Spiritual
diary for 12-19-02
My
Worship Time Focus: Admonition: Heed the Word and Don’t Drift PT-2
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 2:3
1. Message of the verse: “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,”
(NKJV) “What makes us think that
we can escape if we are indifferent to this great salvation that was announced
by the Lord Jesus Himself? It was passed
on to us by those who heard Him speak,”
(NLT)
All of
these first four verses tie into each other and they do continue the theme that
the writer had in the first chapter, that which of Christ being superior to
angels. As stated in verse two the
angels were used by God to bring forth the Law in the OT. "who have received the law by the
direction of angels and have not kept it."
(Acts 7:53) “What purpose then
does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed
should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels
by the hand of a mediator.” (Gal.
3:19) Now the Son of God who is superior
to the angels mediated the New Covenant message of salvation. The message and the messenger are superior to
that of the OT Law. The greater the
privilege the greater the punishment for disobedience or neglect. The last part of the verse refers to those
who were alive and say the things that Jesus did and are now passing it on to
the next generation so that they can know the truths of it.
2. Spiritual meaning for my life today: I certainly believe that as a believer in the
age of the New Covenant that I have a greater responsibility than those of the
Old Covenant because I have more information on what has happened to the Lord
Jesus Christ while He was upon the earth, and how He suffered and died for the
sins of mankind to give eternal life to them.
I know that this is the most important message of all of the earth and
that I should do a better job of telling others about this wonderful message. I guess one of the reasons that I do not do
this is because I care more about myself and my agenda than the agenda that the
Lord has for me to do.
The Word of
God brought conviction to me today.
My Steps
of Faith Today: I want to be ready
to explain to anyone that the Lord brings into my life today the hope that lies
within me.
Memory verses for the
week: Eph.2: 10; Mark 12:30; Romans
12:5; Phil. 2:5
For we
are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
…so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each
member belongs to all the others.
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…
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