See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven. (Heb. 12:25)

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• See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if
  they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on
  earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn
  away from Him who speaks from heaven. (Heb. 1225)

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DO NOT REFUSE HIM WHO SPEAKS (Hebrews 1225)

• Him who speaks refers to Jesus Christ.
• God, who at various times and in various ways
  spoke in time past to the fathers by the
  prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by
  His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all
  things, through whom also He made the worlds.
  (Heb. 11-2)
• In spite of the inspired admonition not to do so,
  many people refuse Jesus without realizing it.
• We will consider
• How people refuse Him.
• Why people refuse Him.
• The Danger of refusing Him.

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HOW PEOPLE REFUSE HIM

• Some people refuse to listen.
• For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
  Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes
  they have closed, Lest they should see with their
  eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should
  understand with their hearts and turn, So that I
  should heal them. (Matt. 1315)
• Some listen with no intention of obeying.
• But why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not
  do the things which I say? (Luke 646).

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• Some reject those who preach the truth.
• He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you
  rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who
  sent Me. (Luke 1016)
• For this reason we also thank God without
  ceasing, because when you received the word of
  God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not
  as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the
  word of God, which also effectively works in you
  who believe. (1 Thess. 213)
• Some try to remain neutral.
• He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who
  does not gather with Me scatters abroad. (Matt.
  1230)
• Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall
  enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
  will of My Father in heaven. (Matt. 721)

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WHY PEOPLE REFUSE HIM

• Some trust in their own righteousness rather than
  the righteousness of God.
• Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for
  Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them
  witness that they have a zeal for God, but not
  according to knowledge. For they being ignorant
  of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish
  their own righteousness, have not submitted to
  the righteousness of God. (Rom. 101-3)
• Some trust in their own wisdom rather than the
  wisdom of God.
• For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after
  wisdom. (1 Cor. 122)

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• Some love the praise of men more than the praise
  of God.
• Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed
  in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not
  confess Him, lest they should be put out of the
  synagogue for they loved the praise of men more
  than the praise of God. (John 1242-43)
• Some love the world rather than God.
• For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this
  present world, and has departed for
  Thessalonica--Crescens for Galatia, Titus for
  Dalmatia. (2 Tim. 410)
• Traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure
  rather than lovers of God. (2 Tim. 34)

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• Some trust the future.
• Now as he reasoned about righteousness,
  self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was
  afraid and answered, Go away for now when I
  have a convenient time I will call for you.
  (Acts 2425)

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THE DANGER OF REFUSING HIM

• Those who disobeyed Moses faced physical death
  without mercy.
• "If there is found among you, within any of your
  gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or
  a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the
  LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant, who
  has gone and served other gods and worshiped
  them, either the sun or moon or any of the host
  of heaven, which I have not commanded, and it is
  told you, and you hear of it, then you shall
  inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and
  certain that such an abomination has been
  committed in Israel, then you shall bring out to
  your gates that man or woman who has committed
  that wicked thing, and shall stone to death that
  man or woman with stones. Whoever is deserving of
  death shall be put to death on the

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• testimony of two or three witnesses he shall not
  be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
  The hands of the witnesses shall be the first
  against him to put him to death, and afterward
  the hands of all the people. So you shall put
  away the evil person from among you. (Deut.
  172-7)
• Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without
  mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  (Heb. 1028)
• It is a far more dangerous thing to disobey
  Jesus.
• 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. (Heb. 22-3)
• Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose,
  will he be thought worthy who has trampled the
  Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the
  covenant by which he was sanctified a common
  thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? (Heb.
  1029)

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• See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if
  they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on
  earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn
  away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice
  then shook the earth but now He has promised,
  saying, Yet once more I shake not only the
  earth, but also heaven. Now this, Yet once
  more, indicates the removal of those things that
  are being shaken, as of things that are made,
  that the things which cannot be shaken may
  remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a
  kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have
  grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with
  reverence and godly fear. For our God is a
  consuming fire. (Heb. 1225-29)

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DO NOT REFUSE HIM WHO SPEAKS

• If you have thus far been refusing Jesus, please
  dont refuse Him any longer.
• Believe in Him, repent of your sins, confess your
  faith and be baptized for the remission of sins.
• If you have done this, but have been refusing Him
  His rightful place in your life, repent of this,
  and begin life anew, please.

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