This evening we are in Hebrews chapter 2 verses 10 through 13 And we're in really the middle of a session asking the question. Why did God become man? And we saw in chapter 1 that the writer says Jesus is the greatest Jesus is the best You should follow him because he's God and in chapter 2 He has to explain then why Jesus is the greatest and Jesus is the best in the the humility of Humanity and what we saw last time of course is that One of the reasons that God became man is that it was by man Our dignity and dominion as created was unknown that disorder and death was brought into the world by the first man And so we need the second man the last man the last Adam to come and undo what the first Adam did and to restore us in our dignity and Dominion and now the author continues his argument for why the Humility of Jesus in verses 10 through 13. Let me invite you to give your attention to the reading of the work God For it was fitting that he For whom and by whom all things exist In bringing many sons to glory should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers saying quote I will tell of your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation.
I will sing to her praise and Again, I will put my trust in him and again be hope I and the children God has given me Amen, this is God's word making breaded on our hearts Let's pray together father. Thank you that Jesus came to rescue us and so to restore us into your family And I pray that you would open our eyes then to see the greatness of what he's done for us and The loving care with which he's done it and so help us to know who we are in Christ before you in Jesus day Amen Amen in Roman mythology bear with me for a second Romulus and his brother Remus were twins born of a woman and they say Mars and the brothers sought to build a new city in Italy But they fought over where to build it Romulus wanted to start the city on the palletine hill Remus wanted to found it on the Adventine Hill and in order to settle their disagreement They agreed to consult augury which is a type of prophecy in which birds are examined and observed to disturb what actions are persons the gods favor Each brother prepared a sacred space on their respective hills and began to watch for birds Remus claimed this in six birds Romulus said he saw twelve birds so Romulus asserted that he was the clear winner by six birds But Remus argued that since he saw he's first six birds first He had won typical brother and the brothers then remained at a standstill and continued the quarrel until Romulus began to dig trenches and build walls around his hill the the palletine hill and Remus be little the new wall and Then a final insult to the new city and its founder like he leaped over the wall and in response Romulus killed him saying so Parish everyone that shall hear after leap over my wall and so the new city was named Rome after Romulus and so Romulus established his people at the expense of his brother and That of course is just the opposite of what the Lord Jesus has done who establishes his people Not at our expense by that his own expense giving his life for his brothers and sisters He establishes his people not by slaying them But by being slain for them in the words of verse 9 which we saw last week We see 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 and in the language of verse 10 because of him many sons are brought to glory Sons who are verse 12 his brothers and verse 13 God's children So we want to consider then why do we need God to become man first verse 10 to lead us out of misery and into glory Then verses 11 12 to send us apart as his brothers and verse 13 to secure us for God as a gift And so think of these things with me in the first place verse 10 Why did God become man to lead us out of misery and into glory verse 10 for it was fitting that he For them and by whom all things exist in bringing many sons to glory should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering So the gospel is the good news that God through Jesus is bringing many sons many sons and daughters to glory We don't bring ourselves he brings us the one for even by whom all things exist He does it and he does it by taking Jesus through suffering This God thinks is fitting or appropriate that it's the right way to remedy a wrong for as by a man Came death by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead for as an atom all die So also in Christ shall all be made alive that is all who belong to him So in the first act what the first Adam ruined this last Adam Jesus restores what was lost in the fall is recovered in redemption And we've already seen that verses 5 to 9 As we mentioned everything got marred our dignity is marred our dominion over the creation is is marred We're bruised and broken by the fall. It's sometimes hard to believe that we're made for dignity It's hard to believe with all the disorder and death that occurs that were made to have dominion over creation And and God says to rescue them I will share in their misery and I will die Their death and so I will pass then Through death to life and glory and bring them with me so in verse 10. He does so as the pioneer of our salvation Modern translations grapple how to do justice with that little Greek word?
Archigos our English standard version. That's the pew Bible here calls him the founder of our salvation of the new American standard Says the author of salvation if you have the niv it says the pioneer of our salvation the king jing says the captain of our salvation So you can see that the English translators are wrestling with the richness of the word founder author pioneer captain It certainly means somebody who does something that somebody else enters into for example It's a word that's used of a man who founds a family and others are brought into it Or it's used of a man who founds a city in which others come to live and commonly it was used of a pioneer who blazed a trail For others to follow the archigos here never stood at the rear giving the orders He was always out front blazing ahead and Christ is not standing at the rear giving orders, but he's out front blazing the trail He's ahead of us. He isn't ahead of us yelling back of us back at us. Come on, you know catch up instead He well he's ahead of us and yet he comes back And he he takes us by the hands and he leads us on the path that he walked But a path which he has endured all the dangers and defeated all the enemies and suffered all the miseries to make that path safe for us So he's the perfect savior for you.
God made the pioneer of your salvation perfect through suffering He has been he says Perfected in suffering now. Don't misunderstand that language perfect here doesn't mean that he was imperfect and had to be made perfect It's not a movement for instance from moral failure which he had none to moral success It is the movement though from perfection and being through perfection in experience Under trial it's the maturing of his perfection in and through suffering until he is fully undergone all the sufferings of the cross Spring into completion our salvation and because then he bore the cross before the crown He's the perfect pioneer to bring others out of misery and out of death and into life and into glory Some time ago making the rounds on the internet was this video of a hunter he went out to scout for elk But he knew it was the season for bears to be out with her cubs So every 30 seconds he called out hey bear Which is you're supposed to make always on the trail to scare so you don't surprise her there And his trail opened up on a clearing and across the way was a grizzly and her cubs And she took one look at him and charged and his bears for I didn't slow her down She mauled him and left he was caught punctured bruised worn out But he began to run walk as able the three miles back to his car until maybe 20 minutes later This is like your worst nightmare He hears a noise behind him and there she is again It could be that she tracked in maybe he simply stumbled or she stumbled along the same path But she really tore into him again. He barely survived But he did because that's how we know the story and it took nurses eight hours to stitch up all his lacerations and puncture wounds Why don't I tell you that story? Well, I can feel like that sometimes Maybe if you feel like life has just mauled you right that that disorder has battered you you thought if I could if I just Give suffering enough warning it'll back away from me And then that didn't work so you tried to repel it and it blasted through your defenses and it mauled you and it It mauled you and it just when you thought you were free and hunted you down and mauled you again And it's gonna take heaven itself to heal all your wounds And the writer saying and Jesus gets you there Because he made it through suffering to glory you who believe in him will likewise God thinks it's fitting It says first time he was fitting that it should be this way that God should stoop down and condescend To be our pioneer to say this that's the first thing and then verses 11 and 12 He points us to this that God became man to set us apart as his brothers Verse 11 for he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified All have one source that's the history he's speaking about Jesus being the one who sanctifies us To sanctify his to set apart as holy Jesus is the one who sets you apart for God and we are the ones who are set apart by God by Jesus And this is through union with him.
We're made one with him And that little phrase all have one sources is literally all have one or all our one various translations added word to try to make sense of it We are of one family or we are of one father more likely he means we are of one nature That is we are of one humanity He's identified with us. He's become like us that he's added to himself human nature A true body and a reasonable soul and he has sanctified Sanctified himself in body and soul for God to offer mankind a sanctification and complete holiness And because he does so he offers us to God in complete holiness because we're united to him Because he sets us apart for God because he makes us holy in God's eyes It says he isn't ashamed of us. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers. He says End of verse 11 That is You might think of all kinds of reasons why Jesus should blush At the at the thought of you the sight of you the presence of you why you ought to be embarrassed by you Why he ought to refuse to acknowledge that you belong to him You might think of all kinds of reasons why that ought to be true But he doesn't think there are any good reasons to do that He delights to call you his brother or his sister He delights to be known as your elder brother who doesn't turn his face away in shame He in fact would rather bear the contempt of the proud Who think they have no need of him that you might never bear the contempt and shame of your sin that makes you need him And he doesn't hold it against you.
He doesn't resent the fact that it took his death upon a cross To do this for you And to prove all this the writer turns to verse 12 quoting In verse 12 quoting Psalm 22 And this is a this is a famous Psalm 22 is a famous messianic Psalm about the sufferings And the victories of the Messiah about his crucifixion and his resurrection and the first half of the Psalm is well known It begins with those words that Jesus took upon his lips upon the cross my god my god Why have you forsaken me? He's on that cross and he's facing the father in heaven the face the benevolent face of the father in heaven appears hidden to him He's left there upon the cross abandoned to die and the song goes on to then depict his crucifixion in explicit detail Described as being mocked by the people being stripped of his clothes being nailed to a tree being thirsty and during the agony of judgment But the song doesn't end in agony nor does the story of Jesus the song turns to triumph and the pivot is verse 22 quoted here in Hebrews I will tell of your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation. I will sing your praise In other words in Psalm 22, you have a man being crucified But in the second half of that song you have a man blurrying in his victory and triumph the crucified one blitz He stands in victory over death. He appears in the congregation in the church and he sings And so and so here's Jesus risen victorious gathers with his people and sings the praise of the lord And every time we sing praises in the corporate gathering of God's people we might say Jesus is Singing over our shoulder right he's singing the praises of God in the midst of the congregation And here the writer says he's among us among his brothers and sisters declaring God's name God's victory and God's praise And he knows with whom he's with He knows that in yourself You are unworthy of his brother or sister He knows that you think you should be turned out of the family If you were the head of the family looking at you you would kick you out of the family knowing who you are But he doesn't do that he sanctifies you.
He makes you acceptable He's glad to stand shoulder to shoulder with his people he isn't ashamed of his brothers and sisters And so we might just ask who we know that He stands true and faithful and loyal with his people with us And we might also ask if Jesus is in the shamed of his brothers and sisters Are we a shame of his brothers and sisters and is that what we communicate? To one another Jesus who will not turn his face away from his people Are we the kind of people who will not turn our face away from one another If he's willing to own us as his family, let's do likewise And then thirdly God became man verse 13 to secure us for God as a gift Now here the writer turns to a less obvious Old Testament passage he turns from Psalm 22 To the prophet Isaiah in chapter 8 and he quotes Isaiah twice in verse 13 Where in verse 13 of Hebrews 2 he says and again I will put my trust in him and again, behold I and the children God has given me now Maybe you're scratching your head as you look at Isaiah In Isaiah, what are why the writer understood these words as the words of the Messiah The context is and this was a nice providence That Isaiah's chapter 7 8 and 9 help us understand that that Isaiah is predicting a time of doom and gloom For the nation because of unbelief we saw the unbelief of a has God says ask me for a sign No, I'm not going to do it No, God tells you to ask for a sign ask for a sign But if the evidence of his heartheartedness and so darkness is coming in the form of the Assyrian empire in the northern kingdom of israel Is going to be wiped away But there is hope as we said and that hope is stoked through the story of three children in chapter 7 We learn about Isaiah's own son whom the Lord told him to name sheer just shove meaning a remnant will return So every time I say I spoke to his son every time he spoke to his son, he was reminded God has a remnant God holds onto his people even as he walks them through suffering He's going to restore them then there's this other child in chapter 8 We'll read about that a couple weeks. He's told to name him maharsha'al hashfas Meaning the spoiled speeds the pray hastens or as another put it quick pickings easy pray That reminds him that the people are vulnerable. They're in danger They're quick pickings and easy pray, but then there's a third child that third child is in chapter 7 verse 14 and it's not isiah's child But the virgin will conceive and bear a son and you will call his name manual meeting god with us And in chapter 9 that virgin son is spoken of again when it says for unto us a child is born unto us A son is given and the government will be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called wonderful counselor mighty god everlasting father prince of peace and of the increase of his government in a piece there will be no end and that's LaBassiah and that's jesus What's the connection then to the quote in hebers?
Well in chapter 8 as they this is as they ate He's told not to be like the unbelievers in israel but to trust the lord and in chapter 8 verse 12 It says do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy and do not fear what they fear nor be in dread But the lord of hosts him you shall honor as holy let him be your fear Let him be your dread and then he goes on to speak again of a manual as a rock verse 14 He will become a sanctuary and stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of israel So that either you are built on this stone or you trip over this stone Either you are built on the messiah as part of his sanctuary or you stumble over the messiah You remember jesus saying destroy this temple in three days i will raise it up again speaking of his body And then as he goes on in the words of verses 17 and 18 we have two quotations and hebers too I will wait for the lord verse 17 who is hiding his face from the house of jacob I will hope in him I will hope in him is I will trust in the lord I will hope in the lord I will trust in the lord and then in verse 18 behold I and the children whom the lord has given me So I my sons with me will belong to the lord. We will go on in faith Though israel abandons the lord And now might be we're still asking well, how do you go from that to jesus? How do you go from isiah to the messiah and you're doing one of two ways one way is to understand is a having spoken to the messiah as he manual As the stone of verse 14 Then the words of verse 17 18 are prophetic as the words of the messiah or you get to the messiah by seeing an isiah's experience a prophetic Foreshadowing or prefiguring of the great prophet and his experience as isiah himself trusted the lord And brought his children safely to the lord in the time of unbelief and suffering so to will the messiah trust the lord and bring all God's children safely to the lord in a time of unbelief and suffering as goes the prophet so goes to the messiah And so jesus came in a time of unbelief and a rejection by the people yet he was not a child of his age He did not go the way of the people he trusted the lord. I know that's really complicated But isiah is pointing forward to the messiah and the writer of hebers is saying and jesus is the fulfillment of that promise He will trust the lord and entrusting the lord he will safely bring all his brothers and sisters to glory and all the children of god who are his children safely to god And so where we have not trusted the lord Where we have feared where we have in unbelief not put our hopes in him where we have faced our sorrows and our sufferings in despair Where we think god is every reason once again to cast me off You have a savior who didn't who has it who was steadfast immovable Persevering trusting god enough for all of us So that in him we can be accounted by god as god trusters as children who trust their father Jesus is completely successful in this there's no failure on his part He came among us to receive from god children as a gift and to present those children back to the lord safely his arms And at the end of his journey, he says here they are your children god i brought every single one of them home Not one of them is missing here.
I am your children and children you have given me So as john 637 says all the father gives me will Come to me and that is so and in the same breath he adds whoever comes to me. I will never cast out So come to him and he will not turn You away and so I just by way of application ask if you're a christian do you know who you are Do you know that you are a gift you're a gift from god to jesus and you are the purchase of jesus for god So you're secure jesus guards and guarantees your return to the heavenly father And just as for jesus the road to glory was paved in suffering So that road involves you in suffering, but your suffering is not like his He sucked the poisoned out of it so to speak He removed the judgment and while we face hardship the writer febres at the end will say We we endure as as disciplined for god disciplines those he loves as a father disciplines his children That hardship we face even that suffering we face is not for us condemnation For our sins jesus suffered that for us So he came to rescue he leads us to god and glory he sets us apart as his brothers and sisters He keeps us safe as god's gift he worships with us. He trusts god for us. He holds on to us what other god Would you have to what other god would you turn to be treated so well?
Trust in this messiah, let's pray Father we know once we were not the family of god, but now we are the family of god once we were not yours But now we are yours once we were far away and jesus has brought us near even into the bosom of the father We thank you help us to know what it is to be loved by the father the son and even the holy spirit Help us to know what it is to belong to you in jesus name. We pray Amen. Amen. Let me invite you to stand and we'll sing together be that my vision