1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,040 So grateful for our music this morning, 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,640 and you'll hear more about that in a few minutes, 3 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:09,360 but we have just been so blessed by the truths 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,580 and the performance of the theology 5 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:14,160 that we found in the scripture here today 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,200 and in the singing of God's word. 7 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,660 And so Hebrews chapter two is where we find ourselves, 8 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:21,000 and I am just, can you tell I'm excited, 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,240 I'm pretty pumped to be here this morning. 10 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:24,960 Glad to be back in the book of Hebrews, 11 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,400 I'm glad to be back with you. 12 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:31,400 Broken and brokenness is a fitting word 13 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,020 as a description of our world. 14 00:00:40,060 --> 00:00:41,020 It's broken. 15 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,720 This world is a miraculous place. 16 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,840 Even if you don't believe that there's a God, 17 00:00:51,260 --> 00:00:53,380 if you don't believe that there's a God, 18 00:00:53,380 --> 00:00:56,000 you have to explain the fact that we're here 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,400 at some level, so do people who believe in God. 20 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,640 And those of us who believe in God 21 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,560 believe that there was a God who eternally existed 22 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,280 and that this uncaused was the cause of everything, 23 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,240 that he's the designer and creator of the world. 24 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:12,960 If you don't believe there's a God, 25 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:16,320 then you have to believe that nothing created everything, 26 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:19,400 and that's a really hard position to take. 27 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,280 Nothing never made anything. 28 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:24,320 Who agrees with me? 29 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:25,600 Hey, that's cool. 30 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:26,800 Nothing made nothing. 31 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:30,600 Don't think about that too long. 32 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,760 But we know that our world is not perfect. 33 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,280 Our world is broken. 34 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,080 But the way the world works is incredible, 35 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,440 but even still it's broken. 36 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,800 Pain and suffering come from this brokenness, 37 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:52,800 sickness, pain, and yes, ultimately death 38 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,800 is evidence of the brokenness of our world. 39 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,000 And it shows up all the time. 40 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,640 I didn't watch the game on Monday night, 41 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,360 but death showed up on Monday night at the game. 42 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:09,960 Who knows what I'm talking about? 43 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,400 We saw it displayed on our TV screens 44 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,640 and something as everyday as a football game. 45 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:20,320 A young, seemingly healthy man makes a routine tackle, 46 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,240 stands up and then falls over with what I understand 47 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,440 as a pretty bad cardiac arrest. 48 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,800 Death shows up at the game. 49 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,800 And players who were once kneeling in controversy 50 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:39,680 before are now kneeling in a different way, 51 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,760 praying to a God they hope that's there 52 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,880 in this moment of crisis. 53 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,840 Because when death shows up, 54 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,520 a lot of people become theistic. 55 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,320 And I'm one of them. 56 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,280 Who here prays when things are going bad? 57 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:54,120 Yeah. 58 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:56,920 I don't always pray when things are going good, 59 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:58,800 but I definitely pray when things are going bad. 60 00:02:58,800 --> 00:02:59,800 Can I get an amen? 61 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,480 The circumstance to get really very real in a moment 62 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,520 when death shows up. 63 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,800 You had players kneeling, coaches, 64 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,840 even a television announcer who at any other time 65 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,520 probably would have gotten in trouble for praying 66 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,280 and he stops and prays. 67 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:19,280 It's pretty amazing. 68 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,320 In that moment there was an admission, 69 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:24,440 at least through a prayer, 70 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,400 that we as human beings do not control everything. 71 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,120 That death is a problem 72 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,600 and that hopefully somewhere in the heavens, 73 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:33,720 there's an answer. 74 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,200 And I am here today to tell you the good news 75 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,360 that God has answered. 76 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,800 God has given us an answer. 77 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,560 He answered in history. 78 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,760 Man's relationship with him is broken. 79 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:49,200 We get the message of the Bible 80 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,640 and as we have seen from our study 81 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,640 in these first two chapters in Hebrews, 82 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,480 the message of the Bible is that God has done something 83 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,520 to restore the broken relationship that he has with man. 84 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,720 We started this series in Hebrews chapter one verse one 85 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,920 that says, God who at sundry times 86 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,480 and in diverse manners 87 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,760 in times past, spake into his fathers by the prophets, 88 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,680 and these last days spoken unto us by his son, 89 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:22,760 but whom he hath appointed, 90 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,480 of all things by whom also he made the worlds, 91 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,360 who being the brightness of his glory, 92 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,080 pay attention to those words today, 93 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,520 the brightness of his glory 94 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,120 and the express image of his person 95 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,960 and upholding all things by the word of his power 96 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,360 when he had by himself purged our sins, 97 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,800 sat down in the right hand of the majesty and high, 98 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,600 being made so much better than the angels 99 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:50,600 as he by inheritance obtained a more better name than they. 100 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:56,280 God revealed himself at one time in the past by the prophets. 101 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,840 He revealed himself in the Old Testament and creation, 102 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:04,880 but in these last days, in real time in history, 103 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,440 he showed us who he was. 104 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,360 He revealed himself through his son. 105 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,040 Jesus Christ is God. 106 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,640 Jesus Christ is the son of God. 107 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,640 And he became a man to provide a way of salvation. 108 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,640 The author of Hebrews warns us then about neglecting 109 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,640 this revelation, neglecting this salvation 110 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,640 that's been offered through the person of Jesus Christ. 111 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,360 He warns us that if he's done all this, 112 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,440 in fact, let's just read it, look at chapter two. 113 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,320 We've already studied this. 114 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,880 I'm making you think back to December and November. 115 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,160 We're gonna have a lot of fun together, 116 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,080 but I'm reminding you here in Hebrews chapter two, 117 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,800 what he says after making this case 118 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,960 that God has revealed himself through his son, 119 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,800 that this revelation was better than those prophets, 120 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,480 was better than the angels. 121 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:01,920 He's made better than the angels. 122 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,520 He said this, therefore, we ought to give 123 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,560 the more earnest tea to the things which we have heard, 124 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,400 lest at any time we should let them slip, 125 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,800 for if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, 126 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:16,800 then every transgression and disobedience 127 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,000 received a just recompense of reward. 128 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,000 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? 129 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,960 I hope that what you've got out of this study so far is this. 130 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,080 God did something incredible. 131 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,480 He became flesh and dwelt among us. 132 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,640 And he used all of history to make it clear to us 133 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,600 that this Jesus that came was the Son of God, 134 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:44,960 that he died on the cross for our sins, 135 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,160 he rose again for the dead. 136 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,760 And that's his provision for us in salvation. 137 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:53,120 And if he did this, how in the world are we gonna make it 138 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,640 if we neglect what's been done? 139 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,080 If we neglect the fact that God has showed up in history 140 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,120 and died on the cross to purge our sins 141 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,520 and is now sitting on the right hand of God, 142 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,000 he goes on to say, look, 143 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,120 how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? 144 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,320 Which of the first began to be spoken by the Lord. 145 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,400 Who gave us this plan? 146 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,240 The Lord did. 147 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,800 And was confirmed unto us by then that heard him. 148 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:17,840 Who is that? 149 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,280 Those are his apostles. 150 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,800 God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders 151 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,320 and with diverse miracles 152 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,560 and gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his own will. 153 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,680 He's saying God confirmed his messengers 154 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,440 that he sent those apostles 155 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:36,640 who wrote the New Testament 156 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,600 and he confirmed that they were from him 157 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,400 just like he confirmed that the Lord was of him 158 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,760 because of signs and wonders and miracles that they did. 159 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:47,120 So that we would know that the testimony 160 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,920 that they gave is true. 161 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,120 That Jesus really did come, really did live 162 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,680 and really did die. 163 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,560 And so God has answered this brokenness, 164 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,040 this sin problem, this death problem. 165 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:06,040 There's an answer to those kneeling NFL players. 166 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,920 Maybe God won't necessarily save that man 167 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,280 in that physical sense, 168 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,360 but God has already provided a way of salvation 169 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,640 in the spiritual sense. 170 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,640 And there's now therefore no condemnation 171 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,560 to those who are on Christ Jesus. 172 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:20,400 Isn't that good? 173 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:23,600 God has answered. 174 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,680 He's answered in history. 175 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,560 There's an answer for death. 176 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,080 There's an answer for brokenness. 177 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,240 There's an answer for the brokenness 178 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,800 that we experience in our relationships with each other. 179 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,000 Have you ever noticed that relationships get broken? 180 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,240 When this isn't right, often this isn't right. 181 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,640 Anybody here ever experienced bad relationships? 182 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,600 Pain in relationships? 183 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:53,600 And I remember dating my first girlfriend 184 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,080 and then her breaking up with me 185 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,800 and I was devastated in a way that I hadn't been before. 186 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:01,960 Anybody ever been there? 187 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,800 Yeah, puppy love hurts to a puppy. 188 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,680 Right? 189 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:13,600 When puppies break up with each other, it's not fun. 190 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:17,560 And you laugh, but I cried. 191 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:19,080 Like it was tough. 192 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,920 I told Megan, listen, if you leave me, I'm going with you. 193 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:23,760 Right? 194 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,200 This is forever, right? 195 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,680 This is till death do us part. 196 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:31,840 You're stuck is what I told her, amen? 197 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,760 Because there's brokenness in our relationships. 198 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,320 I've been here two years and 99% of my relationships 199 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,280 here have been great, but there have been relationships, 200 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,040 even in among this church of people, 201 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:45,680 I'm just being honest and transparent with you. 202 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:47,000 Not everybody loves me. 203 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,600 Not everybody gets along with me all the time, right? 204 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,480 And I'm not trying to, you've experienced it too. 205 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:55,320 Right? 206 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:57,800 Brokenness. 207 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,240 And there's brokenness in our relationship 208 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,440 with God outside of Christ, but God gave an answer to that. 209 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:09,520 God has brought about the opportunity for restoration. 210 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,440 And that's what the author of Hebrews begins 211 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,800 to talk about even today. 212 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,320 The author of Hebrews is trying to show us 213 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,040 that Jesus is greater. 214 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,840 Jesus, Jesus is greater. 215 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,160 Do you believe it? 216 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:24,000 You love Jesus? 217 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,800 I hope you love Jesus. 218 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,640 Jesus is greater. 219 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,000 He is supreme in every way. 220 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,200 He wants this author of Hebrews through the Holy Spirit, 221 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,440 wants us to see the answer to this brokenness. 222 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,120 He wants us to see how that God will fix the brokenness. 223 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:43,120 And so my job today, as has been tasked with me 224 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,480 from the author of Hebrews, 225 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,280 and from the Holy Spirit is to tell you that Jesus Christ 226 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:49,920 is supreme in every way. 227 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,160 Look at what he accomplished through salvation 228 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,160 by seeing three stages here of man's relationship to God 229 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,400 that he refers to in our text. 230 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,400 My text today is Hebrews chapter two, verses five, 231 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,280 and I believe we'll probably end down 232 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,320 through verse 12 or 13. 233 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:12,960 The first stage, 234 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,160 the first stage that I wanna point out to 235 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,680 that he brings up here is this idea of glory removed. 236 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:22,320 Stage one is glory removed. 237 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,440 Look at verse five. 238 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,560 Here we come to our text. 239 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,200 For unto the angels, 240 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,640 he had not put in subjection the world to come, 241 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:32,800 where have we speak? 242 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,680 Now, are you guys ready to study the Bible? 243 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:38,760 That's where we're at, okay? 244 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,360 We're gonna help you understand verse five. 245 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,640 There's three questions you gotta ask of the text. 246 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,480 Really, good Bible interpretation 247 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,560 is just asking the right questions of the text 248 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:51,960 and getting the right answers from the text, okay? 249 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:53,160 Who is he? 250 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,480 Well, he here in the verse, 251 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,640 for unto the angels hath he put not in subjection. 252 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,160 He here is referring to God the Father 253 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,120 as he's the last one mentioned in verse four. 254 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,040 It's good to get your answers from the text itself, right? 255 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,600 In verse four, he says, God also bearing them witness. 256 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,080 God talking about God the Father, 257 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,320 also bearing them witness, 258 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,720 talking about those apostles 259 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,160 through signs and wonders through the Holy Spirit. 260 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:22,840 So here when he says he, 261 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,320 he's referring to God the Father 262 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,420 as he was the last one mentioned in verse four. 263 00:12:26,420 --> 00:12:27,880 What's subjection? 264 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:32,120 For unto the angels hath he put not put in subjection. 265 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,720 Subjection here speaks of a stewarded authority. 266 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,760 It speaks of a ruling authority. 267 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,400 And I'll give you more explanation of that as we go 268 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,880 because you'll see it later on the text. 269 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:47,240 And then he says the world to come. 270 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,160 And he says that's where we speak. 271 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:50,280 So what's the world to come? 272 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:51,560 What is he, it's God the Father. 273 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:52,560 What is subjection? 274 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:54,840 A stewarded authority. 275 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,240 A stewardship. 276 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:57,720 What's the world to come? 277 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,640 Here the word translated world is not cosmos 278 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,280 like what we find in John 3.16. 279 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,280 The word is oikumine. 280 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,480 And when you see it translated in scripture, 281 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,160 it's often translated as the inhabited earth. 282 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,360 This is not a reference to heaven, 283 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,880 but the coming earthly reign which we know 284 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,080 as the millennial reign of Jesus Christ on the earth. 285 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,080 And beyond in the new heavens and new earth 286 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,280 foreseen by John in Revelation. 287 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,920 The point then that the author is making 288 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,880 is that the angels were not given a stewardship of ruling 289 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,040 and stewarding this created planet in age. 290 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,920 That stewardship was given to mankind. 291 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:39,920 We know this because we know it from Genesis chapter one 292 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,600 in what's called the Dominion mandate. 293 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,840 And right in the first chapter of Genesis in verse 26, 294 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,720 it says this, and God said, let us make man in our image 295 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,120 in after our likeness and let him have dominion 296 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,160 over the sea, over the fish of the sea, 297 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,720 and over the fall of the air, and over the cattle, 298 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,920 and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing 299 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,040 that creepeth over to the earth. 300 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,000 So God created man in his own image, 301 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,320 and the image of God created he, him, male, 302 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,840 and female created he, them. 303 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,000 And God blessed them and God said unto them, 304 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,720 be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth 305 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:20,840 and subdue it. 306 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,160 Do you see that word subdue it? 307 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,800 And have dominion over the fish of the sea 308 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,240 and over the fall of the air, and over every living thing 309 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,360 that moves upon the earth. 310 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,940 And God said, behold, I have given you every urbearing seed 311 00:14:32,940 --> 00:14:35,280 which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree 312 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,920 in the which is the fruit of the tree yielding seed 313 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,040 to you it shall be for meat or for food. 314 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,120 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fellow of the air, 315 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,080 and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, 316 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,320 wherein there is life, I have given every green herb 317 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:50,360 for meat, and it was so. 318 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,920 And God saw everything that he had made. 319 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,640 God saw everything that he had made. 320 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,880 And behold, it was very good. 321 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:02,920 When God made it, it was perfect. 322 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,560 It worked exactly how it was supposed to work. 323 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,320 And he gave dominion to mankind over it. 324 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,080 And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 325 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,280 So we see that God gives the mandate to subdue 326 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,720 and subjugate the earth to mankind. 327 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,880 We have a stewardship of the earth. 328 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,080 We have a kind of dominion over it. 329 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,880 And I say, Paul, it's the author of Hebrews, 330 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,000 the Holy Spirit is saying that is something 331 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,760 that's been given to mankind that was not given to angels. 332 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,600 Now you're like, why is he talking about angels? 333 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,080 To make this point, the author goes on to quote scripture. 334 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,080 And this is why we read what we read today 335 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:50,080 in our scripture reading earlier in the service. 336 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:51,880 He reads it in verse six, 337 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,920 but one in a certain place testified saying, 338 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,500 we're back in Hebrews chapter two, verse six. 339 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:02,440 Now Hebrews is quoting, he says, 340 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,520 in a certain place testified saying, 341 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,480 what is man that thou art mindful of him? 342 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,880 And the son of man that thou visitest him, 343 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,040 thou madeest him a little lower than the angels, 344 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,600 thou crowned him with glory and honor, 345 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,840 and dissent him over the work of thy hands. 346 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,320 Okay, keep up with me, here we go. 347 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,320 The one in a certain place is the psalmist 348 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:25,920 who happens to be David. 349 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,760 David wrote Psalm chapter number eight, 350 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,600 and this quote comes from this psalm of praise to God. 351 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,200 The biblical pattern for music is that it be richly 352 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,000 theological and scriptural, and that's what we see here. 353 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,560 David is pointing out the contrast 354 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,000 between the immensity and grandeur of the person of God 355 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,200 and the smallness of mankind. 356 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,000 Did you know God's infinite? 357 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,200 He's infinite, there is no beginning and no end. 358 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,920 Think about this, God knows everything. 359 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,920 Everything, he knows, the Bible says the number of your head, 360 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,160 the hairs on your head are numbered. 361 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:04,560 Man, that was tough to say. 362 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,360 The hairs on your head are numbered, you know what that means? 363 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:12,400 Like even the most mundane facts about us, 364 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,400 God knows it, God knows, God knows, think about this. 365 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:19,960 I'm just gonna make something up. 366 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,960 Make something up, God knows how many people 367 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:30,400 wore red in July of 1483. 368 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:34,840 Isn't that weird? 369 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,720 God knows it, who agrees, there's a lot to know. 370 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,900 Yeah, God knows everything. 371 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:44,680 How much do you know? 372 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:49,680 Even the smartest person you know that has the most, 373 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:52,280 we don't need to know much anymore, 374 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:53,680 that's why God made Google. 375 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,200 Google's ruined a lot of conversations, haven't they? 376 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,000 You know, just search for what we're talking about, right? 377 00:18:02,060 --> 00:18:06,520 My point is there's a lot to know, God knows everything. 378 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,560 How much comparatively do you know? 379 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:13,560 Like nothing, God's huge, He is big, we are small, 380 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,800 He is infinite, we are very finite. 381 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,520 One commentator said this, are you something 382 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,440 at times you or I probably doubt that 383 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,000 by the way we feel, we could very easily cry out 384 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,240 to paraphrase the Psalmist words, oh God, 385 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,680 who am I that you would even consider me? 386 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,000 I cannot believe that you would take a personal interest 387 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,320 in me at all, the heavens are so immense, 388 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,600 the moon and the stars are so awesome. 389 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,360 How is it possible that you could care for me? 390 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:47,320 I am nothing and nobody compared to your cosmic immensity. 391 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:51,560 At times, this is what he said and I echo his sentiment, 392 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,080 at times when I've been flying over an inhabited city, 393 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,080 I'm amazed at what low altitudes one loses sight 394 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:00,240 of human beings. 395 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,680 At 10,000 feet, you can't even see Him. 396 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,000 Imagine a few light years' distance 397 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,520 while our planet is hardly visible and yet God, 398 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,680 you say that you take note of me. 399 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,720 God knows us intimately. 400 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,760 What is man that thou art mindful of Him? 401 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:21,920 Incredible. 402 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,280 The point of these verses is to show 403 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,480 that God did not give dominion to rule 404 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,680 and steward the earth and its angels, 405 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,240 He gave it to men, that He gave it to us 406 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,640 as small as we are is something. 407 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,240 We are made, he says, he quotes in Hebrews 408 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,040 and he says in Psalms, 409 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:42,520 we are made a little lower than the angels. 410 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,800 They dwell in heavenly realms, we do not. 411 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,520 They are more powerful beings than we are, 412 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,480 yet God has crowned us with glory and honor. 413 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,840 How is that true? 414 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,080 Well, two ways come to mind 415 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,680 that we're made in God's image is something of honor. 416 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,680 We're made in God's image. 417 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,400 Every person that's ever lived is made in God's image. 418 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,680 They have intrinsic value 419 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:09,400 because they are made in God's image. 420 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,960 From conception, 421 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:14,960 they are made in God's image. 422 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,600 Second, what's stated in the next verse 423 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,000 gives us some clue where it says, 424 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,800 and did set them over the work of thine hands. 425 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,840 We are honored as human beings 426 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,440 with being made in His image 427 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,880 and being given stewardship over His creation. 428 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,640 Look at verse eight, he says, 429 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,960 thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet, 430 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,440 for in that He put all in subjection under Him, 431 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,200 He left nothing that is not put under Him, 432 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:47,200 but now we see not yet all things put under Him. 433 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,080 I'm getting to my point here. 434 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,760 God has put the entire world 435 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,400 under the dominion of mankind 436 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,520 and really in His original attention left nothing out. 437 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,120 Although less powerful than angels, 438 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:01,280 God gave the dominion to man and not to them. 439 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:02,800 There was no part of the earth 440 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,600 that mankind did not have the ability 441 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,200 and responsibility to administrate. 442 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,480 In the dominion mandate, 443 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,200 God gives the whole planet to Adam 444 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,600 and his descendants to be under this subjection. 445 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,480 Yet there is in these verses, but now. 446 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,040 Do you see it? 447 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,960 Do you see verse eight? 448 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,560 You've given all things under His feet, 449 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,120 but now, what does He say? 450 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,200 We see not all things put under Him. 451 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,120 What does this mean? 452 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:33,040 What does this mean? 453 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,280 We have been incapable of fulfilling 454 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,460 this God-given position and ability, 455 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,020 this stewardship. 456 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,080 The world has been cursed because of our sin. 457 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,280 The old preacher, J. Vernon McGee said this, 458 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:54,040 man, however, as we see him today, is not capable of ruling. 459 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,640 Who agrees with that? 460 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,200 He is demonstrating this in all the capitals of the world, 461 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,600 so much so that it makes me bow my head in shame. 462 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,000 Man cannot rule, but he thinks he can. 463 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,840 He has adopted Satan's viewpoint. 464 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,120 He is attempting to rule without God. 465 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,560 God could bless our nation today 466 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,720 and He blessed it in the past 467 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,680 when men recognize their dependence on God. 468 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,440 But man in and of himself is not capable of ruling. 469 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,480 God's intention was that man would have dominion 470 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,720 over the creation, so God gave him the sun 471 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:28,560 to shine upon him. 472 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,640 God gave him the moon to direct his paths. 473 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,320 God gave him the flowers to give fragrance to the earth. 474 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,880 God gave the birds to sing beautiful songs. 475 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,960 God gave the animals to serve man. 476 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,600 God intended that man have dominion. 477 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,120 That was God's purpose in the creation. 478 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:47,120 Clothing glory, mankind clothing glory and given dominion. 479 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:48,400 But in these verses we're told 480 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,560 that God's original plan and intention for man was, 481 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,440 then in the last sentence he says, 482 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,360 referring to brokenness, 483 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,200 but now we see not yet all things put under him. 484 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,320 There are four important words in that last sentence, 485 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,380 but now not yet. 486 00:23:07,380 --> 00:23:08,220 Do you see it? 487 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:11,520 But now not yet. 488 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,520 This could sum up the book of Genesis at some level, right? 489 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:15,960 God is given man dominion, 490 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,600 but because of man's sin, God's original intention 491 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,600 has been broken. 492 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,000 God, mankind was stripped of his glory, 493 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,880 and we know that, because you know Romans 3.23, 494 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:26,720 what does it say? 495 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:31,720 For all have sin and come short of the glory of God. 496 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,960 Mankind walked with God in the cool of the day 497 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:39,140 after sin, this fellowship was broken. 498 00:23:39,140 --> 00:23:42,120 God's glory was removed from his life in that way. 499 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:45,080 Instead of evolution, instead of man starting lower 500 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,120 and going higher, what you really have is demolition. 501 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,240 Man was up and he fell down. 502 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,240 Man was a lot higher than he is now. 503 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,480 Man has fallen all the way from glory to nakedness. 504 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:01,160 Man has fallen all the way from dominion to slavery. 505 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,400 The glory has been removed. 506 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,780 We don't have dominion in the way we once did. 507 00:24:06,780 --> 00:24:08,240 Any fishermen out there? 508 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,280 How are you doing at controlling the fish? 509 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,480 What about the wild animals? 510 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,680 We have lion tamers who tame a lion, 511 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,040 but if you turn your head the wrong way, 512 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,000 the lion rips your arm off. 513 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Domesticated animals, my dog is fascinated with socks. 514 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,440 I can't get my dumb dog to stop eating socks. 515 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:40,000 My wife can't get me to keep my socks off the ground. 516 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:40,840 Right? 517 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,960 Letting you in a little bit to our house 518 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,160 and what goes on there. 519 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,640 The animals have been subject to the loss of glory 520 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,160 that happened after the curse of sin 521 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,120 and the world's under that curse. 522 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:58,080 Curse, thorns and fistles, weeds that choke, 523 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,400 animals that are wild that kill and destroy, 524 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,640 that can't be controlled. 525 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,560 And worst in all that, have you noticed? 526 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,760 Mankind can't even control himself. 527 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,320 We fight and steal and deceive and delude and embarrass 528 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:13,320 and destroy. 529 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,440 You'll never understand what man is until you understand 530 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,860 that man is a sinner in desperate need of a savior. 531 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,560 That explains why people do what they do, 532 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,320 explains why people act like they do, 533 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,760 explains why people say the things they do, 534 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,080 explains the contradiction in people's behavior. 535 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,900 Man is a fallen creature. 536 00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:38,180 The glory has been removed, but now not yet. 537 00:25:38,180 --> 00:25:40,720 So we see stage two. 538 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,740 Stage two is glory revealed. 539 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,960 Glory removed, glory revealed. 540 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,400 Look at verse nine. 541 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:53,400 But we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels 542 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:58,480 for the suffering of death. 543 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,960 A crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God 544 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,200 should taste death for every man. 545 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,040 How beautiful is that sentence? 546 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,560 This is what's being revealed about Jesus 547 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,600 in the case, especially as compared with angels. 548 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,440 It says here, who was made a little lower than the angels. 549 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,720 This is the expression about mankind found in the psalm 550 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,680 that was already referenced in verse seven. 551 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,920 When it said he was made a little lower than the angels, 552 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,240 it's saying that he was made a human being. 553 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:34,800 Jesus is God, who agrees, Jesus is God. 554 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,240 Jesus is also man. 555 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,760 He's man too. 556 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,820 He was made a little lower than the angels. 557 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,140 When it says that, it's saying he was made a human being. 558 00:26:45,140 --> 00:26:47,040 John one tells us speaking of Christ 559 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,920 that the word became flesh and dwelt among us. 560 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,440 In eternity past, he was not incarnate, 561 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,580 but in his revelation through the incarnation, 562 00:26:55,580 --> 00:26:57,480 he became flesh. 563 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,040 Why did this happen? 564 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,400 It says it right there in the verse. 565 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:01,720 Do you see it? 566 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:06,440 It says he was a made a man for the suffering of death. 567 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,040 Why was Jesus made man? 568 00:27:09,060 --> 00:27:10,720 He was made man so he could die. 569 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,080 To die, he had to become human. 570 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:19,080 He had to die because he alone could redeem man. 571 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,240 He alone was sinless. 572 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,160 What's the author of the saying about this Jesus 573 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:26,600 made human so we could die? 574 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,480 He's pointing out that this Jesus 575 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,680 is now crowned with glory and honor. 576 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,360 God has honored Jesus because of his personhood 577 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:34,480 and his obedience. 578 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,440 He came to earth and died for us. 579 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,480 And so God has highly exalted him, as the scripture says, 580 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,440 the grace of God towards us 581 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:47,440 meant that Christ should taste death for every man. 582 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:49,920 For who? 583 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,200 For every man. 584 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:53,040 What about woman? 585 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,160 Yes, that includes you. 586 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:57,480 You sinful women. 587 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,520 Amen? 588 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,840 I just isolated half the crowd, right? 589 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,560 Yes. 590 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,240 The word taste does not mean that Jesus did not fully die. 591 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,800 It does not mean that he only experienced 592 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:11,960 the pangs of death. 593 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,240 No, he truly died. 594 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,760 He truly experienced the wrath of God 595 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,940 and separation from God for us. 596 00:28:17,940 --> 00:28:19,520 It was not permanent. 597 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:20,360 Praise God. 598 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:22,880 He raised from the dead having defeated death, 599 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,160 hell and the grave. 600 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,120 The death was for everybody. 601 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:29,280 Certainly Christ's substitutionary death on the cross 602 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,400 is sufficient for every sinner to be saved. 603 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,380 Jesus died for you. 604 00:28:36,380 --> 00:28:37,720 He died for you. 605 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:39,920 Why did he become made? 606 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,560 Why was he made a little lower than the angels 607 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,520 so that he could die to pay for your sin? 608 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,400 But only, he is sufficient for every sinner 609 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,440 but efficient to those who trust in him by faith. 610 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,240 The Savior is revealed as better than the angels, 611 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,800 is better than the angels and being made man 612 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,160 a little lower than the angels 613 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,320 and then so doing, revealing God's glory and salvation 614 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,200 to the world. 615 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,640 Christ died for you. 616 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,520 Don't let it get past you. 617 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,040 Christ died for me. 618 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,860 He's the only one who could. 619 00:29:17,860 --> 00:29:19,640 It happened because he humbled himself 620 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:24,120 and became obedient unto death, even the death on the cross. 621 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,680 A right response to this truth is trust, 622 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:31,280 it's worship, it's repentance, it's humility. 623 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,120 We do not deserve the glory. 624 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:35,320 Jesus does. 625 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,000 Our glory was removed because of sin. 626 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,960 Christ has revealed God's glory through his identity, 627 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,040 through his revelation of who God is 628 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,560 and through his obedience to God 629 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,080 and his death on the cross for us. 630 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,080 God's glory has been revealed and has been revealed 631 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,160 because God became a man. 632 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,440 Jesus Christ is very God, a very God 633 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,500 and is now and forever will be man. 634 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,840 So you see stage one, glory removed, stage two, 635 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,720 glory revealed, here's the good part. 636 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,600 Please get excited about this. 637 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,820 Stage three, glory restored. 638 00:30:15,820 --> 00:30:16,660 Glory restored. 639 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:24,600 These are now some of my favorite verses in the Bible. 640 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,720 Listen to them. 641 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,680 For it became him, for whom were all things 642 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,680 and by whom were all things 643 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,680 in bringing many sons to glory 644 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,680 to make the captain of their salvation perfect 645 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:42,520 through sufferings. 646 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,160 Now there's a lot to unpack there. 647 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,560 Let's talk about it. 648 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:51,060 For it became him means that it was fitting. 649 00:30:51,060 --> 00:30:54,000 The word became means fitting. 650 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,480 If you've heard somebody say, 651 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,960 when a guy's being really smooth, 652 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,440 he says to the wife, that dress is very becoming on you. 653 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,440 It adorns you well. 654 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,440 It makes you look good. 655 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,240 It fits you just right. 656 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,840 That's kind of the idea here. 657 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,240 It was fitting, it became him. 658 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,320 He says, for whom were all by things, 659 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,720 for whom were all things, by whom were all things, 660 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,520 it's talking about God. 661 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,200 It was something that would bring him glory. 662 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,040 It became him. 663 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:23,860 It was something that was fitting. 664 00:31:23,860 --> 00:31:25,360 It was something that would bring him glory. 665 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,160 It was in keeping with his excellent name 666 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,560 and his nature in this beautiful way. 667 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,800 God the Father who is creator and sustainer 668 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,960 and ruler and owner of the universe, 669 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,000 what was fitting for him? 670 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000 What was in keeping with his name 671 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,240 something that would bring him glory? 672 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:41,680 Look at what it says. 673 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:46,680 It was fitting for him in bringing many sons to glory. 674 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,680 Who's he talking about? 675 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,720 Raise your hand if he's talking about you. 676 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:52,560 Yeah. 677 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,720 It was beautiful for him and bringing us to glory 678 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:00,720 to make the captain of their salvation perfect. 679 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,920 The idea here is, this word captain, 680 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,040 the same word is used in other places in scripture, 681 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:13,040 talking about author or initiator or leader or source. 682 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,600 Another way of saying it would be source of their salvation. 683 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:17,640 Who is he talking about? 684 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,320 He's talking about his dear son 685 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,640 who was made a little lower than the angels. 686 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,520 He's talking about Jesus. 687 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,520 And he says that Jesus is the captain, the originator, 688 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,360 the author of our salvation. 689 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,120 And he says, he says it was fitting for him 690 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,040 to make him perfect through suffering. 691 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,540 What became God is bringing the human race back to glory, 692 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,920 restoring an irredecent relationship with God 693 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,920 by the perfecting it says of the author of their salvation. 694 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,200 Now you might maybe ask him and I hope you do. 695 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,360 Wasn't Jesus already perfect? 696 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,360 Who here believes Jesus never sinned? 697 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,240 He couldn't sin. 698 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,680 See, he was born without a sin nature. 699 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,360 That's why he was born of a virgin. 700 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,040 He was born without a sin nature. 701 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:12,960 You're not dismissed, you're sinned. 702 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,760 You know why? 703 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:16,600 Here's why. 704 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:22,600 Jesus says, as the Father has sent me, so send I you. 705 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,920 See, Jesus didn't just come for no reason. 706 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,040 He was sent, what does that mean? 707 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,160 Sent, that means he had something to do. 708 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,720 God tasked him with something to do. 709 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:41,720 He said, I've come to seek and to save that which was lost. 710 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:48,160 So when God was made flesh, he was sent to do something. 711 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,400 He was sent to live a perfect life. 712 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:57,400 He was sent to live a perfect life and Jesus did do that. 713 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,760 He was sent to reveal who God was to man. 714 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,040 God who at sundry times and in diverse manners 715 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,600 spaken to the prophets, unto the fathers by the prophets, 716 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,400 hath in these days spoken to us by his son. 717 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,360 There was a revealing aspect to it. 718 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,080 But it says when he by himself purged our sins 719 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,080 set down on the right hand of the majesty on high, 720 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:23,080 Jesus came to die and there was something that he had to do. 721 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,720 There was a time where even though he was perfect, 722 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:30,720 there was something that he had to demonstrate obedience in. 723 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,400 And we need to understand how difficult that was. 724 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,360 Remember when he was in the garden 725 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:46,720 before he went to the cross and he prayed 726 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:51,640 and he said, Father, if it be possible, 727 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,200 let this cup pass from me. 728 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,040 But then what did he say? 729 00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:00,040 Nevertheless, not my will, but dine be done. 730 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,180 See, he had to, he had, is there a burden here? 731 00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:07,120 That is awesome. 732 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:09,400 I'm ADD. 733 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:14,400 Okay, he had something to accomplish. 734 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,460 And he had to demonstrate that obedience. 735 00:35:18,460 --> 00:35:22,460 So in the sense that he was obedient even unto death, 736 00:35:22,460 --> 00:35:25,020 even the death on the cross, 737 00:35:25,020 --> 00:35:26,780 God was perfecting him in that way, 738 00:35:26,780 --> 00:35:29,140 not perfecting him because there was something imperfect 739 00:35:29,140 --> 00:35:30,940 that needed to be made perfect, 740 00:35:30,940 --> 00:35:33,620 but that there was an obedience to accomplish. 741 00:35:33,620 --> 00:35:36,700 And here's the good news, he did it. 742 00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:38,660 He accomplished it. 743 00:35:38,660 --> 00:35:41,380 He did exactly what he came to do. 744 00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:44,940 He was obedient, the Bible says, unto death, 745 00:35:44,940 --> 00:35:47,060 even the death on the cross, 746 00:35:47,060 --> 00:35:49,980 so God hath also highly exalted him 747 00:35:49,980 --> 00:35:52,060 and give him in a name above every name, 748 00:35:52,060 --> 00:35:55,500 that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow 749 00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,620 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ 750 00:35:58,620 --> 00:36:02,140 is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 751 00:36:02,140 --> 00:36:04,700 I didn't quote it right, but you get the idea. 752 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:09,580 He was made perfect how? 753 00:36:09,580 --> 00:36:12,700 Through suffering. 754 00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:15,540 Christ was already perfect in his divine nature 755 00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:20,100 and his human nature, he was perfected through obedience, 756 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:24,600 which included the suffering that he came to endure. 757 00:36:25,660 --> 00:36:29,820 We see Jesus experienced that even dealing with that, 758 00:36:29,820 --> 00:36:31,700 not only in the cross, but like I said, 759 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:34,700 in that high priestly prayer. 760 00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:36,300 There is a sense that Christ understood 761 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:38,700 the difficulty, the intensity of the suffering and death 762 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:40,100 that he would experience. 763 00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:44,300 It was not merely the physical pain that he would endure, 764 00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:47,860 but the suffering of the wrath of God for sin, 765 00:36:47,860 --> 00:36:50,460 for the sin of the whole world that made the whole experience 766 00:36:50,460 --> 00:36:54,060 massively and incredibly difficult. 767 00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:57,020 It was though, but here's the point, are you with me? 768 00:36:57,020 --> 00:36:58,300 This is so important. 769 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:02,180 It was through that obedience and righteousness fulfilled 770 00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:05,280 and expressed that we could be made righteous. 771 00:37:07,220 --> 00:37:08,620 It was through Christ's obedience 772 00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:11,300 that we're made right with God and brought to glory. 773 00:37:13,660 --> 00:37:16,980 This is how the glory that we have been crowned with 774 00:37:16,980 --> 00:37:21,780 in creation, spoken of in verse seven, can be restored. 775 00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:24,700 Here's what I'm saying, look at verse 11. 776 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:26,540 Here's, this is so beautiful. 777 00:37:26,540 --> 00:37:30,540 For both he that sanctifies us, who is that? 778 00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:35,380 Jesus, and they who are sanctified, who's that? 779 00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:38,540 Us who are saved, are all of one. 780 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:42,420 What is he saying? 781 00:37:42,420 --> 00:37:45,900 Jesus is a human being, we're human beings. 782 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,540 He was perfected and we are being perfected 783 00:37:48,540 --> 00:37:50,620 by his salvation and sufferings. 784 00:37:50,620 --> 00:37:55,620 We cannot become divine, but the divine became like us 785 00:37:57,420 --> 00:38:00,660 so that he could restore our relationship with God. 786 00:38:00,660 --> 00:38:01,620 You get it? 787 00:38:02,940 --> 00:38:03,900 How? 788 00:38:04,940 --> 00:38:07,740 How he has become an understanding high priest 789 00:38:07,740 --> 00:38:09,860 who has been through what we've been through. 790 00:38:09,860 --> 00:38:12,460 Jesus has endured what you've endured. 791 00:38:12,460 --> 00:38:14,980 Jesus has gone through what you've gone through 792 00:38:14,980 --> 00:38:17,700 and he died the death that you deserved 793 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:19,860 after keeping the law that you did not keep 794 00:38:19,860 --> 00:38:21,060 and I did not keep. 795 00:38:25,580 --> 00:38:28,700 He also is a sacrifice that has appeased God's wrath. 796 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:32,340 His righteousness is now imputed to believers 797 00:38:32,340 --> 00:38:35,180 when they put their trust in him. 798 00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:38,180 His righteousness becomes my righteousness. 799 00:38:38,180 --> 00:38:42,100 My sin was put on him and his righteousness 800 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:44,860 is put to my account through faith in his name. 801 00:38:46,460 --> 00:38:48,620 And it says, because of that, 802 00:38:48,620 --> 00:38:49,700 look at what it says, 803 00:38:50,820 --> 00:38:53,060 for he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified 804 00:38:53,060 --> 00:38:55,860 are all one, for which cause he is not ashamed 805 00:38:55,860 --> 00:38:58,980 to call them brethren. 806 00:39:00,580 --> 00:39:03,340 Because Jesus was made human, he's the son of God 807 00:39:03,340 --> 00:39:06,540 and because he sanctified us, we become his brothers. 808 00:39:06,540 --> 00:39:08,340 God is our father, we're his son. 809 00:39:08,340 --> 00:39:09,740 Jesus is our brother. 810 00:39:12,220 --> 00:39:13,380 Did you hear that? 811 00:39:13,380 --> 00:39:18,380 Did you hear that? Jesus is our brother. 812 00:39:20,860 --> 00:39:22,980 He's not ashamed to call us brethren. 813 00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:27,300 Where were we called brethren verse 12 saying, 814 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:30,460 again, when it says saying, now he's quoting back to Psalm, 815 00:39:30,460 --> 00:39:34,060 Psalm chapter eight saying, I will declare thy name. 816 00:39:34,940 --> 00:39:36,780 This is in Psalm 22, 22. 817 00:39:36,780 --> 00:39:39,380 I will declare thy name unto my brethren 818 00:39:39,380 --> 00:39:41,900 in the midst of the assembly, the church. 819 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:45,300 Well, I sing praise unto thee. 820 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:47,260 And again, I will put my trust in thee 821 00:39:47,260 --> 00:39:48,660 and again, behold, I am the children 822 00:39:48,660 --> 00:39:50,540 which God hath given me. 823 00:39:51,740 --> 00:39:52,780 Where did he call his brethren? 824 00:39:52,780 --> 00:39:56,020 He did it prophetically in Psalm 22, 22, 825 00:39:56,020 --> 00:39:57,980 which is quoted here, I will declare thy name 826 00:39:57,980 --> 00:40:00,260 unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation, 827 00:40:00,260 --> 00:40:01,260 I will praise thee. 828 00:40:01,260 --> 00:40:03,300 You know why just a few minutes ago, 829 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:05,300 you and I could offer praises to God 830 00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:07,020 that he would accept? 831 00:40:07,020 --> 00:40:10,620 It's because of Jesus. 832 00:40:13,620 --> 00:40:17,020 All of our righteousness are like filthy rags. 833 00:40:17,020 --> 00:40:17,860 Are you with me? 834 00:40:17,860 --> 00:40:19,860 All of our, all the things we offer to God 835 00:40:19,860 --> 00:40:22,220 in and of ourselves to try to worship him 836 00:40:22,220 --> 00:40:23,660 when we're in our sin trying to, 837 00:40:23,660 --> 00:40:26,260 in our own obedience, get to him, 838 00:40:26,260 --> 00:40:28,800 we're just offering him just dirty bandages. 839 00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:32,580 Lepper's clause, that's what we're trying to offer him 840 00:40:32,580 --> 00:40:33,620 and he can't accept it. 841 00:40:33,620 --> 00:40:34,780 You know what he can accept? 842 00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:37,540 The righteousness of his son. 843 00:40:37,540 --> 00:40:39,220 Because he understood that's the only thing 844 00:40:39,220 --> 00:40:41,680 we had to offer, he put his son to death 845 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,020 so that we could be made right, 846 00:40:43,020 --> 00:40:45,460 so that then when we worship him, 847 00:40:45,460 --> 00:40:47,380 that glory is restored back. 848 00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:50,320 Now we can offer worship to God and he accepts it 849 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:54,320 because of what Jesus did in making us his brethren. 850 00:40:55,100 --> 00:40:56,060 Do you get it? 851 00:40:59,340 --> 00:41:01,440 Because of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, 852 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,540 we can be called the sons and daughters of God. 853 00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:05,740 Because of the death, burial and resurrection of the God, 854 00:41:05,740 --> 00:41:08,980 man, Jesus Christ, we can be called brethren. 855 00:41:10,140 --> 00:41:12,080 Verse 13 expresses two cross-servances. 856 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,720 The first one, I will put my trust in him 857 00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:15,720 from 2 Samuel 22, 3. 858 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:17,780 The God of my rock and him will I trust. 859 00:41:17,780 --> 00:41:20,720 He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, 860 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:23,320 my high tower, my refuge, my savior. 861 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:24,960 Thou savest me from violence. 862 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,360 Jesus Christ is our high tower. 863 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,700 It's when we put our trust in him 864 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:30,700 and as our savior that we're saved. 865 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:35,700 The second one he refers to is Isaiah 8, 17 and 18, 866 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,240 which says, and I will wait upon the Lord 867 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,140 that highteth his face from the house of Jacob 868 00:41:40,140 --> 00:41:41,300 and I will look for him. 869 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:44,240 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me 870 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:45,940 are for signs and for wonders in Israel, 871 00:41:45,940 --> 00:41:49,240 from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion. 872 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:51,620 This is a prophetic passage saying that there will be 873 00:41:51,620 --> 00:41:54,120 those begotten of Jesus. 874 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,620 There are the sons and daughters of God 875 00:41:56,620 --> 00:42:00,620 and therefore the brethren of the Christ that saves them 876 00:42:00,620 --> 00:42:03,220 they are the brethren of the Christ that saves them. 877 00:42:03,220 --> 00:42:07,200 How will they become sons and daughters and brethren 878 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,500 through faith in the finished work of Christ, 879 00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:14,300 the Son of God on the cross and his wondrous resurrection? 880 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:19,300 It is by his obedient suffering that we have been saved. 881 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,140 His perfect obedience is credited to our account 882 00:42:24,140 --> 00:42:26,080 and when it is, what happens? 883 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,580 The glory is restored. 884 00:42:30,580 --> 00:42:35,080 There was the first Adam and then there's the second Adam. 885 00:42:36,620 --> 00:42:40,620 The first Adam sinned and death passed upon all men 886 00:42:40,620 --> 00:42:44,160 because all of sin, but now there's Christ. 887 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,260 And because he was obedient when we put our trust in him, 888 00:42:47,260 --> 00:42:49,240 his obedience becomes our obedience. 889 00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:55,840 He took our suffering and gave us his righteousness. 890 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,580 You guys, this is amazing. 891 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:04,320 And so we ask the question that's asked in 1 John. 892 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:11,560 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us 893 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,760 that we should be called the sons of God. 894 00:43:17,260 --> 00:43:19,460 Therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not. 895 00:43:19,460 --> 00:43:21,100 Beloved, now are we the sons of God 896 00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:23,640 and it does not yet appear what we shall be, 897 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,540 but we know that when he shall appear, 898 00:43:25,540 --> 00:43:26,900 we shall be like him, 899 00:43:28,340 --> 00:43:33,340 for we shall see him as he is. 900 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,840 God the Father, God the Son, the God-man, 901 00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:43,260 our brother and God the Holy Spirit. 902 00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:49,520 What an incredible thing to be called the sons of God, 903 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,620 the brothers of Jesus. 904 00:43:53,620 --> 00:43:56,800 What amazing love that God has given to us 905 00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,840 through his suffering that we can become his brother. 906 00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:04,780 How did he do it? 907 00:44:04,780 --> 00:44:06,700 He brought many sons. 908 00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:11,480 And that's what it says, bringing many sons to glory. 909 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,820 Miss Jan's gonna go to the piano right now. 910 00:44:13,820 --> 00:44:18,820 We sang a song earlier called Behold the Wondrous Mystery. 911 00:44:18,820 --> 00:44:23,500 And I want you in a reverential moment 912 00:44:25,260 --> 00:44:29,140 to help me respond to the truths of what we've seen here 913 00:44:29,140 --> 00:44:31,700 in the singing of this song. 914 00:44:31,700 --> 00:44:35,380 This song referenced almost everything 915 00:44:35,380 --> 00:44:37,040 Hebrews referenced today. 916 00:44:37,980 --> 00:44:41,680 You can stay seated, but I want them to play this with us. 917 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,780 It's called Come, Behold the Wondrous Mystery. 918 00:44:44,780 --> 00:44:45,960 Put it up on the screen. 919 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,260 Let's sing it with me. 920 00:44:49,260 --> 00:44:50,700 Come, behold the wondrous mystery 921 00:44:50,700 --> 00:44:51,860 and the dawning of the king. 922 00:44:51,860 --> 00:44:54,100 Listen to these words and sing them with me. 923 00:44:55,460 --> 00:45:00,460 Come, behold the wondrous mystery 924 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,600 in the dawning of the day. 925 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:10,600 He the theme of heaven's praises 926 00:45:10,820 --> 00:45:15,920 wrote in frail humanity. 927 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,920 In our longing, in our darkness, 928 00:45:21,020 --> 00:45:26,020 now the light of life has come. 929 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:31,160 Look to Christ who condescended. 930 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:36,160 Look on flesh to ransom us. 931 00:45:38,700 --> 00:45:40,740 Come, behold the wondrous mystery. 932 00:45:40,740 --> 00:45:42,380 He the perfect son of man. 933 00:45:42,380 --> 00:45:47,380 In his living, in his suffering, 934 00:45:47,380 --> 00:45:52,380 never traced no stain of sin. 935 00:45:52,380 --> 00:45:57,380 See the true and better Adam come to say, 936 00:45:59,380 --> 00:46:04,380 the hell that we have seen. 937 00:46:04,380 --> 00:46:09,380 See the true and better Adam come to say, 938 00:46:09,380 --> 00:46:14,380 the hell that we have seen. 939 00:46:14,380 --> 00:46:19,380 Christ the great and sure fulfillment 940 00:46:19,380 --> 00:46:24,380 of the law in him we stand. 941 00:46:28,380 --> 00:46:30,380 In his suffering, here's what he's did. 942 00:46:32,380 --> 00:46:37,380 Come, behold the wondrous mystery. 943 00:46:37,380 --> 00:46:42,380 Christ the Lord upon the tree 944 00:46:42,380 --> 00:46:47,380 in the stead of ruin sinners 945 00:46:47,380 --> 00:46:52,380 hangs the land in victory. 946 00:46:52,380 --> 00:46:57,380 See the price of our redemption. 947 00:46:57,380 --> 00:47:02,380 See the fathers' plan unfold 948 00:47:02,380 --> 00:47:07,380 bringing many sons to glory. 949 00:47:07,380 --> 00:47:12,380 Grace unmeasured, love untold. 950 00:47:15,380 --> 00:47:18,380 He didn't stay dead, he rose from his head. 951 00:47:18,380 --> 00:47:19,380 Sing this. 952 00:47:19,380 --> 00:47:24,380 Come, behold the wondrous mystery. 953 00:47:25,380 --> 00:47:30,380 Slain by death the son of life. 954 00:47:30,380 --> 00:47:35,380 But the great could never see him. 955 00:47:35,380 --> 00:47:40,380 Praise the Lord, he is alive. 956 00:47:40,380 --> 00:47:45,380 What a foretaste of deliverance. 957 00:47:45,380 --> 00:47:50,380 How unwavering our hope. 958 00:47:50,380 --> 00:47:55,380 Christ is powering resurrected 959 00:47:55,380 --> 00:48:00,380 as we will be when he comes. 960 00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:05,380 What a foretaste of deliverance. 961 00:48:05,380 --> 00:48:10,380 How unwavering our hope. 962 00:48:12,380 --> 00:48:17,380 Christ in power resurrected 963 00:48:17,380 --> 00:48:23,380 as we will be when he comes. 964 00:48:23,380 --> 00:48:28,380 Every head down, every eye closed.