So Great A Salvation

“For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him?” Heb. 2:2-3.

Here we can see once more that the apostle compares the first covenant with the new covenant, and demonstrates to us the much greater salvation in the new covenant. We might ask: how great, then, is this salvation?

“For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren.” Vs. 11. So great a salvation! Jesus, our heavenly High Priest, is of course the One who sanctifies, and we are the ones who are being sanctified; and He is not ashamed to call us “brethren.” When we read 1 Cor. 1:26-29, and chapter 6, verses 9-11, we can see who we are. Then we get some insight into how great salvation is. The question is, are you willing to enter the covenant; are you willing to be saved? “And the Lord added to the church daily those who were willing to be saved.” Acts 2:47. We get some insight into how they will be to the “glory of His praise”—those who had been enslaved to all kinds of lusts, but who are being sanctified, and are partaking of divine nature—by reading 2 Thess. 1:7-10. However, this scripture also tells us how it will go with those who are not faithful to the covenant. If in the old covenant they came under the curse because of disobedience, how much more so in the new covenant!

This salvation is so great that Jesus shall “present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Eph. 5:27. What a day it will be when Jesus fetches the church—those fallen souls, who were willing to be saved, to whom Jesus gave victory and whom He has sanctified. They will be found without spot or wrinkle on that day when Jesus presents all His flock before the face of His Father, saying, “Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.” Heb. 2:13.

Salvation is so great that we shall sit together with Jesus on His throne, just as He Himself sat down with the Father on His throne. Rev. 3:21. “For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. But one testified in a certain place, saying: ‘What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You take care of him?’” Heb. 2:5-6.

Salvation is so great that the world to come will be put in subjection to people whom Jesus has sanctified. All these people stopped talking about this world. They gave it up when they entered the new covenant and then they started to speak about the world to come. Is this the way it is in your family when you are gathered with your children around the table, when you go about your daily business, when you lie down and when you rise up? This was a requirement in the old covenant; how much more so in the new covenant! Deut. 6:6-9.

You must be willing to be saved if you are going to be saved. If you are, then you will have a “manager”—a High Priest—who is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him. Heb. 7:25.