Sermon Tone Analysis

So Far in Hebrews, the Author Has Focused on How Jesus is Superior to the Angels

Jesus is God’s Son

This Carried Many Meanings to it

The Hebrews Author Hones in On:

Jesus is God’s Anointed King - Messiah

He Shares the Divine Nature and is Worshiped

He Rules Over Over the World He Created

He Sits at the Right Hand of His Father in Heaven

Last Time We Saw How the Author Quotes Psalm 8 for the Purpose of Proving that Jesus is Ruler Over the World to Come

Humans Were Created to Rule Over God’s Creation

But, Because of Sin, We Never Fulfilled Our Purpose

But Jesus Did

He Became Ruler Through His Perfect Obedience and Sacrifice On Our Behalf

So That at His Return, We Will Be Able Once Again to Fulfill Our Divinely Ordained Purpose

To Be Given Glory and Honor and to Reign With Jesus

Let’s Read Hebrews 2:5-9 So that We Can Better Transition into Verses 10-13

Hebrews 2:5–9 (NASB95)

For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking.

But one has testified somewhere, saying, “What is man, that You remember him?

Or the son of man, that You are concerned about him?

“You have made him for a little while lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And have appointed him over the works of Your hands; You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”

For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him.

But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

The Focus is Now On Jesus’ Humanity and His Suffering

With that as the Focus, the Author is Now Going to Show Us How Jesus is Superior to the Angels…

Based Off of His Unity With God’s People

Let’s Read Hebrews 2:10-13

Hebrews 2:10–13 (NASB95)

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, “I will proclaim Your name to My brethren, In the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praise.”

And again, “I will put My trust in Him.”

And again, “Behold, I and the children whom God has given Me.”

Now Let’s Analyze the Passage

Hebrews 2:10 (NASB95)

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.

First, We Need to Recognize Who the Author is Speaking of Here

The Creator and Sustainer of All Things

Verse 9 Tells Us that it was Through God’s Grace that Jesus Suffered and Died for Us

So We are Looking at God the Father Here as Creator and Sustainer

Hebrews 2:10 (NASB95)

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.

What was Fitting/Appropriate for the Father to Do?

To Perfect the Author of Salvation Through Sufferings

The Word for Author Can Take On Several Different Meanings

But it Carries the Idea of:

Being First, the Originator, the Leader, the Champion

Jesus is the Originator, Leader, and Champion of Our Faith

What Does it Mean that it was Fitting for God to “Perfect” Jesus?

This Doesn’t Mean that Jesus was at Some Point Imperfect

It Says, “It was Fitting for God to Perfect Jesus Through Sufferings.”

Jesus Perfected/Completed the Task of Becoming the Champion of Our Salvation…

Through His Sufferings

Hebrews 2:10 (NASB95)

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.

His Sufferings and Death Were Necessary to “Bring Many Sons to Glory”

To Restore to Humanity What was Lost in the Fall

To Restore Our Intimate Relationship With Him

To Restore Our Purpose of Ruling and Having Dominion

To Bring Us Back into Being in His Glorious Presence Once Again

God, in His Grace, Considered it Entirely Appropriate to Make His Son Suffer for Us

Not That the Father Had to Make Jesus Suffer and Die

Jesus Gave His Life Willingly According to His Father’s Will

How Could God Consider Something So Horrible to Be Fitting/Entirely Appropriate?

The First and Most Obvious Reason is That He Loves Us

But Also We Find 2 Reasons in the Text

“For Whom are All Things”

We Were Created “For” God

We Were Created for His Glory

God Considered it Entirely Appropriate for Jesus to Suffer and Die for Us for His Glory

“Through Whom are All Things”

God is Our Creator

He Made Us and He is Faithful to Provide For Us

God Considered it Entirely Appropriate for Jesus to Suffer and Die for Us Because He is Faithful

God Simply Spoke and the Universe and Everything in it Came into Existence

But Something More Than Simply Speaking was Needed…

To Lead Humanity Back to God After the Fall

What was Needed…

What was Entirely Appropriate…

Was the Suffering and Death of the Perfect Champion of Salvation

Hebrews 2:11 (NASB95)

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

He Who Sanctifies/Makes Holy/Sets Apart for God’s Purposes is Jesus

Those Who are Sanctified, Made Holy/ Set Apart for God’s Purposes are Christians

Jesus, the One Who Makes Us Holy, is God’s Son

We, Who Jesus Made Holy, are Now God’s Children

Because of This, Jesus isn’t Ashamed to Acknowledge Us as His Siblings

It Wasn’t Just God Who Considered Jesus’ Suffering and Death Entirely Appropriate

Jesus Also Wanted Us in His Family

The Father and Son Both Want to Bring Us (God’s Children and Jesus’ Siblings) to Glory

Hebrews 2:12 (NASB95)

saying, “I will proclaim Your name to My brethren, In the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praise.”

This is a Quote From Psalm 22

Psalm 22 (NASB95)

1-5 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?

Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning.

O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I have no rest.

Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You delivered them.

To You they cried out and were delivered; In You they trusted and were not disappointed.