The Great Salvation

"How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation" (Heb. 2: 3).

It will do no violence to the text to cause it to read as follows: "If we neglect so great salvation, how shall we escape" The word "Salvation," used here by the apostle, means more than mere deliverance from sin. It is used to express the whole redemption scheme.

Men sometimes make discoveries of new medicines, new methods, remedies, etc., and advertise them to be the great this or the great that. Sometimes they prove serviceable and sometimes they do not. But God has produced this, and has advertised it to be the "Great Salvation," a cure for every malady of the human race, both morally and physically, and it has stood the test for nearly six thousand years and proved to do even more than He said. Let us notice why it should be called the "Great Salvation."

First: It is a remedy wrought out by God, that, if its conditions are met and everything properly complied with, will take the vilest sinner in all the land and wash him white as snow, and make him a saint in less than five minutes.

Second: The next sense in which it is the "Great Salvation" is, that it is a remedy prepared by God, that, if its conditions are properly met, will cleanse the heart of every justified soul in the world from every atom of inbred sin, and will fill them with the Holy Ghost and fire; thus making them just as clean (in five minutes) as they will be when they will have been in heaven a million years. O wonderful Salvation!

Third: The next sense in which it is the "Great Salvation" is, that it is a remedy, prepared by God, that lays hold of man, the once sinful and disobedient rebel, and makes him a co-laborer with Deity, and thus invests him with power to stop the sun, lock up heaven, pray down fire, heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead; yea, and do all things through Christ which strengtheneth him (Phil. 4: 13).

A fourth sense in which it is the "Great Salvation" is, that it is a method wrought out by God to restore to lost man, upon earth, the Edenic state of soul happiness and internal bliss. However, He has made a little change in the location. When He created man, He made the Garden of Eden and placed man in it; but under this "Great Salvation" era He has placed Eden in the man, which is far better. Hallelujah!

A fifth sense in which this is the "Great Salvation"-it is a remedy wrought by God which, if accepted by man, will rob death and the grave of all their sleeping victims and restore them to us again, glorified and immortal.

The next sense in which it is to be considered the "Great Salvation" is, because God has planned, through it, not only to restore man to a holy, glorified state, but also to make him co-equal with His Son upon the throne. 

"How amazing, God's compassion,

That so vile a worm should prove

This stupendous bliss of heaven

This unmeasured wealth of love."