HEBREWS 5:7-9

I. THE FATHER AND THE SON

A. EQUAL

His equality is neither something to be seized or acquired

B. HUMBLED

1. EMPTIED OF CORY

2. HUMBLED IN HIS HUMANITY, SUBJECT OT INSTRUCITONS AND ORDERS

3. JOHN 14:28 “THE FATHER IS GREATER THAN I

C. FATHER , SON RELATIONSHIP

1. FATHER SYMBOL OF AUTHORITY

2. SON SYMBOL OF OBEDIENCE

3. THOSE WHO KNOW CHRIST WILL BE FILLED WITH HIS OBEDIENCE

II. CONQUERING REBELLION

A. ANGELIC BEINGS REBELLED

B. MAN REBELLED

C. GOD WAS NOT SURPRISED

1. HE HAD ALREADY FORSAW THIS

2. HAD ALREADY MADE PROVISION

3. GOD CHOSE TO REDEEM MAN NOT ANGELS

D. REBELLION CAME FROM CREATED BEINGS

E. OBEDIENCE MUST BE ESTABLISHED IN CREATED BEINGS

1. MAN SINNED AND REBELLED

2. AUTHORITY OF GOD MUST BE ESTABLISHED IN MAN RE-ESTABLISHING OBEDIENCE

F. GOD CAME IN THE FLESH

1. GOD CAME WITH NO TURNING BACK

2. OBEDIENCE UNTO DEATH

G. HIS OBEDIENCE REWARDED BY HIS EXALTATION

III. THE ROAD TO OABEDIENCE PAVED WITH SUFFERING

A. LEARNING OBEDINCE THRU SUFFERING-NOT BY SUFFERING

B. SALVATION NATURALLY BRINGS JOY

C. JOY CONFERMED AND REINFORCED THRU SUFFERING

D. CHRIST DID NOT BRING OBEDIENCE TO THIS EARTH-HE LEARNED IT THRU SUFFERING

E. WE MUST DO THE SAME

1. OBEYING ALTHOUGH IT HURTS

2. OBEYING ALTHOUGH IT HUMBLES

3. OBEYING ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND

4. OBEYING BECAUSE WE LOVE AND TRUST HIM AS HE LOVED AND TRUSTED THE FATHER