As we mentioned this morning, the word therefore, is a word of conclusion. It’s not the beginning of a thought, it’s the summarizing now and making the application of the thought. The thought of course, goes back to chapter one, where God in different ways and in different times, spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in the last days has spoken by His Own, dear Son. And the fact that God has spoken directly and that God became man in order to communicate His truth to man.
So the plain declaration of God has spoken to us by His dear, Own, Son, whom He has made heir of all things, by whom He created the world. Who is the express image of Him, the outshining of His glory. And unto the Son, He said, Thy throne, Oh God, is forever and ever. So this is the One who has spoken to us in these last days, the words of Jesus Christ and the revelation of God that was given to us by Jesus Christ.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, If they gave attention to the Word of God that came through the prophets, then surely the Word that came directly from Jesus, should have precedence over, but yet never contradicting, the words of the prophets. So giving the more earnest heed to the words of Jesus Christ, Who said (John 14:6), I am the way, the truth and the life. No man can come to the Father, but by Me.
(John 3:16-18) For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish, but would have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. And He that believeth is not condemned. These are the words that we should give the more earnest heed to!
lest at any time we should let them slip. Or that we should drift away from the truth.
Now the purpose, it would seem, of the Book of Hebrews, it was written to the Hebrews, the Jews who had become believers in Jesus as their Messiah. But tradition has an extremely strong hold on people. And it appears that many of the Jews who had embraced Jesus as their Messiah, were still bound by traditions to the Jewish faith. And some of them were drifting away from Jesus back into Judaism. They were going back under the law.
