Sermon Tone Analysis

Saving His Own

According to Plan

The subject in verse 10 is God, for whom and through whom everything exists.

The wording obviously echoes , where Paul in a doxology writes, “For from him and through him and to him are all things.”

The honour, however, is shared with Jesus, as is evident from : “Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.”

(See also .)

Kistemaker, S. J., & Hendriksen, W. (1953–2001).

Exposition of Hebrews (Vol.

15, p. 70).

Grand Rapids: Baker Book House.

THE AUTHOR OF SALVATION

HEBREWS 2:10–11 (R.V.)

1.

The Purpose of God.

“To bring many into glory.”

2. The Character of those He brings.

“Sons.”

3. The Method.

“Through One made perfect as a Saviour.”

4. How Christ was Perfected as a Saviour.

“Through suffering.”

5.

The God-becoming Act.

“It became HIM.”

It was just like Him.

6.

The Blessed Result.

“He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified all of ONE.” Oneness in nature and purpose.

in bringing many sons to glory” The family aspect of the new covenant is fully revealed in the remaining verses of chapter 2. Notice the number of family terms mentioned.

The goal of the new covenant is the restoration of the image of God in fallen mankind.

God is at work in Christ to restore humans to the “glory” he intended for them at creation ().

The image of “bringing” or leading his people to glory hints at an exodus motif that is important in ch. 3 (see 6:20).

Jesus as our “forerunner” (6:20) precedes us to heavenly glory.

Moo, D. J. (2015).

The Letters and Revelation.

In D. A. Carson (Ed.), NIV Zondervan Study Bible: Built on the Truth of Scripture and Centered on the Gospel Message (p.

2497).

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

As Our Captain

The term in Greek sources has various senses, referring to such things as the “founder” of a city, family, school, colony, or nation; the “leader” or “scout” of an army;96 an “instigator” of trouble; the source or “author” of good things.98

It is used in the LXX with a similarly wide semantic range.99

In the New Testament it appears only in Hebrews and Acts.

Jesus Christ is called the archēgós of life (Acts 3:15) because He is hē archḗ, the beginning or the originator of God’s creation (Rev.

3:14).

This excludes Him from Himself being a product of that beginning.

Jesus Christ is called archēgós, the originator of faith in Heb.

12:2.

This may mean that Jesus is the one who initiates (and completes) faith in the souls of men.

The Greek word is used four times in the NT, always of Christ in his role as Saviour (here; 12:2; [“author”]; 5:31 [“Prince”]).

Moo, D. J. (2015).

The Letters and Revelation.

In D. A. Carson (Ed.), NIV Zondervan Study Bible: Built on the Truth of Scripture and Centered on the Gospel Message (p.

2497).

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

God made him pass through gruesome suffering to bring about perfection.

It was God’s will that his Son had to suffer in order to effect the salvation of many sons.

And when the Son completed his suffering, he became the founder of their salvation.

He received the appointment to lead the elect out of a life of slavery in sin to a life of eternal happiness in which they are considered sons and heirs with Christ.

are considered sons and heirs with Christ.

Kistemaker, S. J., & Hendriksen, W. (1953–2001).

Exposition of Hebrews (Vol.

15, pp.

70–71).

Grand Rapids: Baker Book House

Kistemaker, S. J., & Hendriksen, W. (1953–2001).

Exposition of Hebrews (Vol.

15, pp.

70–71).

Grand Rapids: Baker Book House

Jesus was made “perfect” by the pathway of weakness, suffering, and death that God called him to follow in accomplishing our salvation (5:8–9; 7:28; 10:14).

This does not mean that he changed from sinful to sinless (4:15; 7:26–28; 9:14); rather, it denotes his becoming fully qualified to act as our high priest, in the sense that he demonstrated his full obedience to God despite temptation and that he identified with humans fully in their weakness to sympathize with them in high priestly intercession (vv.

17–18; 4:15–16; 5:7–10; 7:25–26).

Moo, D. J. (2015).

The Letters and Revelation.

In D. A. Carson (Ed.), NIV Zondervan Study Bible: Built on the Truth of Scripture and Centered on the Gospel Message (p.

2497).

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan

JESUS’ SUFFERING WAS GOD ENGAGING SIN’S CURSE

Gruesome, Ugly And Real, It Was God’s Plan To Bring Many Sons to Glory

Let Every Believer Stop In Praise And Wonder - Such Love!

Unbelievers Must Take Stock, Sin is Serious, Too Much for You To Overcome.

There is an ancient legend that the cross on which Christ was crucified came from the fatal tree whose fruit was forbidden to our first parents in the Garden of Eden.

After Adam’s death, Seth asked and obtained from the guardian angels of paradise a branch of the tree whose forbidden fruit Eve and Adam had eaten.

Seth planted this branch on Golgotha, called the place of skull, because Adam was buried there.

From this tree, at various times through the ages, were made the Ark of the Covenant and the pole that held up the brazen serpent.

And finally, when it was gnarled and old and hard, this tree supplied the wood for the cross of Christ.

—Tonne

There is an ancient legend that the cross on which Christ was crucified came from the fatal tree whose fruit was forbidden to our first parents in the Garden of Eden.

After Adam’s death, Seth asked and obtained from the guardian angels of paradise a branch of the tree whose forbidden fruit Eve and Adam had eaten.

Seth planted this branch on Golgotha, called the place of skull, because Adam was buried there.

From this tree, at various times through the ages, were made the Ark of the Covenant and the pole that held up the brazen serpent.

And finally, when it was gnarled and old and hard, this tree supplied the wood for the cross of Christ.

—Tonne

• Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners.—John

Stott

• Christianity is a cross, and a cross is “I” crossed out.—John

Bisagno

When Napoleon’s horse ran away and a lowly soldier caught him, Napoleon said, “Thank you, Captain.”

The man at once packed his belongings, moved to the officers’ quarters, and went to mess with them.

The emperor had called him captain, and he was therefore an officer.

We are all miserable sinners, but when we receive Jesus Christ, He calls us sons of God (John 1:12).

Let us then promptly pack our belongings and move into the higher life to which He has appointed us!

—Gospel Herald

When Napoleon’s horse ran away and a lowly soldier caught him, Napoleon said, “Thank you, Captain.”

The man at once packed his belongings, moved to the officers’ quarters, and went to mess with them.

The emperor had called him captain, and he was therefore an officer.

We are all miserable sinners, but when we receive Jesus Christ, He calls us sons of God (John 1:12).

Let us then promptly pack our belongings and move into the higher life to which He has appointed us!

—Gospel Herald

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