Jesus, The Man, Is Better Than Angels - [Hebrews 2:5-9]

When I was a boy growing up in Nebraska crew cut and all I had a dilemma

And it was a very big dilemma in my mind Would I rather be? Tarzan or Batman Both were very popular when

I was growing up and of course I'm not talking about modern Batman and modern Tarzan, but old -school

We were fairly poor and Tarzan's outfit was easier cheaper

At least in the summer so I mainly was Tarzan even though I thought

Batman was probably smarter. I remember I had a special knife a Tarzan knife It was made of plastic, but it was a heavy dense plastic

I remember just having that on my swimsuit side and one time I saw a squirrel and I thought you know what that squirrels a dead squirrel, and I took my this is a heavy knife

Wasn't metal or anything, but I threw it at the squirrel and it got stuck up in the tree and to this day This is why

I have all these psychological issues that squirrel took my Tarzan knife, and I'm just biting on it like You're not gonna kill me

Tarzan or Batman that's hard to decide I have another tough question for you this morning.

Would you rather be an angel or a human

It's much more Important to answer that question than Tarzan or Batman could you if you had the possibility to be an angel

Would you or is it better to be a human now before you answer that question? I want you to think

Flying around I want you to think Superhuman I want you to think delivering the decrees of God.

I want you to think delivering divine judgment I want you to think ministering spirits

All things that angels have or do No physical body yet, so intelligent

Serving God rejoicing in what God does is it better to be an angel? Isn't it better to be an angel than a human?

But today in the book of Hebrews that question is asked and then answered and the answer is it is much

Much better to be a human Turn your Bibles, please to Hebrews chapter 1 and 2 we'll look at that as we catch up to speed and what's going on in this book that talks about Jesus Christ the

God -man as our high priest our Mediator it is better to be a human

What's happening in the book of Hebrews? The first chapter is Jesus the

Divine Son Obviously, he's better than angels He's the Divine Son God is better than angels, but now in chapter 2 the writer wants to make sure you understand that Jesus the man is still better than angels as The God he's better but as man

Jesus is not inferior to angels He's better than angels because I know what you're thinking because the writer of Hebrews also knows

Isn't there some type of liability that humanity gives us doesn't that kind of disqualify us from being better than angels

Is Jesus inferior because of his humanity? How can

Jesus be greater than angels when angels are? well angels

And that's where we come to our passage today Hebrews chapter 2 verses 5 and following While you might think humanity is a hurdle it's an obstacle

It's a it's a pothole in the road for your theological system It's not

Jesus as man is still better than angels Big picture this book is chapters 1 through about the middle of chapter 10

Doctrine what does the Bible say about Jesus and then the writer shifts to practical application in the middle of chapter 10?

So almost like a Pauline epistle early on you've got doctrine and then you've got practice

You've got conduct flowing from creed and the same thing happens here in this book where everything exclaims

Jesus is greater. He's greater than the prophets. He's greater than the angels. He's greater than Moses.

He's greater than Aaron He's greater than the Old Covenant. He is greater than the old sacrifices.

He is a superior high priest The book exudes the word better better than angels chapter 1 a better hope chapter 7 a better covenant chapter 7 better Promises chapter 8 better sacrifices chapter 9 better resurrection chapter 11

Not only that it talks about great all the time great salvation great high priest great tabernacle great cloud of witnesses and the great shepherd of the sheep

Chapter 1 Jesus is greater than angels because he's God and then he has the little

Warning and I'll just read the warning again to catch us up to speed in chapter 2 Therefore we must pay much closer attention

You can see the tie -in with the therefore Theology isn't neutral To what we have heard lest we drift away from it.

Remember that nautical kind of figure of speech For since the message declared by angels they helped deliver

Mosaic law Proved to be reliable and every transgression our disobedience received a just retribution how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation and Notice the past tense language here.

It was declared at first by the Lord and it was attested to us by those who heard Errors passive is something that happened in the past While God also bore witness technically it says while he's bearing witness to this past thing

But it catches the grammar, right and God also past tense It's the idea bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the

Holy Spirit distributed according to his will And now we pick it up in chapter 2 verse 5

I think what I'm going to do is read verses 5 through 18 so you can get this idea

That humanity doesn't hurt Jesus his incarnation Helps it doesn't hurt after all here's going to be the argument of the book of Hebrews chapter 2

How can Jesus suffer unless he's a human? How can he die in our place as a representative unless he's human?

How can he be raised from the dead and then given an exalted place of? preeminence unless he's human

Angels don't suffer Angels don't die angels don't have a time of suffering and then exaltation to have that happen

You've got to have Jesus as both God and man. It's not a hindrance to be a man.

It's a necessity Chapter 2 verse 5 for it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come of which we were speaking

It has been testified somewhere What is man that you are mindful of him are the son of man that you care for him

You made him for a little while lower than the angels You've crowned him with glory and honor

Putting everything in subjection under his feet now and putting everything in subjection to him

He left nothing outside his control at present. We do not see we do not yet see

Everything in subjection to him, but we see him who was for a little while Made lower than the angels namely

Jesus Notice the focus on the person. This is human name

Crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone

For it was fitting that he from whom and by whom all things exist in bringing many sons to glory

Should make the founder of their salvation perfect through Suffering see angels can't do that for he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source

This is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers Saying I will tell of your praise to my brothers in the midst of the congregation.

I will sing your praise And again, I will put my trust in him and again behold

I and the children God has given me Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood

He himself likewise Partook of the same things that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death

That is the devil See, no angel could do that and deliver all those through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery

For surely it's not the angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham How does he help them by becoming one of them?

Therefore? He had to be made like his brothers in every respect He had to become a human so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God to make

Propitiations for this propitiation for the sins of the people for because he himself has suffered when tempted

Something the angels could never do He is able to help those who are also being tempted

Jesus is greater than the angels Not just by his divinity, but also by Counterintuitively his humanity who is better an angel or a man?

Jesus has to be a man Now what happens is for our outline today?

I'm gonna play off of a word or two in verse 8 and verse 9 and that word is the word

C s e e At the end of verse 8 we do not yet see everything in subjection

But verse 9, but we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels

So today I want you to see with eyes of faith See Jesus the ruler who is greater than angels even though he is a human

How can Jesus be greater than an angel as a man? Number one

I want you to see Jesus Even as a man as God's ordained ruler.

That's what I want you to perceive and to see Jesus even as a man is

God's ordained ruler in other words It was never the plan for God to have angels in charge of everything in the future verse 5

How to see Jesus superior to angels number one see him superior to angels because he is the ruler not the angels of the world to come

For it was not to angels Hebrews 2 5 God subjected the world to come of which we are speaking

Now angels had and have certain controls They have certain realms of things that they need to do and back in this day.

Let me read to you Deuteronomy 32 Angels had been placed over nations

Working things out for God they were in charge of certain peoples and nations Deuteronomy 32 8 but when the

Most High gave to the nations their inheritance when he divided mankind He fixed the borders of the peoples according to the numbers of Angels, that's the

Septuagint. That's the Greek version of the Old Testament Angels were in control of regions

Daniel it says that there's the Prince of Persia. There's the Prince of Greece It says that Michael is the

Prince Daniel chapter 10 then he said do you know why

I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the Prince of Persia and when I go out the

Prince of Greece will come God has these these angels looking out over and directing and controlling nations.

That's one of their jobs But it's not their ultimate job because you look back at verse 5

It's not to angels that God subjected the world to come in other words God may have subjected the world at the time to angelic

Government but not ultimately and You should be thinking that way anyway

Because it says in chapter 1 verse 13 does it not to which of the angels has he ever said sit at my right hand?

Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Now when you look at the word world there, sometimes you might think of a cosmos. It's a different word. It means humanity.

It means The world that is inhabited The world to come this

Jewish expression of a future age age who's in charge of the world to come That's the question you go.

This is confusing. What's going on angels in charge of thing Yes angels were in charge of things, but who's going to be in charge in the future and we know the answer to that question

We just learned in chapter 1 Jesus dies. He's raised from the dead and then enthroned

It's a great coronation where Jesus is in charge of everyone and everything Angels aren't going to be in charge of the world to come

Jesus is The exaltation of Jesus changed everything while the boundaries of the nations might have been set for angels now

It's different because Jesus has been raised from the dead and doesn't that make sense? If the father sends the son to go rescue humanity and dies on a cross

He's raised from the dead doesn't the father say everything I have is yours Of course

That's the idea the exaltation of Jesus changed everything and he had to be a man to die and to be raised from the dead

And to be exalted Jesus is the ruler not just the angels

Number two, this will develop number two now Let me say this

This passage requires a thinking cap or two. I don't know if you remember dunce caps

Right. Remember dunce caps those little conical kind of dunce cap things You might want to do some research on dunce caps and dun scotus, but that's a different sermon.

This takes thinking This takes engagement This is not kind of the easiest passage in the world now if you're if you're if you're preaching

It's almost like do I tell them that because now you're kind of you're bracing yourself like this is gonna be too hard But it's not going to be too hard when you remember the big picture

Holy God thrice, holy God sinful man you need somebody in between and That's somebody in between has to be

God so he can interact with God and that person has to be man So he can interact with man and that person is called a high priest

So the writer of Hebrews is saying listen Jesus is greater as God Chapter one, but how can he be greater than man?

I mean mankind has all kinds of limitations and and Mankind has weaknesses

So this passage here, it's not that hard when you get that big picture and he quotes a passage

That's wonderful. And if you understand this passage, it will also help you but you have to be engaged

Jesus number two I want you to see as the ultimate Adam who regains what the first Adam loses

How can Jesus be greater than angels number one? It was never God's plan for angels to rule the world and number two

Jesus the ultimate man the last Adam regains what Adam loses

Angels didn't regain paradise Angels are great, but they can't rescue man

The father did not send an angel to be some kind of mediator because an angel isn't man

The only way you can be a mediator is to be God and man. You can just hear Paul talk in first Timothy 2

Between God and man. It's this mediator the man Christ Jesus and Now he gives the quote in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 6.

It has been testified somewhere Now doesn't that kind of strike you kind of funny at the beginning it's in the

Bible somewhere You know, but that's not what he means because he's quoting it perfectly

If I were to say to you, you know, the Bible somewhere says the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not

Want you know what? You know, I know I'm just asking the question and this is what the writer does the writer is trying to say

I don't really care who the human author is The focus is on the divine author and you know where it is in your

Bible, it's been testified somewhere It's been given a stamp of authority someplace He knows the readers recognize this.

This is a very famous passage And he introduces it with this testify language a juror language

Bearing witness language solemn declaration. He's not trying to be funny. He's using language court language

The goal for us is not well, why doesn't he say, you know, have you did you grow up memorizing verses like the

Navigators taught you You say John 3 16 for God to love the world and you go through the whole thing.

And then what do you say at the end? John 3 16 that's the way you do it He's using language.

It says I'm getting you to focus on the content here. Not necessarily the call numbers

The meaning of the citation is what's central And now he quotes from Psalm 8

Psalm 8 and you probably know this Psalm. You've probably sung this Psalm And he quotes a few verses from the middle of the

Psalm What is man that you're mindful of him our son of man that you care for him? You made him up for a little while lower than the angels

You've crowned him with glory and honor putting everything in subjection under his feet now in Bible study

There are some key things that if you get the Bible become much clearer to you. Let me give you one illustration

Prescription versus Description would that be a good hermeneutical principle to have wired in your mind the

Bible sometimes describes things the Bible sometimes what's that piece of paper that the doctor gives you if you

Need some coding a what a prescription see I knew that but I'm using

Hebrews 2 6 language It's been testified someplace. I knew you knew that that's why I said it.

It's a script. It's a prescription Take two of these and don't call me in the morning. That's what it says on there

Description some things happen you're not to do when Jesus heals People and feeds five thousand men with bread.

It doesn't say you go do that Other things are prescribed be content show Thanksgiving do everything without complaining and murmuring

Those are prescriptions and if you get those that principle down you're gonna be in good shape here's another principle when it comes to the book of Hebrews and really every book in the

New Testament if you can get this down you're on your way Not just description prescription, but I want you to think first Adam Last Adam if you can get that Adam in the garden called the first Adam and Jesus called the last

Adam. He's not called the second Adam because well, maybe there's a third Adam But he is the last man the ultimate man.

You will understand this passage and so many of the things in the Bible First Adam last

Adam that is the language of not only Romans 5, but also 1st Corinthians chapter 15

One Adam in the garden ruined everything in Adam's fall we send all

One man later Jesus Christ undoes everything that first Adam does first Adam last

Adam I think it's Thomas Goodwin who said Everyone is hanging on one of Adams girdles.

I Never thought I'd say girdle from the pulpit as long as I live, but since a Puritan said it I figured it was okay

You're either in Christ Fallen humanity Adam as your federal representative

What did I just say in Christ? I meant what did I say? Did I say in Adam? I meant in Adam the first one in Adam sinful and fallen or you're in Christ the last

Adam One man Adam sins Everything's ruined one man the last

Adam redeems and everything is restored first Corinthians 15 in Adam all die and in Christ all will be made alive

I Want you to think representative first Adam Representative last

Adam and it helps because if I think about that mediator between God and man He's going to have to be my representative

He has to be God so he has enough righteousness to give to everybody who will believe but I need a mediator.

Who's a human if Adam the first Adam the sinful

Adam wrecks the paradise an Angel can't come and fix it if a human messes it up a humans gonna have to fix it and Therefore Jesus is called the last

Adam if you can begin to think first Adam second Adam That's not quite right.

You begin to think first Adam last Adam It will help you interpret the Bible because you'll be thinking federal representative

Adam federal representative Jesus and that will help you understand this passage

It says in Romans 5 Therefore just as one trespass led to condemnation for all men

So one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men for as by the one man's disobedience

The many were made sinners. So by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous

Two men Adam and the last Adam two acts trespass and righteous act two results condemnation our

Justification now, what do you do when you read a quote from the Old Testament in the

New Testament? The best thing you could do is probably go to the Old Testament and see where it's found.

So let's do that Let's go to Psalm 8 knowing what we know now The writers establishing the humanity of Jesus and it's not going to hurt him

It's actually going to help him be the representative and we're thinking there's a first Adam But there's an ultimate last

Adam you come to chapter 8 of Psalms and it's going to make it easier for you to understand Psalm 8 this great hymn of praise

Man the pinnacle of God's creation not animals not mountains, but man himself and the languages of intimate

First name you call someone by their first name, you know them and this is the covenant -keeping name of God.

Oh Yahweh This is the way God reveals himself to his special people

Oh Yahweh our Adonai our sovereign our ruler our governor

How majestic is your name in all the earth? When it comes to wonder and and a contemplation of what

God has done My mind is blown when I think about who you are That's the idea

Verse 2 out of the mouth of babies and infants You have established strength because of your foes to still the enemy and the

Avenger When I look at your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and the stars which you have set in place

What is man that you're mindful of him and the Son of Man that you care for him God you're so great ever look up at the stars of heaven and then you go and who am

I? I'm just like tiny. I'm infinitesimally small

Compared to the great backdrop of the universe. I'm just this little tiny person the summer

I was paddleboarding in Santa Cruz and we went out followed my friend Zach out and he's some kind of racer on a paddleboard and There's these kind of waves and of course all the shark attacks are happening

And he's telling me just as long as you don't have a yellow paddleboard great sharks great whites like yellow

I'm like well the top doesn't look like yellow, but what about the bottom ah? You've got a tourniquet anyway.

It's called a leash. Just keep paddling It's getting foggy out there think San Francisco fog and we're out there in the big kelp beds

And when you are standing up six foot above the water It's a different feel than if you're surfing down in the water when you're surfing in the water

You just your heads above the water. You're like The good news is if I get bit I'm dead, and I don't really know it but when you're above the water you can see the thing coming and You're like I'm dead, and I have to know it

But I'll tell you I I wasn't really afraid of the sharks as much as I was

I was really stunned by the fact I'm like this big in the universe

I'm like one little piece of dust on this entire ocean. I'm so small I'm so little and what the psalmist does remember.

He calls God Yahweh this personal name that I am this big I am even a sinful person, and I'm this big this little and God knows me

God cares for me. I matter to him Right that's first Peter chapter 5

That God would know me in a trial and care for me and to think and a stoop down A speck of dust yet.

He's mindful. He knows and he cares That's amazing that's why

David is like wow I just can't get over it How can you be so great, but be so concerning he says in verse 5?

Speaking of mindful look at look at the the charge that God has given little tiny puny man

Look at the Dominion God has given to a little pipsqueak of a man Yet you've made him a little lower than the heavenly beans and Crowned him with glory and honor what what privileges what's what special attention?

What extravagance to give on a little tiny? insignificant sinful creature You've given him verse 6

Dominion over the works of your hands You put all things under his feet all oxen sheep the beasts of the field

Birds of the heaven fish of the sea whatever passes along the paths of the sea This is all like an echo of Genesis chapter 1 is it not?

Let us make human beings in our image in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of The air over the livestock of the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground

To be under someone's feet is to have authority over them and God says you're in charge of all of this

And what does David say in response just the way it starts oh, yeah, how way our

Lord This just blows my mind. How majestic is your name in all the earth? Just the thought that you would we would give such a tiny little speck of insignificant

Sinful dust you'd given him power and glory and honor and everything at his feet

Now here's my question class Who quotes psalm 8 in the New Testament Well the person who's you know from Nebraska with a crew cut says

Hebrews 2 that is correct elsewhere Turn to Matthew 21.

Did you know our Lord Jesus? He quoted this for those of you that are

Interested in biblical studies and hermeneutical fidelity You already are starting to feel the rub is

God talking in Psalm 8 in Hebrews 2 About men in general mankind in general are the ultimate man the last man

Adam. You're feeling that tension. That's good Someone else besides the writer of Hebrews quotes from Psalm 8 and it is our

Lord Jesus Christ Matthew 21 And the blind and the lame came to him verse 14 in the temple and he healed them

But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did The children crying out in the temple

Hosanna to the Son of David they were indignant and They said to him.

Do you hear what these are saying? And then that's kind of a bad thing to say to Jesus and his response to them

These leaders the chief priests the scribes the experts in the Bible. Yes.

Have you never read? dope and he quotes from Psalm 8

Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise and Leaving them he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there

Praise is prepared To whom is praise given God is the one to be praised

Psalm 8 you give praise to God for making this great place Underneath the feet of this small little

David and everyone else to God alone be the praise. Oh, Yahweh Our Lord how excellent is your name in all the earth?

And now what does Jesus do? This praise that David gives to God and God alone.

These people now are giving praise to me I in fact Jesus says Him God in the flesh the ultimate son of David is me

Jesus John Fesco writes quote do not overlook the children's identification of Jesus as David's greater son

The children of Jerusalem recognized Jesus as the one of whom David wrote When the

Pharisees became indignant and tried to rebuke Jesus for allowing the children to say such a thing. How did

Jesus respond? Have you never read and then he quoted Psalm 8 the children are correct

Don't you know that David wrote Psalm 8 about me? That is what he says in effect to the

Pharisees Jesus is the last

Adam now, let's go back to Hebrews chapter 2 and put this together There's nothing wrong with man man was to rule a man will rule

God put everything underneath the feet of humanity and there's going to be the ultimate man that will rule ultimately

God gave the earth to be ruled by mankind and the ultimate man will rule the last

Adam will rule everything Hebrews chapter 2

Now remember before we get lost in some of this kind of deep Kind of deep theological issues

How great are angels great? But they can't rescue mankind God doesn't have an angel cloak itself with human flesh and then go rescue mankind

What is man? Do you see that back in chapter 2 verse 6 of Hebrews? What is man?

He's not talking about an individual male per se just just humanity. What's what's humanity that you even think about him.

I Know I'm supposed to say something like this, but I'll give it a shot. Anyway Man is a rash on the epidermis of a minor planet

It almost sounds like I shouldn't be saying it yet.

God cares. God's mindful of him Job said something very similar What is man that you make so much of him and that you set your heart on him visit him every morning and test him every moment

God isn't so mindful. I mean he knows about angels, but it's not with this intense mindfulness and care and affection

To look on to look after the same word to to to be mindful of or to care for him

When we say Oh God visit me the original man

Adam is to be the vice -regent of the earth and He rebels and we need the final vice -regent to come and undo what the first Adam did

Adam has done Verse 7 you made him a little wire lower than the angels a while lower than the angels

You've crowned him with glory and honor now. Here's the interpretive rub Him who's him

You made him is it mankind or is it

Jesus a Little while lower where mankind

Would be in charge of many things But then ultimately be exalted. Is it mankind or is it

Jesus? If you think first Adam and last

Adam, I think you'll be helped and When you notice it says in verse 7 you made him for a little while lower than the angels

And you have crowned him with glory and honor If you think of the big picture of Hebrews chapter 1 your mind is going to be drawn toward Well, maybe this is humanity in general and Jesus is the ultimate man

But Matthew chapter 21 and now Hebrews 2 should be getting you to be thinking listen

This has to be talking about Jesus now. Why because Hebrews 1 talks about coronation it talks about Exaltation and Jesus when he was a human he was a little while lower than the angels.

That's true But after his suffering after his death after his resurrection is

Jesus now lower than the angels No, he's crowned with glory and honor.

This is the ultimate man. This is the ultimate Son of David Jesus himself You've crowned him with glory and honor

He's undid he's undid he undid what the first Adam did the ultimate point here is

Through the humiliation and exaltation of Jesus It shows that he is now greater than angels verse 8 putting everything in subjection under his feet

Everything is in subjection. Now. There's nothing left and here comes the interpretation you say

Mike I don't know if I really like what you said about Psalm 8 so much. Here's the interpretation that's inspired verses 8 and 9

He gives the quote then he gives the interpretation now and putting everything in subjection to him He left nothing outside his control at present.

We do not yet see everything in subjection to him verse 9

But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels who is that person?

Namely Jesus crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone

So what's the point? How can Jesus be greater than angels if he's a human

Because as a human he's our representative and he does what Adam did in the garden and now

God has crowned him because of his Suffering and death with great honor and everything is under subjection of Jesus feet

Turn to Revelation chapter 5. I want you to see see this here And then we'll pick it up next week where we left off Revelation chapter 5 only the last

Adam can Regain and restore what the first Adam lost Revelation 5 is a passage.

I love to go to for many reasons, but I think you'll see the tie -in here Can an angel?

Undo what Adam did in the garden can an angel have paradise restored?

Paradise is lost by a man. It has to be regained by a man and there's only one man for the job If that man was not on our side our striving would be losing okay

Revelation chapter 5 verse 1 then I saw

He's kind of switching from looking at the throne and and the creatures who sat on the throne I saw at the in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written and on the back sealed with seven seals

You would seal things up to contain what was in the seal and by the way You wouldn't have a seal with one two, three, four, five six seven scroll with seven seals

What you would do is you would take a scroll and you would start to roll it up and you get like two rolls in You'd put a seal there roll it up a couple more times put another seal there roll it up a couple more times put another

Seal there. So if the first one broke it still would have these other six seals And There's this throne

Where a scroll is found and it's written on the on the back within and on the back what's on that scroll?

Well as you study the passage you'll go. This is like eternity. This is the decree of God What's going to happen in the future and it's a scroll that's all filled up.

It's packed. There's no spaces for later editions God's redemptive plan is written on this scroll

Who's in charge of all that who has the the the earth and God's redemptive plan and the universe

Under his feet in subjection to him who controls the universe There are comprehensive decrees.

They're extensive decrees and they're sealed and You know, there's a problem verse 2 and I I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice

Who's worthy to open the book and to break its seals That strong angel can't do it there are things angels can't do

I wonder if it's better to be an angel or a man Who's worthy to open the book and to break its seals?

It's not a matter of power it's a matter of authority who is the one You need proper credentials

There's no one worthy. No one can do it Who's without sin who's worthy to judge and what does

John end up doing? No one in heaven on earth or under earth was able to open the scroll or to even look into it

Do you notice how universal this inability is in earth on earth under earth? heaven

It's gonna have to supply the answer. No angel in heaven.

No human on earth No one Everyone's born of Adam everyone's lost in sin in perfect tense.

The creatures can't do it. No one Yes, but if you're thinking big picture, you're thinking

God has made a promise back in Genesis chapter 3 to undo everything and to provide a

Messiah he's going to be worthy to do it but right now Verse 4

I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it Yeah, yeah, maybe

God is checkmated Maybe if we get somebody elected in November, that's not to our liking the world will be over God's purpose will be thwarted and what's the response loud wailing by the evangelical, right?

Did I just say that I can't believe I just said that Only three votes count in November 8

The Father Son and the Spirit they all vote for the same person. Amen Sir Redeemer, is there another person who can do this?

No angel can do it It has to be a person aren't all people affected by sin Just gonna cry.

I mean sometimes, you know when you got kids and they're little and they fall and they're like don't cry about that Then I'd always say to my kids

I'll use Luke as an illustration because he's not here and I don't have to give him the dollar Luke When you fall down in your bicycle, no crying when grandma dies

You just cry that's a reason to cry and don't wipe your tears either. Don't be ashamed if there's ever a reason to cry the world is over all the promises of Genesis 3 and Exodus 12 and Leviticus 16 and Isaiah 53.

I mean who is gonna open these scrolls? Something's got to be done someone.

Is there anyone who's worthy? I 33 years and videotaped everything you said and recorded everything you thought about We don't need to go back 11 years

Let's just go back five years one month and recorded everything and then everyone was able to see it all

That'd be a bad day Can you imagine I think it's all leading up to someone for 33 years you look at the life of Jesus and everything is

Recorded in the mind of God. Maybe there's just one little time. He was sinful. Maybe there's just one time

He didn't thank the Father. Maybe there's just one time He was like, you know, I can't believe my dad did such -and -such what a an awful person

This is maybe there's just one little time that he did that and if he did one sin That books never gonna be open

Nobody's ever gonna be ultimately forgiven But of course Jesus lived a sin less life as a human as the last

Adam and it says in verse 5 aren't you glad? Weep, no more Behold the

Lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David. He could have just as easily said the last

Adam Has conquered so that he can open the scroll and it's seven seals

Finally there's going to be someone who can say everything is in subjection to me even as a human upon the throne of David and over his kingdom

Isaiah chapter 9 He's prevailed and He is a lamb.

He's a lion lamb the Lion of Judah and he conquers like a lamb the sacrificial substitute

Man in Massachusetts wrote 300 years ago The devil had as it were swallowed up Christ as the whale did

Jonah, but it was deadly poison to him He gave him a mortal wound in his own bowels

He was soon sick of his morsel and was forced to do by him as what the whale did to Jonah To this day.

He is heart sick of what he then swallowed as his prey Because Jesus is not only the lion, but he's also the lamb and therefore superior to angels because of his suffering and death

Who is the one that can take the scroll? It's the same one that the Bible teaches That is crowned with glory and honor

Hebrews putting everything in subjection under his feet After Jesus's humiliation and suffering and death.

He is no longer lower than the angels because God exalted him Even Jesus the man

Jesus. Yes. Jesus was more than a man But he was fully man and this whole passage in Hebrews and then yes revelation

Echoes this one thought Jesus the God -man as the high priest when he suffers and dies and does the

Father's will There is an exaltation Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name so that at the name

Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and Under earth and every tongue confessed that Jesus Christ is

Lord to the glory of the Father Jesus is under no one subjection any longer

And if Jesus wasn't a man he was only an angel there's no hope for us

Let's pray. I thank you father for this day. I thank you that we see Jesus The ultimate ruler

Who was the incarnate sufferer yet now you've crowned with glory and honor undoing what the first Adam did

Thank you for that. Thank you that he's our representative and when you see us You see us in Christ, I Thank you for that.

I thank you that You loved us enough to have your son Add humanity so that he could be tempted as we'll see next week

And and show empathy and sympathy and he could be tempted and yet still strengthen us

I thank you. It's weird to think but father.

I'm glad we're not angels Because it's gonna be better to be a man because we have