Hebrews 2

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Hebrews 2

• April 20, 2008
• Lee Seetoo

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Hebrews 2

• 1 - 4 Deserving Attention
• 5 - 9 Who Has Dominion?
• 10 -18 The Benefits of a Brother

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Hebrews 21-4 (ESV)

• Therefore we must pay much closer attention to
  what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
• For since the message declared by angels proved
  to be reliable and every transgression or
  disobedience received a just retribution, how
  shall we escape if we neglect such a great
  salvation?
• It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was
  attested to us by those who heard, while God also
  bore witness by signs and wonders and various
  miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit
  distributed according to his will.

ATTENTION
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Slip Slidin Away

• Were workin our jobs, collect our pay
• Believe were glidin down the highway when in
  fact were slip slidin away
• Slip slidin away, slip slidin away
• You know the nearer your destination the more
  youre slip slidin away

ATTENTION
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Angels

• Acts 753 (Stephens message)
• . . . you who received the law as delivered by
  angels and did not keep it.
• Galatians 319
• . . . the Law . . . was put in place through
  angels by an intermediary.

ATTENTION
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Hebrews 21-4 (ESV)

• Therefore we must pay much closer attention to
  what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
• For since the message declared by angels proved
  to be reliable and every transgression or
  disobedience received a just retribution, how
  shall we escape if we neglect such a great
  salvation?
• It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was
  attested to us by those who heard, while God also
  bore witness by signs and wonders and various
  miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit
  distributed according to his will.

ATTENTION
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Multiple Witnesses

• A single witness shall not suffice against a
  person for any crime or for any wrong in
  connection with any offense that he has
  committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses
  or of three witnesses shall a charge be
  established. (Deuteronomy 1915, cf. 176)
• John 531-40
• Jesus
• John the Baptist
• works (greater testimony)
• the Father
• the Scriptures

ATTENTION
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Multiple Witnesses

• In your Law it is written that the testimony of
  two men is true. I am the one who bears witness
  about myself, and the Father who sent me bears
  witness about me. (John 817-18)
• Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies
  without mercy on the evidence of two or three
  witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you
  think, will be deserved by the one who has
  spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the
  blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified,
  and has outraged the Spirit of grace? (Hebrews
  1028-29)

ATTENTION
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Hebrews 21-4 (NLT)

• So we must listen very carefully to the truth we
  have heard, or we may drift away from it.
• The message God delivered through angels has
  always proved true, and the people were punished
  for every violation of the law and every act of
  disobedience.
• What makes us think that we can escape if we are
  indifferent to this great salvation that was
  announced by the Lord Jesus himself?
• It was passed on to us by those who heard him
  speak, and God verified the message by signs and
  wonders and various miracles and by giving gifts
  of the Holy Spirit whenever he chose to do so.

ATTENTION
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Hebrews 25-9

• Now it was not to angels that God subjected the
  world to come, of which we are speaking.
• It has been testified somewhere,
• What is man, that you are mindful of him,
• or the son of man, that you care for him?
• You made him for a little while lower than the
  angels
• you have crowned him with glory and honor,
• putting everything in subjection under his
  feet.
• Now in putting everything in subjection to him,
  he left nothing outside his control. At present,
  we do not yet see everything in subjection to
  him. But we see him who for a little while was
  made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned
  with glory and honor because of the suffering of
  death, so that by the grace of God he might taste
  death for everyone.

DOMINION
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Psalm 83-8

• When I look at your heavens, the work of your
  fingers,
• the moon and the stars, which you have set in
  place,
• what is man that you are mindful of him,
• and the son of man that you care for him?
• Yet you have made him a little lower than the
  heavenly beings
• and crowned him with glory and honor.
• You have given him dominion over the works of
  your hands
• you have put all things under his feet,
• all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the
  field,
• the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the
  sea,
• whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

DOMINION
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Genesis 126-28

• Then God said, "Let us make man in our image,
  after our likeness. And let them have dominion
  over the fish of the sea and over the birds of
  the heavens and over the livestock and over all
  the earth and over every creeping thing that
  creeps on the earth."
• . . .
• And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be
  fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and
  subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the
  sea and over the birds of the heavens and over
  every living thing that moves on the earth."

DOMINION
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In the Beginning
GOD

• Father
• Son
• Holy Spirit
• Man

Creation
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The Result of the Fall
GOD

• Father
• Son
• Holy Spirit
• Angels
• Man

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The Incarnation Humiliation of Jesus
GOD

• Father
• Son
• Holy Spirit
• Angels
• Son

Creation
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The Coming World
GOD

• Father
• Holy Spirit
• Angels
• Son
• Man

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Hebrews 210-13

• For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom
  all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory,
  should make the founder of their salvation
  perfect through suffering.
• For he who sanctifies and those who are
  sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is
  not ashamed to call them brothers, saying,
• "I will tell of your name to my brothers in the
  midst of the congregation I will sing your
  praise." (Psalm 2222)
• And again, "I will put my trust in him."
• And again, "Behold, I and the children God has
  given me." (Isaiah 817-18)

BROTHER
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Hebrews 214-18

• Since therefore the children share in flesh and
  blood, he himself likewise partook of the same
  things, that through death he might destroy the
  one who has the power of death, that is, the
  devil, and deliver all those who through fear of
  death were subject to lifelong slavery.
• For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he
  helps the offspring of Abraham.
• Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in
  every respect, so that he might become a merciful
  and faithful high priest in the service of God,
  to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
• For because he himself has suffered when tempted,
  he is able to help those who are being tempted.

BROTHER
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Hebrews 210-13

• For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom
  all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory,
  should make the founder of their salvation
  perfect through suffering.
• For he who sanctifies and those who are
  sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is
  not ashamed to call them brothers, saying,
• "I will tell of your name to my brothers in the
  midst of the congregation I will sing your
  praise." (Psalm 2222)
• And again, "I will put my trust in him."
• And again, "Behold, I and the children God has
  given me." (Isaiah 817-18)

BROTHER
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Hebrews 214-18

• Since therefore the children share in flesh and
  blood, he himself likewise partook of the same
  things, that through death he might destroy the
  one who has the power of death, that is, the
  devil, and deliver all those who through fear of
  death were subject to lifelong slavery.
• For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he
  helps the offspring of Abraham.
• Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in
  every respect, so that he might become a merciful
  and faithful high priest in the service of God,
  to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
• For because he himself has suffered when tempted,
  he is able to help those who are being tempted.

BROTHER
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The Kinsman Redeemer and the Right of
Redemption

• Ruth marriage rights of Boaz, the kinsman
  redeemer
• Jeremiah 32 property rights of the kinsman
  redeemer
• Jeremiahs title deed a sealed scroll
• (also, the New Covenant)
• Revelation 5
• Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its
  seals?
• What is the scroll?
• Romans 5
• sin and death through one man (Adam)
• righteousness and life through one man (Jesus)
• 1 Corinthians 15
• First Adam, Last Adam (Jesus)
• (also, quotation of Psalm 8)

BROTHER
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Conclusion

• . . . the Son of God himself has come, before
  whom all the angels,
• fallen or unfallen, are commanded to worship
• for whom angels are but messengers committed to
  do his wishes
• who has himself revealed a far greater message
  than the Law
• and who has recaptured for all who come to him
  the lost heritage of creation
• who has lifted, through the ultimate personal
  sacrifice,
• the terrible burden of sin and guilt which lies
  on us all
• and who offers to us each day an inner supply
• of strength and wisdom for the journey through
  life?
• What angel can do all or any of that?"
• Ray C. Stedman