WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.140 Well, it's good to be here. 00:00:04.459 --> 00:00:08.400 Look forward to this for quite some time, and I'm not going to waste any time. 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:11.880 I'm going to dig right into God's Word in Hebrews 2. 00:00:11.980 --> 00:00:16.699 Again, it's on page 1002 where we're looking at Hebrews chapter 2. 00:00:17.460 --> 00:00:20.420 Hebrews is one of my favorite books. 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:26.000 I know you're not supposed to say you like one book or one scripture or have a scripture over another. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:26.980 It's all God's Word. 00:00:26.980 --> 00:00:36.200 But I find Hebrews to be particularly helpful for suffering, for difficulty, for going through just the reality of what life is. 00:00:36.259 --> 00:00:36.980 Life is hard. 00:00:37.340 --> 00:00:43.039 And one of the most common accusations that's levital against Christianity is it's a wish fulfillment. 00:00:43.340 --> 00:00:44.600 It's pie in the sky. 00:00:44.859 --> 00:00:50.760 It's a way to deal with things to make us numb to what reality really is. 00:00:52.299 --> 00:00:54.359 Well, for one, I need help. 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:56.380 I admit I'm weak. 00:00:56.380 --> 00:01:00.219 I can't take all of the earth on myself. 00:01:00.400 --> 00:01:03.040 I can't take life on by the horns. 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:05.219 I'm not capable of doing that. 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:08.780 I am a creature, and I have limitations. 00:01:09.500 --> 00:01:11.879 So I fully admit I need help. 00:01:12.420 --> 00:01:14.200 The question is where is the help going to come from? 00:01:14.260 --> 00:01:19.680 From some place that is equally as weak or from a point that's stronger. 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:24.720 But not only stronger, allows me to gain a perspective of what's really going on. 00:01:24.820 --> 00:01:27.420 Of course, that is what's happening in Hebrews here. 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:36.640 The book of Hebrews, as far as we best know, is written to a group of believers who are largely probably Jewish in their heritage and background. 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:41.040 These would be those who would see themselves as having believed in Jesus as Messiah. 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.540 They probably still viewed themselves as Jews. 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:55.900 And so you have a tremendous argument throughout the scripture made to the consistency of what God had promised Abraham, what God had done through the covenants and how he had made a people for himself. 00:01:55.900 --> 00:02:02.460 And apparently they're being tempted to some degree to throw it all away and return back to Judaism. 00:02:03.100 --> 00:02:10.879 And his argument is there's no there to go back to because Jesus is the fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham. 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:19.300 Jesus is the promise of what all Moses had spoken of, of what the law pointed to and the one to whom the prophets referred. 00:02:19.860 --> 00:02:24.599 So in that first chapter, he speaks of the superiority of Jesus over the prophets. 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:28.439 It's Christ's superiority as as creator of all things. 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:33.019 Even the angels worship him and his superiority as redeemer. 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:34.099 He is creator. 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:35.379 He is sustainer. 00:02:35.519 --> 00:02:36.319 He is redeemer. 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:43.840 And for that reason, if they were to walk away from their faith or throw it away, as he says, they would have nothing. 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:47.159 There is no old covenant to go back to. 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:52.959 So he says repeatedly throughout the book, it's a book that's both of warning and encouragement. 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:59.680 We think of warning is always negative, but it's a serious thing to say you're going to throw away everything if you throw away Jesus. 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:05.560 He's not an add on to your life that you can put on a shelf and say, well, I'll go back to what I had. 00:03:06.540 --> 00:03:12.000 If you throw away Jesus, you will throw away God because Jesus is the end of the law. 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:13.960 Paul says the fulfillment of the law. 00:03:14.020 --> 00:03:16.420 He is the one that everything speaks of. 00:03:16.419 --> 00:03:29.739 And this argument that he makes here as he starts in chapter two is an argument that speaks of Jesus in the incarnation, that he is God in the flesh, that he is shared in our bodiness yet without sin. 00:03:29.859 --> 00:03:31.060 Jesus did not sin. 00:03:31.279 --> 00:03:31.839 We sin. 00:03:32.379 --> 00:03:34.659 Jesus was perfect in that regard. 00:03:34.659 --> 00:03:42.759 But it doesn't mean that he walked through life one foot above the ground and just glided through and was never in any way tempted. 00:03:42.939 --> 00:03:45.659 The scriptures make it clear Jesus was tempted. 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:47.300 Yet he didn't sin. 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:55.659 Now, that temptation, some people say, well, it was just, you know, theater because there's no way that Jesus could have possibly sinned. 00:03:55.659 --> 00:04:00.579 But I believe that temptation had to have some enticement to him. 00:04:01.180 --> 00:04:10.439 The devil tempted him in the Gospels and said, look, if you're really the son of God, just forestall all that difficulty that's going to come and start your kingdom now. 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:12.840 He said, no. 00:04:13.519 --> 00:04:22.300 But I believe even just living as God in the flesh on this earth was itself an ongoing temptation for him. 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:39.139 He saw the world around him broken because man had been disobedient to God because he had refused to believe God, particularly the people of God, the covenant people of God, who constantly the prophets called to repent because they were spiritual adulterers. 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:42.480 They had joined themselves to another and it broke his heart. 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:49.860 They think of him in the Gospels standing there and saying, you know, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who stoned the prophets, killed those I sent. 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:53.300 How I long to draw you under my wings. 00:04:53.400 --> 00:04:54.980 But then he says, but you would not have it. 00:04:55.020 --> 00:05:03.240 Now, anyone standing there would immediately think either he's crazy or he's making the claim to be the one who sent those prophets all those years. 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:12.800 Anyone in C.S. Lewis that looks at the life of Jesus could never lay the claim of idiocy or lunacy at his feet. 00:05:12.900 --> 00:05:19.980 He was completely within the control of his faculties and obviously very clearly a man who was together. 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:23.199 And his moral teaching, of course, being what it is. 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.579 But it wasn't just because he was calm, cool and collected. 00:05:26.699 --> 00:05:29.199 It was because he was who he said he was. 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.759 So the incarnation is so important. 00:05:32.259 --> 00:05:39.079 But at this point, he makes this argument that Jesus is a fitting savior because of his suffering in the world. 00:05:39.699 --> 00:05:43.079 This past summer, my 13 year old nephew killed himself. 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:45.699 13 years old. 00:05:46.579 --> 00:05:51.939 He was a little boy who I still see him as a little boy who just loved people. 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:55.519 And he would actually take the burdens of people on himself. 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:02.439 It seems sometimes to a fault, you know, if you stubbed your toe on the bedpost. 00:06:03.139 --> 00:06:04.719 I bet that hurt, didn't it? 00:06:04.799 --> 00:06:06.479 It was just a concern to him. 00:06:06.699 --> 00:06:10.719 And it's like the burdens of the lot of life seem to be just too much for him. 00:06:10.979 --> 00:06:12.359 And he was very sad. 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:15.339 And this past August, he took his own life. 00:06:16.159 --> 00:06:18.339 Speaking at his funeral service was difficult. 00:06:18.339 --> 00:06:24.139 There were over 2000 people that showed up from his church community and from the surrounding community. 00:06:24.139 --> 00:06:27.159 And it was an outpouring of grief. 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:29.879 And so much of the sentiment was, why? 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:38.399 How is it that a 13 year old could be so burdened in this world that he would feel that he need to take his own life? 00:06:38.620 --> 00:06:45.019 A 13 year old in a Christian home, in a community in which people proclaim the hope of faith in Christ. 00:06:45.819 --> 00:06:46.180 Why? 00:06:46.180 --> 00:06:46.500 Why? 00:06:48.840 --> 00:06:51.560 Recently, Derek Thomas spoke. 00:06:51.699 --> 00:06:53.939 Some of you know him at our church. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:07:02.319 And he spoke of a situation as a pastor that he dealt with with a woman who had a profoundly ill mentally and physically son. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.860 And for 17 years, as he ministered to her, he would come to her house and she would ask, 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:08.720 Pastor, why would God allow this? 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:09.940 And he said, I don't know. 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:14.480 But I do know that he knows what suffering is. 00:07:15.500 --> 00:07:17.040 And that's what Hebrew 2 speaks of. 00:07:17.080 --> 00:07:17.660 It was fitting. 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:22.660 Verse 10 says that he for whom and by whom all things should exist. 00:07:22.740 --> 00:07:28.300 There is his creator and maker of all things in bringing many sons to glory should make the founder of their salvation. 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.840 Perfect through suffering for he who sanctifies. 00:07:31.980 --> 00:07:34.120 And those who are sanctified all have one source. 00:07:34.180 --> 00:07:36.160 They all share in the same reality. 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:37.439 They are human beings. 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.360 They are made together of the same stuff. 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.100 So Jesus shares in our humanity, but he also shared in our suffering. 00:07:44.500 --> 00:07:45.920 Now, we need to ask this question. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.080 What does it mean to say Jesus was made perfect? 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.100 Because, of course, when we think of Jesus, we think he is perfect. 00:07:51.880 --> 00:07:54.940 You know, if he had to be made perfect, that means he was less than perfect. 00:07:55.060 --> 00:07:55.260 Right. 00:07:56.140 --> 00:07:59.160 Well, I think it can't mean that he was morally imperfect. 00:07:59.960 --> 00:08:02.960 We know that because Jesus kept the law. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.199 And we know that in verse 15 of chapter 4, it says he didn't sin. 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:08.259 He did all these things without sin. 00:08:08.579 --> 00:08:10.959 It's not speaking of a moral imperfection. 00:08:11.239 --> 00:08:16.899 And it can't mean that he was less than divine or else the argument of Hebrews falls apart completely. 00:08:17.139 --> 00:08:18.219 Because he is divine. 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:20.019 He is the perfect creator. 00:08:20.699 --> 00:08:24.919 The clue to the answer, I think, lies in that following verse in verse 11. 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:31.560 Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family, is how I like to put it. 00:08:31.580 --> 00:08:33.759 Not just the same source, but the same family. 00:08:33.940 --> 00:08:38.639 Jesus' experience as a human being was completed in that sense. 00:08:38.740 --> 00:08:40.100 The verb can be translated that way. 00:08:40.300 --> 00:08:41.060 It was completed. 00:08:41.700 --> 00:08:46.860 It was made perfect by his suffering ultimately unto death. 00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:55.200 So, when God enters the world in the incarnation, he has full omniscience, knowledge of all things. 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:56.360 Because he's made all things. 00:08:56.419 --> 00:08:58.340 But there's one thing he has not yet experienced. 00:08:58.820 --> 00:09:00.419 And that is being a human being. 00:09:01.460 --> 00:09:03.379 So that living life. 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:08.580 And I think that from the moment he was conceived through his conception, I believe he was fully aware. 00:09:08.940 --> 00:09:13.420 Part of his humiliation of humbling himself was that he was aware through all things. 00:09:13.419 --> 00:09:20.759 Even as an infant, imagine God, the infant, having his diaper changed. 00:09:21.579 --> 00:09:26.059 And knowing, fully aware, what was going on. 00:09:26.579 --> 00:09:28.559 Imagine having parents who were not perfect. 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:32.039 Mary and Joseph were not perfect parents because they were human beings. 00:09:32.439 --> 00:09:34.539 And then perhaps disciplining Jesus. 00:09:34.779 --> 00:09:36.379 Well, for one, he didn't need discipline. 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:38.219 He was sinless. 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.959 Because, you know, we as parents often discipline our children in error. 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.920 Our sin is what does that. 00:09:45.680 --> 00:09:46.139 You know what? 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:47.200 My alarm is going off. 00:09:48.660 --> 00:09:49.360 Sorry about that. 00:09:50.019 --> 00:09:50.940 But not only that. 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.340 I think as Jesus would go through the world and see other things. 00:09:54.980 --> 00:10:01.180 He experienced a level of suffering that allowed him to have an insight that he did not have as God. 00:10:02.180 --> 00:10:04.600 Some people find that to be a little unnerving. 00:10:04.700 --> 00:10:06.740 To think that Jesus didn't know something before. 00:10:06.740 --> 00:10:14.500 But I think his humanity cemented for him a personal knowledge of suffering that allows us, when we suffer, to realize. 00:10:14.860 --> 00:10:17.659 It isn't that Jesus looks at us as creator and says, there, there. 00:10:17.860 --> 00:10:18.899 I know what I'm doing. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.299 You need to just go on through it. 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.480 What he's saying is, I know. 00:10:25.740 --> 00:10:26.620 I know. 00:10:26.620 --> 00:10:29.659 Because I've been there. 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:34.279 So, he goes on to say, since therefore the children share in flesh and blood. 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:35.019 Verse 14. 00:10:35.460 --> 00:10:40.720 He himself likewise partook of the same things that through death, the ultimate end of suffering. 00:10:41.659 --> 00:10:43.860 There is no suffering greater than death itself. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.980 He might destroy the one who has the power of death and is the devil. 00:10:48.560 --> 00:10:52.620 And deliver all those who fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 00:10:52.620 --> 00:10:59.039 It means that Jesus was tempted in his suffering to not trust God. 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:01.299 Maybe even to question. 00:11:02.539 --> 00:11:04.360 How could God question himself? 00:11:04.940 --> 00:11:09.200 Was this a good idea, really, for me to come into the world and go through this? 00:11:10.139 --> 00:11:16.060 In the garden itself, when Jesus prays, Father, if there is some way for this cup to pass from my hand. 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.879 That's one of the most profound things I've ever read. 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:23.379 How could he ask that question when he knew from before the foundation of the world? 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:28.279 In eternity past, when it was determined that he would come and give himself. 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:30.480 How could he now ask that it not happen? 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:36.860 There's something about the suffering that Jesus was ultimately about to experience on the cross. 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:38.320 Not just the physical suffering. 00:11:38.659 --> 00:11:41.320 But the fact that God was going to pour out his wrath. 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:42.799 In judgment. 00:11:43.259 --> 00:11:45.080 So that sin would be judged. 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:51.180 And that we would have a way to be able to say, through Christ, that our sins are forgiven. 00:11:51.340 --> 00:11:52.400 They have been taken away. 00:11:52.660 --> 00:11:55.120 That the penalty for sin has been paid. 00:11:55.300 --> 00:11:57.440 There are only two ways that sin will be born. 00:11:57.560 --> 00:11:59.400 Either by us or by Jesus. 00:12:00.500 --> 00:12:03.900 And if we bear it, it will crush us eternally. 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:08.520 But because Jesus bore it, he can deliver us. 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:21.860 But more than that, as we go through suffering, it means that Jesus' experience of suffering, even suffering temptation, helps us to know that he's a savior who has a kinship with us. 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.679 He's a man, Isaiah says, who was acquainted with grief. 00:12:27.019 --> 00:12:28.439 A man of sorrows. 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:45.820 One of the things I shared in that funeral message that I did for my nephew, which was clearly one of the hardest things that I've ever had to do, was the fact that I think that by the time Jesus made it to the garden, he was a broken man already. 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:50.580 Broken by what he had seen and had experienced. 00:12:51.020 --> 00:12:53.580 Because of what suffering in the world had happened. 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:55.760 That he himself witnessed. 00:12:55.759 --> 00:13:00.340 And he knew he was going to ultimately correct it. 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.460 Spiritually, dealing with sin on the cross. 00:13:03.860 --> 00:13:09.899 But in the renewal of all things, as he is continuing to reconcile the earth, Colossians says, to himself. 00:13:10.460 --> 00:13:17.460 And in the end, in the consummation of all things, which will set everything right. 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:18.480 Here's what I said. 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:24.279 I am convinced from the moment of his conception in Mary's womb, our savior began to sorrow and to grieve. 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:29.759 When the Holy Spirit overshadowed her and the divine mystery of the incarnation became an enfleshed reality. 00:13:30.139 --> 00:13:33.639 Our savior began owning the very curse he had levied. 00:13:34.179 --> 00:13:36.039 In pain, you shall bring forth children. 00:13:36.179 --> 00:13:45.759 Whatever those pains are, Jesus was no mere bystander in their reality because he personally submitted to them as God, the infant, God, the child. 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:50.840 Even as he was at the same time upholding the universe by the word of his power. 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.939 As he grew, Jesus owned every suffering reality. 00:13:54.139 --> 00:13:57.220 As he walked on the soil, he had cursed. 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:05.840 When Luke tells us that Jesus the boy grew in wisdom and stature, I believe he was not simply saying he was becoming a strapping young man. 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.379 But that he was gaining a wisdom that only he could have. 00:14:10.160 --> 00:14:20.700 An accumulation along his life's path of the heavy reality of the brokenness of sinful hearts, the vileness of human cruelty and the deep sorrow of death's blow. 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:25.920 We cannot know so many whys. 00:14:26.060 --> 00:14:27.280 Our minds spin. 00:14:27.680 --> 00:14:28.600 Our hearts melt. 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:29.480 Why? 00:14:30.280 --> 00:14:30.879 Why? 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:32.400 Why is this happening? 00:14:32.780 --> 00:14:34.660 Why is suffering taking place? 00:14:34.659 --> 00:14:46.379 But surely because we can never know the depth to which our Savior suffered in both life and death, we can also know that he knows far better than we do what suffering is. 00:14:47.219 --> 00:14:49.100 So we can trust him. 00:14:50.379 --> 00:14:57.559 Because he himself has suffered, verse 18, when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:04.179 Understatements are something that we in the West are given to. 00:15:04.659 --> 00:15:11.519 Understatements are a way of deflecting some of the hard realities or being sarcastic about them. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.719 They're kind of like forms of denial. 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:22.419 To stand in front of my family and those people in that service and to say this was a hard time, that's an understatement. 00:15:23.719 --> 00:15:24.519 But it was. 00:15:24.539 --> 00:15:25.439 It was a hard time. 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:36.320 And it occurred to me as I was preparing for that, that there is a passage of scripture that is really the most profound understatement ever made, but the most important statement. 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:40.060 He was despised by men. 00:15:40.060 --> 00:15:40.980 He was rejected. 00:15:41.180 --> 00:15:43.500 He was a man acquainted with sorrows. 00:15:43.500 --> 00:15:49.639 We have no idea how much sorrow Jesus really was acquainted with. 00:15:50.139 --> 00:15:53.039 Far beyond anything we could ever bear. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.139 He bore it in his life. 00:15:55.299 --> 00:15:56.860 He bore it in his death. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.000 But that makes him a fitting Savior. 00:16:00.139 --> 00:16:01.860 We can't answer the whys. 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:06.820 But we can know that God doesn't just pat us on the back and say, well, just trust me. 00:16:06.820 --> 00:16:09.100 I'm going to make something good out of it. 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:11.980 He says, I've been there. 00:16:12.520 --> 00:16:13.920 I have worn it. 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:16.379 And I have owned it. 00:16:17.040 --> 00:16:18.820 I have destroyed it. 00:16:18.860 --> 00:16:21.220 If you can trust that that is true. 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:26.180 Even in my death, I take away the fear of death. 00:16:26.560 --> 00:16:29.760 And all that is death's calling card. 00:16:31.460 --> 00:16:33.580 The fear and anxiety. 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.060 The unknowns. 00:16:36.820 --> 00:16:40.620 To say, I've got it. 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.460 And to know that he's got it because he has entered into it. 00:16:46.020 --> 00:16:47.280 It changes everything. 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:50.160 So when people say, where is God? 00:16:50.260 --> 00:16:53.040 Where was God in 9-11? 00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:57.320 Where was God in the Holocaust? 00:16:58.800 --> 00:17:04.320 Where was God when my nephew set his chin on a rifle and pulled the trigger? 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:14.439 He was bearing my pain and everyone else's pain on the cross. 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:20.400 So that we might say, even then, though we might not answer why. 00:17:21.779 --> 00:17:25.980 We can believe he is going to redeem even that. 00:17:25.980 --> 00:17:28.940 That's a matter of faith. 00:17:29.660 --> 00:17:30.660 That's a matter of hope. 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:34.360 Man of sorrows. 00:17:34.500 --> 00:17:35.019 What a name. 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:38.759 For the Son of God who came ruined sinners to reclaim. 00:17:38.900 --> 00:17:39.259 Hallelujah. 00:17:40.099 --> 00:17:41.019 What a Savior. 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:43.839 When he comes, our glorious king. 00:17:43.940 --> 00:17:46.059 All his ransomed home to bring. 00:17:46.059 --> 00:17:47.980 Then anew this song we'll sing. 00:17:48.859 --> 00:17:49.379 Hallelujah. 00:17:50.700 --> 00:17:51.440 What a Savior. 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:53.079 Hebrews 2. 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:54.359 We see that reality. 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:57.779 Of his kinship. 00:17:58.039 --> 00:17:58.639 In suffering. 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:00.659 In his identification with us. 00:18:00.740 --> 00:18:03.159 And that kinship gives us the hope of glory. 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:05.059 That's what verse 10 speaks of here. 00:18:05.059 --> 00:18:05.700 Here. 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:08.980 He's bringing many sons to glory. 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:11.179 Because he's been made like the sons. 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:14.159 We've been made like. 00:18:14.299 --> 00:18:16.179 We're being made like him in our sanctification. 00:18:16.379 --> 00:18:18.559 So that we may enter into that glory with him. 00:18:18.619 --> 00:18:20.980 But that promise has been made by the down payment. 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:22.799 Of his death and resurrection. 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:26.559 His kinship with us gives us the promise of holiness. 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:28.960 For he, verse 11, who sanctifies. 00:18:29.299 --> 00:18:30.259 Who sanctifies. 00:18:30.379 --> 00:18:31.519 And those who are sanctified. 00:18:31.639 --> 00:18:33.599 All have the same family. 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:33.719 Holy. 00:18:35.439 --> 00:18:36.799 Jesus has gone before us. 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:37.339 Hebrews says. 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:38.919 As a predecessor. 00:18:39.259 --> 00:18:40.039 A forerunner. 00:18:41.500 --> 00:18:42.679 He's cut the way. 00:18:43.439 --> 00:18:44.000 And he says. 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:44.699 I'm here. 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:45.879 I'm bringing you. 00:18:45.980 --> 00:18:47.699 And I'm going to make you like me. 00:18:48.099 --> 00:18:49.219 We dare to believe. 00:18:49.399 --> 00:18:50.579 That I could be like Jesus. 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.119 I'm a sinner. 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:53.879 Not a saint. 00:18:54.719 --> 00:18:56.579 But I'm going to be a saint. 00:18:57.019 --> 00:18:58.500 I am called a saint now. 00:18:58.740 --> 00:18:59.759 One who's set apart. 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:02.279 And he is going to make me holy. 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.779 He set apart for his purposes. 00:19:04.980 --> 00:19:05.759 More and more. 00:19:06.019 --> 00:19:06.680 Verse 11. 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:08.279 His kinship with us. 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:10.599 Assures us of his pride in us. 00:19:10.779 --> 00:19:12.660 And I think this is something we have to remember. 00:19:12.980 --> 00:19:15.000 Some of us have siblings that we're ashamed of. 00:19:15.059 --> 00:19:15.279 Right? 00:19:15.980 --> 00:19:18.940 I have a brother who hasn't worked in 30 years. 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.139 And he's just a squatter in my parents' house. 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:23.000 They should kick him out. 00:19:23.059 --> 00:19:23.579 They won't. 00:19:23.879 --> 00:19:24.940 Because they're worried about him. 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.799 But I'm embarrassed of my brother. 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:27.619 You know. 00:19:27.740 --> 00:19:28.180 People say. 00:19:28.220 --> 00:19:28.960 Well how's Doug? 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.420 I wish I could say Doug who. 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:34.799 But I have to say. 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:37.720 He's still squatting in my parents' basement. 00:19:39.380 --> 00:19:40.779 But it says here. 00:19:41.360 --> 00:19:42.100 Verse 11. 00:19:42.360 --> 00:19:43.720 The last part of verse 11. 00:19:44.579 --> 00:19:46.680 He's not ashamed to call them brothers. 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:47.519 Saying. 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:49.319 I will tell of your name to my brothers. 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:50.299 In the midst of the congregation. 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:51.100 I will sing every praise. 00:19:51.140 --> 00:19:53.440 Jesus is not ashamed of those for whom he died. 00:19:53.779 --> 00:19:57.140 He's not ashamed of those who are suffering in this world for his name. 00:19:57.140 --> 00:19:58.580 We're going through pain. 00:19:58.980 --> 00:19:59.460 And difficulty. 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:03.840 Sometimes we're ashamed of what we do in our sin. 00:20:03.900 --> 00:20:06.780 But also ashamed because we end up suffering for the sake of the Lord. 00:20:07.180 --> 00:20:08.380 We're sorry for that. 00:20:08.620 --> 00:20:09.220 But Jesus says. 00:20:09.280 --> 00:20:10.340 I'm not ashamed of you. 00:20:11.259 --> 00:20:12.200 I bought you. 00:20:12.300 --> 00:20:12.980 I died for you. 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:14.440 I suffered for you. 00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:15.259 And I know you're suffering. 00:20:16.120 --> 00:20:17.200 I'm with you brother. 00:20:17.860 --> 00:20:18.480 And sister. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:20.560 I have pride in you. 00:20:20.700 --> 00:20:21.620 Here I am. 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:22.360 And the children. 00:20:23.080 --> 00:20:23.940 God has given me. 00:20:24.060 --> 00:20:24.320 Look. 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:26.980 And there's a song we sing. 00:20:27.379 --> 00:20:27.720 It says. 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:30.639 Jesus shall have the price for which he died. 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:32.059 An inheritance of nations. 00:20:32.679 --> 00:20:34.639 And he is joyful to bring that inheritance. 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:36.480 And he calls us brothers. 00:20:36.679 --> 00:20:38.919 His kinship with us delivers us from fear. 00:20:39.259 --> 00:20:41.159 As we've already said in verse 14 and 15. 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:43.339 Because he was made like us. 00:20:43.399 --> 00:20:44.859 He suffered in the world. 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:45.779 And he suffered death. 00:20:46.099 --> 00:20:49.039 And he has delivered us from the fear of death. 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.319 And his kinship with us gives us help. 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:51.759 Help. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:53.079 I love verses. 00:20:53.639 --> 00:20:55.579 Verse 16 through 18. 00:20:55.740 --> 00:20:57.460 Surely there's not angels that he helps. 00:20:57.539 --> 00:20:59.519 But he helps the offspring of Abraham. 00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:00.519 That's us. 00:21:00.819 --> 00:21:03.539 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect. 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:07.460 So that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God. 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:09.179 To make satisfaction. 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:11.519 Propitiation for the sins of the people. 00:21:11.659 --> 00:21:13.919 For because he himself has suffered when tempted. 00:21:14.059 --> 00:21:17.700 He is able to help those who are being tempted. 00:21:17.879 --> 00:21:20.899 Martin Luther's famous hymn on Psalm 46. 00:21:20.900 --> 00:21:24.700 If God is an ever present help in trouble. 00:21:25.180 --> 00:21:27.460 A mighty fortress is our God. 00:21:27.540 --> 00:21:29.660 A bulwark never failing. 00:21:29.840 --> 00:21:32.440 Our helper he amid the flood. 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:35.800 Rife is a flood. 00:21:37.060 --> 00:21:37.759 But our brother. 00:21:38.780 --> 00:21:40.580 Who is like us. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:42.840 And is making us now like him. 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:45.100 Is not ashamed of us. 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:46.780 He has been there. 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:47.680 He has borne it. 00:21:47.800 --> 00:21:48.480 And he says. 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.700 I'm with you. 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:52.960 I will help you. 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:56.680 I will never leave you or forsake you. 00:21:57.140 --> 00:21:59.660 Though I cannot answer why. 00:22:00.460 --> 00:22:02.039 I know Jesus knows. 00:22:03.339 --> 00:22:04.620 Whatever I have suffered. 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:07.700 Better than I could even know it myself. 00:22:08.620 --> 00:22:09.759 And I can trust it. 00:22:11.339 --> 00:22:12.140 Let me pray. 00:22:12.580 --> 00:22:12.720 Let me pray. 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.720 00:22:12.720 --> 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