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Heb.2:1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. 2:2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense; 2:3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard; 2:4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

To drift away, there are raging rivers that causes one to be swept away, but the most deceiving waters are clam! How could something drift in waters that look like a mirror, smooth, clam and peaceful? Well, one must tie off their boat or it will drift slowly away.

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

The gifts of God Spirit are not fleshly they are the fruit of the Spirit, but few are interest in God's fruit because it does not excite the flesh. In fact, the fruit of God's Spirit takes all the fun out of the flesh and its desires. God's Spirit kills the desires of our flesh, which flesh cannot be in subjected to God at all!

James 4:7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 4:9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Gal.5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Here than is the drift the lack of steadfasten being carried away by various teachings, theories, the latest prophecy, newest knowledge that excites the senses of our flesh. Christ speaks not by flesh, but Holy Spirit to God's children. It is interesting; were there not learned Greeks at Christ times, and the apostles times? Why did Christ not dable in some of their teaching, theories, was Christ intellectually lacking without interest in the creation being he created it? Why did he not teach his apostles about the scientific truth of our earth, the heavens, how things worked?

1Cor..1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void. 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."{Isaiah 29:14}

1Cor.1:22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
1:23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks.

Christ was not about confusion and theories he was truth, but what truth? Not the truth the flesh is always trying so desperately to unravel, but the truth of the "Spirit", and what truth is that? That truth is free of the works or our flesh, it is the truth, the Spirit, which is God, which is truth! This is the importance of not drifting away is it not, if we are not walking in love, the Spirit, we are than in our flesh thinking it the truth, but the truth of the Spirit of God can only be known if we walk in love which is not known by this world, or is it sought after by this world, nor is the Spirit of God found in the world interest of the things. The world has the spirit of flesh these are the things our worlds is interest in and sought with lust, by the desires of the fleshly mind in all fields of human existence.

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Here the brothers have been told by the writer of Hebrews the truth of Christ elevated position in glowing terms, of beauty, his power, the very glory of God. But still they were drifting away. However, at the same time those in the flesh were still fighting hard to hold on to the Jewish faith, should that not tell us something? The natural flow of the flesh is a vast ocean mislead by its own making, but the flow of Holy Spirit must be sought by faith which is weak to the flesh and its legal mind set upon research getting to the lastest truth. Holy Spirit not a light show for our flesh, it is not found in things the world seeks for in its latest excitement.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

1 John 4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

1Cor2:10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 2:11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit. 2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.

Where is the gifts of Holy Spirit, were they found in Greek philosophy, the Greeks wisdom, which was very great? Why did the truth of Spirit not appeal to those Greeks, not even God's own people the Jews? The answer is simple the Spirit kills the flesh, and its desire, it strips the flesh of its power, it takes all the fun out things for the flesh, and replaces it with the truth of the Spirit, by its fruit. These brothers had the truth, the Spirit sealed in them of God's love, but most still had a mind of the flesh, not walking in love the proof of God's Spirit!

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Gal.5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,{or, faithfulness} 5:23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit. 5:26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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