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The Superior Son
Hebrews 2:5-12
The Superior Son
The Superior Son
But, Jesus Christ did exactly the opposite!
The Superior Son
The Hebrew Christians seem to have had some problems grasping the Incarnation.
The Superior Son
The Hebrew Christians seem to have had some problems grasping the Incarnation.
Some seem to have wanted to give up on Christianity because God became a man.
The Superior Son
The Hebrew Christians seem to have had some problems grasping the Incarnation.
Some seem to have wanted to give up on Christianity because God became a man.
A fundamental tenet of Christianity is that God—in the form of Jesus Christ—became a man.
The Superior Son
The Hebrew Christians seem to have had some problems grasping the Incarnation.
Some seem to have wanted to give up on Christianity because God became a man.
A fundamental tenet of Christianity is that God—in the form of Jesus Christ—became a man.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (Jn 1:1, 14, ESV).
The Superior Son
The Hebrew Christians seem to have had some problems grasping the Incarnation.
Some seem to have wanted to give up on Christianity because God became a man.
A fundamental tenet of Christianity is that God—in the form of Jesus Christ—became a man.
Jn 1:1, 14.
Jesus “made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2:7-8, ESV).
The Superior Son
The author of Hebrews taught his readers about why Jesus became a man.
The Superior Son
The author of Hebrews taught his readers about why Jesus became a man.
In the first two chapters, he shows that Jesus’ Incarnation does not lessen his deity.
The Superior Son
The author of Hebrews taught his readers about why Jesus became a man.
In the first two chapters, he shows that Jesus’ Incarnation does not lessen his deity.
It is Jesus who is “the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature” (1:3, ESV).
The Superior Son
The author of Hebrews taught his readers about why Jesus became a man.
In the first two chapters, he shows that Jesus’ Incarnation does not lessen his deity.
1:3.
Jesus became “as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs” (1:4, ESV).
The Superior Son
The author of Hebrews taught his readers about why Jesus became a man.
In the first two chapters, he shows that Jesus’ Incarnation does not lessen his deity.
1:3.
Jesus became “as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs” (1:4, ESV).
Angels are a higher class of created beings than man.
The Superior Son
The author of Hebrews taught his readers about why Jesus became a man.
In the first two chapters, he shows that Jesus’ Incarnation does not lessen his deity.
1:3.
Jesus became “as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs” (1:4, ESV).
Angels are a higher class of created beings than man.
“What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor” (Ps 8:4-5, ESV).
The Superior Son
The author of Hebrews taught his readers about why Jesus became a man.
In the first two chapters, he shows that Jesus’ Incarnation does not lessen his deity.
1:3.
Jesus became “as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs” (1:4, ESV).
Angels are a higher class of created beings than man.
“What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor” (Ps 8:4-5, ESV).
The psalmist says that man has been made a “little lower than the heavenly beings.”
The Superior Son
The author of Hebrews taught his readers about why Jesus became a man.
In the first two chapters, he shows that Jesus’ Incarnation does not lessen his deity.
1:3.
Jesus became “as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs” (1:4, ESV).
Angels are a higher class of created beings than man.
If angels are above man & Jesus is above the angels, that must mean that his Incarnation did not remove his deity.
The Superior Son
It is quite possible that some of the Hebrews were involved in worshiping angels.
The Superior Son
It is quite possible that some of the Hebrews were involved in worshiping angels.
“Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind” (Col 2:18, ESV).
The Superior Son
It is quite possible that some of the Hebrews were involved in worshiping angels.
“Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind” (Col 2:18, ESV).
The author might be saying, “You have this all backwards. You’re worshiping angels when you ought to be worshiping the Son.”
The Superior Son
The author discusses Jesus’ Incarnation by demonstrating that Jesus is superior to the angels & by showing the reasons for the Incarnation.
The Superior Son
The author discusses Jesus’ Incarnation by demonstrating that Jesus is superior to the angels & by showing the reasons for the Incarnation.
This morning we wish to see the great superiority of Jesus.
The Superior Son
The author discusses Jesus’ Incarnation by demonstrating that Jesus is superior to the angels & by showing the reasons for the Incarnation.
This morning we wish to see the great superiority of Jesus.
THE SUPERIOR SON is—
A SUBDUING SON.
A SUFFERING SON.
A SHARING SON.
The Superior Son
vv 5-8
The Superior Son
“Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere, ‘What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him? You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection under his feet.’ Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him” (vv 5-8, ESV).
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The Father has not subjected the coming world to angels.
The Superior Son
The Father has not subjected the coming world to angels.
That coming age must refer to eternity.
The Superior Son
The Father has not subjected the coming world to angels.
That coming age must refer to eternity.
“Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come” (Mt 12:32, ESV).
The Superior Son
The Father has not subjected the coming world to angels.
That coming age must refer to eternity.
“Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come” (Mt 12:32, ESV).
“Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life” (Mk 10:29-30, ESV).
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The Superior Son
After the Resurrection, Jesus will relinquish his throne.
The Superior Son
After the Resurrection, Jesus will relinquish his throne.
“Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power” (1 Cor 15:24, ESV).
The Superior Son
In that coming age, all will acknowledge Jesus’ rightful place.
The Superior Son
In that coming age, all will acknowledge Jesus’ rightful place.
“God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:9-11, ESV).
The Superior Son
In that coming age, all will acknowledge Jesus’ rightful place.
“God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:9-11, ESV).
In eternity, everyone will acknowledge Jesus as Lord.
The Superior Son
In that coming age, all will acknowledge Jesus’ rightful place.
No one shall enter eternal life except through the Son.
The Superior Son
In that coming age, all will acknowledge Jesus’ rightful place.
No one shall enter eternal life except through the Son.
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (Jn 14:6, ESV).
The Superior Son
In that coming age, all will acknowledge Jesus’ rightful place.
No one shall enter eternal life except through the Son.
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (Jn 14:6, ESV).
“I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins” (Jn 8:24, ESV).
The Superior Son
In that coming age, all will acknowledge Jesus’ rightful place.
No one shall enter eternal life except through the Son.
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (Jn 14:6, ESV).
“I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins” (Jn 8:24, ESV).
God “has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17:31, ESV).
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v 9
The Superior Son
“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” (v 9, ESV).
The Superior Son
We don’t currently see everything subject to Jesus.
The Superior Son
We don’t currently see everything subject to Jesus.
But, we do see him “crowned with glory and honor.”
The Superior Son
We don’t currently see everything subject to Jesus.
But, we do see him “crowned with glory and honor.”
It was Jesus—and no angel—who “sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Heb 1:3, ESV).
The Superior Son
We don’t currently see everything subject to Jesus.
But, we do see him “crowned with glory and honor.”
It was Jesus—and no angel—who “sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Heb 1:3, ESV).
Therefore, it is Jesus—and no angel—who is worthy of our worship.
The Superior Son
The reason Jesus currently has this “glory and honor” is “because of the suffering of death.”
The Superior Son
The reason Jesus currently has this “glory and honor” is “because of the suffering of death.”
Surely, that’s one reason Jesus became man, for God cannot die.
The Superior Son
The reason Jesus currently has this “glory and honor” is “because of the suffering of death.”
Surely, that’s one reason Jesus became man, for God cannot die.
We all know the intense suffering that often surrounds death.
The Superior Son
The reason Jesus currently has this “glory and honor” is “because of the suffering of death.”
Surely, that’s one reason Jesus became man, for God cannot die.
We all know the intense suffering that often surrounds death.
But, Jesus suffered much more than any other.
The Superior Son
The reason Jesus currently has this “glory and honor” is “because of the suffering of death.”
Surely, that’s one reason Jesus became man, for God cannot die.
We all know the intense suffering that often surrounds death.
But, Jesus suffered much more than any other.
Jesus, “being in an agony . . . prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Lk 22:44, ESV).
The Superior Son
The reason Jesus currently has this “glory and honor” is “because of the suffering of death.”
Surely, that’s one reason Jesus became man, for God cannot die.
We all know the intense suffering that often surrounds death.
But, Jesus suffered much more than any other.
Jesus, “being in an agony . . . prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Lk 22:44, ESV).
“Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’” (Mt 27:46, ESV).
The Superior Son
Jesus suffered in death “so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”
The Superior Son
Jesus suffered in death “so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”
The idea that it’s by God’s grace that Jesus died sets Christianity apart from every other world religion.
The Superior Son
Jesus suffered in death “so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”
The idea that it’s by God’s grace that Jesus died sets Christianity apart from every other world religion.
In other religions, man needs to try to appease the gods.
The Superior Son
Jesus suffered in death “so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”
The idea that it’s by God’s grace that Jesus died sets Christianity apart from every other world religion.
In other religions, man needs to try to appease the gods.
But, God sent Jesus to be our sacrifice.
The Superior Son
Jesus suffered in death “so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”
The idea that it’s by God’s grace that Jesus died sets Christianity apart from every other world religion.
In other religions, man needs to try to appease the gods.
But, God sent Jesus to be our sacrifice.
“It was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief” (Is 53:10, ESV).
The Superior Son
Jesus suffered in death “so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”
The idea that it’s by God’s grace that Jesus died sets Christianity apart from every other world religion.
In other religions, man needs to try to appease the gods.
But, God sent Jesus to be our sacrifice.
“It was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief” (Is 53:10, ESV).
“God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (Jn 3:16, ESV).
The Superior Son
Jesus tasted “death for everyone.”
The Superior Son
Jesus tasted “death for everyone.”
Therefore, it is he who has power over death.
The Superior Son
Jesus tasted “death for everyone.”
Therefore, it is he who has power over death: I am “the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades” (Rev 1:18, ESV).
The Superior Son
Jesus tasted “death for everyone.”
Therefore, it is he who has power over death: I am “the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades” (Rev 1:18, ESV).
Therefore, it is he who has the ability to bestow life.
The Superior Son
Jesus tasted “death for everyone.”
Therefore, it is he who has power over death: I am “the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades” (Rev 1:18, ESV).
Therefore, it is he who has the ability to bestow life: “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die” (Jn 11:25-26, ESV).
The Superior Son
Jesus tasted “death for everyone.”
Therefore, we have no need to fear death.
The Superior Son
Jesus tasted “death for everyone.”
Therefore, we have no need to fear death. came to “deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery” (Heb 2:15, ESV).
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v 11
The Superior Son
“He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers” (v 11, ESV).
The Superior Son
Jesus & his disciples “all have one source.”
The Superior Son
Jesus & his disciples “all have one source.”
KJV reads as the literal Greek: “He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one.”
The Superior Son
Jesus & his disciples “all have one source.”
KJV reads as the literal Greek: “He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one.”
The idea is that both Jesus & his people have the same Father.
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The Lord is, therefore, not ashamed to call us brothers.
The Superior Son
The Lord is, therefore, not ashamed to call us brothers.
Jesus shared in our humanity.
The Superior Son
The Lord is, therefore, not ashamed to call us brothers.
Jesus shared in our humanity.
“Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil” (v 14, ESV).
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Jesus is fully God & he continues to be.
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Jesus is fully God & he continues to be.
But, before his conception Jesus was only God, now he is both man & God.
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Jesus is fully God & he continues to be.
But, before his conception Jesus was only God, now he is both man & God.
“There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tm 2:5, ESV).
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Jesus is fully God & he continues to be.
But, before his conception Jesus was only God, now he is both man & God.
“There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tm 2:5, ESV).
I’m convinced that Jesus laid aside some glory & honor that can never be regained.
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Jesus is fully God & he continues to be.
But, before his conception Jesus was only God, now he is both man & God.
“There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tm 2:5, ESV).
I’m convinced that Jesus laid aside some glory & honor that can never be regained.
Think of the implications of that!
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Second: Since Jesus is our brother, we are children of God.
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Second: Since Jesus is our brother, we are children of God.
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are” (1 Jn 3:1, ESV).
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Second: Since Jesus is our brother, we are children of God.
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are” (1 Jn 3:1, ESV).
Parents bestow on children blessings they give no other.
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Second: Since Jesus is our brother, we are children of God.
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are” (1 Jn 3:1, ESV).
Parents bestow on children blessings they give no other.
“Which of you, if his sons asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Mt 7:9-11, ESV).
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Second: Since Jesus is our brother, we are children of God.
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are” (1 Jn 3:1, ESV).
Parents bestow on children blessings they give no other.
Mt 7:9-11.
“The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever” (Jn 8:35, ESV).
The Superior Son
There are two very important implications in Jesus’ sharing our humanity.
First: Jesus lost something he can never fully regain.
Second: Since Jesus is our brother, we are children of God.
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are” (1 Jn 3:1, ESV).
Parents bestow on children blessings they give no other.
Mt 7:9-11.
“The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever” (Jn 8:35, ESV).
Because Jesus made us sons of God, the Father can bestow his richest blessings upon us.
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