HE TASTED DEATH FOR EVERY MAN

Heb. 2:5-10

Introduction:   A continuation of presenting the case for Christ’s superiority over angels!

Proposition:     God has not put in subjection “the world to come” to angels, but to Christ, the Son.

I.          Quotation of Psalm 8

A.     Originally applied to man, the race, as created.

                    1.     Ex. - Adam!
2.     Sin - forfeited much dominion!

                     3.     Cursed the ground for man’s sake, etc.

B.     Applied here to Christ, the Messiah!

1.     A special sense given to the Psalm by an inspired writer (Mt. 21:16).

2.     See 1 Cor. 15:25-28.

II.        How does this apply?

A.    Seeming contradiction:

1.      Christ is superior to angels, but

2.      Made “a little lower than the angels.”

            B.     Concerns the fleshly nature of the Christ.

1.      Necessary, that he might taste of death for every man.