Hebrews uses another image besides war \u2014 namely, rowing our boat against the current. Life is like rowing your boat upstream against the current of secular culture and our own sinful flesh. That\u2019s what he means when he says, \u201cDon\u2019t drift. Don\u2019t drift. If you stop rowing against your own sinful nature, you will drift toward the Niagara Falls of destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n
I can hear someone say, \u201cNo, no, no, no. The Holy Spirit is like an outboard motor on the back of the boat. You don\u2019t need to fight and work as a Christian. Just turn on the motor.\u201d Well, you can say that if you ignore a lot of biblical texts. I think it would be better to say that the Holy Spirit is the strength in our back and our arms to keep us rowing.<\/p>\n
So, the first thing the writer tells us about this danger is to warn us that it\u2019s real, that drifting toward destruction and shipwreck of your faith are real possibilities if you don\u2019t heed what he has said. \u201cHow shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?\u201d That\u2019s\u00a0Hebrews 2:3<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s how he puts the warning in the next chapter. He says, \u201cWe have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.\u201d That\u2019s\u00a0Hebrews 3:14<\/a>. That\u2019s the opposite of drifting. Hold firm to your confidence to the end. Don\u2019t drift away. So, in the book of Hebrews, (1) God tells us to pay close attention to the precious gospel, and (2) he warns us of the dangers of not paying attention. (Piper)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hebrews uses another image besides war \u2014 namely, rowing our boat against the current. Life is like rowing your boat upstream against the current of secular culture and our own sinful flesh. That\u2019s what he means when he says, \u201cDon\u2019t drift. Don\u2019t drift. If you stop rowing against your own sinful nature, you will drift … Continue reading “64.y. Hebrews 2:3.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199436,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199433\/revisions\/199436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}