us about in the book of Hebrews
on one side with precious promises, lest we despair. Oh, the precious
promises of that book, lest we despair. And he's hedged us about
on the other side with warnings, lest we presume. God's not going
to have presumption. He's not going to have despair.
He's going to have trust. Rest. Cease for my labors and
enter his rest. So here's a warning. 5. If the
words spoken by angels were stigmatized, and every transgression against
their word, and every disobedience of their word, received a just
recompense of reward. Now who are these angels? Well,
it's any messenger who's inferior to Christ. no matter how high,
God spoke to men by angels, spoke to men by prophets, spoke to
men by the high priest, spoke to men by his anointed kings. An angel is a messenger, any
kind of messenger, that's right. And so this verse 2, what he's
talking about here is any messenger inferior to the messenger of
the Isn't that right, Paul? Any messenger inferior, but even
an inferior messenger, his word packed a wallop. That's right,
his word was to be obeyed. Now Christ is, that's what I
told you, I'll go turn back to Hebrews 1, 4. Talking about Christ
here, Christ being so much better than the angels. as he hath by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." Look at Hebrews
3, 3. This man was counted worthy of
more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has
more honor than the house. So what we're talking about here
now, the word spoken by angels and by Moses and by the prophets,
when they spoke that word it was steadfast. and disobedience
against it, carried a judgment. In other words, those who refused
to hear Noah, perished. The Israelites who rebelled against
Moses, perished. Their carcasses landed in the
wilderness. King Saul refused Samuel's warnings,
he perished. The sons of Eli offered strange
fire against the commandment of Moses, and they perished. Their daddy was Eli, but they
perished. Uzzah laid his hand on the ark and perished. King Uzziah went into the tabernacle,
and the priest warned him, and he perished. And that's what
he's saying here. Their word, the word spoken by
the inferior messenger, it was steadfast, and everyone who bucked
it and refused it received a just recompense of reward. Now look
at verse 3. How are we going to escape? Who have we heard? The Son. How are we going to escape if
we neglect so great salvation? So great a gospel, so great a
messenger. Why is it called so great a salvation? Because of the author of it.
He's the author and finisher of our faith. Because of the
wisdom of it. The wisdom of this great salvation
enables God to be just and justifier. Because of the cost of it, my
soul You're redeemed not with corruptible things such as silver
and gold, but with the precious blood of the Son of God. Because of the power of it. And
it alone is the power of God unto salvation. How are we going
to escape if for some reason we let this
slip? This great salvation. at the first began to be spoken
by our Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that walked with
him, talked with him. John said, We saw him, we heard
him, and our hands have handled him with the word of life. Those that heard him, those that
heard him. Now look at verse God also bearing
them witness, that is those that heard him, these apostles, God
bore them witness. Not only as a witness to them,
but as a witness to those who heard them. Both with signs and
wonders and diverse miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost according
to his will. And while I was preparing this
message, I received in the mail a sermon by Spurgeon from a church
in Canada. And I want you to listen to what
he said regarding these signs. What he said, the gospel spoken
by our Lord and confirmed by them that heard it, God bearing
these men witness with signs and wonders and gifts of the
Holy Ghost. Reading the Bible, Mr. Spurgeon
said, we observe that the Lord in olden times condescendingly
gave signs to his servants when he saw it would be good for them
and the hero. For example, Moses, when he was
called to undertake the great work of bringing the chosen people
up out of Egypt and conducting them into the promised land,
had a sign given him by which to assure him that he was called
of God. God bore him witness. He put
his hand into his bosom. When he took it out, it was leprous,
white as snow. He thrust it back into his bosom
and removed it. It was just like the other. He
cast his rod on the earth and it became a serpent. He took
it by the tail. It was a rod again. God bore
him witness with this sound. So also in the case of Gideon,
when he was commanded to go against the Midianites. You remember
how his fleece was wet when everything else around was dry? And how
the sign was reversed and when everything else was wet, the
fleece was dry? In the cases of men of God favored
with signs, there was always faith. There was a desire for
more faith and a willing obedience to God. But the work to which
the men were called was particularly difficult. You see what he's
saying? Moses was being sent down to
Egypt to lead 2 or 3 million people out from under a dictator
and a powerful man with nothing but a rod. Pretty difficult. Gideon was sent with 300 men
to destroy a whole nation. Pretty difficult. The apostles
were sent out into the world to preach. a gospel of the fulfillment
of the whole Old Testament without the New Testament. Only there
weren't. Difficult. They had faith, they
believed, but the task to which they were called was peculiar,
particular, difficult, superhuman. And the flesh being what it is,
And God, in infinite tenderness to the weakness of his servants,
gave them signs and wonders, that they might be strengthened
thereby, and their message heard." See that? This is important.
Doubtless this will answer a question you may have on your mind. If
ever again there should come a necessity for signs to God's
such tokens will be given, if it ever becomes necessary. If
there should ever come a time when it's not possible for believers
to walk by faith alone, or when it would be more to the honor
of God that their confidence should be somewhat assisted by
miracles and tokens, then God will go out of the ordinary way
once again, and his people will receive miraculous seals and
signs. If it's utterly impossible for
the truly penitent spirit to find rest without a sign, God
will give a sign. Though I also believe that in
no case is such a thing at all necessary with the gospel of
the New Testament in a gospel dispensation. And to add any
kind of sign or miracle would be to hold a candle so you could
see the sun. That's all it'd be. Or to pour
water into the ocean to increase its depth. In addition, let me
add that signs have been given through the ages, and yet signs
have never wrought faith in those that have seen them. They may
call attention to the man who's preaching. They may call attention
to the message, but no signs ever converted a sinner. Ever. There is no necessary connection
between seeing signs and believing the gospel. For example, Israel
in the wilderness saw great and marvelous wonders wrought by
God, and ever one of them died in unbelief. Pharaoh is a notable instance. What signs and wonders God wrought
in Egypt. The Nile was turned to blood.
The Lord turned the dust of the land into lice. Ashes, therefore,
into plagues. He brought up fogs into their
houses and chambers, and locusts devoured their fields. He darkened
the heavens at midday. He deluged them with hail and
rain, such as a land had never seen before. disease fell upon
the cattle, death upon their firstborn, and yet in spite of
all the wonders, signs, and miracles God wrought, Pharaoh's heart
only became harder. And though for a while he trembled,
yet in the end he steeled himself against God, saying, Who is the
Lord that I should obey Him? My hearers, If you don't believe
the word of God, if you do not believe in Jesus Christ with
the testimony which came from him and his apostles and the
word written which is before you, you wouldn't believe if
God raised one from the dead. That's so. Although all the plagues of Egypt
should be repeated upon you tenfold. There's no necessary connection
ever between the seeing of wonders and the believing heart. And
I wish I could read that to the whole charismatic world. The whole charismatic world.
But we learn clearly from Pharaoh's case and that of the Israelites
and for many others. that all the displays of wonderful
power, whether it's in judgment or mercies, do not beget faith
in an unbelieving heart. It just won't do it. The gospel
is the power of God unto salvation. And that right there, that verse
4, that answers whatever you need to know about why don't
we speak in tongues, why don't you lay hands on the sick, why
don't we, etc., etc., etc., etc. It wouldn't do any good. You
just take men's minds farther away from Christ and put their
minds on the one doing the miracle or the one to whom it was done.
It won't break the heart. We got to see our sins and see
our Redeemer and trust Him not because He accomplished some
superhuman miracle. Here's the mystery of godliness
that God should become a man. And I'll tell you another mystery
is that he should preach the gospel to us Gentiles. And I'll
tell you another mystery, that you and I should even believe
it. That's a miracle of miracles, that the dead should live. Verse
5, For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world
to come, whereof we speak. You know, I know human nature.
I know it because I got I got a human nature. And oh, what
we would give to have an angel appear to us and to speak to
us about God and about life. Now, be honest. But you know,
he says here that one greater than the angels has appeared. Because he said in verse 5, he
never put the world to come in subjection to angels, but he
did to the Lord Jesus. Isn't that right? It's not the
angels who are on the throne, the angels are about the throne. Our messenger, our Lord who reconciled
us, who speaks to us, is on the throne. So which would you rather
hear? The angel or the king? I'd rather
hear the king. Because an angel didn't just
come and say, Paul, the king said it. But the king said it. I'd rather hear him say it, hadn't
you? This is my son, hear ye him. All right, verse 6 through
9. This can only refer to Christ. Only refer to Christ. But one
in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, if thou
art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou visteth him?
Thou made him a little lower than the angels. Thou crownest
him with glory and honor. This is Christ. And didst set
him over the work of thy hands. Thou hast put all things in subjection
unto his feet. For him that he put all in subjection
unto him, he left nothing that is not put unto him. Is that
clear? You talk about an effectual redeemer, you talk about a particular
redemption, you talk about an atonement, the atonement, the
salvation, and say God left nothing that's not already put under
Jesus Christ in subjection to him. Let Jesus be your Lord. My friend, he is your Lord. God gave him power over all flesh
that he should give eternal life to as many as God has given him.
He's not frustrated, he's not disappointed, he's not defeated.
He is the conquering, reigning, sovereign Lord with all authority
in heaven and earth, even over devils. Read that verse 8 again. Thou
hast put all things in subjection under his feet, for in that he
put all things in subjection under him, he left nothing that's
not put under him. But now we see not yet all things. We don't see it, do we? Things
are still kind of kicking up, aren't they? Things are still
bucking, but they're bucking by permission. God Almighty, the wrath of man
will praise the Lord, and the rest of the wrath, He'll subdue. He'll hedge it about. He's letting
things go like they're going to accomplish His purpose. The
Pharaohs are still being raised up, but they're being raised
up for his glory. And we don't see all things under
him yet, but we see Jesus, the one we've been talking about,
who was made little lower than the angels. Why? For the suffering
of death. And we see him now crowned with
glory and honor that he, by the grace of God, should taste death
for every man, every woman, every child who believes on him. Every
one of God's He bore our sins, He bore our death, He bore our
transgressions, He bore our iniquities, and paid for every one of them,
all of our sins. I want to read verse 10. Now
has three persons referred to in verse 10. For it became Him,
that's God the Father, that's the Father. It became him, for
whom are all things, and by whom all things." In other words,
it's an act worthy of the Father. It's becoming to the Father.
Did you ever have someone, well I do all the time, I went up
to Dan tonight, he walked in, I said, where's your saxophone?
He said, in the car. I said, would you play it? He said, I'd
be glad to. That's just like him, to be nice. You see what
I mean? It's just like him. Just like,
it becomes him, that's just like, that's the way he is, the way
a lot of our folks are, they're so willing. What this is saying,
it becomes the Father. It's characteristic of the Father,
to show mercy, to show grace, it's characteristic of his love,
it's just like him. It became him, for whom are all
things, all things are made for him. And by whom are all things,
in bringing many sons into glory," that's us, in bringing many sons
into glory, and he will, he chose them and he gave them to Christ
to redeem them and call them to faith by spirit, to make the
captain of their salvation, that's Christ, perfect through suffering. It's just like our Father. David
said, Lord, if you should mark a nickel to who would stand,
but there's forgiveness with thee that thou mightest be filled. God is just and righteous and
holy, but he's merciful. And the fact that he chose to
redeem a people, give them his mercy and grace, that's characteristic
of our father. But in bringing these sons to
glory, It was necessary that he make that one who represented
him, that one who is the surety, and that one to whom he gave
the awesome charge and responsibility to redeem them, he had to make
him perfect, him and his work perfect. Now Christ essentially
is perfect, and as God is perfect. But when he became a man, When
he became our Redeemer, when he came down here as a Messiah,
what he came to accomplish had to be perfect. See, God's law
is perfect. God's justice is perfect. God's
righteousness is perfect. God's holiness is perfect. So
Jesus Christ, to be the mediator that God required him to be,
he had to be perfect. And that perfection was accomplished
in his obedience, and in his suffering. He learned obedience
by the things which he suffered. See what I'm saying? Christ way
back yonder before the foundation of the world took upon the responsibility
to redeem us. In the fullness of time he came.
He's born of a woman. He suffered indignities and humiliation. He suffered pain, thirst and
hunger. He suffered soul agonies, he
suffered all these things, and he had to do it. And in doing
so, what he did for us is perfect. See that? It's perfect. by his
sufferings. He went to the cross, not only
his body, but his soul was made an offering for sin. But he had
to do that. He had to learn obedience by
the things that he suffered. He had to accomplish obedience
by the things he suffered. And the reason he's seated at
the right hand of God now, accepted and seated there for us, is that
God surveyed all that he did and said, perfect. And sat him
there. In verse 11, And both, for both
he that sanctifies and they that are sanctified are all of one. That is, we're all of God and
we're all one in Christ. See, somebody might ask the question,
well, how can the righteousness of Christ be imputed to me? Because
Christ and I are one. And if you want to talk about
particular addiction, if you want to talk about the elect
only being saved, everybody for whom he obeyed and everybody
for whom he suffered, if they're one with him, have to be affectionately
delivered. See that? We're one. See, he's
numbered with the transgressors. I being one, then my debt's his
debt. My sin is his sin. Isn't that
right? Being one? Then being one, when God accepts
him, he accepts me. See, that's what it said. He
that sanctifies Christ, and they that are sanctified, he hath
sanctified forever them that are in him. For which cause? He's not ashamed to call us his
brethren. His brethren. Saying, and here's a quotation
from Psalm 22, that great psalm of the cross,
saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst
of the church, will I sing praises to thee. And again, I'll put
my trust in him. And again, behold, I and the
children which God hath given me." That's Christ talking about
his people. Now watch this. For as much then, since those
whom the Lord redeems are partakers of flesh and blood, In order
to redeem them, he also himself likewise took part of the sin. See, the law was put upon man. Man's got to obey it. Justice
and judgment is put upon us as a result of our sin. We've got
to die. And so because we're flesh and blood, he had to take
the same. Watch it. That threw death. He
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the
devil. You say, how does the devil have the power of death?
I thought God had the power of death. Satan is said to have
the power of death in that he introduced death. He introduced
it. Since sin is the sting of death
and sin is the force of Satan's kingdom, without sin there is
no death. Isn't that right? Adam never
died to his sin. Who introduced him to it? Satan.
He's the cause. See that? You can't take your
life until God wills it. You're immortal until God sees
fit. The Lord sets our bounds and
the number of our months are determined. But Satan introduced
death to the human race. And sin is the sting of death.
The strength of sin is the law, but the sting of death is sin. And without sin, there is no
death. And deliver them, verse 15, that's us, who through fear
of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily,
he didn't take on himself the nature of angels, he could have.
The angels sinned, for we did. They fell, and God reserved them
in chains of everlasting darkness unto the day of judgment. He
didn't take upon himself the nature of angels. He took on
him the seed of Abraham. He took on himself flesh and
blood. He became a man born of a virgin
that he might not partake of our original sin, but he took
on himself deliberately, sovereignly, willingly the seed of Abraham. Wherefore, watch this now, it
behooved him in all things. What did he say to John? He came down to be baptized and
John said, no, no, no, no, no. I have need to be baptized."
And he said, John, suffer it to be so to fulfill all righteousness. I'm doing everything that God
required of you. Everything. Circumcised when
he was eight days old. Subject to his parents. Grew
up in a carpenter's shop. Went to the synagogue on the
Sabbath day. Followed every custom, every tradition. every ceremony,
every feast day, every Passover until he himself had perfectly
fulfilled it all. That's what that's saying. In all things it behooves him
to be made like his brethren, that he might be a merciful and
faithful high priest in things pertaining to God. We got a high
priest to make reconciliation for the sins of his people. or in that he himself has suffered
being tempted, he's able to succor them that are tempted. He knows
all about us. He remembereth our frame. He
knoweth our frame. He remembereth it with us. Wherever
you are, he's been there. He's been there. Whatever you
bear, he's borne it. Whatever you're called upon to
endure, he endured it. And he did it perfectly. He's
perfect through suffering. Alright, Mike come lead us in
a closing hymn.

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How Shall We Escape?

What does the Bible say about the importance of heeding the Gospel?

How do we know Christ is superior to angels?

Why is it critical for believers to remain under the preaching of the Gospel?

How are we to escape if we neglect so great salvation?

What role does Christ's suffering play in our salvation?

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