Flatliner: Hewbrews 2:1-4

Monday, September 17, 2007

Hewbrews 2:1-4

"For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will."

We pay closer attention because it was told to us by the Son of God. We listened to the angels and Jesus is way more important that they are. I mean we listened to the prophets and they were just men.

Not only did Jesus say it, but his words were confirmed in those who heard his message by God himself!

Whoa. I mean, is Jesus' message confirmed in me by God working through miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit? That's quite a question for everyone who has heard and has believed is it not? How is this message confirmed in me?

Looking critically at myself, I am forced to say that I don't know and that lack of surety and confidence is shameful.

1 comment:

Flatliner said...: Someone posted this:

The verse says that the word was confirmed by "miracles AND the gifts of Holy Spirit." Certainly, I would agree that in our lives (90% of believers) it's a stretch to see the word confirmed through miracles...and I wonder why that is when Jesus seemed to act like they would be normal occurances?

But, I don't think it's true at all of the gifts of the Spirit. The gifts are abounding in us! and I think we take those for granted as TRUE confirmation of what God is doing on earth, in us and through us, and sometimes fail to really "fan that flame" (to use some churchy talk) because they're not as "miraculous" as the miracles.

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Hebrews 12

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, because they could not bear what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned." The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, "I am trembling with fear."

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.