# 12 2020 Dev. Heb.2:3-4. Pay Attention! Read all of Ch. 2. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Hebrews 2:3-4 “how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. 4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.”
Chapter two begins with the first of five warnings in the book, highlighting the fact of Jesus’ superiority and “so great a salvation, ushered in by the new covenant of Jesus’ blood. (New Test.) Let us take this as the back story for today: what else must happen for people of the world and of this country to “pay attention”. Instead of a commentator trashing prayer on the air (last week), we now hear more calls for prayer and calls for calm in a situation that is beyond human control. But thankfully, the impact of this virus may be minimized with positive action by listening to our leaders and with faith instead of fear and prayer instead of deviance.
The author points back to the first four verses of chapter one: pay “careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.”He is referring to the amazing and complete omnipotent Jesus. In the next section he refers to passages of the Old Testament to show us that Jesus is “made fully human, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.” Our Savior made “perfect through what he suffered”. Jesus is perfect but now experiencing suffering, He is made perfect as the God Man carrying with Him His “sons and daughters” who by faith are holy as God is holy. “So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.” Again the author quotes Old Testament passages to make his point. (see footnotes)
Christ shares in our humanity “so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.” We no longer fear death, we no longer fear the future, we no longer fear the current events in our world and in our country.
Ro. 8:37 “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us.” Amen?
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