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LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 46
Hebrews 1:11 – 2:3 - Part 2
Let’s just pick up where we left off in the last lesson, and that would be in Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 1. Hebrews 2:1-4
2. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3. Now all of those verses are tied around that one concept, "How dare we neglect so great a Salvation." Now let’s go up to verse 1 and begin. "If the Son is higher than the angels, if the Son was the Creator of everything, if the Son finished the work of redemption, and purchased man’s sins, and was now qualified to sit down at the right hand of the Father on high, but not forever, there would come a day when He would arise and return, and set up His Kingdom here on the earth. Now with all that as a backdrop, that God the Son, the Creator, the Redeemer, the Intercessor, sitting at the Father’s right hand on our behalf:
Hebrews 2:1
Verse 1 again.
Hebrews 2:1-2a
2. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast,…"
Now years ago I read that verse, and it threw a curve at me, and I imagine that it does lots of people. When did the angels have a part in dispensing the Word of God? This of course is Paul’s letter to the Gentile churches with regard to their being pressured to go back under the Law of Moses. Galatians 3:19a
"Wherefore then serveth the law? What happened to the human race from Adam to the flood, when they had no Mosaic Law? People were very wicked, they had no concept of God anymore. So by the time we get to the flood, only eight souls were saved. This is why Paul says "the Law was added," because it didn’t work without some system of Law. Now reading on:
Galatians 3:19
"Wherefore then serveth the law? Now I don’t understand that, and I don’t claim to, because I think our basic understanding of the giving of the Law was, "Moses was up there on Mount Sinai, and God wrote the Law with His finger on the tables of stone, and Moses brought it down the mountain." Hebrews 2:1-2
2. For if the word (the Law) spoken by angels was stedfast, (in other words the Law was perfect,) and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;"
The Law was so explicit, and so severe. There was no getting a good attorney and somehow buying your way out when you broke God’s Law, you paid the consequences. Now I think there’s a lot of misunderstanding, when the Lord Jesus said, "an eye for and eye, and a tooth for a tooth." Remember the Law was strict, and there was no bending the rules. Now verse 3. Remember we’re in a whole better program than what the Law was, and this is the argument that Paul is presenting.
Hebrews 2:3a
"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation;…"
Now remember, how great is this Salvation that you and I have today. It’s beyond human understanding, because it’s free for nothing. In John’s gospel chapter 10, we find the door to the sheep fold is right at ground level. Oh, we’ve got to work, work, work, and somehow satisfy the demands of a Holy God, but listen, the only way we can satisfy God is by taking it by faith in Paul’s Gospel of I Corinthians 15:1-4.
How dare we neglect so great a Salvation! A Salvation without works, by faith, and faith alone in what Christ has already done for us - it’s finished. Hebrews 2:3
"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first (going all the way back to Christ’s earthly ministry. This is all building up to our Gospel of Grace) began to be spoken by the Lord," (in His earthly ministry)
Now remember that I make it so plain, that the Lord could not teach our Grace Gospel, which is that "Christ died, was buried, and rose from the dead." The Twelve disciples didn’t understand any of that either. In fact, let’s just take time and look at what the Scriptures say about that. You see they couldn’t be preaching our Grace Gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection for Salvation for the whole human race, because:
- Christ was dealing with His covenant people, Israel. - Then after Salvation goes to the Gentile world through the Apostle Paul, then yes, it becomes the Gospel of Grace, based on His death, burial, and resurrection.
So let’s look at it in Luke chapter 18, and let’s drop in at verse 31. Luke 18:31-33
(that is concerning Jesus of Nazareth) 32. For as yet then knew not the Scripture that He must rise from the dead." Well the answer is in the next verse.
God did.
"The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those thing which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever,…"
So Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb with the idea of anointing Jesus’ body, as was the custom, and low and behold the tomb is empty.

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