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Hebrews Sermon Notes _____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Hebrews Study Guide Hebrews 2:5-9 That He Might Taste Death for Everyone Pastor Ryan used Psalm 8 to help us better understand our passage of study in Hebrews. The Psalm takes us back to the majesty of God’s name in creation. Read Genesis 1:26-31 to refresh your memory of the creation narrative, and note the use of the word dominion in verse 26. A similar word, also translated dominion, is used in Psalm 8:6. God created mankind, in his own image, to rule and reign over the earth. Why isn’t this happening today? Who can restore us to our rightful place and relationship with our heavenly Father and creator? The answer to almost every question we will ask about Hebrews is Jesus! He is the last hope of a dying race. And that hope lies both in his deity and his humanity. He alone, as a human being, managed to fulfill what was intended for us from the beginning. When we read the Gospels, we are forced to ask, Who is this man who stills the winds and the waves with a single word; who multiplies food at will; who walks on the waves; who summons fish to bring up coins at his command; who dismisses disease with a touch; and calls the dead back to life? Who is he? He is the Last Adam, living and acting as God intended us to act when he made us in the beginning. It was the First Adam who plunged the race into bondage and limitation; it is the Last who sets us free in soul and spirit, so that we may now learn how to live in the ages to come when the resurrection

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Hebrews Study Guide

Hebrews 2:5-9 That He Might Taste Death for Everyone Pastor Ryan used Psalm 8 to help us better understand our passage of study in Hebrews. The Psalm takes us back to the majesty of God’s name in creation. Read Genesis 1:26-31 to refresh your memory of the creation narrative, and note the use of the word dominion in verse 26. A similar word, also translated dominion, is used in Psalm 8:6. God created mankind, in his own image, to rule and reign over the earth. Why isn’t this happening today? Who can restore us to our rightful place and relationship with our heavenly Father and creator? The answer to almost every question we will ask about Hebrews is Jesus!

He is the last hope of a dying race. And that hope lies both in his deity and his humanity. He alone, as a human being, managed to fulfill what was intended for us from the beginning. When we read the Gospels, we are forced to ask, Who is this man who stills the winds and the waves with a single word; who multiplies food at will; who walks on the waves; who summons fish to bring up coins at his command; who dismisses disease with a touch; and calls the dead back to life? Who is he? He is the Last Adam, living and acting as God intended us to act when he made us in the beginning. It was the First Adam who plunged the race into bondage and limitation; it is the Last who sets us free in soul and spirit, so that we may now learn how to live in the ages to come when the resurrection

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gives us back a body fit for the conditions of that life. Stedman, R. C. (1992). Hebrews (Heb 2:5). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

1. Read the quote below and identify the first step Jesus took in solving our problem with sin through his incarnation.

The writer traces in terse phrases the steps Jesus took to solve forever the problem of human sin. (1) He was made a little lower than the angels. There is the whole wonder of the Incarnation; in John’s phrasing, “the Word became flesh and lived for a while among us.” Then (2) because he suffered death, he was (3) crowned with glory and honor and thus he achieved as a human being the position intended for us in the beginning: the being who was to be closest to God, higher than any angel, and in authority over all things! Then, lest we should forget the cost, the writer adds (4) so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. To taste death does not simply mean to die, but to experience death in its full horror and humiliation. He comes under the penalty of sin in order that he might remove it. Stedman, R. C. (1992). Hebrews (Heb 2:5). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

2. What does John 1:14 (in the two different Bible versions below) add to your understanding of Jesus’ mission? “The Word became a human being and lived here with us. We saw his true glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father. From him all the kindness and all the truth of God have come down to us.” (John 1:14, CEV) “The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father’s only Son.” (John 1:14, GNB) 3. Jesus was crowned with glory and honor. What do you learn about his path to glory from these verses? Hebrews 2:10, 2:18, 5:8

4. The way back to life as it was in the Garden of Eden, and the humanity for which we were created, also follows the path of suffering. Hebrews 10:32-36 explains our suffering, including the restoration of our humanity. What do you learn from the promise of this passage regarding a better and abiding possession?

5. Which of the two quotes below do you find most meaningful and encouraging?

“When Christ assumed our humanity he became like us, exposed to all the hazardous perils of our life and death. He was not protected from trouble and adversity. When we find ourselves immersed in the harsh realities of human experience, he knows exactly how we feel.” Brown, R. (1988). The message of Hebrews: Christ above all (pp. 3–4). Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity