Hebrews 2:1-4

¹ Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. ² For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, ³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, ⁴ God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

Commentary

Vs. 1 "Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away."

Giving the exceedingly great and grand and glorious salvation God has brought to us all through His Son, we all need to take the more earnest heed to His Word, because complacency towards the Lord Jesus Christ and His Gospel almost always ensures one will drift away to their own eternal ruin (consider Jesus' warning in the parable of the Sower). History then is riddled with men and women who started out well, but never finished their own race of faith (antithesis 2 Tim. 4:7-8). 

Vs. 2-4 "For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, ⁴ God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

If the Word of God spoken through angels to the Old Covenant Israelite's proved steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward when they disobeyed it, how much more will we be deserving of God's wrath and punishment if we also neglect and fall away from the very Word of God spoken to us all through His own Son! Which was first spoken by Him, then confirmed to us all by those who heard Him; that is everyone who was an eye witnesses of Jesus Christ's life, death, resurrection, and ascension bore witness to it, with God Himself bearing undeniable witness to His Word with signs and wonders, and with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, which He gave according to His own will, which He worked through them all mightily. And so there is no excuse for anyone not to believe the Lord Jesus Christ's Word. For God is the Author of it and so its origins are self evident to anyone whose eyes are not blinded, or whose heart is not hardened. For again God is bore witness to His Word with signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, and even now as the last days are upon us, we see it's fulfillment unfolding right before our very eyes as lawless abounds and transgressors reach their fullness. Therefore just as the very Word of God spoken through angels proved steadfast to the Israelite's when they disobeyed it (vs. 2). The Word of God in recalling these things to us is doing so that none of us neglect so great a salvation, which the prophets and God's people under the Old Covenant economy steadfastly looked forward too and longed for (1 Peter 1:10-12). Therefore since we are the generation to which it has come to be fulfilled be reconciled to God today by opening your heart to Him and and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, and then follow Him in discipleship, "for as many as received Him to them He gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12  

Scripture Quotations 

The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982.