Our Great Salvation

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Our Great Salvation
how shall we escape if we neglect so great a
salvation?
HEBREWS 23
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Deliverance, Preservation, Safety
JESUS Seek and save the lost (Lk. 1910) ONLY
ONE WHO SAVES Salvation in none other (Acts 412)
SALVATION
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Superior (Heb. 23)

• Jesus superior to angels, Heb. 14-14
• Superior Mediator (Heb. 22-3)
• To Law of Moses (thru angels), Gal. 319
  (18, 21) Acts 753
• Superior Salvation (Heb. 101-4)

SALVATION
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Spoken (Heb. 23)

• Made known available by WORDS
• Not felt although joy is involved
• Not thought although mind involved
• Not an experience although things are done
• God hasspoken to us by His Son (Hebrews 12)

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Spoken (Heb. 23)

• 1. By the Lord, Acts 1036-38
• Not law of Moses, Lk. 418-21 1616
• Words of life, Jno. 1249-50 (Heb. 11-2)
• 2. By apostles, Matt. 2819-20 Acts
  1346-49 Rom. 108 (115-17) Col. 14-8

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Confirmed (Heb. 23-4)

• CERTIFIED (Gal. 111)
• -Eyewitness testimony, Acts 18
• -Divine testimony, Mk.1617-20
• SIGNS Gods approval
• WONDERS Effect on others
• MIRACLES Power source

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Confirmed (Heb. 23-4)

• WHY?
• Listen! Exo. 41-5, 29-31 Acts 212, 14 113,
  15-18
• -Genuine message, Acts 143, 27 1512
• -Genuine faith, 1 Cor. 24-5

SALVATION
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How shall we escape

• Failing to grow, Heb. 512-63
• -Not teaching (512)
• -Not progressing (513)
• -Not using the word (514)

NEGLECT
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How shall we escape

• Spiritually sluggish, He. 69-11
• -More earnest heed (Heb. 21)
• -All the more careful attention, cf. 1
  Tim. 46 2 Tim. 310

NEGLECT
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How shall we escape

• Willful sin, Heb. 1026-27
• -Presumptuous, high-handed
• -Forsaking assembling together
• -I dont care what God says cf. Deut.
  141-44

NEGLECT
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How shall we escape

• Pursuing the pleasures of sin, Heb. 1125-26

NEGLECT
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How shall we escape

• Drift away (Heb. 21)
• -Sin gradually hardens, Heb. 312f
• -Fallen Christian, by setting a pattern of
  apostate living, makes it impossible to renew
  him to repentance, Heb. 64-6
• -Perdition, not salvation, Heb. 1039

NEGLECT
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Our Great Salvation
No escape if we neglect so great a salvation!
HEBREWS 23

• God justly punishes sin, Heb. 22 1028-31
• God is a consuming fire against those who refuse
  Him who speaks! Heb. 1225-29

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Hebrews 1320-21
Now may the God of peace make you complete in
every good work to do His will, working in you
what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus
Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.
Amen.
GREAT SALVATION