Anchored or Drifting?
Dave Riddle - 11/05/2023
Key Passage: Hebrews 2:1-4
Jesus is greater than the angels… for this reason we must pay even greater attention…
- Hebrews 2:1
- Chapter 1 was doctrine.
- Chapter 2 calls for a response.
- “Pay attention”: prosechō - to turn the mind to, attend to be attentive. to apply one's self to, attach one's self to, hold or cleave to a person or a thing
- 1 Timothy 4:13
- “All the more”: perissoterōs - more superabundantly. Much more, more in a greater degree. More exceedingly.
…to what we have heard
- Hebrews 2:1
- Philippians 4:9
- We don’t lack information. We lack transformation.
…so that we will not drift away
- Hebrews 2:1
- “Drift away”: pararreō - to glide by: lest we be carried by, pass by
- prosechō: also used to refer to anchoring a ship.
- pararreō: also a nautical term that means to carelessly slip past the harbor.
- Unless we anchor ourselves to the truth of God’s word we will drift.
- 2 Peter 1:5-8 - the cure for ineffectiveness and a lack of productivity.
Am I giving superabundant attention to the truth? Or am I neglecting it?
- Am I anchored? Or am I drifting?