If you're able and willing, want you to stand for the reading of God's word.

We'll read Hebrew chapter 2.

We'll include last week's text as well as this week's by reading from verses 1 through 13.

Therefore, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, thus we drift away from it.

This book is very much about drifting and the dangers of it. For since the message

declared by angels proved to be reliable and every transgression

or disobedience received a just retribution,

how much, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

By drifting away. It was declared at first by the Lord and it was attested to us by those who heard while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles

by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will.

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come of which we are speaking.

It was it has been testified somewhere what is man he's quoting

psalm eight now what is man that you are you are mindful of him or the son of man

that you care for him. You made him a little for a little while lower than

the angels. You have crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in

subjection under his feet. Now in putting everything

in subjection to him he left nothing outside his control. At the present we do not yet see everything in subjection to him but we see him

who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory

and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by grace, by the grace of God he might taste death for

everyone. For it was fitting that he for whom and by whom all things exist in bringing

many sons to glory should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source.

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