Hebrews 2:10

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Teaching @Heritage
Hebrews 2:10
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The ONLY Path of Salvation

Intro:

All week I’ve been dreading taking this white board back downstairs, last week Nate Harrison called me and asked for one.  (Frankly, had I known how he was going to use it, I would have created a keynote slide for him).  

But as I was prepping this week, I feel the Lord gave me a visual way to share this verse with you but was struggling on HOW to implement that into the keynote.  Then I remembered the white board!

So we’ll get to that in a moment, but for now lets pray God will bless our time in his word:

NASB:

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings. 

NKJV:

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

ESV:

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.

Packer on Hebrews 2:10-18

For God’s adopted sons to reach the glory promised in Pslam 8 the unique son had to suffer death on their behalf, destroying their enemy, freeing them from slavery, and atoning for their sins.  Bonds of kinship in the eternal plan of God unite the redeemed to the “captain of their salvation” (v10)

“captain”  The Greek (archagos  ar-kay-GOS) term can also be translated “author” or “prince”  Jesus went first on the path of suffering, and He guides us as our captain to the glory that He achieved.

PB note:  In my opinion, here is the best definition of archagos:

one that takes the lead in any thing and thus affords an example, a predecessor in a matter, pioneer

White Board Illustration

  1. All Mankind separated from God by a “disc” of sin.
  2. None of use can pass through the disc b/c we are all already infected
  3. Jesus is a different color; without sin.
  4. When he passes through sin/death (using the eraser) he “clears a path” for us
  5. When we come out the other end we are with God and without sin.

Follow up questions:

  1. Why can’t someone besides Jesus cut a path of redemption through sin and death?
  2. Why can’t another god/savior achieve this redemption?  (Allah?)
  3. Why can’t our works make us like Jesus to allow us to pass through?
  4. Others