“How shall we escape,
if we neglect so great salvation?”
Hebrews 2:3
This is a question that you cannot ignore. Whether you know it or not, you are trapped. There is something from which you must escape.
When people realize that they are in trouble, they always try to escape. The truth is, you were born in an inescapable prison.
“How shall you escape, if you neglect so great salvation?” God is asking you this question to show you that you need to escape from something. It proves to you that you are really trapped.
“Ok, so what am I supposed to be escaping from,” you ask?
First of all, you must escape from the prison of your own sinfulness. Did you know that sin is a prison? I John 3:4 says that “sin is the transgression of the law.” The more you break God’s law the higher and higher the walls get. Like Alcatraz, sin is inescapable if you neglect the salvation God has provided.
Sin makes you trapped because one sin always leads to another. Sin will always take you farther than you want to go and keep you longer than you want to stay. James 2:14-15 says, “Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” No one ever said, “I want to be an addict when I grow up.” But it is the first cigarette, that leads to the first joint, that leads to the first needle, that leads to the first overdose, that leads to death. Sounds similar to James 2:14-15, doesn’t it? If you neglect God’s salvation, you will never escape the cycle of sin.
Second, you must escape from the displeasure of God. The Bible says that God is angry with sin and He must punish it. God has said in Ezekiel 18:4, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” God will pour out His wrath on you and your sin.
“How shall you escape if you neglect so great salvation?” The question proves that you are trapped and that you must escape, but it also proves that the only way you can escape is if you accept God’s great salvation. There is no other way to escape.
So now you ask, “What is God’s great salvation?”
The Bible has a lot to say about the salvation God has provided through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. One aspect of salvation is the forgiveness of sins. Because Jesus Christ died on the cross and shed His own blood, you can have all of your sins forgiven. I John 1:7 tells you, “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” The only way you can have forgiveness and escape the prison of your own sins is to accept the great salvation provided in Jesus Christ.
Are you content to stay in your own prison of sin and be destroyed by God’s wrath, or do you feel as if you must escape? Accept God’s salvation today. Christ will receive you if you will simply come to Him in faith. Repent of your sins and accept God’s so great salvation.
