Day 2231 – Hebrews-3 – Subjection…Suffering…and Sanctification – Daily Wisdom

Welcome to Day 2231 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Hebrews-3 Subjection...Suffering...and Sanctification – Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message – 04/30/2023 “Subjection…Suffering…and Sanctification”  Hebrews 2:5-18 Last week, we continued our extended series through the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. Our focus was not to drift away from our spiritual foundation. Today, I will read Hebrews 2:5-18 as we go through the message on page 1864 of your Pew Bibles.   Perspective (Point of View)—that’s what the first-century readers of Hebrews needed and what we all need as we face the tsunamis of suffering in this life. We need to recognize where we are in God’s story and trust that the pioneer and perfecter of our faith will bring this world (and all His faithful followers) to a good and glorious end. /The remainder of Hebrews 2 provides this perspective. (Point of view)   Following his comments regarding angels in chapter 1 (and a strong warning that Christians must guard against neglecting their salvation in 2:1-4,) the writer of Hebrews returns to his discussion of angels,/ this time in their relationship to humanity. At the beginning of God’s story, humans were originally designed to exercise dominion over the created world. But on this side of Genesis 3, after the fall of humanity, that original intention for men and women was suspended, and we are subject to suffering and the effects of a cursed world. However, the writer of Hebrews pulls back the curtain ever so briefly and gives us a teaser trailer of a future in which the ultimate Son of Man, Jesus Christ, will lead the redeemed to realize their full potential in God’s plan. Coming to their rescue, Jesus Christ will restore to humanity what they lost in Adam. Until then, we’re all stuck in an often bleak series of scenes characterized by suffering. But even amid this suffering, God is working things together for our good and His glory (Rom. 8:28). Until Christ comes and establishes the new global Eden, that is, the finalization of God’s kingdom, we can expect to suffer through the long, arduous, and often painful process of sanctification. 2:5–8 5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6 But there is a place where someone has testified: (PS 8:4-6) “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? 7 You made them a little[a] lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor 8     and put everything under their feet.”[b][c] In putting everything under them,[