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

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November 1, 2020

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

07:19: If you're able to stand, please join me.
07:32: I sought the
07:41: Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from every fear.
07:53: Those who look on him are radiant, they'll never be ashamed, they'll never be ashamed.
08:08: This poor man cried, the Lord heard me, and saved me from my enemies.
08:21: The Son of God surrounds his saints, he'll deliver them, he'll deliver them.
08:36: Magnify the Lord with me, come exalt his name together.
08:50: Glorify the Lord with me, come exalt his name forever.
09:04: Oh taste and see that the Lord is good, oh blessed is he who hoards in him.
09:18: Oh fear the Lord, oh all you saints, give you everything, he'll give you everything.
09:32: Magnify, magnify the Lord with me, come exalt his name together.
09:46: Glorify the Lord with me, come exalt his name forever.
10:03: Let us bless the Lord, let us bless the Lord, every day and night, never ending praise.
10:16: May our voices rise, let us bless the
10:21: Lord, every day and night, never ending praise.
10:30: May our voices rise, let us bless the
10:35: Lord, every day and night, never ending praise.
10:43: May our voices rise, magnify the
10:49: Lord with me. Come exalt his name together, glorify the
11:03: Lord with me. Glorify the Lord with me, come exalt his name forever.
11:18: Lord we come before you this morning to glorify your name, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
11:29: We know that you are able and you will never fail because you defeated the grave, rose from the dead, and are seated on your throne.
11:44: We sing praises to you this morning with full hearts overflowing to worship you.
11:54: God is able, he will never fail, he is almighty
12:04: God. Greater than all we seek, greater than all we ask, he has done great things.
12:19: Lifted up, he defeated the grave, raised to life, our
12:27: God is able. In his name we overcome, for the
12:37: Lord our God is able. God is with us,
12:55: God is with us, and he is on our side, he will make a way for above all we know, for above all we hope, he has done great things.
13:19: Lifted up, he defeated the grave, raised to life, our
13:27: God is able. In his name we overcome, for the
13:37: Lord our God is able. God is with us, we will go before, he will never leave us, he will never leave us.
13:55: God is with us, he has opened arms, he will never fail us, he will never fail us.
14:09: Lifted up, defeated the grave, raised to life, our
14:18: God is able. In his name we overcome, for the
14:28: Lord our God is able. For the
14:34: Lord our God is able. For the
14:40: Lord our God is able. O turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of his glory and grace.
16:10: Jesus to you we lift our eyes,
16:19: Jesus our glory and our pride. We adore you, behold you, our savior ever true.
16:35: O Jesus, we turn our eyes, and see
17:05: Christ the lion await us.
17:15: Dawn, fear of death, his goal. Jesus to you we lift our eyes,
17:37: Jesus our glory and our pride. We adore you, behold you, our savior ever true.
17:52: O Jesus, we turn our eyes, and see
18:39: Christ the lion await us. O Jesus, to you we lift our eyes,
18:47: Jesus our glory and our pride.
18:54: We adore you, behold you, our savior ever true.
19:02: O Jesus, we turn our eyes, O Jesus, we turn our eyes.
19:40: 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.
19:53: And as you spend time reading, meditating, it's amazing the depths of truth, of life -changing truth that we encounter.
20:04: 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.
20:19: I don't deserve it. In the beginning, God created man and then he said it was very good.
20:28: 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.
20:35: And God the father enjoyed direct fellowship with Adam with Eve in the cool of the day, walking in the garden, and then sin.
20:44: 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.
21:02: Christ came to earth to redeem a sinner like me.
21:08: He came for his glory, not because of anything that I can do to be worthy of it.
21:15: He came according to his sovereign will, from before the creation of the earth, his sovereign will.
21:22: This was the plan. And he came motivated by love for a sinner like me.
21:29: 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.
21:48: 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
21:57: Jerusalem with him through all eternity experiencing his love. And so we have a hope.
22:04: We have a hope in a world that doesn't have a hope. We have truth in what's about to come for us.
22:14: But in the meantime, we have a promise. We have promises of blessings that we are going to experience, that we can experience.
22:24: 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.
22:34: 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.
22:46: These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
22:54: 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.
23:04: There is this one message that is undeniable that God has for us, and that is joy.
23:10: Joy that will be made complete. And so we're able today to experience that joy in a very special way.
23:19: We have this table set before us. Now, if you haven't gotten one of these little single serves, now's your time.
23:24: 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.
23:39: We are remembering his sacrifice, which we deserved, which he took to the cross.
23:46: 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.
24:00: And so now let's bring it down tighter. This is my challenge for me, for each one of you individually.
24:06: 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.
24:17: Make this personal for you. Remember personally. Remember what he has done personally.
24:24: Celebrate the victory that's been given to us. The cleansing. Proclaim personally.
24:32: Be willing to let the world see through you. You are proclaiming, I am a child of God. Make it personal.
24:39: Scripture gets us ready for this and it's recorded in 1 Corinthians 11. In verses 23 and 24, it says,
24:47: For I received from the Lord that what I also delivered to you, that the
24:53: Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said,
25:01: 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.
25:16: 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.
25:29: We come gratefully. We come in awe. We take this in remembrance of you.
25:37: Take, eat. Continuing in 1
25:48: Corinthians 11, in the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying,
25:54: This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
26:02: For as oft as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the
26:08: Lord's death until he comes. And so this cup symbolizes the bloodshed to wash our sins white as snow.
26:17: Take, drink. You can turn your
26:32: Bibles to Hebrews chapter 2, verses 5 to 9. If you don't have a Bible, we should have some in the back.
26:40: You 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.
26:46: Hebrews 2, verses 5 to 9. For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
27:00: It has been testified somewhere. What is man that you were mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him?
27:08: 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.
27:20: Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.
27:26: 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
27:36: 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.
27:52: Thank you, Mr. Rogers. Let's pray.
28:02: 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.
28:14: Oh, Lord, to be reminded that you died for us. You tasted death that we could taste of your life.
28:24: We don't deserve it. We are so thankful. Help us, Lord, to see you this morning.
28:31: 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.
28:38: In Jesus name. Amen. Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.
28:48: Korea just once was no, not North and South, but just one unified people.
28:54: And Pyongyang was the capital. The first missionary arrived there in 1884. Hardly any
29:01: Christians, maybe none in 1884. And within a number of years, Christianity began to thrive.
29:07: In fact, in 1910, they had what was called the Korean Pentecost. So many people came to faith at that moment that, that Korea was very much turning toward Christ, but still just a small percentage of the country.
29:23: As Christianity grew there, Pyongyang, the capital, was called the Jerusalem of the
29:29: East because so many Christians resided there. Of course, after World War II, Korea was divided into two nations,
29:39: North and South. And today, the North has only 300 ,000 believers at most in underground networks.
29:50: Whereas to the South, there are more than 17 million Christians.
29:56: So about 50 times the number of believers are in the South as there are in the
30:03: North. Now we need to be careful when we say that government doesn't matter.
30:08: 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.
30:24: The fastest retreat of Christianity in the history of the world, to the point where there's so few believers there today.
30:32: 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.
30:44: Because of indoctrination, they believe that their supreme leaders are benevolent.
30:51: And they help them and they are good to them. They live under a command economy, a communist regime.
30:58: 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.
31:07: 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.
31:18: Life expectancy is 10 years shorter than in the South. And people in the
31:23: 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.
31:32: So they're very much suffering without knowing it. Here's what I would love for them to be able to see.
31:39: A satellite image of North and South Korea at night. Now, if you just go on to PragerU and you
31:46: Google, here's a picture of Korea at night, or just somehow Google that, it comes up right away.
31:53: You can see a satellite picture of the North and the South at night.
31:58: And what you will see is the South completely lit up, bright, with Seoul shining like a star.
32:07: And in the North, complete darkness. Except for one tiny dot,
32:14: Pyongyang, the center of power, they have electricity. They have the resources of the country and the wealth of that nation.
32:23: I would love for North Koreans to get to see that, to understand things from a bird's eye view.
32:31: And brothers and sisters, we need the same thing. How would you like to see a bird's eye view of things?
32:39: You see, North Koreans are prone to indoctrination. So are we.
32:47: We swim in a certain water and we become accustomed to that water.
32:53: And we don't realize very often how indoctrinated we become to the things of this earth.
33:00: Hebrews chapter 2, verse 5 to 9, 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.
33:13: Have you ever heard the expression, he's so heavenly minded, he's of no earthly good.
33:19: The truth is quite the opposite in most cases. Many people are so earthly minded that they're of no eternal or heavenly good.
33:30: And I think about little kids that, you know, they're playing a game and they get distracted.
33:36: 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.
33:52: Hebrews 2, 5 to 9, is 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.
34:03: So in Hebrews chapter 1, we were told about Jesus. And long times ago and through the prophets at many times in many ways,
34:12: God spoke to us through the Son. At first he spoke to the prophets, he's spoken to us by the
34:17: Son. And what the author of Hebrews does after extolling who Jesus is, he cites seven passages from the
34:25: Old Testament to prove that Jesus is greater than angels. And then in chapter 2, he tells us we need to pay better attention so that we don't drift away.
34:39: So what's happening in chapter 2, verse 5, where we're about to pick up right here. We're going back to that same train of thought from Hebrews chapter 1.
34:48: We're still comparing to angels. And the big idea that we're going to be shown is mankind given dominion way back in the
34:59: Garden of Eden. But something breaking, Genesis chapter 3, and the world devastated because of that.
35:07: And we're waiting for someone to come and break the curse. Jesus will be that one in verse 9 to do what
35:17: God originally designed for us in the Garden of Eden. So it's going to be fun to see this big picture.
35:24: 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,
35:38: Jesus, the image of God. The perfect image of God is the one who will break the curse and make everything right.
35:46: 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.
35:53: 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
35:59: 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.
36:08: 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.
36:15: So chapter 2 verse 5. For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come of which we are speaking.
36:27: So here's the clue. We're still comparing Jesus to angels. Do you see that?
36:34: It's a similar language to chapter 1 verse 7 and 8. Where he says to the angels,
36:41: God says he makes his angels winds, his servants flames of fire. But chapter 1 verse 8.
36:46: But of the sun, he says, your throne, O God. You see the comparison?
36:52: He says this to angels. He says that to the sun. So the sun is greater than the angels.
36:58: So he's doing the same thing here. It was not to angels. The idea is someone higher than angels.
37:07: Well, who is that going to be? Don't answer Jesus too quickly. It will be
37:13: Jesus in verse 9. But first, it's mankind. We'll see that in a minute.
37:19: It was not to angels that God subjected the world to come of which we are speaking. So we are talking of big things.
37:27: The world to come. This is eschatology. The future. The big picture of the last things to come.
37:35: Which began when Jesus came. We're talking about how Jesus is ruler of it all. He makes the whole world right.
37:42: So let's get into that then. Verse 6. It has been testified somewhere.
37:51: Or you could say someone said. Now, is this a senior moment for the author of Hebrews?
37:59: 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?
38:07: You know, the thing. The thing. I just can't. The thing. No, that's not what's happening here.
38:13: He hasn't lost his train of thought. He hasn't forgotten who wrote Psalm chapter 8. I mean, after all, think of what he's already done.
38:21: He's quoted from Psalm 2 and 2 Samuel 7 and Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm 45 and Psalm 102,
38:30: Psalm 104, Psalm 110. He's already quoted seven passages. He knows what he's talking about, but he doesn't say
38:37: David's name. Why? Because he's underscoring that it's
38:45: God who spoke these words. In the past, God spoke by the prophets at many times and in many ways.
38:55: In these last days, he has spoken to us by his son. Moving into chapter 2.
39:01: You need to pay more careful attention to what you've heard. Why? God said this.
39:10: That's the point. He doesn't quote David. He quotes God. David is incidental.
39:17: In fact, when David is quoted, 2 Samuel 7, we saw last week about what
39:25: David was given, the promise of the kingdom, that the Messiah will come through David, the Davidic covenant.
39:31: 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
39:40: I and what is my family that you have brought me this far? In other words,
39:47: David was humbled by the covenant that God made with him. He saw himself as so small and insignificant.
39:54: Who am I? And that's the idea that's about to come forth here. What is man?
40:00: Look at the text, Hebrews 2 verses 6 to 8. What is man? We're so small that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you care for him.
40:12: 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.
40:23: All right. How do we pay more careful attention? Anybody ever done like the
40:28: McShane reading of the Bible in one year? Or you've read through the whole Bible? Maybe you've done that.
40:36: You got to Psalm chapter 8. You read Psalm chapter 8. But do you remember?
40:43: Have you been back in Psalm chapter 8 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 8, pay attention.
40:56: Understand how it connects because that's how we'll understand what the author is saying. So we're going to spend 10 minutes this morning in Psalm chapter 8.
41:06: I almost said I promise, but I've learned not to do that. I'm going to try to go through this in 10 minutes.
41:15: Psalm chapter 8. We can't pay attention to Hebrews 2 unless we go and understand what's being referenced here.
41:31: Quick walk through Psalm 8. Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
41:40: You have set your glory above the heavens. So pause right there. The author is saying
41:46: God is the center of the universe. The whole earth is for his glory.
41:52: 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.
42:02: Habakkuk told us that the world would be filled with the knowledge of the
42:07: Lord as waters covered the sea. God's design in spreading out mankind in all of the earth is so that his name would be proclaimed everywhere.
42:18: In the Old Testament, his name is revealed as Yahweh. In the New Testament, we don't see
42:24: Yahweh per se, but we see Jesus identified as Yahweh.
42:31: This is the one true God that we would preach the name of Jesus to the ends of the earth.
42:37: Jesus means Yahweh is salvation. So verse 1, it's all about God.
42:44: He's the center of the universe. Psalm chapter 8, verse 2. What's going on here?
42:50: 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?
43:01: 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?
43:13: Bam, bam. Out of the mouths of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes.
43:23: Okay, something's introduced here in the text. A foe, a villain. To still the enemy and the avenger.
43:33: 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.
43:42: There's one who did not want to display God's glory, but steal God's glory.
43:48: His name was Lucifer. He's a foe. He's an enemy and he's an avenger because he feels wronged when
43:56: God cast him out of heaven, sent him to the earth, judged him without redemption. He feels wronged and now he wants vengeance.
44:04: So he's the avenger, but God will use babies.
44:12: 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.
44:23: 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.
44:30: And the Pharisees, the foes who have the spirit of their father, the devil, are saying, stop them from praising you.
44:39: Jesus quotes Psalm chapter 8 verse 2 and says, from the mouths of babies and infants, you have established strength or ordained praise.
44:53: So what's going on here? Glory belongs to God, but there's a foe and God is going to use the foolish things, men, little piles of dirt to overcome these cosmic forces, these angels that can travel about the universe.
45:12: 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.
45:26: Verse 3, when I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place.
45:33: The author David turns our eyes to the heavens and all David could see is stars and a sun and moon.
45:39: He didn't have a Hubble telescope. But today we can use a telescope and see that there is a star in our solar, in our galaxy, the
45:53: Milky Way. That's 1 ,700 times bigger than our sun.
46:00: 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.
46:08: Look at the next verse. It's meant to make you think like this. Verse 4, what is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you care for him?
46:18: Psalm 8 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.
46:36: 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.
46:49: And then he breathed life into Adam. He was a living man. Then he took a rib from Adam and made a little woman.
46:56: But how small are we in compared to the size of the universe? We have a fan here of Tom Brady.
47:08: And I agree because I'm from Tampa. But how small is this little dot named
47:14: Tom? I mean, Tom can throw the ball far, right? He can maybe throw it like 80 yards on a good day.
47:24: But how far can he throw it compared to that sun in the sky?
47:30: He's just a dot. Or another example. This world is very fascinated and never stops talking about that little tiny orange dot.
47:43: People love the orange dot and people hate the orange dot. Just that one little dot.
47:52: And people are clamoring about everything related to this little speck of dust.
48:00: As big as he is in the mind of the world, he's just a dot compared to the
48:07: God who made all things. And all Christians believe that. The world doesn't really understand that.
48:13: That's why they have to fascinate over little things. So this is the idea in verse four, right?
48:19: 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.
48:26: We're supposed to be so little and think of ourselves like, who am I that you're mindful of me?
48:32: I'm just dust. But look at the rest of the verse. This is what's crazy. The rest of the chapter.
48:39: Yet, you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
48:48: You have given him dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet.
48:58: 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.
49:08: Oh, Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth? Do you see the twist there in the middle of the psalm?
49:16: We're just dust. And yet, God said in the
49:21: Garden of Eden, I'm giving you dominion over everything.
49:28: God has appointed man to be his representative over the rest of creation.
49:35: These little pieces of dust turn out to matter so much.
49:42: God placed man in a place of dominion. They're vice regents of the king, ruling, reigning over all creation.
49:51: That's amazing. And the angels are sitting there thinking, wow, didn't see that coming.
49:59: The good ones are fine with it, right? Good job, God. That's awesome. But Lucifer and his demons are not happy about this.
50:09: So turn with me now to Hebrews 2. This is where it all comes together.
50:14: Big picture stuff. To help turn our eyes to Jesus. So in Hebrews 2, verse 8, we've quoted this from Psalm 8, verses 4 to 6.
50:32: Now a little exegetical note. Chapter 2, verse 8, part
50:39: B. Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.
50:45: What's the author here underscoring? How complete man's rule is, like how much they have under their charge.
50:56: When he put everything under man's feet, there's nothing he left out of their control.
51:03: 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.
51:12: Everything. So that's where we're left until we get to the problem.
51:21: And this little part of a verse totally unlocks what's happening here. Part C, 2 8
51:30: C. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.
51:43: That little phrase, that little sentence is pregnant with meaning. This speaks to the fall of man.
51:53: Man, Genesis 1 26 to 28 was made ruler, but we don't see it.
51:59: Why not? Because Adam and Eve rebelled in the garden. Here's how it happened.
52:06: God in charge, man under God, and all the beasts under him. An angel named
52:13: Lucifer possessed a beast that's supposed to be under the feet of the man.
52:19: Under his rule. And he elevated himself up over the man and told the man to submit to him.
52:27: Don't listen to God, listen to me. The man should have been leading his wife according to the way
52:33: 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.
52:44: This cosmically in the big picture, the meta -narrative of all of history. This is a big deal.
52:53: Man under God's authority has rebelled against God and submitted to Satan. Now Satan becomes the ruler of the world.
53:02: He's in charge as the God of this age, in a sense. Not higher than God, but over man now.
53:10: Man is submitted to Satan. 2 Corinthians 4 .4, Satan is called the God of this age.
53:15: And Ephesians 6 .12, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against rulers and powers, dark forces of this dark world, this present darkness.
53:27: So you have this world, this dark angelic world that's now ruling.
53:35: And man is dying. So as soon as I lost my last front teeth as a kid, and my adult teeth came in,
53:48: I jumped in the pool, Palm Harbor, Florida, swam across the pool and collided right to the edge of the pool.
53:57: My tooth to the concrete. My tooth didn't win.
54:03: The concrete chipped it right in half. Just as soon as I got that adult tooth, oh man, that's a lifelong injury.
54:11: Well, you get a cap, get the dental work done, never gonna be perfect. And then your mom has
54:20: Parkinson's. Your son dies, not all referring to me.
54:26: Earthquake hits, tornado, wildfires burn down your house.
54:34: A lion kills someone. I just heard of a police officer was killed by a rooster.
54:40: 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 cockfighting.
54:49: Police officer went, broke that up. The rooster just hit him in the leg, but it hit that particular femoral artery and he died.
54:58: But doesn't man have dominion over roosters? We do not see it.
55:06: You see, the world is God created it. God, man, with dominion over all created things has been turned upside down and ruined.
55:16: There's all this death everywhere. We're dying. We're suffering. It's all ruined.
55:25: 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.
55:36: So here's what he says. But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels.
55:47: 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.
56:01: We see a representative man born as a baby grows and is killed by the evil of this world, by the sin of man.
56:14: As demonic forces and principalities, Satan himself hated that baby, hated that man.
56:23: They strung him up on a tree and they killed him, but he poisoned the belly of death.
56:32: He defeated the grave. He conquered death by dying. The idea is
56:39: Jesus came, this one man did what mankind could not do.
56:45: 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.
56:53: But a new Adam has come, sinless, and he dies the death that we deserve.
57:00: In other words, Jesus is the representative humanity. He is the one man who does what all of us failed to do.
57:10: He's the one that's going to restore everything. You see how the language applies to Psalm 8, crowned with glory and honor.
57:20: 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.
57:35: How did it accomplish? How did he accomplish this? By suffering death. He died the death that we deserve.
57:45: He stood in and took the penalty that we deserve. As the representative man, he tasted death for everyone.
57:55: He was the representative of humanity and tasted it for everyone. Now be careful here, there is distinction between believers and unbelievers.
58:05: 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
58:16: 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.
58:26: If you say that he tasted death for everyone in the same way, then everybody would go to heaven.
58:35: There would be nobody in hell. Because why would they be in hell if Jesus already tasted their death in a propitiatory sense?
58:43: 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.
58:54: And you'd be in, what would that be called? Universalism, right? We'd all be universalists.
58:59: So there is a distinction and that distinction is faith. Those who put their faith in Christ are, their sins are atoned for.
59:07: 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.
59:17: The value of Jesus's blood is perfect and infinite.
59:25: 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?
59:58: Suffering in the world, that's there because of our sin. But the offer is that Jesus would take your sin away.
01:00:09: That you would be forgiven, completely clean. Jesus did for us what we could not do.
01:00:18: 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
01:00:28: Psalm 8. That's the meaning. Of Hebrews 2, 5 to 9. So in closing, we're basically where we were last week.
01:00:37: We were, there was like an interlude. Verses 1 to 4 to say, do not fall away.
01:00:43: Pay more careful attention. So as you go to Psalm 8, we're being told, look here.
01:00:51: I can imagine the author of Hebrews as he's writing the first chapter. And he thinks about, well, what about Psalm 8?
01:00:58: Made a little lower than the angels. How does Psalm 110 fit with that? That he seated and called
01:01:04: Lord with all things under his feet. And the light bulb goes off, wait, wait.
01:01:10: He's fulfilling what God planned through man. He's the man, it all fits.
01:01:16: I mentioned this at first service and I'll tell you guys as well. One of the coolest things at the
01:01:22: Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. Anybody been to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC? There is a chart there and you can also get this online now.
01:01:32: Somebody had it printed. Did you get it, Michael? Oh, you're the man. No, Jesus is a man, but you're cool.
01:01:38: Okay, this chart just looks like whatever, right? That's one of the coolest charts you've ever seen.
01:01:47: Because the white lines along the bottom are the chapters of the Bible. You see the really long one?
01:01:54: That's probably Psalm 119 because it's so long. 176 verses. These are the chapters of the
01:02:00: Bible. Do you see the arches going from chapter to chapter? This shows where the
01:02:07: Bible cites other Bible passages. There's over 17 ,000 of them.
01:02:13: So if you go from Genesis 1, where God makes man in his image, there's one arch that lands right there in Psalm chapter 8.
01:02:21: You gave dominion to man. And there's an arch that goes from Psalm chapter 8 and it lands right there in Hebrews chapter 2.
01:02:29: 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.
01:02:43: It's all interconnected. This is what we're being told. Pay careful attention because all of it is showing you
01:02:49: Jesus. All of it connects. And shows us
01:02:54: Jesus. It's to turn our eyes to him. So let's close in a word of prayer.
01:03:01: Michael and Phil, if you guys would come up to lead us in a final song.
01:03:08: Oh, we have so much to learn. Psalm 8 alone is just such a beautiful prophetic picture of Jesus fulfilled.
01:03:18: Hebrews 2 explains how. It turns our eyes to Jesus to see him so we don't drift.
01:03:25: 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.
01:03:35: 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.
01:03:47: Turn from your sin. Believe in Jesus and he is a perfect savior. Let's pray.
01:03:56: God, I do pray for all of us who hear these words. That they would not go over our head.
01:04:02: Or in one ear and out the other. But that your word would accomplish the work for which it was sent.
01:04:09: 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.
01:04:18: Open our eyes that we may see Jesus. Jesus, you are the man, the new
01:04:29: Adam. The one to whom all dominion is given. All glory and honor.
01:04:35: All things put under your feet. So we put our hope in you. We turn our eyes to you.
01:04:45: For you alone can save. We also ask that you would be merciful to this country.
01:04:50: Because right now there is danger. North Korea surely didn't see the danger of socialism and communism before it set in.
01:05:04: 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.
01:05:13: Pray, Lord, for the election. Your will be done. And we trust you,
01:05:19: Lord. Our eyes are turned to you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Let's stand and close with worship.
01:06:04: Your blood has washed away my sin. Jesus, thank you.
01:06:11: The Father's wrath completely satisfied. Jesus, thank you.
01:06:17: Once your enemy, now seated at your table.
01:06:23: Jesus, thank you. Your perfect sacrifice
01:06:42: I have been brought near. Your enemy, you made your friend.
01:06:53: Pouring out the riches of your glorious grace.
01:06:59: Your mercy and your kindness knows no end. Your blood has washed away my sin.
01:07:09: Jesus, thank you. The Father's wrath completely satisfied.
01:07:16: Jesus, thank you. Once your enemy, now seated at your table.
01:07:24: Jesus, thank you. You love her of my soul.
01:07:39: I want to live for you.
01:07:48: Love her of my soul. I want to live for you.
01:07:58: Love her of my soul.
01:08:05: I want to live for you.
01:08:13: Your blood has washed away my sin. Jesus, thank you.
01:08:20: The Father's wrath completely satisfied. Jesus, thank you.
01:08:27: Your enemy, now seated at your table. Jesus, thank you.
01:08:43: Okay, don't forget to get boxes for Operation Christmas Child to send these boxes of toys to the ends of the earth.
01:08:51: It's going to be really cool to see how God uses that. Another quick announcement before I'll read the benediction here.
01:08:57: There's a prayer meeting tonight. My friend, Pastor Bill Lubkeman and I are going to host, try to get our churches together.
01:09:04: Tonight at 7 p .m., 55 East Main Street. You can just Google it, Calvary Chapel of Marlton.
01:09:11: It's just right there on Main Street, Marlton. We're going to pray for the election for an hour. Just pray for God's mercy on this country.
01:09:19: So if you want to fast between now and then, you're welcome to do that. Or just come and pray. But we love, we're also going to spread out.
01:09:26: 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.
01:09:33: So we'll spread out and be able to pray in smaller groups. But we are going to pray because there's a lot riding on November 3rd.
01:09:42: 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.
01:09:51: Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ.
01:09:59: 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.
01:10:13: According to the command of the eternal God to bring about the obedience of faith. To the only wise
01:10:19: God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ. Amen. Go in peace.