Victory in Christ

Hebrews 2:14–16 NRSV

Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death. For it is clear that he did not come to help angels, but the descendants of Abraham.

IN THE BEGINNING WHEN GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH......THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD..... THE FOWL OF THE AIR.....

HE ALSO CREATED MAN AND WOMEN AND PLACED THEM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.... BUT DUE TO THE DISOBEDIENCE OF ADAM AND EVE...... THE FALL OF HUMANITY WAS THE RESULT...... AND THE COMMUNION WITH GOD WAS CUT OFF....... MAN WAS LOST...... AND DEATH WAS IN THE PICTURE. HUMANKIND LOST THE GLORY.....THE HONOR AND THE DOMINION ...........THAT GOD HAD GIVEN TO THEM AT CREATION.

THEY LOST THE GARDEN OF EDEN....THE PERFECT WORLD THAT GOD HAD GIVEN THEM AUTHORITY OVER.

THE PERFECT WORLD THAT ADAM AND EVE HAD CONTROL OVER.

HUMANKIND HAS FALLEN FROM THE EXALTED POSITION IN THE ORIGINAL CREATION INTO A WORLD OF CORRUPTION

.....BUT NOT ONLY IS HUMANKIND NOW ENSLAVED BY A CORRUPTIBLE WORLD, HUMANKIND IS HELD IN BONDAGE......

BONDAGE TO DEATH...AND TO THE FEAR OF DEATH.....

HUMANKIND IS HELD IN BONDAGE TO THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS WORLD,

THE SUFFERINGS OF ALL KINDS OF TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS......

IN THIS FALLEN WORLD, WE FACE THE TRIALS OR SICKNESS AND DISEASE......

THE SUFFERING FROM VIOLENCE AND MURDERS...... ABUSE AND NEGLECT.......THE SUFFERING FROM SELFISHNESS AND GREED.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO FAR TO HEAR ABOUT THE CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE THAT HAS PLAGUED HUMANITY SINCE THE FALL OF MAN.

YOU CAN TURN ON TV AND HEAR ABOUT THE SENSELESS KILLINGS AND MURDERS..

...ACCIDENTS THAT TAKE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE..

...HOUSE FIRES THAT DEVASTATE FAMILIES..

....SICKNESS AND DISEASE THAT AFFECTS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.

THEN THERE MAY BE SOMEONE THIS MORNING THAT HAS EXPERIENCED SOME OF THESE TRAUMATIC EVENTS OR KNOW SOMEONE THAT HAS.

TRUTH BE TOLD.....HUMANKIND WITHIN ITSELF IS DEFEATED AND DOOMED TO EXPERIENCE AND SUFFER ALL KINDS OF TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS THROUGHOUT LIFE....... AND THEN DOOMED AND TO THE ULTIMATE FATE OF ALL: DEATH

BUT THE WRITER OF HEBREWS GIVES US SOME REASSURANCE ..... SOME CONFIDENCE......THAT NOT ALL IS LOST...... BECAUSE OF THE DISOBEDIENCE OF ADAM AND EVE.

HUMANKIND MAY BE FACED WITH THIS CORRUPT WORLD. ALL OF HUMANITY MAY BE SUBJECT TO VARIOUS TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS IN LIFE.

ALL OF HUMANITY MAY BE SUBJECT AND DOOMED TO THE ULTIMATE FATE OF DEATH......

BUT IT IS ONLY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST THAT WE HAVE THE VICTORY OVER THIS CORRUPT WORLD.

IT IS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST THAT WE HAVE DELIVERANCE FROM THE ULTIMATE FATE OF DEATH.

THROUGH CHRIST WE HAVE A SECURE VICTORY OVER THE ENSLAVEMENT OF THIS CORRUPT WORLD.

IT IS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, THAT WE HAVE THE VICTORY OVER THIS FALLEN WORLD.

IT IS JESUS CHRIST THAT CAME DOWN TO THIS EARTH TO DELIVER US FROM THE CORRUPTION OF THIS FALLEN WORLD.

IT IS THROUGH THE PERFECT WORK AND SALVATION OF JESUS CHRIST THAT WE HAVE THE VICTORY!

I BELIEVE IN OUR TEXT TODAY THAT WE CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE FIVE THINGS THAT JESUS DID IN ORDER THAT WE WOULD HAVE NOW HAVE VICTORY OVER THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS THAT WE ALL WILL FACE AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER IN OUR LIVES.’’

...BUT WE ALSO HAVE VICTORY OVER THE ULTIMATE FATE OF DEATH. LET US LOOK AT THE A AND B CLAUSE OF THE TEXT IN VERSE 14......IT SAYS...

Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things,

THE KJV READS... "FORASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN ARE PARTAKERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD, HE ALSO HIMSELF LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME."

Let me suggest.......

JESUS DELIVERED and SAVED....HUMANITY AND GAVE US THE VICTORY BY "BECOMING LIKE US".

CHRIST "TOOK PART" OF HUMAN FLESH. HE "TOOK PART" OF THE VERY SAME FLESH AND BLOOD THAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE MADE OF.....

BUT THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A NEWBORN BABY WHO BECAME A "PARTAKER OF FLESH AND BLOOD" AT BIRTH AND CHRIST WHO TOOK PART IN THE SAME.

CHRIST WILLINGLY "TOOK PART" OF FLESH AND BLOOD, WHEREAS A CHILD OR NEW BORN BABY HAS NO SAY SO IN THE MATTER.

MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS......

EVERYONE OF US HAS BEEN BORN BY AN ACT OF OUR MOTHER AND FATHER.....THAT GOT TOGETHER.....SOMEWAY................................................. EITHER IT WAS PLANNED.....OR IT WAS NOT. NOT ONE OF US IN HERE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HOW AND WHEN WE WERE CONCEIVED.

WE HAD NO SAY SO IN WHO OUR PARENTS WERE. SOME OF US IN HERE MAY WISH THAT WE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH HOW WE CAME INTO THIS WORLD........

BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS... ALL OF US THIS MORNING..... HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WHEN AND HOW WE WERE CONCEIVED......AMEN?

CHRIST ON THE OTHER HAND.....CHOSE TO BECOME FLESH AND BLOOD. HE WILLINGLY TOOK PART....TO BECOME LIKE HUMANITY....

HE DELIBERATELY DETERMINED AND PURPOSED -TO TAKE PART OF HUMAN FLESH AND BLOOD.

IN OTHER WORDS.....

CHRIST VOLUNTARILY TOOK PART OF HUMAN NATURE-........ A NATURE THAT WAS NOT A NATURAL PART OF HIS BEING. WE CAN SEE IN THE GREEK WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE WHAT CHRIST DID......

LET US LOOK AT THE

KING JAMES VERSION ....IN THE A CLAUSE OF VERSE 14 ....IT SAYS......"Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood

THE WORD " SHARE" COMES FROM THE ROOT OF THE GREEK WORD (KOY NO NAEO) KOINONIA.

IT MEANS.....TO BE PARTNERS OF A COMMON HUMAN NATURE.

IT MEANS TO ENTER INTO FELLOWSHIP.

WHEN WE ARE CONCEIVED WE SHARE THE SAME NATURE OF ALL OTHER HUMANS......

WE HAVE A COMMON "HUMAN BOND"..... OR A COMMON "HUMAN NATURE" BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE THE COMMON HUMAN NATURE....

WE ARE ALL PARTAKERS OF THE SAME FALLEN AND SINFUL STATE OF HUMANITY.

BUT LOOK HERE...... THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND I AS PARTAKERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD AND WHAT CHRIST DOES.....

THE B CLAUSE OF THE SAME VERSE TELLS US THAT "he himself likewise shared the same things."

THE WORD USED HERE TO TELL US WHAT CHRIST DID IS DIFFERENT... CHRIST "TOOK PART" OF HUMAN NATURE FROM THE ROOT OF THE GREEK WORD "METECHEO" M A-TAY- HO .....

THIS WORD MEANS "TO HOLD WITH" THE IDEA IS THAT....CHRIST TOOK HOLD OF HUMAN NATURE AND HELD HUMAN NATURE WITH MANKIND.

CHRIST ADDED HUMAN NATURE TO HIS DIVINE NATURE. HIS HUMAN NATURE WAS AN ADDITION TO HIS DIVINE NATURE.

AS GOD THE SON.....JESUS CHRIST HAD NO PART OF FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AS THE SON OF MAN, HE TOOK HOLD OF MAN'S NATURE.

JESUS CHRIST BECAME MAN...AND AS MAN.... HE TOOK PART OF FLESH AND BLOOD, WILLINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY .

JESUS CHRIST LOVES US SO MUCH THAT HE WOULD PAY THE ULTIMATE PRICE TO DELIVER US.

HE HUMBLED HIMSELF TO SUCH A DEGREE THE HE WOULD LEAVE HEAVEN ABOVE IN ORDER TO COME TO EARTH AND LIVE AS AMAN.

ACTOR KEVIN BACON GAVE THIS ACCOUNT OF A CONVERSATION WITH HIS 6-YEAR- OLD SON AFTER HE VIEWED FOOTLOOSE FOR THE FIRST TIME:

"HEY, DAD, YOU KNOW THAT THING IN THE MOVIE WHERE YOU SWING FROM THE RAFTERS OF THAT BUILDING? THAT'S REALLY COOL, HOW DID YOU DO THAT?"

I SAID, "WELL, I DIDN'T DO THAT PART--IT WAS A STUNT M AN." "WHAT'S A STUNT MAN?" HE ASKED. "THAT'S SOMEONE WHO DRESSES LIKE ME AND DOES THINGS I CAN'T DO." "OH," HE REPLIED AND WALKED OUT OF THE ROOM LOOKING A LITTLE CONFUSED. A LITTLE LATER HE SAID, "HEY, DAD, YOU KNOW THAT THING IN THE MOVIE WHERE YOU SPIN AROUND ON THAT GYM BAR AND LAND ON YOUR FEET? HOW DID YOU DO THAT?" I SAID, "WELL, I DIDN'T DO THAT. IT WAS A GYMNASTICS DOUBLE. "

" WHAT'S A GYMNASTICS DOUBLE?" HE ASKED.

"THAT'S A GUY WHO DRESSES IN MY CLOTHES AND DOES THINGS I CAN'T DO." THERE WAS SILENCE FROM MY SON, THEN HE ASKED IN A CONCERNED VOICE, "DAD, WHAT DID YOU DO?"

"I GOT ALL THE GLORY," I SHEEPISHLY REPLIED. APPLICATION: JESUS DRESSED IN MY CLOTHES WHEN HE TOOK ON HUMAN FLESH, AND THEN HE DID THINGS I COULDN'T DO BY FULFILLING ALL OF THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW.

AND WHAT DID I DO? I ACCEPTED THE CREDIT. THE BIBLE TELLS US IN ROMANS 8......"FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH,

GOD BY SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, ON ACCOUNT OF SIN: HE CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH JESUS GAVE US THE VICTORY......BY WILLINGLY TAKING ON HUMAN FLESH. IF WE LOOK AT THE TEXT IN THE C CLAUSE OF VERSE 14 IT TELLS US THAT...."so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death

"THAT THROUGH DEATH...." WE SEE THAT..... JESUS CHRIST GAVE US THE VICTORY BY DYING FOR US....... . THROUGH THE DEATH OF JESUS WE HAVE VICTORY........

WE ALL WILL DIE AND THERE IS NO ESCAPING THE FACT.

DEATH IS A RESULT OF SIN. WE ALL DIE BECAUSE OF SIN AND BECAUSE WE ARE SHORT OF PERFECTION.

WE ARE IMPERFECT..... BUT CHRIST IS PERFECT. A PERFECT BEING NEVER DIES.

IN ORDER FOR US TO BECOME PERFECT AND LIVE FOREVER...... .

SIN AND DEATH MUST BE REMOVED.....

IF SIN AND DEATH CAN BE REMOVED..... WE CAN LIVE FOREVER.....

MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS..... THAT IS JUST WHAT CHRIST DID FOR US..... IN HIS PERFECT BEING..... HE TOOK ON OUR SIN AND IMPERFECTION UPON HIMSELF AND SUFFERED DEATH FOR US.

WHEN A PERSON ACCEPTS JESUS ......GOD ACCEPTS THEM....... WHEN A PERSON ACCEPTS JESUS......GOD DELIVERS THEM FROM SIN AND DEATH THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.

WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IT IS ONLY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST..... AND BECAUSE WE BELIEVE...... AND REALLY TRUST IN CHRIST THAT WE ARE DELIVERED FROM DEATH. IF A PERSON HONORS CHRIST SO MUCH THAT HE OR SHE SURRENDERS AND COMMITS HIS OR HER LIFE TO CHRIST, GOD WILL DELIVER THAT PERSON FROM DEATH. IN AN INTERVIEW DURING THE MISS USA PAGEANT....... MISS ALABAMA WAS ASKED THIS QUESTION..... QUESTION: "IF YOU COULD LIVE FOREVER, WOULD YOU AND WHY?"

ANSWER: "I WOULD NOT LIVE FOREVER, BECAUSE WE SHOULD NOT LIVE FOREVER, BECAUSE IF WE WERE SUPPOSED TO LIVE FOREVER, THEN WE WOULD LIVE FOREVER, BUT WE CANNOT LIVE FOREVER, WHICH IS WHY I WOULD NOT LIVE FOREVER . ' APPLICATIO N: THIS "CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS" ANSWER BY MISS ALABAMA SERVES TO ILLUSTRATE THE BACKWARD THINKING OF FALLEN M AN. SOM EHOW WE'VE COME TO BELIEVE THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DIE.

BUT, ACCORDING TO ROMANS 6:23, DEATH WAS NOT GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN FOR M AN. RATHER, DEATH IS THE " WAGE" WE MUST PAY FOR OUR SINS.

NO, WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE.

SO IT'S OK IF MISS ALABAMA DECIDES SHE WOULD LIKE TO LIVE FOREVER.

THE GOSPEL PROMISE TO MISS ALABAMA, AND THE REST OF US, IS THAT BY FAITH IN CHRIST WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE RESURRECTION AND LIFE EVERLASTING. THE BIBLE TELLS US IN ROMANS 6 AND 23.... "FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD" WE HAVE THE VICTORY THROUGH CHRIST WHO DIED FOR US.......

NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE VICTORY BECAUSE CHRIST WILLINGLY TOOK PART IN BECOMING HUMAN.....AND BECAUSE JESUS DIED FOR US....

WE HAVE VICTORY BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST DESTROYED THE POWER OF THE DEVIL OVER SIN AND DEATH....

IF WE LOOK AT THE REST OF THE C CLAUSE OF VERSE 14 IT SAYS..... "so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,"

AS WE KNOW FROM THE PREVIOUS POINT THAT.....DEATH IS THE RESULT OF SIN. AND HUMANKIND DIES BECAUSE OF SIN. THE DEVIL WAS THE FIRST SINNER AND IS THE ONE THAT TEMPTS YOU AND I TO SIN.

THE ENEMY HAS THE POWER TO TEMPT AND ENTICE HUMANKIND TO SIN,

AND HAS THE POWER TO LEAD HUMANKIND DOWN THE ROAD TO DEATH.... SATAN DOES ALL THAT HE CAN TO ENTICE HUMANKIND TO TURN AWAY FROM WORSHIPPING AND SERVING GOD, AWAY FROM LIVING WITH AND FOR GOD.

THE ENEMY WORKS TO GET HUMANKIND TO CURSE AND REJECT GOD'......IGNORE AND NEGLECT GOD....... TO REBEL AND DENY GOD..... THAT IS WHAT SIN IS.....DOING THINGS YOUR OWN WAY..... AND DENYING GOD. REBELLING AGAINST GOD AND HIS CONTROL AND SAY -SO IN ONE'S LIFE......

SATAN WAS ONCE AN ANGEL THAT CHOSE TO REBEL AGAINST GOD AND WANTED TO DO THINGS HIS OWN WAY

AND IF TRUTH BE TOLD MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS....

HE WANTS TO BRING EVERYONE ELSE DOWN WITH HIM.....

INTO A LIFE OF REBELLION AND REJECTION OF GOD..... BUT JESUS CHRIST.....BROKE THE POWER OF THE DEVIL...... OVER DEATH......BY TAKING AWAY MAN'S SINS...... MAN'S GUILT..... AND JUDGMENT UPON HIMSELF AND BY DYING FOR HUM ANITY.

WE ARE DELIVERED FROM BOTH SIN AND DEATH THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.

IF A PERSON BELIEVES THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR THEM ...... .IF A PERSON REALLY TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST.....

GOD COUNT'S THAT PERSON AS HAVING ALREADY DIED IN JESUS CHRIST.

BECAUSE THAT PERSON HONOR'S GOD'S SON BY BELIEVING AND COMMITTING THEIR LIFE TO CHRIST GOD PROMISES

VICTORY OVER DEATH......AND ETERNAL LIFE.....

THE POWER OF SATAN OVER DEATH IS BROKEN AND DESTROYED.....

THE ENEMY HAS NO POWER TO ENSLAVE HUMANKIND IN SIN AND EVIL.... UNLESS THAT PERSON REJECTS JESUS CHRIST....

THE ENEMY HAS NO POWER TO HOLD HUMANKIND IN DEATH

....UNLESS THAT PERSON REJECTS JESUS CHRIST.....

JESUS CHRIST ALONE HAS BROKEN AND DESTROYED THE POWER OF SATAN OVER SIN AND DEATH....

JESUS CHRIST HAS GIVEN US VICTORY OVER THE POWER OF DEATH...... THE BIBLE TELLS US IN COLOSSIANS 1 "HE HAS DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS AND CONVEYED (US] INTO THE KINGDOM OF THE SON OF HIS LOVE, IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS."

WE HAVE VICTORY....BECAUSE JESUS TOOK PART OF HUMAN FLESH AND BLOOD.....JESUS DIED FOR us........BECAUSE JESUS DEFEATED THE POWER OF DEATH.... WE ALSO HAVE VICTORY BECAUSE JESUS DELIVERED US FROM THE FEAR OF DEATH......

THE TEXT IN VERSE 15 SAYS.......

Hebrews 2:15 NRSV

and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death.

JESUS CHRIST DELIVERED US FROM THE FEAR OF DEATH..... THE FEAR OF DEATH RULES AS AN OPPRESSOR OVER HUMANITY.

DEATH IS A TOPIC THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT TALK ABOUT.....

IT IS THE UNKNOWN....THE WONDERING ABOUT DEATH.... THAT WE ALL HAVE PROBABLY THOUGHT ABOUT SOMETIME IN OUR LIVES. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE?

DEATH IS A TABOO TOPIC..... BUT JUST THIS PAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR.....THE TOPIC OF DEATH HAS COME UP MORE.....THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC HAS CAUSED 3.4 MILLION DEATHS WORLDWIDE ..... APPLICATION : EVEN AS THE WORLD SLOWLY COMES TO GRIPS WITH THE TABOO TOPIC OF DEATH, THEY ARE STILL NOT ASKING THE MOST CRITICAL QUESTIONS.

IT'S NOT THAT "FINANCES, " "MEDICAL CARE," AND AVOIDANCE OF "SUFFERING" ARE UNIMPORTANT,

BUT OF FAR GREATER IMPORTANCE...... IS THE ISSUE OF SPIRITUAL DEATH--ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD, OUR FATHER.....

JESUS NEVER FOUND THE TOPIC OF DEATH TABOO.

IF FACT, HE ADDRESSED IT HEAD ON, AND ENCOURAGED US TO DO LIKEWISE. JESUS SAID MATTHEW 10....

"WHAT I TELL YOU IN THE DARK, SPEAK IN THE DAYLIGHT; WHAT IS WHISPERED IN YOUR EAR, PROCLAIM FROM THE ROOFS. DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THOSE WHO KILL THE BODY BUT CANNOT KILL THE SOUL. RATHER, BE AFRAID OF THE ONE WHO CAN DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY IN HELL"

FOR THE BELIEVER .... . AND THE CHRISTIAN..... JESUS CHRIST HAS DELIVERED US FROM THE FEAR OF DEATH.....

THERE IS NO NEED TO FEAR DEATH.....FOR WE NEVER HAVE TO DIE.

AS BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST, WE WILL NEVER HAVE TO TASTE DEATH....WE WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE DEATH......

FRENCH PHILOSOPHER AND PRIEST PIERRE CHARDIN ONCE SAID....

"WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS HAVING A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE; WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE."

SURE THERE WILL BE A PHYSICAL DEATH FROM OUR BODIES......BUT WE ARE ALL SPIRITUAL BEINGS LIVING IN A NATURAL WORLD......

WHEN WE LEAVE OUR PHYSICAL BODIES.....WE WILL BE IN THE SPIRITUAL PRESENCE OF THE LORD......

2 TIMOTHY TELLS US" AND THE LORD SHALL DELIVER ME FROM EVERY EVIL WORK, AND WILL PRESERVE ME UNTO HIS HEAVENLY KINGDOM: TO WHOM BE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER"

WE HAVE VICTORY OVER THE FEAR OF

DEATH.......BECAUSE WE WILL NOT EXPERIENCE DEATH AS BELIEVERS IN CHRIST.

WE HAVE VICTORY IN JESUS BECAUSE HE TOOK ON HUMAN FLESH AND BLOOD......WE HAVE VICTORY BECAUSE HE DIED FOR US....... WE HAVE VICTORY..... BECAUSE HE DEFEATED SIN AND DEATH....... WE HAVE VICTORY BECAUSE HE DELIVERED US FROM THE FEAR OF DEATH..... AND THE FIFTH THING THAT JESUS DID TO GIVE US VICTORY....... HE DELIVERED US FROM THE BONDAGE OF FLESH.

THE TEXT IN VERSE 16 TELLS US....

Hebrews 2:16 NRSV

For it is clear that he did not come to help angels, but the descendants of Abraham.

THE KJV SAYS....."FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON [HIM THE NATURE OF] ANGELS; BUT HE TOOK ON [HIM] THE SEED OF ABRAHAM." WHEN JESUS CHRIST TOOK ON HUMAN FLESH AND BLOOD....AND HUMAN NATURE........HE ALSO TOOK HOLD OF THE HAND OF THOSE OF FAITH...

...THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST. (THE SEED OF ABRAHAM).

IN THIS METAPHOR.....THE SEED OF ABRAHAM THAT IS USED HERE....MEANS THOSE WHO ARE ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN INWARDLY, NOT ETHNICALLY.

THOSE WHO ARE A PEOPLE OF FAITH .

THE SPIRITUAL SEED OF ABRAHAM.

THE KJV SAY THAT "HE TOOK" ON HIM.....THE SEED OF ABRAHAM . JESUS CHRIST TOOK US BY THE HAND AND DELIVERED US.

THIS IS A PICTURE OF LOVE AND TENDER CARE OF HIS DELIVERING US OUT OF THE BONDAGES OF THE FLESH AND OF HUMAN NATURE.

HE RESCUES US FROM THE PERILS BY TAKING US BY THE HAND..... THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT ''THOU HAST ALSO GIVEN ME THE SHIELD OF THY SALVATION: AND THY RIGHT HAND HATH HOLDEN ME UP AND THEY GENTLENESS HATH MADE ME GREAT."

WE HAVE VICTORY IN JESUS....

VICTORY.....BECAUSE HE TOOK ON HUMAN NATURE.........VICTORY......BECAUSE HE DIED US.........VICTORY.....BECAUSE HE DEFEATED SIN AND

DEATH.......VICTORY....BECAUSE HE DELIVERED US FROM THE FEAR OF DEATH....... VICTORY BECAUSE HE DELIVERED US FROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN.

HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY BY BEING HUNGRY, YET HE IS THE BREAD OF LIFE.

JESUS ENDED HIS EARTHLY MINISTRY BY BEING THIRSTY, YET HE IS THE LIVING WATER.

JESUS WAS WEARY, YET HE IS OUR REST. JESUS PAID TRIBUTE, YET HE IS THE KING.

JESUS WAS ACCUSED OF HAVING A DEMON, YET HE CAST OUT DEMONS.

JESUS WEPT, YET HE WIPES AWAY OUR TEARS. JESUS WAS SOLD FOR THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER, YET HE REDEEMED THE WORLD.

JESUS WAS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO BE SLAUGHTERED, YET HE IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

JESUS DIED, YET BY HIS DEATH HE DESTROYED THE POWER OF DEATH.

WE HAVE VICTORY IN CHRIST....

VICTORY IN CHRIST.....

VICTORY IN CHRIST...