Hebrews 2:5-8 Christ the Son of God became man.

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But it's it's difficult sometimes. But the Lord has graciously allowed us to get back together and we're we're back in Hebrews. We're gonna try recording again sticking with 30 minutes to the best of our ability and we are in Hebrews Chapter 2 if you want to grab your Bible follow along with us.

Why We Came Back to Hebrews and Why the Old Covenant Cannot Save

Hebrews chapter 2 and we're starting again in in verse 5 another just a quick recap or reminder of why we we transferred and went over to Hebrews is is because of. Well, then Dan wanted to preach in Hebrews.

Dan wanted to preach in Hebrews and as good passage to go to but but the author of Hebrews is pointing his audience his Jewish converted to Christianity audience that going back to the old system the old covenant way is His death is disastrous.

It's not the right way to go and Jesus is greater better than anything else so so stick with him and. Then also because of the the time in which he's writing the time in which he lived. The author and the audience and and these words the clothes the God God closing this period or this age the Bible uses that word language age of the old covenant is Is ending and Jesus had told them there's this time coming where the temple is going to be destroyed.

The armies are going to surround Jerusalem. If you're in there get out. If you're out there don't come in. And so we've talked about how this emphasis on not going back to the old system not going back to the old covenant is Much more magnified and much more important now that we add that bit of information.

Anything else as far as introduction Dan you want to add to that? No, that was a good reminder to me of why we're doing this. Been so while so far so so long enough time. I forgot. Glad you reminded it.

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We appreciate you guys. And then we of course appreciate them in return so. Where did we end. Give us a give us a recap of Hebrews chapter 2 verses 1 through 4. Well, there were some lizard people.

And Sorry, that was how I framed it in my sermon. Which I still haven't seen a recording of so if it's out there I'm gonna find it and.

Let you realize I'm not a heretic or whatever. Yeah, we won't hear about the lizard people. Yeah.

So in Hebrews 2 1 through 4 we are we're on the heels of Hearing about Christ supremacy as The Son of God him being God him being the one who created the world who upheld the world by the word of his power a whole bunch of different Passages brought out through the first chapter of Hebrews all of them pointing to you know.

The angels were great. They brought us Messages revelation from God they spoke to the prophets the messages were delivered. They turned out to be right and true and yet They are not Christ. Christ is better and since he's better and since he has Like it says in verse 14 Ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation because even those amazing wonderful Angelic messengers since even they are just ministers of the Christ that we're talking about.

Since we now have heard from Christ in these last days He came lived among us his apostles have spoken to us. He sent his spirit to bear witness of these things to us since all those things have happened.

We have to pay much closer attention to the message that Christ is given because the message that the angels Brought was true and every sin that they called out and said here. There's gonna be judgment.

Those things happen you think of all through the judges when they were warned don't do this. Don't do that don't go off and worship the bells and the Astorath and and And No, just don't do it. And yet here they did they went off into left field and Decided to to worship all sorts of things and they were they were taken away into a Syria Babylon.

Even the nations that had heard different Who had heard different warnings they were called off don't go don't don't do your thing. Don't worship false gods and they were taken carted off into different places.

The writing on the hand wall the handwriting on the wall in Daniel. He was sitting there, you know just drinking it up being a king nobody can get me and Handwriting on the wall came and said you are you're done sure enough.

They broke in through the sewer got him next day. They're Daniel and his boys are serving Darius the mean and not belches are, you know, King of Babylon. One night the whole Empire fell. All of these things foretold by God.

So if we neglect the salvation that Christ has come to tell us. What hope do we have. The answer is none. We have no hope so. Especially since it wasn't just brought to us by Christ. But he also had signs and wonders and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Things that we still even see today. Whereas I was at a presbytery meeting and I heard of Few children who were deathly ill. Nobody knew none of the doctors knew what was wrong with them. The church has got together prayed for him for a long time and the children got better and better now.

They're they're home living living life and the doctors came to the parents and said hey. The children must have just healed themselves Themselves, but we know somebody who does God's right. We even had someone who Done a lot of work with the Japanese people who Hadn't spoken Japanese a long time real rusty didn't think he could be able to do it and neatly prayed and the Lord Brought Japanese back to him.

I don't know if that's speaking in tongues or not, but we're Presbyterian so we're gonna count it. It's it's close. It's nothing else. The Holy Spirit was working among people give them power to do what God wanted to have done it's a source of signs and seeing people saved watching dead people come back to life like that is.

It's miracles. So all of those things Yeah. We can't neglect that salvation that that was that's a recap of verses 1 through 4. Well, I'm just curious those those folks that were.

Crawling through the sewers. Is that where the lizard people come in? They saw them in the sewers? No. You'll have to give us a recap on that when once the sermon comes up and we can. Yeah, link we can link to it and everybody can be on the same page with the with the lizard people.

That's pretty funny. But it's interesting. You brought up that verse. How will we escape? I? Mean, I mean listen to the words of this verse.

How will they come off more reptilian overlords? Yeah or that? Right just so people don't don't wonder I. I Read the path. One of my Old Testament passage was from Genesis 3 where the serpent deceived Adam and Eve fell into sin.

Everyone who sins is a slave of sin. You're of their father the devil right reptilian overlord. Putting off a reptilian overlord. The only way is through Christ because he is the one who defeats the power of sin death and the devil.

It's very catchy. That's clever. Very good. But uh going back to the um Introduction talk about why we're here sure and and listen to this verse How will we escape if we neglect so great the salvation?

Yes, it's true. Yes, it's true. We're talking about Justification we're talking about salvation. We're talking about hell where you know, we're talking about Escaping God's wrath if we if we go back to the old covenant the old ways if we We prove that we were never in Christ.

Of course. But if we if we reject Christ as Messiah go back or go back to whatever apart from Christ How will we escape. We won't escape if we're gonna go so great a salvation but keeping in mind what we were talking about The both and interpretation that we're we're gonna get into and it's interesting how We We were we're thinking that God would have us an interpret in in light of this this both and Scenario in so many different places.

But yes, we're talking about salvation, but we're also talking about how this judgment upon Jerusalem against Israel who once again Rejected God's warning rejected God's covenant and then now has rejected God's Messiah.

Right yeah, it's it's. It's written. It's really interesting the way that that the the author to the Hebrews tackles the whole situation he shows. Excuse me. He shows the supremacy of Christ. Absolutely, but in the first chapter He talks about it by what we would think of as justification.

My sins have been purified. There was a there was a sin debt that I owed that can only be paid for by something Pure and clean and holy and that thing happened to be Christ Jesus who came and made purification for sin and then sat down at the right hand of the father.

Now there's another aspect of salvation that people don't talk about as much. There's several aspects of salvation people don't talk about very much. But you get into that here in this next section in chapter 2 and that is adoption.

Because adoption is very much. It's just as much a part of salvation is justification. It's just as much as the penal substitutionary atonement. You also have Adoption, which is I believe the the whole thing that ties together the whole chapter.

And it shows how adoption in this in this case is a beautiful thing. Yeah, I think that we can't describe How wonderful it is and the implications of that adoption for us.

Right. It's an amazing thing, but for us between us and God between us and fellow man as we think of. No, like my son the other day in a church. We were sitting there and after church our church families has been great.

They have little snacks and stuff after church when we go out there. Before I can even get out of the sanctuary. Some of the dear old not old ladies senior Saints who are there. They'll have a little plate out there with some goodies for the kids.

The kids are sitting down eating and my son had a little thing that he couldn't get up enough for his fruit snacks or something. And so he just he held he held up in the air. I said, excuse me. Church family.

Can you help me? And it was great because he knew that that was his family that's right because It's his church family. Praise the Lord. So yeah, it has implications for how we treat one another. Yeah, but it all stems from Christ and his work.

Yeah. Yeah.

The World to Come Is Not Subjected to Angels

Let's start in verse 5. Sure now that we're there. For he did not subject to angels the world to come. Concerning which we are speaking. That just I mean ties right in to all that we just talked about, you know.

Angels were so important in delivering this word. That's unalterable. This world to come. We just talked about this old world. How will we neglect to escape? You know this if we neglect such great salvation.

What's the salvation this new world that's coming? The old world is dying. It's gonna be destroyed. It's new worlds coming, right?

Yeah, it kind of goes into two levels. There's a There's a new of the new world the world to come. Having to do a little bit with with the New Covenant age, but even further with the the new the fullness of the new heavens in the new earth when Christ returns.

Because it talks about a little bit later in verse 8 and 9 That we don't see all these things completed yet, but we see Christ and Christ has completed what he has come to do so Christ is just awaiting for the Consummation of his work as it works out in the world around us.

Um, then then all things will be. Will be a perfect. But yeah, um, I forgot I was gonna say go ahead.

Psalm 8 and the Two Lenses of Christ and Humanity

Listen, I mean, this is interesting this this reminds me of a passage in Matthew. Just because if it's similarity is in how it's stated not in theology. But but verse 6 says but but one has testified somewhere.

I Know we do this a lot and that verse is somewhere. I just can't remember that reference. Yeah exactly. It's somewhere in there and He author of Hebrews does it here? But one has testified somewhere saying.

The reason it reminded me of Matthew is because going through the first part of Matthew Matthew is One of the things that he's he's known for there is is going back to the Old Testament see this Jesus fulfilled it here.

See this this is this was said or written or Right. This is how we're just having to fulfill this. Yeah. Yeah, and he's pretty specific about where to look for that passage. But I think it's I think it's the last one the one about the the root of Jesse I think that's the one where he doesn't he doesn't give a specific Passage sure.

He's quoting, you know, he's quoting from the Old Testament. He's just not as specific as he was in the other Points that he made and so have the same thing here someone testified somewhere Saying and then we go to Psalm chapter 8 correct.

So I'm a yep.

Psalm 8 is is something that I think we should look at. Well all the time because it's great. The Psalms are wonderful. But we should look at it. To catch an idea of why he wanted to use this passage.

Let me do this. I'm going to Pull it up, but I'm gonna have to remove the background because it gets in the way. The cross never gets in the way. Well, it's it's in the foreground and it's not in the way.

But it does hinder us from reading the passage.

There goes that so we'll get the graven image out of the way to read the word, all. Right, that's right, that's right. Okay. Let's do it. So here in Psalm 8 It starts off. Oh Lord our Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth who have displayed your splendor by the heavens.

This this psalm here is. Is written in order to have David? Glorify God to show off some of God's majesty. No, tell why is God so great? So he first Verse tells him why is so great? And then he starts in on on examples.

Chat or verse two from the mouth of infants and nursing babes. You've established strength Because of your adversaries to make the enemy and the revenge will cease so. Even the tiny ones are at his. They're they're in view when God is doing his his thing.

Excuse me, so he moves on from there, you know, even the little ones will cry out and tell of the greatness of God. He puts down their enemies he makes the the those who are seeking to harm others cease.

He protects the little the the poor the the ones who can't deal for themselves. Verse three says when I was a child Consider your heavens. He goes from looking at the goodness of God to looking at the creation of God.

So it's providence in its creation. When I consider your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and the stars which you have ordained. Now I look at the whole host of heaven. You've got moon and stars and nebula and all sorts of stuff and what they saw was cool but we've got like the.

What's that? No, we had the Hubble and it was great. Yeah, there's this new one. Mm-hmm. And I forget with a James something Telescope anyway, they're saying that the the pictures that they're taking are so clear.

It's disproving portions of evolution which I don't know how or why or somebody may have just been saying that but the pictures that I've seen are absolutely Stunning just amazing. And so when you think of all of that space all of that grandeur just out there even if there's no one living there all of that is to Show, this is the God who created all these magnificent things these worlds that have never been seen.

They're there declaring the glory of God and yet here we are in verse 4. What is man this little speck on a rock in the middle of the of the cosmos. What is man that you take thought of him? Why would you think about us little old me?

And The son of man that you care for him. Now phrase son of man should trigger something in in your head. If you've read the Bible a lot Son of man is found first in the book of Daniel. But is also fattened the son of man and then the ancient of days talking about the son and the father but you go on into the Gospels and Jesus calls himself the Son of man, that's right.

It was one of the things that he called himself the most if not the most. I think it was the most He referred to himself by the son of man that you care for him. Yeah. Now I still think that this is a part of Creation so it should in our in our ear.

You should think of Christ when you hear son of man. But I don't necessarily know if it's talking about him here in this instance or not. Here's why. When you look at this psalm same as when you look at this passage in Hebrews, it's almost like you need to do it with 3d glasses or better yet.

Um, you ever seen that movie National Treasure? Mm-hmm, and they're looking at the back of the map and he's got all those different colors on the spectacles.

They've been Benjamin Franklin glasses. Yeah.

And you can pull up and the green one shows you one thing and the yellow one shows you another and the blue one shows. You know, then you mix them into purple and it shows you something else. Yeah. Each one shows you a different aspect of this fake picture that's on the back of the Declaration of Independence that Nicolas Cage stole.

May have to go watch that movie. Um, but it's kind of like that here if you are thinking only of Creation and mankind when you read through this passage. You're going to miss the grandeur of God here in this passage the majesty of who God is.

Because you'll miss stuff like that where it mentions the Son of Man and it should absolutely trigger your mind to think of the Messiah Jesus who came and Who who thought of men like you and I. Yeah, well, it was the Son of Man.

Yeah. Christ the one who was cared for by God the Father. No, he's at the same time. If you only thinking of Christ when you come down through here you miss.

What is man that you thought of him? No, do you think it's possible? That's what that's what happened all throughout their history. Because as you're talking about that, I'm thinking about how Christ his encounter with the leaders is like you're your teachers.

You're the great teachers of Israel.

And you don't see this. You don't know this. You should know this in part. Yeah, and then there's little stuff that they should have known. I mean like with the Sadducees. Yeah. No, whose wife is it gonna be.

You're missing the point here. Yeah. Yeah.

And I don't want you to lose your train of thought but also I want to interject something here. I'm curious if it will how it will apply or if it will apply it all later on in the passage as we talk. But looking at verse looking at verse 3 and how you explain verse 3 it just brought to mind What came up last night in the labors podcast because we were talking about Big John he asked Jeremy and I the question.

Why does Satan? Why is his main target the family? What why is it mankind and why is it specifically the family? My response Is. Then this is why reading Psalm 8 3 and your explanation triggered because it reminded about reminded me of my response to that.

Because I said you we know scripture says that the the heavens declare the glory of God, right? However Mars cannot love Jupiter Mars cannot forgive Jupiter. Mankind was created in the image of God so that so that we could Portray his characteristics his beauty his image we could image him and And then marriage specifically.

We're talking about the family marriage is supposed to represent Christ in the church. And so I think that's why Satan specifically targets Mankind and then specifically targets the family is because we are we are image bearers.

We can we we can do we were created to do what? God didn't create those other things to do which is image image him right those things so Thanks for letting me interject that there. Yeah, no problem, man.

So it goes on. It says yet you have made him a little lower than this particular. Translation says God. Once you mouse over that little Right or the angels it's Elohim. Elohim in Hebrew is L means God.

Elohim is a plural for God so you'd either be God or Angels now since it's quoted in Believe the Septuagint and then again in Hebrews as angels we're gonna go with angels. They're not necessarily wrong because we call Elohim God in other places nothing that brings out the Trinity in other places from from the Hebrew.

But not necessarily here. This is being a new crown him with glory and majesty. Now who is it that that? Has glory and majesty in in the world. Well if you look back to creation We were made in the image of God we were There over all of the other creatures like it says down here in In the next the next verse you make him to rule over the works of your hands you've put all things under his feet even goes down there names animals and in verse 7 ox and sheep and beasts of the field and birds that have efficiency all of those things were things that Were that mankind was given dominion over in the garden before we fell.

So when those things are still showing Christ's majesty in the whole world. We should absolutely think of Christ. When we think of how we've fallen and how we were given dominion over the earth and how we have In our fallen state now we are imperfectly and even mostly sinfully.

Still trying to take dominion over the earth as as men. It shows a contrast. No, why would God think of pathetic old little dust on a rock us? The ones who were given Dominion over the beast the field the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and yet Why would God think of us?

But that's not the point of the song. The point of the psalm is Oh Lord our Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth. It's about God. So you have those two truths laid side-by-side over top of each other, you know hidden and blue and red 3d glasses all making one 3d picture for us and that picture is that whatever mankind is Christ is Lord over him and will receive glory from him.

So we think back to our passage in Hebrews. No. Why would we neglect the salvation where God has looked down Upon us had pity on us and saved us from our sins. Come and paid the penalty For our sins if he has done that there is no way That we can neglect The salvation brought to us by God.

So when it says for it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come of which we are speaking Who is it that the world to come is? Subjected to again Two layers because in in first Corinthians 6 3 we understand that we as men.

One day we're going to judge the angels.

We'll see in in Roman. You want to do. You want to jump on that next layer in the in the next episode? I want to tease them.

Tease away Romans. Romans 4 13 says that We are we are heirs of the whole world. So these things are are ours. But they're not ours because we deserve them. In fact, we definitely don't deserve them because of sin.

But those things are ours because we have inherited them with Christ. So when it says now I'm putting everything in subjection to him at the last half of verse 8. You can look at that one of two ways.

You can look at it as things being in subjection to him being mankind or him being Christ. He left nothing. I believe that's God. God left nothing outside of his control. Well, we can look back to creation.

We can look to Christ. And we don't see everything yet in subjection to him. But what do we see we see Christ. We see him glorified high and lifted up. Seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven.

So we need to look at the layers of this thing, which is what we're going to do a little bit better next week. We'll look at the layers. We're gonna look at with a red lens and a blue lens. We'll see.

How is it that that these things do apply to mankind? But how are they really how is it because just like in the psalm this may have something to do with us. But this passage is not about us. We may be the beneficiaries of a lot of stuff that happens here in this passage.

This passage is not about us. This passage is about Christ and his supremacy. And as we'll see this this is not just about his Salvation or not just about his glory only but about how his glory is brought forth in salvation in terms of adoption.

How is it that that Robert and Dan have any air in the consummated glorious world to come. Man I don't deserve that. So it'd be ridiculous to think I do. But what is the main point here? The main point is that Christ is supreme and Since we can't neglect the salvation or we will be lost and damned for eternity.

We also remember that God has something very very great for us in the future and that's only Only through the blood of Christ who came and died for the sins of men who? Adopted us as children. Who gave us?

Gave us God as our father and Christ as our brother. I was only through the work of Christ. So there's no boasting here. We are not David and.

All those other good things. Well, you you basically you basically gave us the gospel there. I just wanted to Include this really quick before we end up in the episode. You were talking about this before we got on you were talking about how Understanding this passage in his correct balance keeps us from over emphasizing man which people do and That's why we're in the condition that we're in today and in most cases because we overemphasize ourselves but it's it's easy to fall into that temptation because When you when you read passages like this and you see you what wonderful things we obtained You you begin to read all the other passages in light of yourself and how how good God has blessed us.

But then hopefully it's not about us and I think this is. Maybe this is one way that it does kind of point back to What I was talking about earlier and alluding to the labors podcast last night. Yes, yes, we are saved God God chose to to save us though.

Not only do we not deserve saving we deserve Eternal punishment we deserve to be annihilated. Whatever whatever his Fitting judgment for us would be that's what we deserve, right?

Separation from God, which would be a separation from our Heavenly Father. That's right. That's near the opposite of adoption. Yeah. Forced emancipation, I guess I don't know what that would be. But yeah, it'd be the opposite of adoption even that in Scripture is a picture of salvation, right?

So so why did he if there's nothing good in and of ourselves within us nothing worth Saving within us, which is where a lot of people want to go with this. Why did he save us? Well That's why the psalmist ends what he is Lord our Lord how majestic is your name.

Which side note? It makes me think about Tyler and every time that he prays that's how he prays Lord our Lord. How majestic is your name? That's how he begins his prayers. That's how he ended that song.

He points back to the Lord. He saved us because of himself. He created us for himself. We failed he's he would be right in destroying us separating us from himself. But that's not why he created us. So he's redeeming us so that we can fulfill what he created us to do.

Mm-hmm, which is to bring him glory and that's why it's not about ourselves and we can't fall into that temptation about reading it.

About us. Right. It's a bit. Yeah, go ahead. It'd be like a like like a kid who had absolutely nothing who was down and out. Being adopted by a very very well-off family a royalty family and then just thinking that they were owed everything in the house.

Yeah, but no road nothing. Our God is good. He's given us things. That's right.

Sorry, I don't want to be blasphemous. But when you said that I was thinking about is it is it? Mr. Robux? What's his name. Orphan Annie. Who's the guy that adopted her? I don't know. Somebody help me out there.

What what was the.

Orphan Annie and the other ten man was was way before my time. Oh.

Well, Dan, I appreciate you sharing the gospel earlier that Christ calls us to repentance and faith and Adopts the father adopts us as sons and daughters because of what Christ did on the cross. So we that call from Christ is to repent put your faith and trust in him.

Let me pray for us and we'll close out this week. We're going to record another one and we'll see you on the following week and talk about these different layers. Father we thank you so much for Who you are and and not giving us what we deserve.

We know that there are some that will be separated but you've gracious graciously chosen us and Chosen others to be redeemed and it's Just as your your word is unalterable Your mercy is unfathomable. Thank God we just glory in it and we Help us to live our lives in light of your unfathomable unfathomable mercy.

We Thank you for allowing us to get together tonight To examine your word Thank you for bringing it alive. Thank you that your word came down and became flesh And took our place for what we deserved. We pray all these things in Jesus name.

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