Turn to Hebrews chapter 2. Hebrews
chapter 2. The Son became one with us. Or, I can say the Son became
one of us. He became one with us and He
became one of us. wrap my mind around that. I mean, I can't even wrap my
mind around thinking that I would become a maggot, become one with
a maggot. Now, you're thinking I'm stretching
this. I'm not. But that I would become one with
a maggot, that I might make a maggot partaker of the divine nature,
partaker of what I am. I can't imagine that. And to
show you that I'm not exaggerating, God called Jacob a worm, a maggot. And over in the psalm, the Lord
says, I am a worm and no man. He became one of us, and He became
one with us. That He might take us to glory,
make us one with Him. That's the message. Now, I can
give you an outline here, but that's the message. In verse 9, it is written, that
we see Jesus. The question is asked, what is
man that thou art mindful of him? Son of man, that thou shouldest
visit him. And then in verse 9 he said,
but we see Jesus. Not until we see him can we understand
how God can be a just God and a Savior. Not until we see Jesus
Christ can we understand the purpose of God and redemption,
the purpose of God and the new heaven and the new earth. The
Lord Jesus Christ is the key of knowledge. He is the key of
knowledge to the great mystery of not only salvation, but of
everything that exists. He's the key of knowledge. He's
it. Now it says in verse 10, it became
him. And the him here is the Father. It's speaking of the Father who
is the first cause of all things. For it became him for whom are
all things and by whom are all things. That very phrase is also
applied to the Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? over in Colossians
chapter 1, by whom all things are made and for whom all things
are made. Over here in chapter 1 of Hebrews, it says in verse
2, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. And what this shows is this,
is that that man, Jesus Christ, is fully God. He is God completely. He is God. And it became Him
that is the Father. And here's what it's saying.
It was fitting. It was fitting. Or it was of His
character. It was characteristic of His
nature of love to do such a thing. to bring many sons to glory through
and by His Son, Jesus Christ, suffering and dying in their
stead. It is just like Him to do it.
Just like Him to do it. That word became means the same
as in Titus chapter 2 verse 1. Speak thou the things that become. It means the same thing. that become sound doctrine. Or
over in 1 Timothy 2.10, which become women professing godliness,
fitting, proper. It was agreeable. That's what
he's saying. It is totally agreeable to the
nature of the Father in bringing many sons, and I wrote over that,
us. Us. To glory. to make the captain,
the champion of their salvation perfect, complete through sufferings. The purpose of the Father is
to bring many sons to glory. That means to bring them to heaven.
That means to bring them to paradise. That means to bring them to that
new heaven and new earth and fill it with a people just like
His Son, Jesus Christ. His perfect Son. His Son in whom
He delighted before the world began. And He's going to have
a multitude of sons there just like Him. And it's just like
Him to do this. Just like Him to do this. And
the only way for Him to do this is through the sufferings of
His one Son, Jesus Christ. God the Father is holy. We know
that through the Word of God. It teaches us this. The law and
justice of God is perfect. Therefore, for us to be there,
to be in glory, to be in paradise, to be accepted in His presence,
Christ must suffer for us in a perfect way, in a perfect way. But also here, for Christ to
be perfect, He's speaking here not of His person. It's not speaking
of His person. He's speaking of His office as
a high priest. as a mediator, as a representative. That's what he's speaking of.
As the high priest, he must suffer in order, listen, that he might
be touched with the feelings of our infirmities. He must be
tempted in all points as you and I are that he might be identified
with us and he might properly represent us before God. That's
what he's saying there. Back in here in Hebrews 2. For
it became Him for whom are all things, by whom are all things,
in bringing many sons unto God to make the captain, the champion
of their salvation, perfect in his office as a high priest,
as a mediator, through sufferings. Through sufferings. I don't remember who said this.
I tried to remember who said it. I heard Henry say it. that
God has no sons. He had one son without sin, no
son without suffering. None without suffering. Now these next verses show here
our union with the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 11. For both he
that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one. They all have the same They all
have the same position, sons. In Christ, we are the sons of
God. It does not yet appear what we
shall be, but we know this. When He shall appear, we'll be
just like Him. But right now, we are called the sons of God. We are sons of God. And He's
not ashamed. He is not ashamed. You know anybody
you're ashamed of? Anybody ashamed of you? He's not ashamed to call them
brethren. Look over in John chapter 20. John chapter 20. Jesus said unto her, Touch me
not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father, but go to my brethren,
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, unto
my God and your God. For both he that sanctifieth
the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the one who sanctifies us through
his death, through his redemption of us, And those who are sanctified,
the ones whom He saves, they're all of one. They all have one
Father, same Father, have the same. In Christ we are one family. Down here where there's different
families, we have different family trees, and you know, we have
different, some people came from this part, that part. In this new heaven, new earth,
there's one family. There's one family. There's one
body, and he's not ashamed to call
this family, this family of his, he's not ashamed to say, these
are my brethren. These are my brethren. He's not ashamed to call Rahab
his daughter or his sister. He's not ashamed to call her
his sister. Or David, who committed adultery and murder. This is
my brother David. This is my brother Mike, Frank,
and so on. He's not ashamed to say, these
are my brethren. Now listen, he says in verses
12-13, still with his union, saying, I will declare I will proclaim thy name, that
is, thy character, thy perfections, thy attributes, unto my brethren."
That's what he came to do, wasn't it? To preach, to declare the
Father, to declare His character, His perfections to us. Those who are born of God, those
who shall be with Him, are the ones, He says, I declare thy
name to my brethren. That's how you know. That's how
you know the Father. That's how you call upon Him
as your Father. It's because the Lord has declared
Him to you. He uses pastors, teachers, but
it's the Lord who declares it. If He's declared, I mean, if
He's truly declared and you know Him and you come to understand,
He's the one who's declared to your heart. In the midst of the
church, will I sing praise unto thee. He's quoting out of Psalm 22,
22. In the midst of the church. See,
He's identifying Himself with us here, with His brethren. in
right in the midst of them, leading, leading to worship, leading to
praise. He said, in the midst of the
church will I sing praise unto thee. The writer here quotes from Isaiah
chapter 8. He's showing here that Christ
receives His brethren as a gift from the Father. You see here
it says, And again, I will put my trust in Him. And again, behold,
I and the Father, I and the children which God hath given me. I told you this last week. His
children, you who believe, you are a love gift from the Father
to the Son. You are a love gift from the
Father to the Son. He has received us at the hands
and from the hands of his heavenly Father. I thought of this scripture today
going home. Happy is the man, which scripture speaks of, happy
is the man who hath his quiver full of them, talking about children.
Where is that scripture at? You're not supposed to ask that
in the middle of a sermon. But I was thinking of that going
home, and I forgot it. Children are a heritage. Is that
what it says? Are a heritage of the Lord? Happy is the man
that hath his quiver full of them. Psalm 127. Alright, let's
look at that. When you're family, you can do
these things, can't you? Nobody's in a hurry here. Look in verse 4. As arrows are
in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. They shall
not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the
gate. I was thinking of going home today. I know people who
have big families. I came from a big family. And
I don't know any of them that doesn't have heartaches over
their children. This is Christ. This explains it to me. I couldn't,
you know, I thought of that and I thought because I know, you
know, I know people that's got, like I said, families and families,
and they've got big families and they've got heartaches. Somebody,
one or two of the kids, you know, they're just breaking the heart. That's Christ. Happy is that
man. Happy is the man. Happy is the
man Christ Jesus. He hath His quiver full of Him.
And I'm telling you this, when this is all over, that new heaven,
new earth, not one of them will embarrass Him. Not one of them
will be a problem. Not one of them. Happy is He. Just like over in Psalm 1, blessed
is the man. That man is Christ first. And then second, let me find
my spot here. In verse 13, Behold, I and the
children which God hath given me. He shows us here that these
children are a gift of the Father. And secondly, He receives them
as a purchase paid for by His blood. They're given to Him because
He purchased them. We are a purchased people. We are a loved people. Loved
people. We are a purchased people. And
then He receives them from the Holy Spirit as those who call
upon Him and come to Him in faith. He receives them from the hand
of the Holy Spirit in regeneration. I and the children which God
hath given me. A gift to Him. But there's something here also
this shows. Look back in verse 13. And again, I will put my
trust in Him. This is the Lord Jesus
Christ speaking here. This is the man Christ Jesus
saying, I trust Him, God. I trust God. In His darkest hours,
He trusted Him. When He was in the Garden of
Gethsemane, He trusted Him to bring Him through it. When He
was going to be nailed to the cross, He trusted Him. Now, if
He trusted Him, how much more ought we to trust Him? And again, I'll put my trust
in him. And again, behold I and the children
which God hath given me. And here he gives us the reason
why he became flesh, why the word was made flesh. For as much
then, for as much as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
God's children, He also himself, likewise, took part of the same. He became one with us and became
one of us. Those whom he came to redeem
are human. Human. The Redeemer, therefore,
must become a man. He must become flesh. Only the
near kinsmen can redeem us. God, as God only, could not redeem
us. But the God-Man, the Word being
made flesh, He can redeem us. He can redeem us. He has the
proper price now. When He became a man, He had
the proper price. His blood. God could not die, but the God-man
can experience death. As it says back here in Hebrews,
that He tasted death for every, it says every man, but it's every
one, every one for whom He represented. He tasted death, and that's why
He became a man, because the children were partakers of flesh
and blood, and in order for him to redeem them and bring them
to glory, he had to be partaker of the same. That through death, he might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.
His greatest weapon against Satan was his own death. That's how
he destroyed his power, his own death. That's how he did it. Now, this does not mean that
Satan usurped God's power over life and death, that he took
it away from him, that he took away the sovereign right of God
over life and death. It doesn't mean that. Here's
what it means. Satan having the power of death has to do with
him introducing sin into this world. And death came by sin. It came by sin. But also here in verse 15. And
deliver them. Deliver them. You see back here in 14. For
as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through
death he might destroy him that hath the power of death, that
is, the devil. And deliver them. He's the deliverer. The deliverer
has come. And He's going to deliver them
who through fear of death. This is mainly speaking here
of the Jews. They had the law of Moses. And every day they were afraid
of messing up. They had the ceremonies and all
those things they had to do and the commandments they had to
keep. And the law said so that sinners shall die. You
go back through the Old Testament and you read the laws. I mean,
you've got to do this, you've got to do that. And they were
constantly under a fear of messing up and being put to death. And deliver them who through
fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. How would you like that the rest
of your life? How would you like the rest of your life being subject
to bondage, to mental bondage, to fear? You know what fear is? How would you like to live with
fear every day? Did I miss something today? You
go to bed at night, did I miss something? Did I leave something
undone? Our Lord delivered them from
that. He put it away. He fulfilled
the law and he put it away. Christ came into this world to
deliver and he came to deliver from death and from bondage. And he did it. He accomplished
it. Now listen, and deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. For verily He took not on Him
the nature of angels. Here's what it means. He did
not lay a hold of angels, the fallen angels. He did not lay
a hold of them. But He took on Him. He laid hold
of the seed of Abraham. Oh, we have seen Christ as God. We've seen Him as a King. We've
seen Him as a man. We've seen Him as the Redeemer.
And now we're going to see Him, and we'll see Him more fully
as we go through Hebrews, as the High Priest over the house
of God. As the only mediator between
God and men. But He took not on Him the nature
of angels. It's not given to them. Try to
imagine that. God did not provide them with
a Savior. Not one of them. Not one of them. But He provided a Savior for the seed of Abraham that was promised The seed of
Abraham. Those who had come through Him.
Spiritually, not physically. Spiritually. He took on Him the
promised seed of Abraham. It doesn't say He took on Him
the seed of Adam. That's one thing that stood out
to me years ago when I learned the Gospel. And I understood
something about God electing a people. Christ dying for them. And I read this verse, but he
took on him the seed of Abraham. It doesn't say the seed of Adam,
but Abraham. Abraham. Wherefore, in all things, not
just a few things, but I mean in all things, it behooved him
to be made like unto his brethren, And here's the reason why, that he might be a faithful high
priest, a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining
to God. He represents us before God. And to make reconciliation, satisfaction,
were the sins of the people. Put them away. He has reconciled
us to God. He had to become a man in order
to be a high priest because the Scripture says in Hebrews 5.1
that the priest must be taken from among men. He had to become
a high priest for that reason. Secondly, he had to become a
man in order to have a proper sacrifice to make atonement for
the sins of the people. And he had to become a man in
order to have a perfect righteousness to plead before God. It had to be that of a man, a
God man. For in that he himself has suffered, and no one, not one of us, will
ever suffer like he suffered. For in that he himself has suffered,
being tempted, being tried, he is able to succor, to aid, to
help. to deliver them that are tempted
and tried. We have a high priest who can
be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. We have a high
priest who is able to come to our aid and help us and deliver
us no matter what the situation is. We have a high priest provided
by God who is God, and who can be touched, and who can help us. The Son of God became one with
us. He became one of us, that he
might bring us to God. that He might represent us, that
He might help us through all these trials and heartaches on
our way home. He's able. He's able. Okay, Mike.