Hebrews 2:1-4

Points of Interest
Hebrews 2:1-4
I. Call to Worship:  Psalm 5:7
II. Offering passage:   I Cor. 16:2
III. Scripture references:    

• I John 2:19 – “They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.
  

• Rom. 10:1 – “Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation”
  

• Prov. 4:20-22 – “My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them And health to all their body.”
  

• Heb. 10:31 – “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
  

• Deut. 33:2 – “The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones; At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them.”
  

• Gal. 3:19 – “Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made”
  

• John 10:38 – “though you do not believe Me, believe the     works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father”
  

• Acts 2:22 - ‘Jesus the Nazarene (was) a Man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs’
  

• Acts 14:3 - ‘spent a long time there speaking boldly with     reliance upon the LORD, who was bearing witness to the Word of His grace, granting that signs and wonders be done by their hands’
  

• Rom. 15:19 - ‘in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ’
  

• 2 Cor. 12:12 - ‘the signs of a true apostle were performed among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles’
  

• Acts 4:12 – “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
  

IV. Quotes:

• C.S. Lewis - ‘and as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?’
  

• John Calvin – ‘it is not only the rejecting of the Gospel, but even the neglecting of it that deserves the severest penalty in view of the     greatness of the grace offered in it … in accordance with the greatness of Christ, so will be the severity of God’s vengeance on all despisers of the Gospel’
  

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