Good morning, everybody. It is great to be here together
to worship Our God together. It's wonderful to have some
visitors with us this morning to worship with us or thankful.
You're here and to praise our God as the main priority we have
today, we've done so in prayer in Psalm and now we're going to
do throat. Do so through the study of his
word together. Now as we go through this, I'm
going to confess to you. Obviously, I do not have a
handle on everything, the Bible teaches.
I do not have a handle and everything, Hebrews teaches
Hebrews takes a lot of jogs, a lot of tangents, a lot of paths
that I'm still trying to process through.
So this study this morning, through this first half of
Hebrew of Hebrews, chapter 2 is not going to be exhaustive
necessarily, but we're going to go ahead and study after we
studied Hebrews 1 the last time I spoke.
We're going now into Hebrews chapter 2.
So we're going to cover verses 1 through 10 of Hebrews chapter 2
and the kind of the Point that I want to notice in this
introduction is the first main point that's made in this
section, we must give the more Earnest heed to the things we
have heard, lest we drift away now, the first part of this
second chapter starts out with the word.
Therefore, so whenever we see the word, therefore, we have to
go back to see what that word is.
Therefore, so we're going to spend a minute here.
Going back to Hebrews chapter. R1 and Hebrews chapter one.
Last time we covered it was all about drawing.
These Hebrew Christians back to the faith.
They're starting to drift, there are starting to maybe even leave
the faith because of difficulty, because of the Messiah has not.
Come yet. What are we going to do?
And so there were several arguments made the beginning of
the chapter, said, God who at various times.
And in various ways, spoke in time past to the father's.
By the prophets has in these last days spoken to I spy son,
then he goes to give a Sevenfold to fits for the Suns for the
sun's credibility, in light of the Gospel, in light of the New
Covenant, he calls the son, the heir of all things.
It says that he made the world's the he is the brightness of his
or God's glory. He is the express image of his
or God's person. He is the upholder of all
things. He is the perjure of sins, and
he has sat down at the right hand of the Majesty.
Ian. Hi, so, how much how Worthy is
this? Jesus of serving and following
in light of all these things? And there is a special
comparison. We talked a lot last week about
angels, how great Angels were and yet the Hebrew writer says,
Jesus Is God, which is much greater than the Angels.
So in light of this previous build up.
Now, that's why he's going to say therefore at the beginning
of Hebrews chapter 2 therefore because of all of these reasons
let's read Hebrews. 2 verses 1 through 10.
Therefore we must give the more Earnest heed to the things we
have heard, lest we drift away for if the word spoken through
Angels, proved steadfast and every transgression and
Disobedience, received a just reward, how shall we escape if
we neglect? So great a Salvation which at
the first began to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed To Us by
those who heard him. God also bearing witness both
with signs and wonders. With various Miracles and Gifts
of the Holy Spirit. According to his own will for he
has not put the world to come of, which we speak in subjection
to Angels. But one testified, in a certain
place saying, what is man that you are mindful of him or the
son of man that you take care of him.
You have made him a little lower than the Angels you have crowned
him with glory and honor and set him over the works of your
hands. You have put all things in
subjection under his feet for in that he put all in Objection
under him, he left nothing. That is not put under him, but
now we do not yet see all things put under him.
But we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for
the suffering of death. Crowned, with Glory and Honor
that he by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
For it was fitting for him for whom are all things and by whom
are all things in bringing many sons to glory to make the
captain of their Their salvation perfect through sufferings.
It is difficult in and a large letter with a lot of urgency
that we see here to break up this into separate sections.
Like last week, we started right before therefore so I know I've
stopped kind of in the middle of a thought but that's the nature
of reading a letter, we kind of have to so Hebrews 2:1 It says
therefore we must give the more Earnest heed to the things we
have heard, lest we drift away. That is one of the main points,
this Riders making at the outset of the letter.
So the Hebrew writer, he goes through a series of build up
giving reasoning giving defense giving logic and theology for a
conclusion that he makes. And this is his first
conclusion. He says, given more Earnest
heed, we don't we don't say that.
One of those words mean, he's basically saying Pay More close,
attention, give more concerted concern, commitment, and Care in
your service to God, draw closer to these things and you notice
he gives kind of a relative statement.
He didn't say get to this point he says give a more Earnest heed
and that is that's a pattern in our Christian lives.
If we are always going for a more earnest Stand a more
Earnest and a more caring commitment to serving God we
will always be better. It is a relative standard that
we're always pushing to and that these Hebrews needed to hear
less, they not drift away. This word drift away, is exactly
what it sounds like it's a slipping away.
It's not a necessarily, an intentional thing.
But to drift away from anything, or from the faith, you simply
have to do nothing. We know how to be saved.
We know the steps to come to salvation, but the path to being
lost and being away from God is a simple process.
You do absolutely nothing. That's what he was concerned
about for them. The less they drift away, we're
going to come back to that a little bit more in a second
verse 24. If the word spurt spoken through
Angels, proved Steadfast and every transgression and
Disobedience received. A just reward or adjust
consequence. How shall we escape?
If we neglect. So, great a Salvation.
So he's these Hebrews, he's treating them.
Like they understand the Old Testament.
So we've already talked about the role of Angels, Angels were
a vessel through, which God provided than the Old Law.
We receive that in the book of Galatians.
We see that several places in Acts where the Angels were the
ones who brought the Old Law who are kind of helping to bring
that in. So Jesus is bringing in a New
Covenant and he's basically saying how shall we escape if we
neglect? So great, a Salvation that is in
this new covenant and if the Old Testament, the word spoken
through Angels, that's the Old Law.
They knew about it if that proves steadfast How much more
basically shall? We pay attention to this new law
brought in by the Son of God himself.
Now that statement about the Angels, the word of the Angel,
spoken being steadfast, we're a little removed from a lot of
those events for the Hebrews reading this or hearing this
message. It would have been very much in
there and their History, part of their, what they are grown up
being taught and our culture were taught this.
All could be gibberish for all, we know.
We're not giving in our culture. We respect for God's word to
treat this like actual history. The Old Testament is legitimate
actual history. It's corroborated with events.
We see in other history books from other places.
Now in order to give us maybe a more serious perspective on what
they might have thought of, I want to take us too.
The situation was Sodom and Gomorrah and the Old Testament.
So the Hebrew people can trace their lineage back to a lot and
Abraham and in Genesis 13 we can read about these events.
So when the Bible says a just reward for their Disobedience
Sodom and Gomorrah is a popular example.
There's some interesting things we will note here, we're going
to be covering this in our Old Testament reading next week.
So I thought it might be fitting to give this example, Genesis 13
verse 10, You have Abraham and lot who are going to claim their
lands and it says this and lot, lifted his eyes and saw all the
plain of Jordan that it was well, watered everywhere before
the Lloyd before their lord destroyed.
Sodom and Gomorrah and it was well, watered like the garden of
the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go towards or lately.
I've been trying to pick up on references, back to the Garden
of Eden. And here's one that This Jordan
plane is referred to often as the plane.
It consists of an area of fertile land around the Jordan,
which is kind of around the Dead Sea now, and it was like the
garden of the Lord, that's an interesting picture here because
Sodom Gomorrah is going to be I think you know already is going
to be destroyed but it used to be this flourishing land.
Well watered it was a fertile place like the Garden of Eden
but sin came and corrupted and tainted that Land.
Okay, keep that in mind as we go forward.
So they cluded they include in parentheses and parentheses
before the Lord destroyed it. So, let's go on see what happens
in verse 12. Of see, this is This is in
Genesis chapter, 19. So we've skipped a few chapters
to see what happens in Sodom and Gomorrah Genesis chapter 19
beginning of verse 12. Then the men said to lat.
Now, these men, we learn are not normal men and it tells us in
some other verses around it. These are actually Angels taking
the form of men. Okay.
God does that sometimes then the men said to Lat, have you anyone
else here? Son-in-law your son's, your
daughters and whomever you have in the city, take them out of
this place, we will see next When we read about, what do they
do? What was so bad in Sodom, but
it's an out for now, it's suffice to say, God is judging
them, and his angels, as Messengers are telling them to
get out of this place. God is going to destroy it.
Verse the verse 13 for. We will destroy this place
because the outcry against them has grown great before the face
of the Lord and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
Okay, so that's that's one of the clues, you know?
It's angels Verse 14. So lot went out and spoke to his
sons-in-law. So, his daughters wives, who had
married his daughters and said, get up, get out of this place
for the Lord, will destroy this city, but to his sons-in-law, he
seemed to be joking. This is a connection to the, to
the Hebrew writer because The Hebrew writers trying to get the
audience to take, what he's saying, seriously, he's trying
to make us pay more close attention to the word that was
spoken because judgment is real, and this is a common problem.
What son-in-law kind of thought he was joking about the Judgment
that was coming. He didn't take it seriously and
not prove to be deadly for them. Let's go on verse 15.
When the morning dawned the Angels urged.
A lot to hurry saying arise, take your wife and your two
daughters, who are here. Lest you be consumed in the
punishment of the city and while he lingered.
So he was a little hesitant to leave.
The men took hold of his hand. Hand, his wife hand, his wife's
hand and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being
merciful to him and they brought him out and set him outside.
The city. So it came to pass when they had
brought them outside that he said, Escape for your life.
Do not look behind you. Nor stay anywhere in the plane.
Remember, this is the Fertile. Beautiful.
Eden, like plain of the Jordan escape to the mountains.
Get away. Lest you be destroyed?
Verse 23. So lot tries to reason with him
asked him to please. Save the city and does it happen
verse 23? The sun had risen upon the earth
when lot enters or so that was a little ways away.
Then the Lord rained Brimstone, which is sulfur and fire on
Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur's the smell.
You're going to smell today. This evening, when you hear that
when you see the fireworks going off, that smell of the fireworks
is like sulfur. That might be, what is smelled?
Like, when this is when these events happen, the Lord rained
Brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord, out of
the heavens, the word Heavens in the Old Testament.
It simply means the sky, there is different words translated,
but the heavens is the fire, and brimstone is coming from the sky
verse 25. So he overthrew those cities,
all the plane. So Several cities around fertile
area in the Jordan, all the inhabitants of the cities and
what grew on the ground. God's judgment was serious here.
They thought he was joking. It was tragic.
This had to have been sad for God to see because this is one
of those places that was like the Garden of Eden says, it was
a beautiful place full of life and life bringing water today.
The Dead Sea is one of the saltiest places on the earth.
We're going to get to more of that in a minute.
But now that Dead Sea, is a place of death, it's a place of
Destruction and a place where life doesn't grow.
Well, this is all tied back to God's Judgment of Sodom.
It says and what grew on the ground.
So I want to help tie this more to our current understanding to.
So we will see the evidence and the seriousness of this call,
there's an article posted in 2018 based on a study and
archaeological study that was done around the area of the
Jordan and the Dead Sea. And they found some very
interesting things. So this is archaeologists found
this, according to the papers abstract, the scientists
discovered evidence of a high heat explosive Event, north of
the Dead Sea that instantaneously devastated,
approximately 500, km2. Okay, so this is a this is a
quote from The Times of Israel. This is kind of like, you know,
the the New York Times this isn't some like this is a this
is a legitimate news source and there's a bunch of them.
The explosion would have wiped out all civilization in the
affected area, including middle, Bronze Age, cities and towns
Sylvia told science news with the blast would have instantly
killed the estimated 40,000 to 65,000.
People who inhabited, middle Gore a 25.
Her wide circular plane in Georgia.
Let's go on. Likewise the fertile soil would
have been stripped of the nutrients by the high heat and
the waves of the Dead. Sea's.
Briny, and hydride salts, would have tsunami-like washed over
the surrounding area at the same time, the explosions Fallout or
the the wave, the force. I'm not going to describe all
that because I don't really know enough, but the force would have
caused a blisteringly hot strong winds, which deposited a rate of
mineral grains. Ins which have been found on
Pottery at and this is the excavation site tall el-hammam
is what they're calling the excavation site.
Let's continue on a little more five, large sites in the region
which have also been excavated offer additional evidence of an
immediate end to settlement at the same time of the proposed
tall el-hammam disaster. According to Science, News
radiocarbon dating of organic archaeological evidence has
shown that structures mud-brick walls suddenly disappeared
around 3,700 years ago, leaving only Stone foundations.
This whole article isn't giving any definite things, but it
looks like this might be at the site, where the Sodom and
Gomorrah destruction happened contemporary potsherds, glazed
contemporary potsherds glazes. Apparently experience,
temperature is high enough to transform them to Glass perhaps
as hot as the surface of the Sun.
Sylvia told the news source, so there's Pottery there, they got
so hot in it. Turn into To glass.
Now the study was born of a historical Riddle That the most
productive agricultural land in the region which had supported
flourishing civilizations continuously for at least 3,000
years should suddenly relinquish then, resist human habitation
for such a long period of time has begged investigation.
That's why they're saying, that's the reason we wanted to
study this. You had a flourishing fertile
land where all civilization seem to kind of grow out of and then
it just stopped. Why Why based on archaeological
evidence, it took, at least 600 years to recover sufficiently
from the soil, destruction, and contamination.
Before civilization could again, become established and the
Eastern Middle Gore. That speaks to when the Bible
says it destroyed all the crops and destroyed all of them land.
Maybe this was where that was going on verse 26.
But his wife looked back behind him and she became a pillar of
salt. I don't know if that's
connection to the Dead Sea. Salt content, what happened
there. It's an interesting connection.
I don't know verse 27 and Abraham went early in the
morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord then
you look towards Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land
of the plain. And he saw and behold the smoke
of the land, which went up like the smoke of a furnace.
And it came to pass. When God destroyed the cities of
the, plain, the god remembered Abraham and sent lot out of the
midst of the overthrow when he threw over through the cities in
which law had dwelt. A place that used to be a land
of life. Might look something like this,
a land of death. Hebrews chapter 2.
For if the word spoken through Angels, prove steadfast and
every transgression and Disobedience, received a just
reward, how shall we escape if we neglect?
So great a Salvation. So we wanted them to see the
seriousness of the Old Law and judgment, which is what we've
just gone over an example and how we still see the effects of
that today. And it was all about their
drifting. They're spiritual drifting.
And he said, how shall we escape if we neglect?
So great a Salvation. So the Bible doesn't say here,
if you reject, so great, a Salvation It doesn't say if we
outright say, no, I'm not going to do that.
I'm not going to be a Christian. He says, if we neglect it and
neglect plays into the idea of adrift, That we could buy in
action by a lack of focus on our spiritual goals by a lack of
intentional living in God's sight.
We could drift. And it's saying that we're not
going to escape. If we neglect this great
salvation. One of the commentators said a
greater word brought by a greater person, having greater
promises than the old law will bring a greater condemnation.
If it is neglected. We have a wonderful, wonderful,
New Covenant, Why in the world would we neglect our spiritual
lives in service of it? No, it's time for some
self-evaluation. This is something you have to do
in your CI. Is this speaker have to evaluate
myself? I'm we're told in the Bible that
teacher shall be given the greater judgment.
You have the same job in your seat.
Where are you spiritually? The Bible uses the term drift
and when you're on the when you're on water as you're
navigating the Seas or the Lakes, one of the ways you
navigate on the water is use reference points on land, use
reference points and so I ask you to do that with me.
Where are you, spiritually? Where were you five years ago?
Spiritually, compared to where you are now?
Are you happy with that? Are you are you happy or looking
back? Would you have been happy
looking forward to now with where you're at?
Spiritually knowing as Chris talked about a few weeks ago,
knowing the fear of the Lord we persuade men, Where are you?
Spiritually. Where am I spiritually?
I have to ask that same question.
Where do you want to be in a couple years?
We have to use some goals. Sometimes to give ourselves
spiritual Focus to help us understand.
Am I just drifting spiritually? Am I neglecting my salvation?
What goals, do you have for the next five years?
The next two years. Are you growing spiritually?
Are you giving a more Earnest heed to that salvation that
we've been called too? Now amidst these conversations
about the severity and judgment. I want to make sure I don't give
a totally negative picture and New Testament.
In first John chapter 1 verse 7 we learn the other side of that.
You don't have to live in fear, you don't need to live in fear
of the Judgment. If you're a Christian and in
particular is he's in this context.
If you were giving more Earnest, heed your salvation, you don't
have to live in fear first. John 1:7 says, but if we walk in
the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with
one another and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanses,
a cleanses us from all sin, you can take hope in that and
confidence in that, if you're in the body of Christ today, not
just in word, but in lifestyle and in commitment and true.
Focus and obedience. That word cleanses is a
continual process, continually cleansing us that even though
we're going to mess up, it's going to happen.
We have confidence and comfort in that chapter 5 verse 13, says
these things. I've written to you, who believe
in the name of the son of God, that you may know that you have
eternal life. Now that belief is an active
belief, right? We know that that you may know
that you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe
see there. So it's not just a one-time
thing that you may continue to believe in the name of the son
of God, we have comfort judgment is serious, but that's why we
Don't have to have fear. Now, the points made, I think on
both sides. Now, we can move on from that
verse 3 goes on to say. So how great shall we escape?
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.
God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders with
various Miracles and Gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his
own will. So if we were to to try to
Defend this case. He's saying the Lord Jesus.
It was confirmed by those who heard him.
So even some human Witnesses. God, the Father also bearing
Witness Both with signs and wonders.
So he did some serious works and gifts of the holy spirit.
So now we have the Holy Spirit, the Savior, Jesus, God, the
father and human Witnesses. If all this has been confirmed,
if all this has been seriously, portrayed from God himself,
according to his own, will from God himself.
How shall we escape? This is what he was saying to
the Hebrews who might have been leaving the faith or drifting
This word has been delivered by God.
His serious verse 54. He has not put the world to come
of which we speak in subjection to Angels.
So, once again, he's continuing to make this comparison to
Angels, you old law, the Angels who delivered it.
He has not put the world to come.
So this phrase the world to come, you know, I kind of
thought that meant though maybe after presently.
So where we're sitting right now the world to come out After
this. Maybe have but actually, he's
writing to Hebrews, we have to remember the audience and since
this is writing to Hebrews for them, it has been for a long
time. This world to come the new age
in which the Messiah would come in the church.
Should be established. So for this world to come from
my studies, seems to be the Messianic age or the church age
in which we live. So for he has not put this
church age, the Messianic age of which we speak in subjection to
Two angels, one of the commentators from this is the
contending for the faith. Commentary read that time period
to which the author refers does not refer to a future world to
come. Instead he refers to the new
dispensation the present Messianic age.
So for the Jews it was the world that have been for so long to
come. Okay, so this is where when I
was talking a little earlier about how I don't have a handle
on all of this, the next five or so versus can be a little
challenging. No, we can make the clear points
that need to be made. It is very clear.
That is the applications will make from it, but as we dive
deeper and we dig into these verses, there's there's kind of
rabbit holes of questions, you might ask.
So I'm going to try to present. Clearly what we do know after
reading these verses so verse 6 but one testified in a certain
place and that is in Psalm 8, a Psalm of David saying, what is
man that you are Mindful of him or the son of man, that you take
care of him. You have made him a little lower
than the Angels, you have crowned him with glory and with
honor and set him over the works of your hands.
You have put all things in subjection under his feet.
For in that, he put all things in subjection under him, he left
nothing that is not put under him, okay, so you're starting to
see kind of the difficulty. There's a lot of hymns and use
and he's friend that he put four in that he put all subjection
under him. He left nothing.
That is not put under him. Yeah, but now we do not yet, see
all things put under him. But we see Jesus who was made a
little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.
Crowned, with Glory and Honor that he by the grace of God,
might taste death for everyone. Okay, so let's work through this
piece by piece. So this highlighted section is
what the writer of Hebrews. References from the songs.
Okay. So we have that reference there.
So he goes on to say after the reference So it's let's take a
piece by piece, what is, man that you are mindful of him?
So this is being said by the psalmist, David or the son of
man that you take care of him, okay?
So it can apply to all men. You have made him a little lower
than the Angels you have crowned him with glory and honor and set
him over the works of your hands.
You have put all things in subjection under his feet.
So the whole point of the Hebrew writer is giving credit to Jesus
So the definite application we can make is that he is trying to
use this Prophecy of the Messiah and connect, connect it to the
Messiah. And we'll see that further as he
gets into this foreign that he being God put all in subjection
under him. I believe that.
Speaking of Jesus he being God let nothing that is to be put
left nothing that is not put under him.
So sentence basically said everything is going to be put
under the Messiah but now we do not yet see all things put under
him. But we see Jesus.
Okay. So this is the focus who was
made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of
death. Crowned, with Glory and Honor
that he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone.
Okay. If in the next few minutes it
gets a little confusing or I could present it confusingly.
The main idea is that he's pointing at an age to be subject
to Jesus. Not the Angels case objection to
Jesus, not the angels. So, what about this phrase?
We do not yet. See, all things put under him.
Does that mean we can't see yet? Or does that mean it hasn't
happened yet? It's the ladder.
And I want to direct our attention to First Corinthians
chapter 15. The Bible says then comes the
end when he delivers the kingdom to God.
The father has it happened yet when he puts an end to all Rule
and all authority and power has it happened?
Yet? We still have government's, we
still have a lot of authority over us verse 25.
For he, speaking of Jesus must Reign until he has put all
enemies under his feet. So Jesus must Reign until God
has put all enemies under Jesus's feet.
Okay so that hasn't Yet that's very similar to what we just
said in Hebrews 2. Okay, so verse 26, The Last
Enemy that will be destroyed is death, that hasn't happened.
Yet we still will die in the world.
We live in verse 27, for he has put all things under his feet.
Okay, that's a quotation but when he says all things put
under him and it's evident that he who puts all things under him
is accepted, so everyone, except for God, the father is going to
be Put under Jesus. Yeah, everyone except for God
the father is going to be put under Jesus during this time
verse 28. Now when all things are made
subject to him, then the son himself will also be subject to
him, who put all things under him that God may be all in all.
Okay, so the point I was trying to make from this is that this
Phrase, we do not yet, see all things put under him that's
because it hasn't happened yet. All things have not been put
under under Jesus yet. Okay.
Verse 9, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the
Angels. Okay, let me see.
For the suffering of death, crowned with Glory and Honor
that he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone.
Okay. When you read this, you can say
is this. About man, the psalmist who
wrote it or is it about Jesus and prophecy?
The interesting thing is there's parallels, so it's focusing on
Jesus, but it's all money of these.
Things are also hinting back to man in the garden.
His original design and his intention.
Okay? So verse 3, this is verse 3 of
Psalm 8, before the first reference, that was made.
So we pick up and Hebrews saying, what is man that you are
mindful of him? Him.
But in the actual song, I'm going to start here in verse 3.
It says David, the psalmist writes.
When I consider your Heavens or the skies, the work of your
fingers, the moon, and the stars, which you have ordained.
This is where we picked up, what is man that you are mindful of
him and the son of man that you visit him.
So this is clearly a human expressing.
This right. Verse 5 for you have made him a
little lower than the Angels. Okay, so we know that is true,
both of Man, and Jesus because we are a little lower than the
angels. We are not, we are not Heavenly
beings, but that's also, true of Jesus.
And I think Hebrews is trying to get us focus on the fact that
this is about Jesus, you made him speaking of Jesus, a little
lower than the Angels while he was here on Earth, and you have
crowned him with Glory and Honor.
So this is definitely talking about Jesus.
Jesus has Glory and Honor. But that one's a little
confusing for me when I try to apply it to man, in general,
will come back to that. So, the third thing he says, is
that you have made him to have dominion over the works of your
hands. Okay, that's definitely true for
Jesus because it talked about, he's put all things, he's going
to put all things in subjection under him.
But what about us? Well, in the next verse it says
you have put all things under his feet all sheep and oxen even
the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of
the sea. So man, having dominion over the
works. Acts of this hands in some ways.
It's a parallel to Jesus in that man was given Dominion on Earth.
That's a privilege. We have dominion over animals,
and the ox and all these things, but it's a greater picture of
Jesus, who is going to have all Dominion all power.
Okay. So there are some parallels
between Fallen man and the perfect man.
The difference is Jesus. Never fell.
And I consider this phrase, you have crowned him with Glory and
Honor. We read in verse 9 of Hebrews 2,
but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels,
for the suffering of death. Crowned, with Glory and Honor.
Jesus is definitely crowned, with Glory and Honor because of
his suffering for us. Okay, what about us, though?
So, if that's the perfect, man, Jesus, what about the Fallen
man? Can we read that in light of us?
I think verse 10, if there is a way verse 10 might have it for,
it was fitting for him. Speaking of Jesus for whom are
all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons to
glory to make the captain of their salvation.
Perfect through sofa, through sufferings.
So, maybe the way in which we have been crowned with Glory and
Honor, if that's it, it because we have been brought to Glory by
Jesus in his sufferings There's parallels between Fallen man and
the song, but it was also a prophecy of Jesus, who would be
made lower than the Angels, who would be crowned with glory and
honor and have all things put under his feet with never
failing. He never failed.
He never got kicked out of the garden because of his sin.
And lost his his Purity. Okay.
That's where we're going to stop.
It's in the middle of the chapter, but we've made the
point that Jesus is greater than the angels.
We should listen to that word spoken because of the severity
of judgment, the seriousness of judgment.
But also because of the beauty of the Covenant, we can come
into and we see that Jesus is great.
He is crowned with glory and honor and he's brought us
bringing us to Glory. If you're not a part of this
Kingdom that he saves. Why not.
Today we've already talked about the severity of judgment and the
goodness of God and it's a simple but difficult process, we
can hear the word as we've already started to today believe
this word repent of our past life changed live God's way and
confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, be baptized, For the
remission of our sins. If you haven't done that, why
not? Why not give them more Earnest.
Heed to your soul salvation today.
Why not put that at the priority on the first day of this new
week? You will serve God with all your
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