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How We Benefit from Jesus Sufferings
June 13, 2010
Hebrews 2
by Pastor Stan
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THE SUPREMACY OF CHRIST: A SERMON SERIES IN HEBREWS
"HOW WE BENEFIT FROM JESUS' SUFFERINGS" (HEBREWS 2:10-18  P. 846)
JUNE 13, 2010

INTRODUCTION
-- Lead-in song: "Lord, Most High"

-- The theme of the NT book of Hebrews is the supremacy of Christ. It's a theme that the author of the book launches into right from the very beginning of the book.
    In the first chapter the author presents Christ as the supreme revealer of God. superior to the OT prophets and to the angels that God used as intermediaries in the process of revealing truth about Himself  to the writers of the OT books.
    In the first four verses of chapter two the author warns and urges us to be sure to pay attention to what we find in this book, because if we ignore it and neglect the great salvation made possible through Christ and declared in this book, then we will certainly not escape the wrath and judgment of God.
    In 2:5-9 the author tells us that those who do indeed pay attention to and hold on to the great salvation provided by Christ will be restores to God's original plan for humanity and will eventually have dominion over creation.

    And that brings us to the passage that we will "pay attention" to today, Hebrews 2:10-18. This passage focuses on the way that God planned for that great salvation to be accomplished: through what is the greatest and most mysterious miracle in the history of the universe, the event we call the "Incarnation," which means literally, "in flesh." The Incarnation refers to the event in which the eternal, infinite, omnipresent Son of God invaded time and space, took human form, and entered the world as the real flesh-and-blood Jesus of Nazareth.
    Hebrews 2:10-18 is one of the most significant discussions of that amazing event in the entire Bible. No other passage in the Bible gives as much insight into the miracle of the Incarnation as does the verses that we are about to look at.

        Read vv. 10-18

-- What the author of Hebrews presents us here are 2 basic aspects of the Incarnation: its nature and its benefits.

I. THE NATURE OF THE INCARNATION
    -- The doctrine of the Incarnation teaches us that the person known as Jesus of Nazareth is God come to earth in human form, fully God and fully man.

    A. FULLY GOD
        -- The book of Hebrews begins with an unambiguous assertion of the deity of Christ, of His full and unabridged divine nature.
    -- cf., 1:1-3


    B. FULLY MAN (VV. 14A, 17A)

        1.  Now, here in chapter 2 the author goes on to tell us that this one who is fully God also became fully man.
            -- cf., vv. 14a, 17a

        2. This teaching of the Incarnation is something repeated by various NT writers.
            -- John 1:1-3, 14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ... 14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

            -- Philippians 2:5-7 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

        3. The teaching of the Bible is that Jesus was truly and fully human. He was born as a real human baby and grew and developed in the normal human manner. He was subject to all of the frailties and limitations of being human—he got hungry and thirsty; he got tired, and he felt pain. He was fully human, just as we are, with one exception—our sinfulness—He didn't have our fallen human nature and He never sinned.

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