Turn please to Hebrews, the second chapter, and in Proverbs the fourth chapter.

Hebrews 2, Proverbs 4.

In Hebrews, the second chapter, he said in verse 1, Hebrews 2.1, said, therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

Put up the amplified, please.

Said, since all this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the

truths which we have heard lest in any way we drift past them and slip away.

The new American says, for this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard,

lest we drift away from it.

Now the Lord's not leaving us, but you can leave him.

His word won't fail you, but you can leave his word.

There are no God ordained failures.

I know people try to make stuff out to be.

But if you look at the whole thing and you can say categorically it was a failure, it wasn't God.

It wasn't God.

Our title of the series has been pay attention.

Pay attention.

And why do we need to pay?

Does the Bible tell us to pay attention?

It does.

And why would we need to?

We went into some detail last Friday about how it's not that God is hiding things from us and

withholding things from it's not that his things are so complicated and hard to understand

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