November 5. Do you neglect your salvation? How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

Hebrews 2, 3. Is there a sense of greatness in your mind about your salvation or do you neglect it?

Do you respond to the greatness of your salvation or do you treat it the way you treat your last will and

testament or the title to your car or the deed on your house? You signed it once and it is in a

file drawer somewhere but it is not a really great thing in your mind. You rarely think about it.

It has no daily effect on you. Basically, you neglect it. But when you neglect your great salvation,

what are you really neglecting? Here's what he's saying when he says, don't neglect your great salvation.

Don't neglect being loved by God. Don't neglect being forgiven and accepted and protected

and strengthened and guided by Almighty God. Don't neglect the sacrifice of Christ's life on the

cross. Don't neglect the free gift of righteousness imputed by faith. Don't neglect the removal of God's

wrath and the reconciled smile of God. Don't neglect the indwelling Holy Spirit and the

fellowship and friendship of the living Christ. Don't neglect the radiance of God's glory in the

face of Jesus. Don't neglect the free access to the throne of grace. Don't neglect the inexhaustible

treasure of God's promises. This is indeed a great salvation. Neglecting it is very evil.

Don't neglect so great a salvation because if you do, will there be an escape from judgment?

That's what the writer asks, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

So, being a Christian is a very serious business, not a sour business, but a serious business.

We should be blood earnest about being happy in our great salvation. We will not be deflected by

this world into the fleeting and suicidal pleasures of sin. We will not neglect our eternal joy in God,

which is what the goal of this salvation is. We will gouge out our eyes rather than be lured away

from such a great salvation.