(Hebrews 2:5-18)

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We were created to rule over all things. Sin has kept us from accomplishing that. Jesus fulfills all that we were meant to be.

The Message of Hebrews a. Our Frustrated Humanity

Man is certainly not as he should be. But, says our author, in Christ’s person we see him as he can be and through Christ’s work we see him as he will be: we see Jesus and acknowledge afresh that he came to be our pioneer.

The Message of Hebrews b. Our Suffering Humanity

When Christ assumed our humanity he became like us, exposed to all the hazardous perils of our life and death. He was not protected from trouble and adversity. When we find ourselves immersed in the harsh realities of human experience, he knows exactly how we feel.

The Message of Hebrews c. Our Threatened Humanity

Death was the terrifying problem of the ancient world and if Jesus was to be really and truly ‘like his brethren’ (2:17), he had to go through its grim experience. The angels could not feel these pangs of human desolation. Death was unknown to them.

Does it ever bother you that God seems… silent?

Christian Standard Bible Psalm 44

23 Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping?

Get up! Don’t reject us forever!

24 Why do you hide

and forget our affliction and oppression?

25 For we have sunk down to the dust;

our bodies cling to the ground.

26 Rise up! Help us!

Redeem us because of your faithful love.

We are perhaps too insulated from the persecution going on around the world, a seemingly well orchestrated and designed plan to exterminate Christianity from this world. As Christians are

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vv. 14-18