TUESDAY-THURSDAY
by Dr. Lloyd T. Anderson Pastor, Bethany B aptist Church West Covina, Calif. from the Gospel of Christ which pro vided these resources, to the Dead Sea of Judaism. The two words furnished by the A.V. and R.V. show the great ness o f the peril to which they were exposing themselves. They were ‘neg lecting’ the great salvation; and he warns them that ‘in persons grafted with a serious charge, negligence is a crime.’ They were ‘drifting,’ and he seeks to rouse them to effort.” For, as Lord Bacon reminds u s: “Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they do not alter for the better de signedly.” He gives two reasons for his warn ing and appeal: (1) the greatness of the One by whom the salvation was proclaimed; and (2) the serious con sequences which follow neglect. The stirring e x h o r t a t io n which these verses contain, resembles very strong ly the one which Paul gave to Timothy (I Timothy 4 :1 6 ). Of the great salvation itself there are five things which should ever be remembered : (continued on next page) It is not the load which breaks you down, but rather the manner in which you allow the Lord to carry it with you. * * * The average church today has too many bystanders and not enough of those who are good standbys. * * * A Christian need never be ashamed of the Gospel, nor should he ever be a shame to the Gospel. * * * Even though you're on the right track, don't stop to rest. You might well get run over. •k h 1e It's because of too much temper that a man is caused to speak his mind rather than to mind his speech. * * * You may "live it up" occasionally, but remember when you do, you'll have to live it down. 23
HEBREWS 2:1-18
T he ben efits which accrue to us from the great salvation of which this section speaks are set forth in the second chapter of Hebrews in a three-fold way: 1. Deliverance from satanic power— verses 14-15 2. Succour in hours of trial— verses 17-18 3. Ultimate arrival in the heavenly land—verse 10 It is with the central of these three aspects of salvation that the writer is at present concerned. Sir Robert Anderson has very ably pointed out that the epistle to the Hebrews begins doetrinally at the point which the Israelites reached typically and actually in the 24th chapter of Exodus. “Moses, the medi ator of the covenant, having made purification for the sins of the people, went up to God. This was the type, the shadow, of which we have in He brews the fulfillment, the reality; for when the Son of God had made puri fication for sins by the blood of the everlasting covenant, He went up to God and sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Here, then, it is that Hebrews takes up the story of redemption — not at the twelfth chapter of Exodus, but at the twenty- fourth. The Passover has no place in the doctrine of the epistle. The pur pose of Hebrews is to teach how sin ners, redeemed from both the penalty and the bondage of sin, and brought into covenant relationship with God, can be kept on their wilderness way as ‘holy brethren partakers of a heaven ly calling’ ” (chap. 3 :1 ). Vine, “The people to whom this epistle was written, were in danger of drifting away from these things (verse 1 R .V .). Within their reach were unlimited resources (chap. 7 : 2 5 ); but the strong current which was running, was carrying them away
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