{"id":5603,"date":"2019-10-06T21:05:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T04:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2019-10-06T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T04:33:08","slug":"hebrew2_1-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/hebrew2_1-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus the Greatest Human and the Author of My Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hebrews 2:1-10\u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Hebrews 2:1-10.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Hebrews 2:1-4 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-4:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here the writer of Hebrews starts to compare two messages.\u00a0\u00a0The first message is the message of the Old Covenant, a message that was \u201cspoken by angels\u201d (v2; see also Galatians\u00a03:19) to Moses.\u00a0\u00a0The message of the Old Covenant is all about God\u2019s law.\u00a0\u00a0The essence of this first message is: \u201cObey God\u2019s law and be blessed.\u00a0\u00a0Disobey God\u2019s law and die.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This first message was binding on the Israelites.\u00a0\u00a0Those who disobeyed the law of Moses were punished.<\/p>\n

The second message is the message of salvation (v3). It\u2019s a message which says that we have broken God\u2019s law and need a Saviour to save us from our sins, and that Saviour\u2019s name is Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0This second message of salvation was not only spoken by angels but \u201cannounced by the Lord\u201d Jesus (v3), was confirmed by his disciples (v3), and as we see in the book of Acts and even to this day was testified to by signs, wonders, miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit (v4).<\/p>\n

Jesus is the announcer of God\u2019s message of salvation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the first message was about God\u2019s law and our performance, the second message is about God\u2019s grace and our need for a Saviour.\u00a0\u00a0The writer of Hebrews is saying that we need to pay more careful attention to this second message, lest we miss the salvation that comes from it.\u00a0\u00a0The consequences of not realizing that we need a Saviour and that Saviour is Jesus are fatal.<\/p>\n

Hebrews 2:5-8 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and put everything under his feet.” In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 5-10:\u00a0\u00a0Although we human beings do not have power like the angels have and were made \u201ca little lower than the angels\u201d (v7), God gave the glory, honour and responsibility of taking care of this world not to angels but to human beings.\u00a0\u00a0In particular, God has placed the world in the hands of the greatest human being of all Jesus Christ.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s why Jesus says in Matthew 28:18 that \u201cAll authority in heaven and\u00a0on earth<\/em>\u00a0has been given to Me\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0As verse 8 says, at present we do not yet see everything being subject to Jesus, for in this world we still see sin, suffering and death.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s because Satan has been allowed to continue to squat in this world and to wreak certain havoc until the day that Jesus Christ, the rightful ruler of this world, comes again.<\/p>\n

From this we learn that\u00a0Jesus is not only God, but He is the greatest human too, and Jesus has all authority<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Hebrews 2:9-10 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 9-10:\u00a0\u00a0The reason Jesus is crowned with glory and honor above and beyond any other human being is because Jesus suffered for our sins and tasted death for all of us (v9).\u00a0\u00a0Jesus became human like us so that he could suffer on our behalf and through his suffering become the author of our salvation, \u201cbringing\u00a0\u00a0many sons to glory\u201d (bringing many people back to God).\u00a0\u00a0Jesus is not only the announcer of God\u2019s message of salvation, but Jesus is also the agent who made that salvation possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, notice verse 10 says, \u201cGod, for whom and through everything exists\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The reason you and I exist, the reason we have what we have, is for God\u2019s glory and through God\u2019s power.\u00a0\u00a0It is for God and through God that we exist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You for all these crucial and important truths You are teaching us through the book of Hebrews.\u00a0\u00a0Thank You that Your Son Jesus became like us, a little lower than the angels, and tasted death for us all, so that we could have salvation.\u00a0\u00a0May we pay more attention to this message of salvation than before so that we will never drift away.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Hebrews 2:1-10.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Hebrews 2:1-4 (NIV)\u00a0
\n1\u00a0\u00a0We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.\u00a0
\n2\u00a0\u00a0For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,\u00a0
\n3\u00a0\u00a0how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.\u00a0
\n4\u00a0\u00a0God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.<\/p>\n

On verses 1-4:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here the writer of Hebrews starts to compare two messages.\u00a0\u00a0The first message is the message of the Old Covenant, a message that was \u201cspoken by angels\u201d (v2; see also Galatians\u00a03:19) to Moses.\u00a0\u00a0The message of the Old Covenant is all about God\u2019s law.\u00a0\u00a0The essence of this first message is: \u201cObey God\u2019s law and be blessed.\u00a0\u00a0Disobey God\u2019s law and die.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This first message was binding on the Israelites.\u00a0\u00a0Those who disobeyed the law of Moses were punished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}