557 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 47 - Christ, The Seed of Abraham

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 47 Christ, The Seed of Abraham Hebrews 2:10-17 & II Corinthians 5:14-20 We are now in the Book of Hebrews chapter 2, jumping in at verse 10. We finished verse 9 in our last lesson. Let’s move on into verse 10. Hebrews 2:10 It "became" God to become the Savior of mankind. In other words, He couldn’t help Himself! That plan of redemption included His own suffering and death as a man, but remember, He never lost his Deity. Even in the womb, I am convinced that He is God. We like to compare Scripture with Scripture, so I am going to bring you back to Colossians chapter 1. Alright, Colossians chapter 1 verses 15 and 16. We’ve used these verses over and over: Colossians 1: 15 "Who (speaking of the Son in verse 13) is the image (or the visible likeness) of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" In other words, He was before anything that had ever been created and here’s why. Verse 16. Colossians 1:16 Which all led up to His own suffering and death to bring about mankind’s salvation. Coming back to verse 10 of Hebrews. It just "became" God. Hebrews 2:10b Bringing them with Him to Glory. Recently I was reminded of a little anecdote. That poor little ant could not get that piece of straw down the hole. The ants all scattered! See, isn’t that exactly what God did? God knew mankind could never understand Who He is and what He’s done. Romans chapter 8 verse 14, in order to establish why Paul says here in Hebrews that Christ is bringing sons to glory. Romans 8: 14-15 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans 8: 16 "The Spirit (the Holy Spirit) itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" The actual Greek there for the word children are born ones. Romans 8:17 "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; (we don’t want to leave the last part of the verse. We become children of God. Now come back to Hebrews chapter 2 verse 10, where we find the love of God that was expressed when He brought about the plan of redemption and salvation for all that He had died for. He became part of the human race. Now this is a whole crux of our salvation message, that the eternal, sovereign, Creator God took on human flesh, submitted himself to the Roman authorities and He suffered and died for us. Hebrews 2:10b "...bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." Underline that word captain. The captain of our salvation! A leader! Well now, if that can help you a little bit, that is where Christ is! Christ is the "file leader" of all of us, that He came down to earth to purchase their redemption and now he is bringing us to Glory! Then, being the Pauline man that I am, what does Paul say? Be followers of "me" as I follow the file leader, Christ. See? Now come back to Hebrews and we get the picture, how that the Lord Himself left heaven’s glory to come amongst human men and became a man that He might be the file leader of all these that He is bringing with Him to Glory. The Apostle Paul! So Paul is following Christ as He is leading us up that file of believers to Glory. He’s following Christ. We follow Paul. The last part of the verse is that our salvation was made perfect through what? Through suffering. Yes, through suffering. Genesis chapter 3. Adam and Eve have just disobeyed. They have plunged the human race into sin and death. God the Son, in His Old Testament personality is confronting Satan and look what He tells him. Genesis 3:15 "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; (Christ is the seed of the woman) it (the seed of the woman) shall bruise thy head, (Christ defeated Satan by crushing his head with his death, burial and resurrection. What’s implied? The suffering that Christ would go through in order to crush the head of Satan. So we have this concept all the way up through Scripture that the righteous are going to suffer for their faith. Now back to Romans chapter 8. Paul writes: Romans 8: 18 Oh, we will suffer in this earthly sojourn, but it is nothing compared to the glory that is awaiting us. Even the Disciples, they all suffered a martyr’s death but none of them suffered as much as the Apostle Paul. Let’s look at that verse once more before we go back to Hebrews. Romans 8: 18 We have had others that suffered inexorably with terminal cancer, yet it is amazing how almost in every instance, when someone like that suffers, a family member was saved shortly thereafter. Always remember, God has his own purposes. The suffering we sometimes endure, we don’t understand personally. But God has a reason and a purpose for it. Repeating verse 10: Hebrews 2:10b "…bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible