Hebrews 2:5-9 (The Man Given Dominion- Jeff Kliewer)

Dan, please join me.

I saw the Lord answered me

and delivered me from every fear.

Those who look on Him are radiant.

They'll never be ashamed.

They'll never be ashamed.

For man cried, Lord heard me.

He's His saints.

He'll deliver them

together.

Glorify

and exalt His name.

Taste and see His good.

With me.

And glorify.

Bless the Lord

with me.

And exalt

and exalt His name.

Lord, we come before you this morning to glorify your name.

How majestic is your name in all the earth.

We know that you are able.

You will never fail because you defeated the grave,

rose from the dead, and are seated on your throne.

We sing praises to you this morning with full hearts, overflowing,

to worship you.

God is able.

He will never fail.

He is almighty God.

Greater than all we seek.

Greater than all we ask.

Has done great things.

Lifted up.

He defeated the grave.

Raised to life.

Our God is able.

In His name, we overcome.

For the Lord, our God is able.

On our side, He will make.

Far above all

we ask.

Has done great things.

Lifted up.

He defeated the grave.

Raised to life.

In His name,

He is able.

He will never. He will never.

He will never. He will never.

In His name, we overcome.

Our Savior.

Our Savior.

Spending time in the scriptures, just spending time hearing this love message that

God has for us is one of the great joys, one of the great blessings that we have.

And as you spend time reading, meditating, it's amazing the depth of

truth, of life -changing truth that we encounter.

I think one of the most powerful truths in scripture is the

reality that God sent His one and only son to earth to redeem a

sinner like me.

I don't deserve it.

In the beginning, God created man, and then He said it was very good.

I mean, He had created the earth and the skies, and He said it was good.

And then He creates man, and He says it's very good.

And God the Father enjoyed direct fellowship with Adam, with Eve, and the cool of the day, walking in

the garden, and then sin.

And so as we spend time in scripture, we see this undeniable truth,

the only hope that we have, that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that

whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Christ came to earth to redeem a sinner like me.

He came for His glory, not because of anything that I can do to be worthy of it.

He came according to His sovereign will, from before the creation of the earth, His sovereign will.

This was the plan.

And He came motivated by love, for a sinner like me.

And I think each one of us sitting here can profess and confess the same thing.

By knowing this truth, we rejoice knowing that there is going

to be a time when we again are going to experience that love without

any barriers.

We will be in all of eternity, those who call on the name of Christ, those who bend the knee to

Him, we are going to be in the new Jerusalem with Him through all eternity

experiencing His love.

And so we have a hope.

We have a hope in a world that doesn't have a hope.

We have truth in what's about to come for us.

But in the meantime, we have a promise.

We have promises of blessings that we are going to experience, that we can experience.

Matthew 5, 8, blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God.

This is a promise of the future, but it's also a promise today.

Let your heart be pure before God, you get to see Him, you get to experience Him.

And in the upper room, as Jesus had His 12 with Him, it's recorded in John

15, these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you

and that your joy may be complete.

Putting this in the context of everything He had to teach them in that upper room about things to be, about where He

was going, about what was going to happen to Him.

There is this one message that is undeniable that God has for us, and that is joy,

joy that will be made complete.

And so we're able today to experience that joy in a very special way.

We have this table set before us.

If you haven't gotten one of these little single serves, now's your time, go back and get one.

Or raise your hand and somebody will do it for you.

But when we share in this table, we are proclaiming the truths

that God sent His Son.

We are remembering His sacrifice, which we deserved, which He took to the

cross.

And we are experiencing a relationship with Him through the blood that

won us this relationship that the world can never understand and can never

experience.

And so now let's bring it down tighter.

This is my challenge for me, for each one of you individually, make this

personal for you.

Don't make this a time when we're gathered together the first Sunday of the month as a church

celebrating this ordinance.

Make this personal for you.

Remember personally, remember what He has done.

Personally celebrate the victory that's been given to us, the cleansing.

Proclaim personally, be willing to let the world see through you, you are proclaiming I am a child of

God.

Make it personal.

Scripture gets us ready for this and it's recorded in 1 Corinthians 11.

Verses 23 and 24, it says, for I received from the Lord that what I

also deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took

bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, this is my body, which is

for you.

Do this in remembrance of me.

And so we take this wafer, which symbolizes the body broken on that

cross for us, for you.

Father, we come before you, we come before this table.

Children washed in your blood, children made into new creations by your body broken on the

cross.

We come gratefully, we come in awe.

We take this in remembrance of you.

Take, eat.

Continuing in 1 Corinthians 11, in the same way, He also took the cup after

supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood.

Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's

death until He comes.

And so this cup symbolizes the bloodshed to wash our sins white as

snow.

Take, drink.

You can turn your Bibles to Hebrews chapter two, verses five to nine.

If you don't have a Bible, we should have some in the back.

You can lift your hand and we'll get you a Bible.

Really important to have the word of God in your hands as we study together.

Hebrews two, verses five to nine.

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

It has been testified somewhere.

What is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you care for him?

You made him for a little while lower than the angels.

You have crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection

under his feet.

Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.

At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him, but we see him

who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus,

crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of his death so that by the

grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.

Thank you, Mr. Rogers.

Let's pray.

So Father, this morning it is our joy to come into your presence, to be

able to take of the body and blood of Jesus symbolized in that bread and cup.

Oh Lord, to be reminded that you died for us.

You tasted death, that we could taste of your life.

We don't deserve it.

We are so thankful.

Help us, Lord, to see you this morning.

We've already seen you in the worship and in the ordinance.

Now we pray that we would see you through the study of your word in Jesus' name, amen.

Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.

Korea just once was not North and South, but just one unified people.

And Pyongyang was the capital.

The first missionary arrived there in 1884.

Hardly any Christians, maybe none in 1884.

And within a number of years, Christianity began to thrive.

In fact, in 1910, they had what was called the Korean Pentecost.

So many people came to faith at that moment that Korea was very much turning toward Christ,

but still just a small percentage of the country.

As Christianity grew there, Pyongyang, the capital, was called the Jerusalem of the East

because so many Christians resided there.

Of course, after World War II, Korea was divided into two nations, North

and South.

And today, the North has only 300 ,000 believers at

most in underground networks.

Whereas to the South, there are more than 17 million Christians.

So about 50 times the number of believers are in the South as there are

in the North.

Now, we need to be careful when we say that government doesn't matter and that if there's

persecution, well, the church will just thrive because of that.

It's not always the case.

In North Korea, what we saw in the last century, last half century, was the

worst period of time for Christianity in any given place.

The fastest retreat of Christianity in the history of the world to the point where there's so few

believers there today.

However, if you were to go to North Korea and visit the average person living in North Korea,

they wouldn't know the state of the world.

Because of indoctrination, they believe that their supreme leaders are

benevolent and they help them and they are good to them.

They live under a command economy, a communist regime, and yet they think, many of them, some of

them are privy to the truth, many of them think that they're living under a benevolent

leader.

In fact, there's a cult of personality where many worship Kim Jong -un.

Meanwhile, some people have to sneak over the border just to get food.

Life expectancy is 10 years shorter than in the South and people in the South have 10

times the resources of people in the North.

In fact, the average person in North Korea makes less than $2 ,000 per year to live on.

So they're very much suffering without knowing it.

Here's what I would love for them to be able to see.

A satellite image of North and South Korea at night.

Now, if you just go onto PragerU and you Google, here's a picture of Korea at night,

or just somehow Google that, it comes up right away.

You can see a satellite picture of the North and the South at night.

And what you will see is the South completely lit up, bright, with

Seoul shining like a star.

And in the North, complete darkness.

Except for one tiny dot, Pyongyang, the center of power, they have electricity.

They have the resources of the country and the wealth of that nation.

I would love for North Koreans to get to see that, to understand things from a bird's eye

view.

And brothers and sisters, we need the same thing.

How would you like to see a bird's eye view of things?

You see, North Koreans are prone to indoctrination.

So are we.

We swim in a certain water and we become accustomed to that water.

And we don't realize very often how indoctrinated we become to the things of this earth.

Hebrews chapter two, verse five to nine, is like a bird's eye view.

It's like being in a satellite or some spaceship, looking down and seeing things

from the big picture.

Have you ever heard the expression, he's so heavenly minded, he's of no earthly good?

The truth is quite the opposite in most cases.

Many people are so earthly minded that they're of no eternal or heavenly good.

And I think about little kids that, you know, they're playing a game and they get distracted.

And you say to them, what?

Get your head out of the clouds, get your head in the game.

Sometimes we need to get our heads up in the clouds and be less distracted by the game

that's going on all around us.

Hebrews two, five to nine, it's a pretty difficult passage.

But if we understand that it's a big picture view, reinforcing a point that

the author's already been making.

So in Hebrews chapter one, we were told about Jesus.

And long times ago and through the prophets and many times and in many ways, God spoke to us

through the son.

At first he spoke through the prophets, he's spoken to us by the son.

And what the author of Hebrews does after extolling who Jesus is, he cites seven

passages from the Old Testament to prove that Jesus is greater than angels.

And then in chapter two, he tells us we need to pay better attention

so that we don't drift away.

So what's happening in chapter two, verse five, where we're about to pick up right here, we're going back to

that same train of thought from Hebrews chapter one.

We're still comparing to angels.

And the big idea that we're gonna be shown is mankind

given dominion way back in the Garden of Eden, but something breaking, Genesis chapter

three, and the world devastated because of that and we're waiting for someone

to come and break the curse.

Jesus will be that one in verse nine.

To do what God originally designed for us in the Garden of Eden.

So it's gonna be fun to see this big picture.

So we're looking at all of history here.

God's huge plan involving angels and involving men and ultimately

centering on the man, the representative man, Jesus.

The image of God, the perfect image of God is the one who will break the curse

and make everything right.

That's where we're going.

I had to kind of set that stage because I think most people when you read this section are kind of lost.

I won't ask for a show of hands.

Were you lost when Ben read that for us?

I won't ask for a show of hands.

But I was lost when I read this this week.

Now, as a pastor, I have the great benefit that I get to sit here all week long and spend hours in this

passage.

So I can understand it by time in the word to correlate and get it.

But that's what we get to do now is look at this passage.

So chapter two, verse five.

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of

which we are speaking.

So here's the clue.

We're still comparing Jesus to angels.

Do you see that?

It's a similar language to chapter one, verse seven and eight where he says, to

the angels God says, he makes his angels winds, his servants flames of fire.

But chapter one, verse eight, but of the sun he says, your throne, oh God.

You see the comparison?

He says this to angels, he says that to the sun.

So the sun is greater than the angels.

So he's doing the same thing here.

It was not to angels.

The idea is someone higher than angels.

Well, who is that going to be?

Don't answer Jesus too quickly.

It will be Jesus in verse nine, but first it's mankind.

We'll see that in a minute.

It was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

So we are talking of big things.

The world to come.

This is eschatology, the future, the big picture of the last things to come,

which began when Jesus came.

We're talking about how Jesus is ruler of it all.

He makes the whole world right.

So let's get into that then.

Verse six, it has been testified somewhere.

Or you could say someone said.

Now, is this a senior moment for the author of Hebrews?

He's trying to quote a verse that he remembers, but he can't quite remember who said it.

Is that what's going on here?

You know, the thing, the thing, I just can't, the thing.

No, that's not what's happening here.

He hasn't lost his train of thought.

He hasn't forgotten who wrote Psalm chapter eight.

I mean, after all, think of what he's already done.

He's quoted from Psalm 2 and 2 Samuel 7 and

Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm 45 and Psalm 102, Psalm 104, Psalm 110.

He's already quoted seven passages.

He knows what he's talking about,.

But he doesn't say David's name.

Why?

Because he's underscoring that it's God who spoke these words.

In the past, God spoke by the prophets at many times and in many ways.

In these last days, he has spoken to us by his son.

Moving into chapter two, you need to pay more careful attention to what you've heard.

Why?

God said this.

That's the point.

He doesn't quote David, he quotes God.

David is incidental.

In fact, when David is quoted, 2 Samuel 7, we saw last week

about what David was given, the promise of the kingdom, that the Messiah will come through David,

the Davidic covenant.

We saw that.

David's reaction was very telling.

You know what he did?

He sat down and he got out his harp and he wrote one of his songs and he said, who am I?

And what is my family that you have brought me this far?

In other words, David was humbled by the covenant that God made with him.

He saw himself as so small and insignificant.

Who am I?

And that's the idea that's about to come forth here.

What is man?

Look at the text, Hebrews 2, verses six to eight.

What is man?

We're so small that you are mindful of him.

Or the son of man that you care for him.

You made him for a little while lower than the angels.

You crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection under his

feet.

All right, how do we pay more careful attention?

Anybody ever done like the McShane reading of the Bible in one year?

Or you've read through the whole Bible?

Maybe you've done that.

You got to Psalm chapter eight.

You read Psalm chapter eight.

But do you remember?

Have you been back in Psalm chapter eight this year?

Or last year, or the last couple years?

The point is, when we come across something like this in the text, we need to go back to Psalm eight,

pay attention, understand how it connects, because that's how we'll understand what the author is saying.

So we're gonna spend 10 minutes this morning in Psalm chapter eight.

I almost said I promise, but I've learned not to do that.

I'm gonna try to go through this in 10 minutes.

Psalm chapter eight.

We can't pay attention to Hebrews two unless we go and understand what's

being referenced here.

Quick walk through Psalm eight.

Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

You have set your glory above the heavens.

So pause right there.

The author is saying God is the center of the universe.

The whole earth is for his glory.

The heavens are for his glory.

His name is to be made known.

By the way, that's why man was created in his image and sent into all the earth.

Habakkuk told us that the world would be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as

waters cover the sea.

God's design in spreading out mankind in all of the earth is so that his name would be

proclaimed everywhere.

In the Old Testament, his name is revealed as Yahweh.

In the New Testament, we don't see Yahweh per se, but we see Jesus

identified as Yahweh.

This is the one true God that we would preach the name of Jesus to the ends of the earth.

Jesus means Yahweh is salvation.

So verse one, it's all about God.

He's the center of the universe.

Psalm chapter eight, verse two, what's going on here?

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength.

Whoa, when you think of babies, moms, do you think of your babies as strength

or are they vulnerable and little and insignificant, powerless little baby?

But strength, you don't think, like maybe in some kind of cartoon, like some super baby, right?

Bam, bam.

Out of the mouths of babies and infants, you have established strength because of

your foes.

Okay, something's introduced here in the text.

A foe, a villain to still the enemy

and the avenger.

God created the world.

Remember, we're thinking big picture.

God created the world and all things to display his glory, but there's a foe.

There's one who did not want to display God's glory, but steal God's glory.

His name was Lucifer.

He's a foe.

He's an enemy and he's an avenger because he feels wronged when God cast him out of

heaven, sent him to the earth, judged him without redemption.

He feels wronged and now he wants vengeance.

So he's the avenger, but God will use babies.

And of course, we think of the triumphal entry when Jesus comes into Jerusalem and all of his

children, adults and kids, but children by faith, his disciples,

who have the faith of a child are worshiping him.

Then he goes in the temple and even the little kids are praising him.

And the Pharisees, the foes who have the spirit of their father, the devil, are saying, stop

them from praising you.

Jesus quotes Psalm chapter eight, verse two, and says, from the mouths of

babies and infants, you have established strength or ordained

praise.

So what's going on here?

Glory belongs to God, but there's a foe and God is gonna use the foolish things.

Men, little piles of dirt to

overcome these cosmic forces, these angels that can travel about the universe.

They're not contained in bodies like people are.

He'll use the littlest baby born in a manger to

crush the head of the usurper and the avenger.

Verse three, when I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in

place, the author David turns our eyes to the heavens and all David could see is

stars and a sun and moon.

He didn't have a Hubble telescope.

But today we can use a telescope and see that

there is a star in our galaxy, the Milky Way,

that's 1 ,700 times bigger than our sun.

But even just on a clear night, when you see how big the universe is, you're just blown away by the

size of it.

Look at the next verse.

It's meant to make you think like this.

Verse four, what is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you care

for him?

Psalm eight is supposed to humble us and say, we're so insignificant and little.

The third rock from a small little sun, the earth that

revolves around the sun and spins at just the right axis to keep life here.

There's dust on this earth and God has taken the dust and he played

in the sand and he made little arms and a tiny little torso and

legs and then he breathed life into Adam.

He was a living man.

Then he took a rib from Adam and made a little woman.

But how small are we?

And compared to the size of the universe, we have a fan here of Tom

Brady.

And I agree, because I'm from Tampa.

But how small is this little dot named Tom?

I mean, Tom can throw the ball far, right?

He can maybe throw it like 80 yards on a good day.

But how far can he throw it compared to that sun in the sky?

He's just a dot.

Or another example.

This world is very fascinated and never stops talking about that little tiny

orange dot.

People love the orange dot and people hate the orange dot.

Just that one little dot.

And people are clamoring about everything related.

To this little speck of dust.

But as big as he is in the mind of the world, he's

just a dot compared to the God who made all things and all Christians believe

that.

The world doesn't really understand that.

That's why they have to fascinate over little things.

So this is the idea in verse four, right?

Now, you're only halfway done the psalm and I'll read the rest of it here because this is not the amazing moment yet.

We're supposed to be so little and think of ourselves, like, who am I that you're mindful of me?

I'm just dust.

But look at the rest of the verse.

This is what's crazy.

The rest of the chapter.

Yet, you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and

crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.

You have put all things under his feet.

All sheep and oxen and all the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

Oh Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth?

Do you see the twist there in the middle of the psalm?

We're just dust and yet God said in the garden of Eden,

I'm giving you dominion over everything.

God has appointed man to be his representative over the rest of creation.

These little pieces of dust turn out to matter so much.

God placed man in a place of dominion.

They're vice regents of the king, ruling, reigning over all creation.

That's amazing.

And the angels are sitting there thinking, wow, didn't see that coming.

The good ones are fine with it, right?

Good job, God.

That's awesome.

But Lucifer and his demons are not happy about this.

So turn with me now to Hebrews two.

This is where it all comes together.

Big picture stuff to help turn our eyes to Jesus.

So in Hebrews two, verse eight, we've quoted this

from Psalm eight, verses four to six.

Now a little exegetical note, chapter two, verse eight,

part B, now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.

What's the author here underscoring?

How complete man's rule is, like how much they have under their charge.

When he put everything under man's feet, there's nothing he left out

of their control.

That means every lion and every tiger and bear and all the fish and the birds and this whole

world is under man's feet.

Everything.

So that's where we're left until we get to the problem.

And this little part of a verse totally unlocks what's happening here.

Part C, two, eight, C.

At present, we do not yet see everything

in subjection to him.

That little phrase, that little sentence is pregnant with meaning.

This speaks to the fall of man.

Man, Genesis one, 26 to 28 was made ruler, but we don't see it.

Why not?

Because Adam and Eve rebelled in the garden.

Here's how it happened.

God in charge, man under God and all the beasts under him.

An angel named Lucifer possessed a beast that's supposed to be under

the feet of the man, under his rule.

And he elevated himself up over the man and told the man to submit to him.

Don't listen to God, listen to me.

The man should have been leading his wife according to the way God designed things.

She came from his rib after all, he's the leader.

Instead, he follows her lead and submits himself to the serpent.

This cosmically in the big picture, the metanarrative of all of history.

This is a big deal.

Man under God's authority has rebelled against God and submitted to Satan.

Now Satan becomes the ruler of the world.

He's in charge as the God of this age, in a sense.

Not higher than God, but over man now.

Man is submitted to Satan.

Second Corinthians 4 .4, Satan is called the God of this age.

Ephesians 6 .12, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against rulers and powers,

dark forces of this dark world, this present darkness.

So you have this world, this dark angelic world that's now ruling.

And man is dying.

So as soon as I lost my last front teeth as a kid,

and my adult teeth came in, I jumped in the pool, Palm Harbor, Florida, swam

across the pool, and collided right to the edge of the pool.

My tooth to the concrete.

My tooth didn't win.

The concrete chipped it right in half.

Just as soon as I got that adult tooth, oh man, that's a lifelong injury.

Well, you get a cap, get the dental work done, never gonna be perfect.

And then your mom has Parkinson's.

Your son dies, not all referring to me.

Earthquake hits, tornado, wildfires burn down your house.

A lion kills someone.

I just heard of a police officer was killed by a rooster.

When I was in Kensington, we'd always hear these cocks crowing in the morning.

Well, it turns out they had roosters because they were doing cock fighting.

Police officer went, broke that up.

The rooster just hit him in the leg, but it hit that particular femoral artery and he died.

But doesn't man have dominion over roosters?

We do not see it.

You see, the world as God created it, God, man, with

dominion over all created things has been turned upside down and ruined.

There's all this death everywhere.

We're dying, we're suffering.

It's all ruined.

Verse nine, the best part where all this is leading.

See, the whole point of Hebrews, he wants to get our eyes on Jesus so we're not distracted by the things of this earth.

So here's what he says.

But we see him who for a little while was made lower

than the angels, 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.

We see a representative man, born as a baby,

grows and is killed by the evil of this world, by the sin of man.

As demonic forces and principalities, Satan himself hated that baby, hated that man.

They strung him up on a tree and they killed him,

but he poisoned the belly of death.

He defeated the grave.

He conquered death by dying.

The idea is Jesus came, this one man did what mankind could not

do.

The new Adam, the first Adam fell into sin and all of us come from him and we're part of this

fallen world that's dying, but a new Adam has come, sinless.

And he dies the death that we deserve.

In other words, Jesus is the representative humanity.

He is the one man who does what all of us failed to do.

He's the one that's gonna restore everything.

You see how the language applies to Psalm 8, crowned with glory and honor.

He will be crowned with glory and honor and he is crowned.

And he restores us to a place as sons of God to receive an inheritance, to rule and reign with

him in the new heaven and new earth.

How did it accomplish?

How did he accomplish this?

By suffering death.

He died the death that we deserve.

He stood in and took the penalty that we deserve.

As the representative man, he tasted death for everyone.

He was the representative of humanity and tasted it for everyone.

Now be careful here.

There is distinction between believers and unbelievers.

He didn't taste death for everyone in the same way.

But the point is the value of his blood as the representative man, that he would fulfill

God's big plan, that a man would be the one ruling the earth.

He becomes a man and he accomplishes that in our place.

If you say that he tasted death for everyone in the same way,

then everybody would go to heaven.

There would be nobody in hell.

Because why would they be in hell if Jesus already tasted their death in a propitiatory sense?

If he already took their penalty and died their death in the sense that the wrath of God was turned

away, there'd be no more wrath on anybody.

And you'd be in, what would that be called?

Universalism, right?

We'd all be universalists.

So there is a distinction, and that distinction is faith.

Those who put their faith in Christ, their sins are atoned for, and those who reject Christ are left to

pay for their own sins.

But what it's saying here, and what's true, he tasted death for everyone.

The value of Jesus's blood is perfect and

infinite.

Infinite value, and the offer is for all.

If you're here this morning, and you know that you're a sinner, and you're so

frustrated because you see so much pain in the world, the suffering and the death, and you're

frustrated because you have to wear a mask, or you're frustrated because there's this disease going around the world, you're

frustrated because of how the governments react to that disease and overreact, and totalitarian governments come and

impose themselves, all of these things frustrate you, right?

Suffering in the world.

That's there because of our sin.

But the offer is that Jesus would take your sin away,

that you would be forgiven, completely clean.

Jesus did for us what we could not do.

Sin is in the world.

That's why everything is broken.

But we have a hero, we have a champion, we have a man who fulfills Psalm 8.

That's the meaning of Hebrews 2, five to nine.

So in closing, we're basically where we were last week.

There was like an interlude, verses one to four, to say, do not fall away.

Pay more careful attention.

So as you go to Psalm 8, we're being told, look here.

I can imagine the author of Hebrews as he's writing the first chapter, and he thinks about, well, what about

Psalm 8?

Made a little lower than the angels, how does Psalm 110 fit with that, that he's seated and called

Lord with all things under his feet?

And the light bulb goes off, wait, wait, he's fulfilling what God planned through man.

He's the man, it all fits.

I mentioned this at first service, and I'll tell you guys as well.

One of the coolest things at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D .C., anybody been to

Museum of the Bible in Washington, D .C.?

There is a chart there, and you can also get this online now.

Somebody had it printed.

Did you get it, Michael?

Oh, you're the man.

No, Jesus is the man, but you're cool.

Okay, this chart just looks like whatever, right?

That's one of the coolest charts you've ever seen, because the white lines along the bottom

are the chapters of the Bible.

You see the really long one?

That's probably Psalm 119, because it's so long, 176 verses.

These are the chapters of the Bible.

Do you see the arches going from chapter to chapter?

This shows where the Bible cites other Bible passages.

There's over 17 ,000 of them.

So if you go from Genesis 1, where God makes man in his image, there's one arch

that lands right there in Psalm 8.

You gave dominion to man.

And there's an arch that goes from Psalm 8, and it lands right there in Hebrews 2.

Do you see how connected the Bible is?

There's one author.

Yes, there's 40 human authors on three continents writing these 66 different books, but there's one

author that painted this picture.

It's all interconnected.

This is what we're being told.

Pay careful attention, because all of it is showing you Jesus.

All of it connects and shows us Jesus.

It's to turn our eyes to him.

So let's close in a word of prayer.

Michael and Phil, if you guys would come up to lead us in a final song.

Wow, we have so much to learn.

Psalm 8 alone is just such a beautiful, prophetic picture of Jesus, fulfilled.

Hebrews 2 explains how.

It turns our eyes to Jesus, to see him, so we don't drift.

Let's close in a word of prayer, and just, if anybody is here that you've never accepted Jesus, you've never

understood that he is your only hope, that apart from him, you die,

and you depart.

He tasted death, so that I could say to you, come, repent, and you will

be saved.

Turn from your sin, believe in Jesus, and he is a perfect savior.

Let's pray.

God, I do pray for all of us who hear these words, that they would not go over our head,

or in one ear and out the other, but that your word would accomplish the work for which it was

sent.

Lord, I pray that you would bring many sons and daughters to saving faith.

Open our eyes, that we may see wonderful things in your word.

Open our eyes, that we may see Jesus.

Jesus, you are the man, the new Adam,

the one to whom all dominion is given, all glory and honor, all things put under your feet.

So we put our hope in you.

We turn our eyes to you, for you alone can save.

We also ask that you would be merciful to this country, because right now there is danger.

North Korea surely didn't see the danger of socialism and communism

before it set in, but Lord, we see it, we have that perspective,

so I just want to ask, Lord, that you would save this country and grant us peace.

Pray, Lord, for the election.

Your will be done.

And we trust you, Lord.

Our eyes are turned to you.

In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

Let's stand and close with worship.

Histories of the cross I cannot comprehend The

agonies of Calvary You're

the perfect holy one, crushed your son You drank

the bitter cup reserved for me Your blood

has washed away my sin, Jesus, thank you.

The Father's wrath completely satisfied, Jesus,

thank you Once your enemy, now seated at

your table, Jesus, thank you.

Thank you,

perfect sacrifice I have been to

meet you Pouring out

the riches of your glory, yes,

your kindness Knows no end, your blood

has washed away my sin, Jesus, thank you.

The Father's wrath completely satisfied, Jesus, thank

you Your enemy, now seated at your

table, Jesus, thank you Your

blood

has

washed away my sin, Jesus, thank you.

The Father's wrath completely satisfied, Jesus, thank

you Your enemy at your table,

Jesus, thank

you

Don't forget to get boxes for Operation Christmas Child to send these boxes of toys to the ends

of the earth.

It's gonna be really cool to see how God uses that.

Another quick announcement before I'll read the benediction here.

There's a prayer meeting tonight.

My friend, Pastor Bill Lubkeman and I are gonna host, try to get our churches together tonight at

7 p .m., 55 East Main Street.

You can just Google it, Calvary Chapel of Marlton.

It's just right there on Main Street, Marlton.

We're gonna pray for the election for an hour.

Just pray for God's mercy on this country.

So if you wanna fast between now and then, you're welcome to do that or just come and pray.

But we're also gonna spread out.

There's a sanctuary basement, lots of classrooms.

So we'll be spread out because there are some people that are concerned about having that many people in a small building.

So we'll spread out and be able to pray in smaller groups.

But we are gonna pray because there's a lot riding on November 3rd, there

really is.

So be praying, even if you don't join us at 7 at Calvary Chapel, be praying

for the next couple days.

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching

of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret

for long ages, but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has

been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God

to bring about the obedience of faith to the only wise God be glory forevermore

through Jesus Christ, amen.

Go in peace.