So, we're going to be looking today at passage, continuing passages through Hebrews chapter 2. But just as a way of starting off and thinking about it, if you were to write a job announcement for the Savior, what necessary qualifications would you put into that? Oh, thank you. Yeah, excellent. That's a good answer. I really appreciate the answer for a couple of reasons. In my mind, it was a rhetorical question, but I like the answer because it was on the mark. Anybody else want to throw out an answer? Let's change it from rhetorical to... What would you put in there? No, it's fine. We're in a classroom and we're people and we get to enjoy one another. What else would you put on that job description? Diane? Forgiving? Compassionate and understanding. You're good at this. I need it. What else would you put on the job announcement for perfect Savior? Savior of the world, yes. Need to be right with God, yeah. Another way of saying that might be holy. Perfect. Yes. What else? Yes. Yeah, that's related to holiness, but sanctification, that's good. What else? Yes. capable of fulfilling the prophecies so we can have confidence in what it is. Absolutely. Terribly important point. Yes, capable of fulfilling the prophecies. You might also put on there, Experience, eternal experience with the Trinity. Maybe you would put creator of the world and holds the world together with the power of your hand or word, power of your word. In the passage that we're looking at, there are two qualifications. As you look at this entirety of this passage, there are two qualifications that this passage focuses in on. Must be a man. must die. Those are the two qualifications that are in this passage to be the perfect Savior of the world. Yes, sure, absolutely. We're in Hebrews chapter 2. We'll begin looking at verses 10 to 18 principally, but we'll be starting at verse 9. And so you can think about this passage even as a job resume. Christ publishing his resume, his CV, that would be posting the job of perfect Savior, and we're granted the privilege of reading through this resume and taking a look at what Christ published in his resume, or what the Holy Spirit published about Christ, that qualifies him as perfect Savior. And so let's take a look at what it says. We're going to actually read through this and as we read through it we're going to see four, if you will, job titles to continue the metaphor. Job titles that Jesus has had and as a result of who he is and what he has done has and possesses these job titles. Jesus is the captain of our salvation, first of all. And secondly, Jesus is our brother. And thirdly, Jesus is victorious. And lastly and finally, Jesus is the High Priest. And that's what's going to follow in the outline. Let's remember real quick the flow of thought that we've seen as we've gone through the book of Hebrews because that sets us up for where we are right now. Hebrews in chapter 1 starts off by reminding us that In the last days, God spoke to us by His Son, who is the heir of all things, and made all things, and is just like God, and holds the universe together, and made purification for sins, and sat down at the right hand of God. And those things would be qualifications by themselves, but we're focusing here in chapter 2 on some other things. We also learned, as we proceeded through the chapter 1, that God, Jesus, is superior to angels because He is God's Son. And because angels worship Him, and angels are servants and messengers of the Son. And remember what it starts off with, that Christ, in these last days, has spoken to us. So there's a message, and chapter 2 starts off by saying, we must pay closer attention to the word spoken. It's continuing that thought that started off with, and the reasons that are given right off the bat is because, hey, it's given by the Son, who's greater than the angels, and also, it's endorsed by the Father, and it is a message given to us people. And Rob talked about that last week. And so let's read Hebrews chapter 9, I'm sorry, chapter 2. And just for context, we'll start in at verse 9. And just so everybody's not surprised, we're going to read on into verse 1 of chapter 3. Hebrews 2, verse 9. 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. 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, I will tell of your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise. And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, behold, I and the children God has given me. Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore, He had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted." Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus the Apostle and High Priest of our confession." Heavenly Father, this is a challenging passage. I need your help. to make sure that the truths that are here are lifted high and appropriately displayed and looked at and enjoyed. I pray Heavenly Father that you'd help me to speak clearly that the concepts and truths that your Spirit wanted us to know and own and have would become ours so that we would see and know you better, that we would love you more, and that you would be glorified. Please let your glory and your truth come out today because your word is amazing and you are amazing. Amen. So here in this passage we see that if you start at verse 9, Jesus became man and tasted death. Tasted death for everyone, which is the same as saying he died. And Jesus brought many sons to glory through suffering, and Jesus identifies with sanctified mankind. And Jesus is victorious, and He's the High Priest. And all of these things are summarized in what Hebrews chapter 3 verse 1 says, Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. And there's a command there. There's a command there. In fact, if you consider this passage, there are no imperatives in this passage, but it's sandwiched between the imperative that you have in chapter 1, verse 2, I'm sorry, chapter 2, verse 1, and the imperative that you have in chapter 3, verse 1, which essentially says, pay attention and consider Jesus. And so we're drawn then into this passage that's full of indicatives, that's just basically bragging about our Savior and who He is. So we have the opportunity here today to look into who our Savior is and adore Him more deeply. So we're looking at these four, if you will, titles of Jesus that He had to bring glory to who He is. And all of these are related to who He is in our saving, gospel-giving Messiah, which leans back to where the book of Hebrews starts off, where it says there is a message given to us by the Son, and it is a message that we need to pay attention to. So everything in this starts off and flows from what was set up in verse 9 of this chapter. And in verse 9, there's two key principles, and I'd like to write them up here so that we remember them. Two key principles. Jesus is a man. And Jesus suffered and died. And as we go through these things, we can start to think of them as dependencies upon one another. In fact, there's one right here. Jesus is a man. I'm sorry, Jesus suffered and died is dependent on Jesus being a man. Jesus can't be the high priest unless Jesus is a man. Jesus can't. And we can go down the list of these things. And we'll see him as we go through this. He's made like us a man. He is our brother, partly because he is a man. He made propitiation for sins by suffering, and that suffering and propitiation makes him a high priest as well. Those two become the center point around all these other attributes branch off from. And you can start, even if you want to, to draw a picture and put these things around this where they depend off of the fact that Jesus suffered or they depend on the fact that Jesus was a man. You can create a tree and branching and things like that. And it's fascinating to see. So Jesus is a man means he is like us. He has flesh and blood. We both have one source, meaning Adam. And that allows him to be high priest. And since he's high priest, he can be faithful and make propitiation. And he can be merciful to us as well. And because Jesus suffered and died, he is crowned with glory. He is perfect as author of salvation. He brings many sons to glory. He destroys the power of death and the devil. He frees those who through fear of death were enslaved. As a man, he is tempted. He also, as the suffering Savior, sanctifies. And because he sanctifies, he's not ashamed to call us brothers. And because of that, he helps the sons of Abraham, which also goes back to the idea of being of one source. And because of that, he can come to the aid of those who are tempted. So if we start at verse 10. What we see in verse 10 is Jesus is the captain of our salvation. In fact, there's a lot of different words there in different translations for what it says. Some say founders, some say origins, some say, but I like the idea of Jesus being the captain of our salvation. He's the one who provided for it and commands it and makes it available to us And as this captain of salvation, he brings many sons to glory. He tasted death for everyone, as it says in verse 9. And these are the sons, in verse 9, that are brought to glory. And we know this because he suffered, he tasted death, which is an idiom for dying. By the way, There's an interesting stack of pronouns that are here in verse 10 that can make some of this verse a little bit confusing. It says, for it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist and bring him and his sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. Let's just stop for a quick second and ask the question, who's that he that's there? And we got to recognize that the he is tied to the phrases, for whom and by whom all things exist. And that's got to be God. And bringing many sons to glory, it's God who did that too. So that he, that pronoun is God of some sort or another. And I submit to us that the Two persons that may fit that qualification are either the son or the father. But what comes from the next phrase locks it up as the he in that verse as being God the Father. Because it says, it was fitting that he should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. Now we've got to go back and ask ourselves the question, who's this founder of salvation? And I'm going to say for us, it's Jesus. Yes, it's Jesus. And so it doesn't make sense that Jesus at the beginning is the one who's making himself. It makes far more sense that God the Father is the one who's making Jesus perfect through suffering. So what we have then, if we think about this, it says, for it was fitting that God the Father, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make Jesus the founder of their salvation, perfect through suffering. Now we got one more issue here that we probably ought to kind of ask ourselves. And I don't know if you guys see it, but I scratch my head when I see the scripture saying that Jesus could be made perfect. Yeah, thanks. You guys are with me. I appreciate that. How is it that Jesus could be made perfect when he's God already? But sometimes I think the word perfect doesn't mean what we think. It means complete or complete. The father was able to make the son do what the son was put on this earth to do. That's a good start. So how is it that suffering could complete Jesus in this verse? I saw a hand over here. Yes? being made perfect could be let's I don't know if I 100% agree that there might be a slight yes but that's a possibility and in fact I think that you agree if you read commentaries you'll find the ones that agree with you on that too by the way yes fulfillment of the Father's will is dancing around it maybe we can even be more specific yes fulfilling prophecy yes those two things are together Yes? When you think of the Passover lamb, the Passover lamb was already selected and it was right for the purpose, but then there were things that people would do to make it ready for sacrifice. Like what? When they laid hands on the lamb, they had the prayers, there's a process by which they prepare it to be sacrificed. It's not that the lamb has changed in some substantive way, but that process was to prepare it for sacrifice. If that's the case, what happened to Jesus to make him perfect as the captain of our salvation? Yes? So in Strong's it also says to bring to an end. Okay. Yes, I could mean that too. The suffering and sacrifice of Jesus brought to an end our salvation. It finished the work of making that sacrifice. Yes, and in fact, I would go on to say, hold on a second, I would go on to say that Jesus was prepared to be the captain of our salvation through suffering. Which gets us back to what these two qualifications are. He is a man. He could suffer and die. As man, he could suffer and die. Before he suffered and died, he had not paid for our sins. He had not satisfied the wrath of God. And so therefore, he was not yet perfect as the captain of our salvation. So when it's talking about made perfect, it's not saying God became more perfect. But what it's saying is, in the job title, in the role of captain of our salvation, Jesus became perfect when He died. Because now He qualifies for that role. Yes. He wasn't redeemed until he completed the redemption process. That may be another way of thinking about it. Yes. Yeah. Until Christ suffered and died. In fact, what did he say to his disciples in the upper room? I got to go from you. I got to. And it's better that I do. Yes. Yes? I think because in his incarnation he limited his attributes. And that's an interesting question, that's an interesting thought. As man, would Jesus grow in perfection? And there are some instances where we see Jesus as a baby growing up and stuff like that, and growing in wisdom and stature. But at the same time, we don't want to assert that Jesus needed to become more right with God because he lived a perfect life. And he satisfied that in the living of his perfect life in his humanity. And that's also important to hold on to as you're trying to think things through about God and what's going on between Christ as God and Christ as man. And we're sneaking peeks into what's going on with that. Yes? And don't forget, John 19.30, it is finished. Which is related to the same word. Yes. Yeah, if you did a word search, you'd find the same perfect, made perfect, that is said at the cross when Jesus died. I think the root word is the same. Yes. There's a little phrase that starts this verse off. In the ESV it says, it was fitting. Some of your translations would say, it becomes him. Right? What does this mean? This is not my normal English. I don't run around going, I am fitting to go and provide something or other. But God wrote it and the translators thought this was the right way of saying this. In other words, think about it like this. It was suitable to do this. And it was appropriate. If you were in a situation where you had a close friend in need and you could help them out, you'd take care of them. It would be fitting for you to take care of your friend's need. Because you'd care for them. They're your friend. You don't want to leave them hanging. And this same word is used in Genesis where Abram is appealing to God on behalf of Sodom. And he says, it wouldn't be right for you to kill the guilty with the innocent, would it? And that's another way of thinking, that's not fitting for God to do. But here in this case, it is fitting for God to make His Son become captain of salvation. and to be made perfect through suffering. It's right for that. It shows God's love. It shows God's righteousness, His grace and glory. Jesus had to die. Luke 24, 26, Jesus said on the road to Emmaus, I think that's the right place, He was talking to the guys and He says, was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into His glory? Was it not fitting that God should do this? He needed to do it. It was right and God always does what's right. And so, the thing that follows next, not after captain of our salvation, the thing that follows next in the glory of God and His titles, is He's not ashamed to call us brothers. So the title I just like to say, He's our brother. And that's showed here in verses 11 to 13. For he who sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, That's Jesus and us, by the way, if you're in Christ, all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, I will tell of your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation. I will sing your praise. And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, behold, I and the children God has given me. I just want to let you know that the author again is reaching back into the Old Testament and quoting for us first of all from Psalm 22 and second of all from Isaiah 8 in these passages that are being referenced. And one of the things that's going on here that we've got to ask ourselves the question because there's so many of these words and ideas and concepts that are expressed to us in ways that I just, I don't feel natural English to me. He says, for he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. Hey Doug? Yes? Jesus Christ did not call his disciples, or did he call his brothers, on the other side of the cross. It wasn't until after his resurrection that he called the shepherds, he called the disciples. But it was until after his resurrection that he told Mary that he was going to tell my brothers. So it was until after his resurrection. I think I've got a couple of references for you to double check on them with that. Don't just double check because I think in the upper room he said, I call you brothers. I think he said that there, but I don't have the reference right now. And I think too, there was another point where Jesus said, where somebody said to Jesus, hey, your mom and your brothers are here. And he goes, who are my mother and brothers? Those who do my will. So I think it I think there's some implication that he may have called them brothers sooner I like the idea of what you're saying But that may be the case and I don't want to spend more time on that But I just wanted to throw a little bit towards that it'd be worthwhile doing some research on that But I did want to I didn't want to come and focus our mind here on this concept and we're gonna come right back to that on all one source. Yes? I think you must be using the ESV. Oh yes, I am. Thank you. I still have the NASB which says, for both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father. Yeah. Capital F meaning God's Father. That's what the authors and the translators thought. Yes. Yeah. Cool. Anybody else have another translation? says something different? Yeah, and in italics, which is an interesting, because when you go back to the Greek, it doesn't say father. It doesn't. It just says all out of or all from one, period. Which is interesting and it leaves us with a little bit of a puzzle. And there's some interesting controversy because in one sense we're talking a lot about Jesus being a man. So isn't it natural for us to go, oh good, Jesus, Mary, you could go from Mary all the way back to Adam and I'm sure somewhere I get back to Adam too. Because we're all from Adam and Noah and therefore we're all from one source. That may make sense if we just consider that. However, If you looked at the rest of the stuff that's in this section, it starts off with He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified. Oh wait, I think the Holy Spirit might be focusing this down a little bit more. And that's important. And that's important. And it gets back to kind of the thing Larry was talking about. And I'm excited you brought it up in the place that you did because Too many thoughts at the same time. Because Jesus, if you look down a little bit further, I'm just going to start laying some things out. In verse 16, it doesn't say that he helps the offspring of Adam. It says he helps the offspring of Abraham. And I think the Holy Spirit didn't make a mistake when he said Abraham, not Adam. That's important because the covenant comes through Abraham. So that's important to hold on to. The second thing that's important to hold on to as we think about this is let's look at the, if we're kind of still on the fence about this, the Holy Spirit gave us examples. He gave us Psalm 22 and he gave us Isaiah 8. And he goes, he's not ashamed to call them brothers, therefore he says. Let's turn to Psalm 22. Yes, turn your pages in your Bible to Psalm 22. It's towards the middle of your Bible. Or if you've got a digital thing, it's just scroll click. Like me. Psalm 22, and these two references are actually quoted from verses 22 and 25. In verse 22 it says, I will tell of your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you. Let's just read through. For you who fear the Lord, praise him. All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel. For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard when he cried to him. For, I'm sorry, from you comes my praise in the great congregation. My vows I will perform before those who fear him. The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied. Those who seek him shall praise the Lord. May your hearts live forever." If you're familiar with Psalm 22, Psalm 22 is what Jesus quotes when he dies on the cross. And it recounts many things that went on during the crucifixion before crucifixion was even invented. And it's one of those things that sometimes people are even like, oh David could have written this. I'm sure somebody wrote this in Roman times and claimed David wrote it because it's so amazingly accurate about what crucifixion is and the effects on the human body. One of the things that's interesting, and Larry, I'm getting back to your point a little bit too by the way. One of the things that's interesting, and I don't know, how much money to put on this is that this part here, starting at verse 22, is after, follows after the recounting of Jesus' death on a cross. And so it is after, in Psalm 22, the Holy Spirit had David write about His death on a cross, that then He says, I will tell of your name to my brothers." In other words, let's worry out the pronouns. Jesus is going to tell of God's name to his brothers, those whom he sanctified. Can you say that last bit one more time? Sure. Yeah. Verse 22. The pronouns. I will tell of your name to my brothers. Okay, so I'm going to assert that the I there is Jesus. He's the one Psalm 22 is about and has been talking throughout Psalm 22. And he says, I will tell of your name to my brothers." Which I believe is Jesus is going to tell His Father's name to His brothers. Let's just think about what does it mean that Jesus would tell of His name? Did that answer your question? Okay, cool. What does it mean that Jesus would tell of His Father's name to His brothers? Yes? Yes, yes, yeah, thanks for asking appreciate that yes Yes, absolutely absolutely in fact Well how much do I want to make you jump around I don't I John 1, 12-13. But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood, nor of the flesh, nor of the will of man. Alright? I read that verse ahead of the time. I'm looking for John 17. Oh, I don't have it here. I got it someplace else. Let's run over to John 17 because I didn't put in my notes. That's what I wanted to read. I love hearing the pages crinkle around and makes me know when people have arrived. John 17, if you look at verse 6, I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Jesus, in his high priestly prayer, that's what we call this, right? is declaring that he has revealed the Father to those who the Father has given to him. Pretty cool, in that then the book of Hebrews comes back and ties that back to what David wrote in Psalm 22. I have revealed your name to my brethren. And here in Hebrews, it kind of like puts its arm around it and gathers these things together and says, look at who Jesus is. He is not ashamed to call them brothers, us, those who are sanctified. Let's run back over to Hebrews and remember where we were. Hebrews chapter two, verse 11. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. which we've asserted then gets back to the source of God or salvation. The translators say the Father. He is the source of our life. Because as it says back in verse 10, it was fitting that the Father, in bringing many sons to glory, would make the Son perfect through His death. Let's keep going, right? He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source, which is the Father who's orchestrating and directing the Son and causing us to be sanctified. And as sanctified believers in Christ, He is not ashamed to call us brothers. Because as I read just ahead of time in John chapter 1, those who have believed in God have come to know God and God has brought them into His family. This gets into adoption. It gets into our being brought in. Ephesians 1.5 talks about this. Romans 8.14 talks about this. 1 John 3.2 says, Beloved, we are God's children now. And what we are and what we will be has not yet appeared, but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is." So there's a, we are people now that Christ is not ashamed to call brothers, but the real brotherhood, the real what it's going to be, where it's at, this family realization is going to happen in glorification. That's going to be fantastic. If you were at the concert last night, there was this song where he talks about, lay me down, but you got to know when you lay me down, I'm going to open my eyes. I'm going to open my eyes. And it's just a powerful, powerful song to assert and to remember that death is not the end. When he appears, we will be like him. So, we're seeing now that God is not ashamed to call us brothers. He identifies with us. Can you think about how sweet that is for just one quick hot second? Jesus identifies with us. It seems sloppy and disrespectful to say, But there's an aspect of that, a warmth, a unity, a togetherness that I want to hold on to when I think about the concept of bro. Not a disrespectful sloppiness, but a real, when I think about my brother, We just, not everybody's got the same family, right? But when I hang out with my brother, we kind of, we're already on this same foundation. We're together in a lot of ways. It's almost like we think about the same thing each one of us is thinking about. We enjoy one another's company. And I treasure thinking that that's what my relationship with Christ is like. And sometimes I don't enjoy that richly enough. I think of God high and lifted up. I think of my Savior and I'm not worthy because I'm a sinner. But the reality is God came down to be a man to be the captain of my salvation. to draw me near, to extend to me grace beyond an imagining, to show me love that's so deep, I can't even, I can't, I can't even. You ever try to put your arms around Redwood? I can't even. The love of God is so amazingly He would call me brother. And not only that, it says He's not ashamed to call me brother. Christ sat with sinners. He's known as the friend of sinners. But I would submit to us that He was not a friend for every sinner. There were some people He hung out with, and He ate with, and He was not ashamed to call them brothers. But there were others that he would say, you brood of vipers, that doesn't sound like brother to me. And so there's a line of distinction that's being drawn here when he says, he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have one source and he is not ashamed to call them brothers. You know, the Gospels let us know that there will be people who are going to be ashamed at God's Word, and He will be ashamed of them. But praise God for His grace. Because there are times when we stumble and we're ashamed about the things that we do and say, and God is quick to forgive. and quick to remember what he has done on our behalf. He is the captain of our salvation. He bled and died for us, satisfied the wrath of God, which we'll talk about soon. Yes, Henry? He was sanctified, which is kind of already happened. So are you saying, then, that when he talks about not being ashamed, that there are two reasons why he was, because of the relationship he had with him, sharing one father, and also because of their, I guess, propensity for needing to be sanctified? I think that God gives us a clue about this when he says in Genesis, just before the flood, I'm sorry that I made man. They're wicked always. I think that That's God saying, I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed. And I don't know if you've ever done this before where your child does something that's not respective of what your family values are. And it brings shame on your name. And brings shame on themselves and who they are. And the fact is that as sinners, as sinners, We're like showing up at the wedding feast without the wedding clothes on. And the master of ceremonies is going to say, who let you in here? Didn't you get wedding clothes? And there's no answer. And yeah, God's going to be ashamed of those who are not His. But praise God that He grants freely wedding clothes. And those who are clothed in His Son, who have washed their sins clean, who have been imputed with the righteousness of Christ, There is no shame anymore. Your sins have been put as far as the East is from the West. God doesn't look on them anymore. And so when He looks at you, believer, sanctified... Past tense, by the way. sanctified, justified, made right, declared right in God's eyes. He goes, I'm not ashamed of him. He looks just like and smells just like my perfect son. Come on into the wedding feast. Come on in. I've prepared for you glories and wonder because I'm not ashamed. And Jesus even says, that one, I'm not ashamed to call my brother. Take this place at the table. Let's have a feast. Guys, look to heaven and enjoy it. Enjoy it. That's why we sang, My Jesus, I love Thee. In mansions of glory. I saw some hands up. Yes? I think that's an accurate way of saying that and I got to say that I didn't look into the Greek verb tenses on those two words but in the ESV it says he who sanctifies And I would take that as what Jesus is continuing to do because every day new believers are being sanctified. He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified, and I think there's a completeness in that, sanctification, being set apart and made holy for God happens, boom, at salvation. There is a growing sanctification that we go through throughout life, and I don't think this is talking about that. Because I believe at the moment of our salvation, Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers. Not when you get your life really cleaned up, Jesus is now ready to call you brother. Otherwise, the thief on a cross would have had a whole lot of not-brotherness. Sorry. There was a hand over here, too. Yes. Yeah, that's a good point. Thanks. That's a good point. I should add that to my notes. Hopefully, I'll remember. Yeah, and that word is that completed word, too. Yeah. It's ridiculously wonderful that we could be adopted into the family of God. Ohana. Yeah, alright, I'll press on. Now, verses 14 and 15, again, this passage is, in my humble opinion, loaded with head-scratchers. Because verses 14 and 15 says, Since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise partook of the same things that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. That's not one of my five points in my gospel presentation. Just saying. But I just want to say that if we go back to the concept that we have, not only is Jesus the captain of our salvation, not only is Jesus our brother, but Jesus is victorious. That's what this is talking about here. He shares in flesh and blood, and remember what we have here, since he shares in flesh and blood, he's a man. And since that's true, and he partakes the same thing, you know, the reality is, hey look, we got flesh and blood, so Jesus has it too. It's another way of asserting Jesus is a man. that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death. In other words, he was made human so he could die. Really, so he could die. Let's just recognize for a minute God doesn't die. Okay, I don't need to go there anymore. And he destroyed the one who has the power of death, that is the devil. Why does the devil have the power of death? And how is it that the devil is destroyed? I submit to us that his power is removed. But we need to ask ourselves, how is this power of death given to Satan? Or what's his angle? Daniel? The wages of sin is death. Okay, that's really good. The wages of sin is death. Where does death start in the Bible? At the fall, right? Yes, we talk a little bit about what the works of Satan are, and then we start to see how this works together, right? Because God said, hey, if you eat from this tree, you surely will die. And they ate from the tree. And what happens to us then is we all become sinners. I'm sorry, your mom was a sinner. And your children, I'm sorry to say this. And by the way, you. and me, are sinners. And as sinners, when we sin, the accuser stands before God and says, they sinned again. You have to put them to death. Using God's justice against himself, saying, God, I got you. That one you love, you got to put him to death. Let's go. Today? That's what Satan does. He opposes the things of God. And so, in that, Satan has power of death over sinners. Now we ask the question, how did Jesus destroy that power? And I just get giddy inside thinking about this. How did Christ snatch away or destroy that power from Satan? The resurrection. He conquered death. Yeah, y'all are saying it and you're thinking it along with me. When Jesus died on the cross, became the captain of our salvation, bringing many sons to glory, sanctifying us. When Satan goes, ha, he's sinned, God says, no, he's in my son. Hallelujah. And Satan has no teeth. He's been destroyed. The power of saying, that one must be put to death. God says, no, that one is justified. His sins have been removed. He's covered by my grace. And I'm not ashamed to call him my brother. And I'm like, oh, praise God. Yes? I don't want to go too far, of course, but does Satan still hold the power of death over people that God has not predestined? That's a good question. In fact, let's look at the next verse. Really good segue, by the way. And, because not only did he take that power away, but he delivered, lost my train, those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. So there's actually two things that are going on right now. I don't know. Yes. To answer your question, people who are not in Christ are still under that power of Satan. Absolutely. Satan still intrinsically has that power, just not over God's chosen. Yes. Yeah. Hey Henry. I do have to ask, the depth that it's talking about, That's not at all, yeah, thank you for that answer whoever said it. Not at all about physical death. Because if there was, it would be hard to explain why Christians die. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, thanks for that. This is talking about eternal lake of fire death, separated from the presence of God. Eternal darkness, gnashing of teeth and wailing. That's the death that's being talked about here. That Satan has that power for eternity. And so verse 15 then says, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. Did you know that before God called you and regenerated you, you were a slave? Not just a slave to sin, a slave to fear. Because God put in our consciences and awareness of what is right and true, and a reminder that we have failed. And the only people who have a clean conscience and don't have this fear are people who have seared their conscience, or people who are in Christ, or people who think they're in Christ and they aren't. 1 John talks about that a lot. Yes, Henry. So there's a host of people that are afraid of physical death because they realize that they might have to face God's judgment. Are you saying that there are some who don't fear God's judgment? I'm saying, yes, there are some who have seared their conscience. What I'm saying is they're not enslaved. That's the second part, not the first part. They're not enslaved to that fear of death. But Satan still has power to put them to death. You know, scripture talks a bunch about God freeing us, but Hosea 13, verse 14, God says, I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol. I shall redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? And that same passage is quoted in Corinthians. Christ removed that sting. The power of death, as was said, is put to death when Christ bore our penalty on a cross. I need to press on. Because that's amazing, but there's even something, and I need to at least touch on this. The last thing here in God's titles is High Priest. Good thing is, Rob is going to teach a lot about this because the book of Hebrews talks a lot about the High Priest. And so I don't have to go opening up the whole thing about what a High Priest is. But I will say that it's interesting that this is the very first time that the concept or the words High Priest is introduced in the book of Hebrews. Christ being explained to us as the one who is a captain of our salvation is for the first time now referred to as High Priest. And I believe the reason why that is is because as captain of our salvation, He makes propitiation for our sins, which is a role and responsibility the High Priest would do on the Day of Atonement and when He offered sacrifices for the sins of the people. And so here's Jesus starting to be displayed to us as we work our way through the book of Hebrews as the High Priest. And again, in order to be High Priest, he has to be a man. But being High Priest, he makes propitiation for our sins by sacrificing his own blood on a cross. And just to let you know, the High Priest is going to come up in Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, and Chapter 10. So by the time we get to Chapter 10, we will be deep in High Priest-ness. But it's important to know that as High Priest, he is compassionate and fulfills his duty as High Priest. And that's why it says here in this verse, he is merciful and faithful. When he was in the garden, he said, God, would you let this cup pass for me? But not my will. He was being a faithful high priest. If there was some other way for us to have a captain of salvation, God would have answered that prayer different. Jesus had to die. Jesus had to be a man. Or he would not be qualified to be high priest. And he could not make propitiation for the people. Let's just make sure we understand what propitiation means. It's a fancy word that we don't use a lot. It means to satisfy God's wrath. When we look into the wonder of salvation and all that it is, it's like looking into a beautiful crystal and you can turn it and look at it this way and that way and this way and gaze into the depths of it. Propitiation is just one aspect of that. Just one. There's so many others and we've hinted at them a little bit today. We've talked about adoption. We've talked about our brotherhood with Christ. We've talked about our sanctification. And now we get to talk a little bit a little bit about propitiation. Because as sinners, God has wrath for us. Romans talks about us being enemies with God. Enemies. And Christ set aside, became a man to draw us back to himself. To satisfy, not just to... Let me be more careful. To make it possible for us to come back. Because if God's standing up there going... If God's standing up there going, no. It doesn't matter how much repentance you have. Or how much suffering you have. or how many other good things you do, God's still saying no. Christ had to satisfy the wrath of God against the sins, not only that we committed, but the sins that we inherited in our sin nature, that we could not otherwise escape from. Excuse me. And by the way, as it starts off, He's not helping angels. And that's one of these themes that starts back up at verse 5 and comes all the way down here to the end of 18. He's not helping angels. He's helping the sons of Abraham. That's why Jesus was made a man and not made an angel. so that He could suffer as a man, so that He could be one of us, have our blood and our flesh. You know, we're going to celebrate Lord's Supper today, which is a reminder that Jesus was truly man. And He suffered on that cross and died. Yes? earlier, that it's not the offspring of Adam. It's not ever human, ever. It's specifically the offspring of the promise and of the covenant of old and new. Yeah, fantastic. And so, he helps. There's actually the word there in the ESV is different in verse 16 than it is in verse 18. In verse 16, the Greek word there, that word helps, that he talks about there is like taking somebody who's dead and grabbing them and picking them up. It's taking a hold of somebody. The verse 18 helps is coming alongside and put your arm around somebody. It's a different kind of help. And in ESV it's translated the same. Blame our language. You all speak English, okay? But that's the, those two concepts are very different. It's not angels that He... Think about it like this. It's not angels that He brings back to life from the dead because of their sins and trespasses. But it's the offspring of Abraham that He brings back to life. It's the same word when they were carrying out that dead body on a stretcher and Jesus says, stop! And He takes a hold and raises that child up. It's the same concept, the same word. And so, just in case you missed it, verse 17 says, Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect. You know, there have been heresies in the past that said Jesus was a spirit. Jesus wasn't a complete man. He was kind of a man. Jesus wasn't a complete God. And all these kind of things and ideas and concepts. But one of the things that Hebrews here does not let us get away with is saying Jesus, in some way or some fashion, was not a man. He has flesh and blood, and as it says here, in every way He was like us. And says He was tempted. And we're going to deal with this more in chapter 4. I'll just leave it there as a little bit of a tease for when Rob gets back to that. Because there's wonder and mystery into God being tempted. But He was tempted and therefore He is able to help us when we are tempted. He can come alongside us, put His arm around us and say, it's going to be okay. You're going to get through this. Don't give up. There's a help that God does. And that help, I think, not only is Him showing us living through temptation and getting through it, but giving us a spirit as well, which is hinted at here ever so slightly. This is almost like, if you've ever been laid off, When you've been laid off, you know what it's like. And so you can give real comfort. And you can give real help to somebody else who has been laid off. If you haven't been laid off, you're like, oh dude, that's really sad. I'll pray for you. I mean, I'm trying to exaggerate that a little bit, right? But Jesus knows what it is to be tempted. And that word there, tempted, could be thought of as either neutral, it could mean tested. Jesus was tested all the way to the end. And He never gave in to sin. And what people like to point out is, when you survive the temptation all the way to the end, you've gone to the depths of it. You know, if your temptation is, I'm trying to diet right now, and I'm like, ah, cookie, dang, I'm tempted. You didn't really deal with that temptation very much. But if you deal with that, it's a silly example to make a point. Jesus endured temptation to the end. All of it. And he never gave in. And so Christ can help us. He helps us by setting the standard and showing us that it can be done and that there's nothing that's beyond our ability. And He gives us His Holy Spirit. He is a merciful, compassionate, faithful High Priest. And so, I do need to wrap up. Rob's going to jump into this next week. But I don't really like this chapter transition from 2 to 3. I think that chapter 3 verse 1 is kind of a link between what we've been looking at and where it's going. And so this imperative looks both directions. And so we need to consider this. You who share in a heavenly calling. So the author has said, hey guys, you all sanctified? This command applies to you? Consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who is faithful to Him. And then we're going to go on from there next week. But if you had to interview Jesus, That kind of might have been what the resume would say and maybe what the interview process would look like. And you'd be forced to say, yes, sir, you've got the job. You are the perfect savior. You are the one who can bring many sons to glory. You are the one who has conquered death and took away the power of Satan and removed the slavery from those who are fear of death. You are the one who is Made it so that you don't need to be ashamed to call us brothers. You are the captain of our salvation. You have the job, when can you start? And Jesus says, oh dude, didn't you know? Didn't you know? the content of Hebrews, especially as it gets into high priest. Would you say that both Jews and Gentiles are on equal standing in terms of being able to understand it? Or would people from a Jewish background who actually have lived under the law, that they have a more keen appreciation of it? Whereas we as Gentiles, we kind of have to There's an interesting question because there's not many high priests right now in Israel And there is a but but I appreciate what you're saying Kirk There is an aspect that a book written to the Hebrews might have a firsthand more appreciation for that I asked Rob that question next week That's close in prayer heavenly