Welcome to Whitestone Christian Fellowship's Facebook page. We are still "live" in the sanctuary, OR, listen to an audio file of every and any Sunday morning teaching on the Church website,
< whitestonecf.com >. They are posted later on Sunday, or more recently, by Tuesday, due to our webmaster being temporarily out of town.
Here on facebook Pastor Bob's "Bobservations" column is printed out. On the website, there is an AI reading available in audio format, as well as the audio presentation of the teachings. On the website you can wander around to see our resources and offereings, available at no cost. Thank you for clicking on us here, or there!
=======================
Reading: Psalm 8:3-9
Message: Hebrews 2:1-18 “ How Shall We Escape? ”
Bobservations –
Today’s title, “How Shall We Escape?” is an odd question, until we read the rest of what is being asked. The entire question in this chapter, verse 3, is this: How shall we escape, if we neglect so great (a) salvation? It’s rhetorical, because the answer is obvious. Neglect salvation, and damnation will be ours.
God’s angels were aware of it, though it did not apply to them. Abraham acted on it, by faith. The Prophets spoke of it. Jesus taught about it, and it was affirmed by those that heard His teachings, as they shared them with others. The writer is saying, we cannot escape eternal condemnation, unless of course we ignore the witnesses of God: Abraham, the Prophets, Jesus, the Apostles, and the Angelic Host. Now, THAT’S a cloud of witnesses!
If we ignore their witness, disregard their testimonies, and neglect the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and continue to live only responding to the flesh, then we will receive that condemnation. If that’s what we want, we don’t need to do anything, or make any choices; it will be ours.
But if we want to escape eternal damnation, the Lord God Jesus has provided a way to escape! That’s the Good News! That’s also an encouraging verse from Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians 10:13 - “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer ye to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
Temptations come with an escape that God has provided, and we get to make a decision that will last for eternity. In the first Chapter of the Book of Job (1:6-8), Satan is looking for a victim, and God said, “Hast thou considered my servant Job…?” God suggests Job, because He knew his faith; and God then also limited the scope of what Satan could do to Job, and just like Job, God already knows our strengths and weaknesses. He will limit Satan’s temptations used against you, and provide a way for us to escape them, through Jesus Christ our Lord!
~ Acts 13:48 ~
“And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad,
and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as
were ordained to eternal life believed.”
Also check out other Workshops in Victor, Arts events in Victor, Literary Art events in Victor.
|
