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NASB | Hebrews 2:3 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, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 2:3 how will we escape [the penalty] if we ignore such a great salvation [the gospel, the new covenant]? For it was spoken at first by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us and proved authentic by those who personally heard [Him speak], |
Bible Question:
I'm a little bit confused here, can anyone please tell me what exactly does this versicle means when i talks about: Hebrews 2:3""How shall we escape if we neglect and refuse to pay attention to such a great salvation"" it is possible to lose the salvation???? is this what it means. Idont think so because Jesus make just one sacrifice... GOD Bless you all, In Christ ---- Hector Quiles |
Bible Answer: Hector; I spent some time this morning reading from the all time classic "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan, and I came upon the following discourse in that book, that might be a helpful reminder about this topic. It would do us well to take heed the warning. So without further ado, here is the warning from Bunyan's book. Interpreter ... led Christian into a very dark room, where there sat a man in an iron cage. Now the man, to look on, seemed very sad; he sat with his eyes looking down to the ground, his hands folded together, and he sighed as if he would break his heart. Then said Christian, What means this? At which the Interpreter bid him talk with the man. Then said Christian to the man, What art thou? The man answered, I am what I was not once. Christian. What wast thou once? Man. The man said, I was once a fair a nd flourishing professor, both in mine own eyes, and also in the eyes of others; I once was, as I thought, fair for the Celestial City, and had then even joy at the thoughts that I should get thither, (Luke viii. 13.) Christian. Well, but what art thou now? Man. I am now a man of despair, and am shut up in it, as in this iron cage. I cannot get out. Oh, now I cannot! Christian. But how camest thou in this condition? Man. I left off to watch and be sober; I laid the reins upon the neck of my lusts; I sinned against the light of the Word and the goodness of God; I have grieved the Spirit, and He is gone; I tempted the devil, and he is come to me; I have provoked God to anger, and He has left me: I have so hardened my heart, that I cannot repent. Then said Christian to the Interpreter, But is there no hope for such a man as this? Ask him, said the Interpreter. Nay, said Christian, pray, sir, do you. Interpreter. Then said the Interpreter, I sthere no hope, but you must be kept in the iron cage of despair? Man. No, none at all. Interpreter. Why, the Son of the Blessed is very pitiful. Man. I have crucified Him to myself afresh, (Heb. vi. 6;) I have despised His person, (Luke xix. 14;) I have despised His righteousness; I have "counted His blood an unholy thing;" I have "done despite to the Spirit of Grace," (Heb. x. 28, 29.) Therefore I have shut myself out of all the promises, and there now remains to me nothing but threatenings, dreadful threatenings, fearful threatenings of certain judgement and fiery indignation, which shall devour me as an adversary. Interpreter. For what did you bring yourself into this condition? Man. For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this world; in the enjoyment of which I did then promise myself much delight; but now every one of those things also bite me, and gnaw me like a burning worm. Interpreter. But canst thou not now repent and turn? Man. God hath denied me repentance. His word gives me no encouragement to believe; yea, Himself has shut me up in this iron cage; nor can all the men in the world let me out. O eternity! eternity! how shall I grapple with the misery that I must meet with in eternity! Interpreter. Then said the Interpreter to Christian, Let this man's misery be remembered by thee, and be an everlasting caution to thee. |