Hebrews 2:6. Someone wrote in Scripture the words, ‘What is man that you pay so much attention to him, or the son of man, that you would come and be with him?’ (the name Jesus used for himself 81 times)
7. You created him of a lower spiritual order than angels, and yet now you have given him a crown of glory and honor and placed him in authority over everything that is yours.
8. He is in command of everything. There is nothing that exists outside the scope of his dominion (Psalm 8:4-6). But whe...
Hebrews 2:6. Someone wrote in Scripture the words, ‘What is man that you pay so much attention to him, or the son of man, that you would come and be with him?’ (the name Jesus used for himself 81 times)
7. You created him of a lower spiritual order than angels, and yet now you have given him a crown of glory and honor and placed him in authority over everything that is yours.
8. He is in command of everything. There is nothing that exists outside the scope of his dominion (Psalm 8:4-6).
But when we look at the apparent disorder of things it does not seem that everything is conforming to this rule (under His dominion)
9. But we are able to see Jesus*, created of a lower spiritual order than angels, so that he could suffer and die as a man - and through the grace of God, to digest the poison of fearful death for all of humanity and then receive his crown of glory and honor. * We can only see Jesus now by faith.
10. It was the most noble* and upright thing for him to do, the one to whom everything belongs, and through whom everything was created. It was so that he could bring the family of his human brothers and sisters into the same place of position and standing that he has himself. The pioneer of a whole new and perfect way of living had to voluntarily live the paradox of human suffering.
*nobility – the high state of character that is owed respect because of virtue
11. The one who is devoted to doing this for us, and those for whom it is being done, are all part of the same family of mankind, so he is happy to call us his brothers and sisters.
12. He said to his Father ‘I will talk about who you really are to my brothers and sisters. In church I will be singing praise to you along with the rest of them.’ (Psalm 22:2)
This is the ever-present response to God in all circumstances.
13. He also said ‘I will trust Father God totally’. He also said ‘Look at me and the huge family of brothers and sisters Father has given me.’ (Isaiah 8:17,18)
14. That family of brothers and sisters had always shared a flesh and blood existence of mortality, so he took on the same mortal existence. That way he used death victoriously, destroying the one that uses death to hold power over us – the devil.
15. He set us free from that fearful prison of mortal existence – the torment of being afraid to die.
16. He did not choose to take upon himself the being of angels. He took upon himself the lineage of Abraham. (1John 4:3 – antichrist)
17. He placed himself under the full obligation of being no different to his human brothers and sisters, so that he could feel compassion for us and be the most faithful kind of high priest that represented us to God and God to us. He absorbed the sum total of the sin and weakness of all of humanity.
18. The fact that he has gone through the pain of life and all its trials means that he is able to show us he fully understands how we feel when the pain of our trials happens to us.
