Sunday PM, Oct 27

Outline

The writer asks a question:

How will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

(2 3-4) In these verses, the writer lists the progression of God’s revelation of our salvation. In doing this, He is attempting to describe how great our salvation is. (How does the writer explain the greatness of this salvation?)

in the following verses, the writer answers his question [how will we escape such a great salvation?] by explaining the greatness of God’s pursual of man through Jesus. (in other words God has gone to great lengths to restore what man has lost. He is going to lay out some evidence that God has pursued man’s salvation to the fullest extent.)

The first evidence of God’s desire to pursue man is that God put the world to come in subjection to man. God has not put the world to come in subjection to angels. God is not pursuing them. He did not give them dominion.

READ 2 5-8

() Read . The sense of the Psalm is that God gave dominion to man.

vs 4 what question does the psalmist ask?

5 what has God done to man? (What is the paradox that you see?) (lower than the angels, but crowned with glory and honor)

6 What has God given man dominion over?

…dominion given to man

God put all things in subjection to man, but We do not yet see all things put under him. (Why don’t we see all of these things?)

…dominion given to man

(What is at least one thing that we do not see dominion over?) (The creeping thing…we gave up that dominion…We also have no power over death. We are helpless in the forces of nature.)

2 9 (What do we see?) We do however see Jesus. Jesus is the greatest evidence that God is pursuing man to restore what has been lost.

(What did God do to Jesus?)Jesus was made to be like man in that he was also made a little lower than the angels.

(For what reason was Jesus made to be a little lower than the angels [for a little while]?) For the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.

Now the writer is going to explain Why Jesus had to taste death

2 10 (read 2 10. What is the reason Jesus had to taste death?) The reason: God made Jesus perfect through suffering.

Now the writer is going to explain why Jesus had to be perfected through suffering.

2 11 (The first reason: What does this verse say about Jesus and those who follow Him by grace through faith? What is Jesus not ashamed to call us?)Jesus and the ones He is setting apart are one. It is for this reason that Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren.

2 14-15 (vs 14a. What is the writer saying about Jesus? vs. 14-15 Why did Jesus have to become fully man and suffer death?) Jesus became fully man so that through His death, He might destroy the devil who had the power of death. By destroying the devil, Jesus released those who were in bondage because of their fear of death. (Remember God’s promise to Eve?)

2 16 (Remember, the writer is explaining the greatness of God’s pursual of man…What has God done for man that He has not done with the angels?) God does not give this same aid to angels, but He gives this aid to the seed of Abraham.

2 17-18 (Why did Jesus have to become fully man?)So Jesus had to become fully man so that He could have mercy on man and be a faithful High Priest, making propitiation for the sins of the people. Because Jesus was TESTED through suffering, He is able to aid those who also are being tested through suffering.

(vs 18 says that we are tested. How are we tested through death?) We fear death, so we have to trust God that He will keep His promise to raise us up on the last day. We need aid or help in this…so God pursued us through Jesus.

Remember that the writer started this argument with . So Jesus is God’s demonstration that He is pursuing man, because Jesus is restoring man’s role of dominion over the world to come.

Jesus is preeminent over any other high priest who has ever served.

3 1-6 (Read 5-6. How was Jesus’ faithfulness different than Moses’ faithfulness?) Consider the Hight priest of our confession, Christ Jesus. Jesus was faithful as Moses was faithful. However Moses was faithful in God’s household as a servant, preparing the household of God for things that would come. Jesus is the Son over His own household.

We are among Jesus’ household if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of hope firm to the end.