February 23, 2025 • 30 mins
In this sermon, Pastor of Formation & Mission Benjamin Kandt explores Hebrews 2, presenting a four-part framework to explain the gospel: God made it all, we lost it all, Jesus gave it all, and we get it all. He begins by reflecting on the Psalm 8 reference in Hebrews, highlighting the profound truth that humanity was created with glory and honor, entrusted with God’s authority over creation. However, Pastor Kandt contrasts this biblical view with secular perspectives, arguing that while secularism offers a diminished view of human worth, Scripture presents humanity as divinely endowed with purpose and dignity.
He then addresses the fall of humanity, explaining how sin led to humanity losing its authority, effectively handing power over to the devil. This brokenness is visible in the fear, anxiety, and shame that permeate human experience. Yet, the heart of the message is the redemptive work of Jesus, who took on human flesh to destroy the power of sin and death. Pastor Kandt emphasizes that Jesus’ sacrifice restores what was lost, offering believers unshakable confidence in God’s love and authority. The sermon concludes by reminding listeners that Jesus is not ashamed to call believers His brothers and sisters, freeing them from fear and shame so they can live boldly, fully embracing the victory and glory granted through Christ.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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No one has testified.
What is mankind?
That you are mindful of them, Ason of man, that you care for
them?
You made them a little lowerthan the angels.
You crowned them with glory andhonor and put everything under
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their feet.
In putting everything underthem, God left nothing that is
not subject to them.
Yet at present we do not seeeverything subject to them, but
we do see Jesus, who was madelower than the angels for a
little while now, crowned withglory and honor, because he
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suffered death so that, by thegrace of God, he might taste
death for everyone.
In bringing many sons anddaughters to glory, it was
fitting that God, for whom andthrough whom everything exists,
should make the pioneer of theirsalvation perfect through what
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he suffered.
Both the one who makes peopleholy and those who are made holy
are of the same family.
So Jesus is not ashamed to callthem brothers and sisters.
He says I will declare yourname to my brothers and sisters
In the assembly.
I will sing your praises andagain I will put my trust in him
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.
And again he says here am I andthe children God has given me,
Since the children have fleshand blood.
He too shared in their humanityso that by his death, he might
break the power of him who holdsthe power of death?
That is the devil and freethose who, all their lives, were
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held in slavery by their fearof death.
For surely it is not the angelshe helps, but Abraham's
descendants.
For this reason, he had to bemade like them, fully human in
every way, in order that hemight become a merciful and
faithful high priest in serviceto God and that he might make
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atonement for the sins of thepeople.
Because he himself sufferedwhen he was tempted, he is able
to help those who are beingtempted.
This is God's word.
Please be seated.
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It's Benjamin.
I'm a pastor here with New Cityand last week we began a sermon
series through the book ofHebrews that's going to take us
all the way to the month of May,and last week I essentially
said that the book of Hebrews isasking and answering a question
, which is how can urbanChristians under cultural
pressure have unshakableconfidence?
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How can urban Christians undercultural pressure have
unshakable confidence?
And I gave you a three-wordsummary of the book of Hebrews,
which is Jesus over everything,and I showed you that last week,
looking at Hebrews 1, byshowing you how Jesus is over
everything, with what I call theseven superiorities of the Son.
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This week we're going to seeJesus over everything in a
four-fold story of the wholeworld.
Now, this four of the world, Ithink, is actually a helpful
framework to explain the gospelto people, to your children, and
it goes like this God made itall, we lost it all.
Jesus gave it all, we get itall.
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God made it all, we lost it all, jesus gave it all, we get it
all.
So that's going to be oursermon outline this morning.
If you have a Bible or device,get Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 5,
in front of you.
Let's look at it together.
God made it all.
God made it all.
Hebrews 2, verse 5 says thisfor it was not to angels that
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God subjected the world to come,of which we are speaking.
And then he says this it hasbeen testified somewhere.
I kind of love that.
Do you like that?
Because if you ever forgetsomething where it's actually at
in the Bible and you're justlike you know somewhere, it says
in 2nd Hesitations, chapter 2,like that thing.
Right, that's what the authorof Hebrews, like the Bible
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writers do that sometimes.
He says this it's beentestified somewhere.
What is man that you're mindfulof him, or the son of man that
you care for him?
This is Psalm 8, by the way,our call to worship this morning
.
You made him for a little whilelower than the angels.
You have crowned him with gloryand honor, putting everything
in subjection under his feet.
You see, the story begins atthe beginning.
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God made it all.
And then the author of Hebrews,quoting Psalm 8, asks a really
good question what is man?
What does it mean to be human?
Who are we?
What is our purpose?
What were we made for?
Those are important questions,questions that, however you
answer them your anthropology,if you will is going to shape
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you.
It's going to be the lensthrough which you live in this
world.
There's three atheists I I'mgoing to quote here for a moment
that they all kind of agree onhow to answer the question what
is man?
Bertrand Russell says it.
Like this, man is but theoutcome of accidental
collocations of atoms.
That was one of your answers, Ithink.
Right, you were going to thinkthat An accidental collocation
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of atoms.
You're like.
That's me.
I feel that.
Actually, here's what Jean-PaulSartre said.
He says man is a uselesspassion.
Here's Sigmund Freud.
He says in the depths of myheart, I can't help being
convinced that my dear fellowmen, with a few exceptions, are
worthless, are worthless.
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Okay, so the story of scripturesays that God made man and
woman.
Quote, with glory and honor,verse 7.
Do you see the difference?
Do you see the difference?
You see, secularism has nobasis for a high view of
humanity.
Scripture does, christianitydoes.
What is this glory and honor?
Well, verse eight says puttingeverything in subjection under
his feet.
You see, god made humanity togive us his authority.
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That's our glory and our honor.
This is what disciple making isall about, is all about.
On Friday, I was repurposingsome wood to turn them into
raised garden bed boxes, withtwo of my kids and I had my
five-year-old running an impactdriver and I had my two-year-old
doing hand-over-hand helping mewith some other things.
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And guess who didn't touch thecircular saw, my five-year-old
or my two-year-old?
Why?
Well, because they weren'tready for it.
But they will be.
I'm training them for it.
You see, god is training you.
His intent for your life is foryou to become the kind of
person he could entrust with hispower.
I'm training my children tobecome the kind of people that I
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could trust with the power of acircular saw, which is not
there yet.
This is discipleship.
This is what it looks like.
Dallas Willard saysdiscipleship is training for
reigning.
Why?
Because God made you to giveyou his authority.
To give you his authority.
That's what discipleship is.
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That's what it's all about.
And so the intent of God isthat you would work with him and
walk with him in every area ofyour life and that, as you do
that, you actually would becomemore trustworthy with his power.
Like what would it look like ifyou really became the kind of
person that God could entrustwith his power where you live or
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where you work or where youplay, what kind of person would
you have to become?
This question about God makingit all and then giving us this
authority.
It actually kind of levels upthe necessity of formation,
because spiritual formationrestores human vocation, this
call that we have to extend theloving reign and rule of God
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over all of creation.
That's what happened in thebeginning, that's what God did
when he gave us his authorityover creation.
But along came a snake.
You see, god made it all, butwe lost it all.
Point two Look with me at verseeight.
Verse eight says now, in puttingeverything in subjection to him
, that is, mankind, humanity heleft nothing outside his control
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.
But at present we do not yetsee everything in subjection to
him.
In other words, god made allthings to flourish under our
rule.
But is that what we see when welook out at the world, the
creation society, flourishingunder the rule of humanity?
No, we see death anddestruction.
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We see brokenness and evil,because God made it all but we
lost it all.
How did we lose it?
How did we lose it?
What actually happened?
Well, in the beginning of thebook, adam and Eve were supposed
to learn, through communionwith God, how to rule the world.
They were supposed to receivefrom their father his will for
every sphere and sector ofsociety and then respond by
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living out that will in everyarea of life, in all of life, as
we say around here.
That was what they weresupposed to do, but the serpent
what Hebrews 2.14 calls the onewho has the power of death, that
is, the devil baited them witha lie.
This was the lie.
You can be like God, knowinggood and evil.
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Now, it was a lie with a littlebit of truth in it, and that is
that they already were like God.
Scripture says that you weremade in God's likeness.
You already are like God, butknowing good and evil was God's
prerogative.
It was for him to teach us, toinstruct us as we go.
Father, what do you love?
We want to love what you love.
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We want to hate what you hate.
We want to draw near to what isgood.
We want to abhor what is evil.
But the root of all sin is uslooking at God and saying I
don't need you, I don't want you, give me your stuff, I'm going
to do it my own way.
That's how we lost it all.
You see, adam and Eve in thebeginning.
When they did that, they turnedfrom God and, like a lamp being
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unplugged from its power source, they began to die.
Death entered the world.
They were severed from thesource, the one.
Hebrews 2.10 says quote forwhom and by whom all things
exist.
When you're separated from thatone, death enters the world.
And so what actually happened?
Well, adam took his God-givenauthority and handed it over to
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the devil.
This is how we lost it all.
And then the devil enthronedhis henchmen, namely sin and
death, to rule over creation inour place, on our throne.
That's why we don't see allthings in subjection under our
feet right now, because we gavethat authority to the devil.
This is why Romans 5, 17 saysbecause of one man's trespass,
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death reigned through that oneman.
So, rather than ruling, we areruled.
Hebrews 2, 15 says through fear.
We were subject to lifelongslavery.
Adam and Eve lost it all bybelieving a lie, and so do we.
So do we?
You see, what happens is manyof us.
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We come into agreement withlies that then shape our lives.
There's a framework that I use.
It's three W's.
It goes like this Wound,warfare, wayward.
Okay.
So, essentially, what happensis at some point in your life.
You experience hurts or lossesor disappointments or traumas.
You're wounded, and then theevil one comes along and
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stitches those wounds up withlies.
That's the warfare piece.
And then you agree with thoselies and you live waywardly
living as if you could havewell-being apart from God.
Let me try to make that plain.
Lies eventually become kind ofthe unspoken narrative that
shape how you see yourself, godand others.
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So let's just assume for amoment that you had a father who
was physically present butemotionally absent.
That can be wounding.
And then along comes thismessage that you begin to
believe and agree with, which isreally the evil one, coming
with sutures to stitch up thatwound and tells you this if you
were better, you would matter.
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If you were just better, youwould matter.
You would matter If you werejust better.
You would matter.
If you just did more, triedharder, were better, you'd get
the attention that you want.
And that's the stitching of thewarfare.
And then what happens is youagree with it and so you live a
life, an identity based onachievement.
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Whether it's professionally orrelationally or religiously, you
go wayward.
Whether it's professionally orrelationally or religiously, you
go wayward.
This is how this works.
The evil.
One has been lying from thebeginning.
Jesus tells us this is what hedoes.
He's doing it in your life.
Now there's a way to figure outif you are living in agreement
with lies, with deception.
It's one word from our textfear.
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It's your fear If you payattention to your anxiety, if
you listen to it, like thedashboard indicator on your car
the fear, the anxiety.
It's not the problem.
It's bearing witness to adeeper problem lies that you
believe.
And so when we live in fear,what's really happening is it's
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showing us that below thesurface, there's something we
believe about God, ourselves orothers, that's not in accord
with truth, not aligned with whohe made us to be.
There's a book that we'rereading as a session, our elders
and our staff called ManagingLeadership Anxiety, by a guy
named Steve Cuss, and he puts itlike this Anxiety can be an
early detection system thatwe're depending on something
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other than God for ourwell-being.
Now, anxiety doesn't alwaysmean that we're off base, but
often it means that you've comeinto agreement with a lie about
God, yourself or other people.
And so if you were to listen toyour anxiety, what would it
tell you?
What would it tell you aboutwhat you believe.
I asked a friend who is a lawyer.
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I said in your work as a lawyer, how have you seen fear rule
people and drive their decisions?
That was my question and hesaid well, most of the mistakes
or bad behavior in the legalcommunity is driven by fear,
specifically the fear of loss,either loss of status or loss of
money.
He said the fear of loss ofstatus usually manifests itself
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in blame shifting, where seniorattorneys deflect responsibility
for a lost case to protecttheir reputation.
Can you see how this works?
This would create a culture offear and blame and hiding and
competition.
But imagine for a moment if adisciple of Jesus went into the
legal field and they began toask their father Father, what
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would it look like for your willto be done here as it's done in
heaven?
What would that look like?
And they begin to ask thatquestion.
So I asked him that question.
He said following Jesus setsyou apart when you credit others
for successes, even if it comesat the expense of your own
credit.
Do you notice the reversal ofstatus seeking and blame
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shifting that's happening there?
Because, as disciples of Jesus,we follow the one who refused
his status and who took all theblame, in order that we might
become the kind of people whoactually exert that kind of
authority in all of life, andthis person's doing that.
And so the question I would loveto know truly, if I could sit
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face to face with each one ofyou, is what difference would it
make if you lived with anunshakable confidence this time
tomorrow, wherever you findyourself?
What difference would it make?
What kind of culture would youinfuse wherever you find
yourself this time tomorrow?
What would that actually looklike?
The question you might ask mein response would be okay, how
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do I get that unshakableconfidence?
Well, listen, I said God madeit all.
We lost it all, but Jesus gaveit all.
Jesus gave it all.
Look with me at verse eight.
At present, we do not yet seeeverything in subjection to him,
that is, mankind, but we seehim who, for a little while, was
made lower than the angels,namely Jesus, crowned with glory
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and honor because of thesuffering of death, so that, by
the grace of God, he might tastedeath for everyone.
What does that mean?
What does it mean that Jesuswould have to taste death for
everyone?
Well, do you remember thatscene in the Gospels Matthew 4,
when Jesus is tempted by Satanin the wilderness.
Or, as one author put it, whenJesus and the devil sort out
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that who works for whom.
I like that.
In Matthew 4, satan offeredJesus all the kingdoms of the
world.
If Jesus would just worship him.
And we read that and we're likeis the devil delusional?
Like does he know who he'stalking to?
Why doesn't Jesus just put himin his place?
Listen, the devil wasn'tbluffing.
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He had the authority over allthe kingdoms of this world.
Why?
How?
Because he was given it by Adam.
This is why Jesus can say hecan refer to Satan as the ruler
of this world in John 12.
Paul calls him the God of thisworld in 2 Corinthians 4.
John the Apostle says the wholeworld lies in the power of the
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evil one.
1 John 5.
The devil really does have realauthority.
And where did he get it from?
He got it from Adam, and sothis is why the Apostle John
says the reason the Son of Godappeared was.
I wonder what you would fillthat blank in with.
The reason the Son of Godappeared was to destroy the
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works of the devil.
1 John 3, 8.
How does Jesus do that?
Look at the text with me.
In verse 14, it says this Since, therefore, the children share
in flesh and blood, he himselflikewise partook of the same
things, why did Jesus take onour flesh and blood?
It goes on.
It says this that through death, he might destroy the one who
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has the power of death, that is,the devil.
You see, jesus had to becomeman for two reasons One, to
identify with his people andsecond, to die for his people.
He couldn't die.
His divine nature couldn't die,only his human nature could,
and so we had to take on ourflesh and blood, so he could
take on our death.
That's what Jesus came to do.
And so what actually did he do?
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Well, we were lost when we welost it all when we were tricked
by the devil.
But Jesus won it all when hetricked the devil.
John Owen called it the death ofdeath in the death of Christ.
I call it Jesus Judo.
You can tell who's moresophisticated of the two of us.
Listen.
Jesus defanged the devil bybeating him at his own game.
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Acts 3 puts it like this youkilled the author of life.
Think about the conjunctionthere.
You killed the author of life,and it says whom God raised from
the dead the very weapon thatSatan wielded death Jesus used
to defeat him.
How did he do that?
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Look at verse 16.
For surely it's not angels thathe helps, but he helps the
offspring of Abraham.
I love that the author ofHebrews summarizes all that
Jesus came to do as he helps.
It's just so simple and sostraightforward, and if you're
anything like me, you need alittle help, right?
Anybody in here need a littlehelp, because if so, I know a
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guy.
He helps.
He helps.
It says we say around here, allof us need all of Jesus for all
of life.
How does he help?
Look at verse 17.
Jesus had to be made like hisbrothers and sisters in every
respect purpose clause here sothat he might become a merciful
and faithful high priest in theservice of God to make
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propitiation for the sins of thepeople.
You see, the devil's powerwasn't just death, it was
deserved death.
That's a big deal.
You and I, we all sin by natureand by choice, and Romans 6.23
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says that the wages of sin isdeath.
The devil doesn't have a.
He's not feigningigning hispower.
He actually has the power ofdeath because you deserve to die
because of your sins.
That's what scripture says, andso that matters, because the
devil hangs this death sentenceover your head like a guillotine
on a thin thread, do you see?
And?
And so then we?
We are enslaved to the fear ofdeath.
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That's what scripture says here.
But Jesus took that deathsentence for us and then broke
its hold To set us free, todeliver us.
Verse 17 says Jesus had to bemade like his brothers and
sisters in every respect.
Why it says to makepropitiation for the sins of his
people.
You see, because Jesus took ourcross, we get his crown Said
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differently Jesus's crown wasthorny, so that we could be
crowned with glory.
That's what the text says here.
Jesus restored our authority bygiving us his victory.
When Jesus rose, he declaredall authority in heaven and
earth has been given to me, inMatthew 28.
And so the death andresurrection of Jesus launches
nothing less than a new humanity, a new creation.
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And it was to Jesus that Godsubjected the world to come.
Hebrews 2.5.
Now, jesus gave it all to winback everything we lost in the
fall.
The great Christmas hymn saysfar as the curse is found, there
is nothing.
It says in verse 8.
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It says now, in puttingeverything in subjection to him,
he left nothing outside hiscontrol.
What's contained in there?
Everything, everything is underJesus' control.
That's what the text says to us, but right now we don't see
everything fully restored theway that it was meant to be.
But we do see Jesus, verse 9.
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We do see Jesus, and thatchanges everything.
It changes everything about thestory we live in.
In fact, many of you are parentsin this room and you parent
your children according to astory, a worldview, a
metanarrative that they liveinto.
I was reading a book onparenting and this was helpful.
It was just really simple.
It says every child needs aworldview shaped by three things
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.
Number one the gospel, becausechildren need to know what to do
with their guilt and theirshame and their fear and their
death.
So they need the gospel.
Number two they need God'ssovereignty.
They need to believe thateverything is subjected to King
Jesus.
Nothing excepted Everything.
Every hair on their head isnumbered.
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A sparrow doesn't fall from thesky except from their father's
hand.
They need that kind of the steelin your spine and the boldness
that that gives a child to facea sometimes scary world.
They need God's hand.
They need that kind of thesteel in your spine and the
boldness that that gives a childto face a sometimes scary world
.
They need God's sovereignty andthey also need a hopeful future
.
They need to be able to lookinto the future and expect that
better things are yet to come.
That gives children confidence.
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It gives them the ability to goout into the world to actually
be the kind of people whosteward God's authority wherever
they find themselves.
And so we get all of thatactually in Hebrews 2.
We see all three of those thingshere in this text.
That's the story of the world Iwant to close here, which is
God made it all.
We lost it all.
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Jesus gave it all.
Now we get it all.
We get it all.
Look with me at verse 10.
For it was fitting that he, forwhom and by whom all things
exist, in bringing many sons toglory, should make the founder
of their salvation perfectthrough suffering.
For he who sanctifies and thosewho are sanctified all have one
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source.
That is why he is not ashamedto call them brothers.
Before he was executed by theNazis, dietrich Bonhoeffer, at
age 39, told a fellow prisonerthis is the end For me, the
beginning of life.
Where do you get that kind ofaudacity, that unshakable
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confidence?
Well, in an earlier sermon,bonhoeffer said this life only
really begins when it ends hereon earth.
Death is only dreadful forthose who live in dread of it,
but we can transform deaththrough faith.
You see, bonhoeffer got whatour text is saying in chapter 2,
verse 15.
Jesus came to set us free fromthe fear of death, and when you
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no longer fear death, you canlive truly free.
And so that's what it means inverse 10 when it says that Jesus
came to bring many sons toglory.
God's goal is to crown you withhis glory so that you can live
alive with all that is yours inJesus.
That's God's goal.
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Your glorification is God'sgoal.
That's remarkable.
If we let that sink in, we getit all.
That's what the text is saying.
Is that we get it all.
Jesus was put in the ground sohe could restore your crown.
That's such good news for us.
And yet, christian, although wehave it all, we don't live like
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we have it all.
Why is that?
Look at verse 11.
It says this he's not ashamedto call them brothers.
Why did the author of Hebrewshave to put that in there?
Here's my hunch.
Since the devil lost the powerof death, he's going to do
whatever he has left.
What does he have left?
Shame, shame.
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You see, he can't kill you, buthe can bench you.
How does he bench you?
How does he make it so that youcan't live as if you have it
all in Jesus Christ?
He shrouds you with shame.
The two-step strategy of Satanis deception and accusation.
Deception and accusation.
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He tempts you into sin and thenhe accuses you for it, which is
why this is such an importantpiece here that he's not ashamed
to call us his brothers andsisters.
You see, the symptoms of shamelook like this you won't let
people into your life.
You hide, you fear beingexposed, and there's a saying in
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the addiction world which isyou're only as sick as your
secrets.
You know who knows that thedevil.
You know who has your secretsjust always before your eyes so
that you hide the devil.
Listen, if you're in this roomright now and you know you're
hiding and you're terrified ofbeing found out, he's winning in
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your life.
That's what that means.
It doesn't mean you don'tbelong to Jesus.
It just means you're notappropriating what Jesus has
done.
He came to deliver you fromfear.
He came to set you free fromthe devil's dominion in your
life.
He doesn't have the power ofdeath over you anymore, but he
does have the power of shame andhe uses it.
He wields it against you.
But listen, we cannot undoshame by doing, because shame is
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a problem of being, and so theonly thing that can undo shame
is to feel the affection ofJesus for you as you are right
now.
Verse 11 says Jesus is notashamed to call you his brothers
and sisters, but you don't knowmy past.
He's not ashamed.
But you don't know what I didlast night.
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He's not ashamed, but you don'tknow what I did last night.
He's not ashamed, but you don'tknow my story or my ethnicity
or my body or my personality.
He's not ashamed.
That's what the text says.
Don't take it on my authority.
Listen.
We lost it all because webelieved the lies of the serpent
over the truth of our king.
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Don't give it back to him.
He's speaking over you right now, in this moment.
He's saying I'm not ashamed tocall you brother or sister.
Do you believe it?
Will you trust it?
Will you come into agreementwith it, or are you going to
continue to buy into the lies ofthe evil, one?
He's trying to set you freethis morning the lies of the
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evil one.
He's trying to set you freethis morning.
And some of you, you belong toJesus, but you live shrouded in
shame.
And he's looking at you andhe's saying I'm not ashamed, I'm
not ashamed of you.
Look at everything I did.
I gave it all so that you couldreceive it all.
Some of you in here, you don'tbelong to Jesus and he's drawing
you.
He's saying listen.
Some of you in here, you don'tbelong to Jesus and he's drawing
you.
He's saying listen, fear death,the devil, shame.
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They've got you enslaved.
You want to be free, I'll setyou free.
Just come to me.
So, whoever you are, whereveryou are, come to Jesus, come to
him afresh.
Come to him for the first timeor the 50th time, I don't care,
just come to him, because thisis the true story of the world.
God made it all.
We lost it all.
Jesus gave it all.
We get it all, and anyone canget in on this.
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Let's pray, jesus, we thank youfor good news.
We thank you for good news.
I pray even now that those ofus who experience shame for
whatever reason, that you wouldbe about the business of setting
us free now.
That those of us who experienceshame for whatever reason, that
you would be about the businessof setting us free, that you
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would set us free from thetemptation to think we can undo
our shame by doing more or beingbetter.
You've already done it all.
Would you open our tight fistedhands to receive everything you
have to give to us by faithalone?
We pray this in your name, lordJesus Amen.
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No one has testified.
What is mankind?
That you are mindful of them, Ason of man, that you care for
them?
You made them a little lowerthan the angels.
You crowned them with glory andhonor and put everything under
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their feet.
In putting everything underthem, God left nothing that is
not subject to them.
Yet at present we do not seeeverything subject to them, but
we do see Jesus, who was madelower than the angels for a
little while now, crowned withglory and honor, because he
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suffered death so that, by thegrace of God, he might taste
death for everyone.
In bringing many sons anddaughters to glory, it was
fitting that God, for whom andthrough whom everything exists,
should make the pioneer of theirsalvation perfect through what
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he suffered.
Both the one who makes peopleholy and those who are made holy
are of the same family.
So Jesus is not ashamed to callthem brothers and sisters.
He says I will declare yourname to my brothers and sisters
In the assembly.
I will sing your praises andagain I will put my trust in him
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.
And again he says here am I andthe children God has given me,
Since the children have fleshand blood.
He too shared in their humanityso that by his death, he might
break the power of him who holdsthe power of death?
That is the devil and freethose who, all their lives, were
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held in slavery by their fearof death.
For surely it is not the angelshe helps, but Abraham's
descendants.
For this reason, he had to bemade like them, fully human in
every way, in order that hemight become a merciful and
faithful high priest in serviceto God and that he might make
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atonement for the sins of thepeople.
Because he himself sufferedwhen he was tempted, he is able
to help those who are beingtempted.
This is God's word.
Please be seated.
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It's Benjamin.
I'm a pastor here with New Cityand last week we began a sermon
series through the book ofHebrews that's going to take us
all the way to the month of May,and last week I essentially
said that the book of Hebrews isasking and answering a question
, which is how can urbanChristians under cultural
pressure have unshakableconfidence?
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How can urban Christians undercultural pressure have
unshakable confidence?
And I gave you a three-wordsummary of the book of Hebrews,
which is Jesus over everything,and I showed you that last week,
looking at Hebrews 1, byshowing you how Jesus is over
everything, with what I call theseven superiorities of the Son.
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This week we're going to seeJesus over everything in a
four-fold story of the wholeworld.
Now, this four of the world, Ithink, is actually a helpful
framework to explain the gospelto people, to your children, and
it goes like this God made itall, we lost it all.
Jesus gave it all, we get itall.
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God made it all, we lost it all, jesus gave it all, we get it
all.
So that's going to be oursermon outline this morning.
If you have a Bible or device,get Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 5,
in front of you.
Let's look at it together.
God made it all.
God made it all.
Hebrews 2, verse 5 says thisfor it was not to angels that
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God subjected the world to come,of which we are speaking.
And then he says this it hasbeen testified somewhere.
I kind of love that.
Do you like that?
Because if you ever forgetsomething where it's actually at
in the Bible and you're justlike you know somewhere, it says
in 2nd Hesitations, chapter 2,like that thing.
Right, that's what the authorof Hebrews, like the Bible
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writers do that sometimes.
He says this it's beentestified somewhere.
What is man that you're mindfulof him, or the son of man that
you care for him?
This is Psalm 8, by the way,our call to worship this morning
.
You made him for a little whilelower than the angels.
You have crowned him with gloryand honor, putting everything
in subjection under his feet.
You see, the story begins atthe beginning.
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God made it all.
And then the author of Hebrews,quoting Psalm 8, asks a really
good question what is man?
What does it mean to be human?
Who are we?
What is our purpose?
What were we made for?
Those are important questions,questions that, however you
answer them your anthropology,if you will is going to shape
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you.
It's going to be the lensthrough which you live in this
world.
There's three atheists I I'mgoing to quote here for a moment
that they all kind of agree onhow to answer the question what
is man?
Bertrand Russell says it.
Like this, man is but theoutcome of accidental
collocations of atoms.
That was one of your answers, Ithink.
Right, you were going to thinkthat An accidental collocation
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of atoms.
You're like.
That's me.
I feel that.
Actually, here's what Jean-PaulSartre said.
He says man is a uselesspassion.
Here's Sigmund Freud.
He says in the depths of myheart, I can't help being
convinced that my dear fellowmen, with a few exceptions, are
worthless, are worthless.
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Okay, so the story of scripturesays that God made man and
woman.
Quote, with glory and honor,verse 7.
Do you see the difference?
Do you see the difference?
You see, secularism has nobasis for a high view of
humanity.
Scripture does, christianitydoes.
What is this glory and honor?
Well, verse eight says puttingeverything in subjection under
his feet.
You see, god made humanity togive us his authority.
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That's our glory and our honor.
This is what disciple making isall about, is all about.
On Friday, I was repurposingsome wood to turn them into
raised garden bed boxes, withtwo of my kids and I had my
five-year-old running an impactdriver and I had my two-year-old
doing hand-over-hand helping mewith some other things.
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And guess who didn't touch thecircular saw, my five-year-old
or my two-year-old?
Why?
Well, because they weren'tready for it.
But they will be.
I'm training them for it.
You see, god is training you.
His intent for your life is foryou to become the kind of
person he could entrust with hispower.
I'm training my children tobecome the kind of people that I
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could trust with the power of acircular saw, which is not
there yet.
This is discipleship.
This is what it looks like.
Dallas Willard saysdiscipleship is training for
reigning.
Why?
Because God made you to giveyou his authority.
To give you his authority.
That's what discipleship is.
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That's what it's all about.
And so the intent of God isthat you would work with him and
walk with him in every area ofyour life and that, as you do
that, you actually would becomemore trustworthy with his power.
Like what would it look like ifyou really became the kind of
person that God could entrustwith his power where you live or
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where you work or where youplay, what kind of person would
you have to become?
This question about God makingit all and then giving us this
authority.
It actually kind of levels upthe necessity of formation,
because spiritual formationrestores human vocation, this
call that we have to extend theloving reign and rule of God
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over all of creation.
That's what happened in thebeginning, that's what God did
when he gave us his authorityover creation.
But along came a snake.
You see, god made it all, butwe lost it all.
Point two Look with me at verseeight.
Verse eight says now, in puttingeverything in subjection to him
, that is, mankind, humanity heleft nothing outside his control
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.
But at present we do not yetsee everything in subjection to
him.
In other words, god made allthings to flourish under our
rule.
But is that what we see when welook out at the world, the
creation society, flourishingunder the rule of humanity?
No, we see death anddestruction.
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We see brokenness and evil,because God made it all but we
lost it all.
How did we lose it?
How did we lose it?
What actually happened?
Well, in the beginning of thebook, adam and Eve were supposed
to learn, through communionwith God, how to rule the world.
They were supposed to receivefrom their father his will for
every sphere and sector ofsociety and then respond by
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living out that will in everyarea of life, in all of life, as
we say around here.
That was what they weresupposed to do, but the serpent
what Hebrews 2.14 calls the onewho has the power of death, that
is, the devil baited them witha lie.
This was the lie.
You can be like God, knowinggood and evil.
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Now, it was a lie with a littlebit of truth in it, and that is
that they already were like God.
Scripture says that you weremade in God's likeness.
You already are like God, butknowing good and evil was God's
prerogative.
It was for him to teach us, toinstruct us as we go.
Father, what do you love?
We want to love what you love.
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We want to hate what you hate.
We want to draw near to what isgood.
We want to abhor what is evil.
But the root of all sin is uslooking at God and saying I
don't need you, I don't want you, give me your stuff, I'm going
to do it my own way.
That's how we lost it all.
You see, adam and Eve in thebeginning.
When they did that, they turnedfrom God and, like a lamp being
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unplugged from its power source, they began to die.
Death entered the world.
They were severed from thesource, the one.
Hebrews 2.10 says quote forwhom and by whom all things
exist.
When you're separated from thatone, death enters the world.
And so what actually happened?
Well, adam took his God-givenauthority and handed it over to
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the devil.
This is how we lost it all.
And then the devil enthronedhis henchmen, namely sin and
death, to rule over creation inour place, on our throne.
That's why we don't see allthings in subjection under our
feet right now, because we gavethat authority to the devil.
This is why Romans 5, 17 saysbecause of one man's trespass,
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death reigned through that oneman.
So, rather than ruling, we areruled.
Hebrews 2, 15 says through fear.
We were subject to lifelongslavery.
Adam and Eve lost it all bybelieving a lie, and so do we.
So do we?
You see, what happens is manyof us.
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We come into agreement withlies that then shape our lives.
There's a framework that I use.
It's three W's.
It goes like this Wound,warfare, wayward.
Okay.
So, essentially, what happensis at some point in your life.
You experience hurts or lossesor disappointments or traumas.
You're wounded, and then theevil one comes along and
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stitches those wounds up withlies.
That's the warfare piece.
And then you agree with thoselies and you live waywardly
living as if you could havewell-being apart from God.
Let me try to make that plain.
Lies eventually become kind ofthe unspoken narrative that
shape how you see yourself, godand others.
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So let's just assume for amoment that you had a father who
was physically present butemotionally absent.
That can be wounding.
And then along comes thismessage that you begin to
believe and agree with, which isreally the evil one, coming
with sutures to stitch up thatwound and tells you this if you
were better, you would matter.
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If you were just better, youwould matter.
You would matter If you werejust better.
You would matter.
If you just did more, triedharder, were better, you'd get
the attention that you want.
And that's the stitching of thewarfare.
And then what happens is youagree with it and so you live a
life, an identity based onachievement.
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Whether it's professionally orrelationally or religiously, you
go wayward.
Whether it's professionally orrelationally or religiously, you
go wayward.
This is how this works.
The evil.
One has been lying from thebeginning.
Jesus tells us this is what hedoes.
He's doing it in your life.
Now there's a way to figure outif you are living in agreement
with lies, with deception.
It's one word from our textfear.
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It's your fear If you payattention to your anxiety, if
you listen to it, like thedashboard indicator on your car
the fear, the anxiety.
It's not the problem.
It's bearing witness to adeeper problem lies that you
believe.
And so when we live in fear,what's really happening is it's
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showing us that below thesurface, there's something we
believe about God, ourselves orothers, that's not in accord
with truth, not aligned with whohe made us to be.
There's a book that we'rereading as a session, our elders
and our staff called ManagingLeadership Anxiety, by a guy
named Steve Cuss, and he puts itlike this Anxiety can be an
early detection system thatwe're depending on something
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other than God for ourwell-being.
Now, anxiety doesn't alwaysmean that we're off base, but
often it means that you've comeinto agreement with a lie about
God, yourself or other people.
And so if you were to listen toyour anxiety, what would it
tell you?
What would it tell you aboutwhat you believe.
I asked a friend who is a lawyer.
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I said in your work as a lawyer, how have you seen fear rule
people and drive their decisions?
That was my question and hesaid well, most of the mistakes
or bad behavior in the legalcommunity is driven by fear,
specifically the fear of loss,either loss of status or loss of
money.
He said the fear of loss ofstatus usually manifests itself
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in blame shifting, where seniorattorneys deflect responsibility
for a lost case to protecttheir reputation.
Can you see how this works?
This would create a culture offear and blame and hiding and
competition.
But imagine for a moment if adisciple of Jesus went into the
legal field and they began toask their father Father, what
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would it look like for your willto be done here as it's done in
heaven?
What would that look like?
And they begin to ask thatquestion.
So I asked him that question.
He said following Jesus setsyou apart when you credit others
for successes, even if it comesat the expense of your own
credit.
Do you notice the reversal ofstatus seeking and blame
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shifting that's happening there?
Because, as disciples of Jesus,we follow the one who refused
his status and who took all theblame, in order that we might
become the kind of people whoactually exert that kind of
authority in all of life, andthis person's doing that.
And so the question I would loveto know truly, if I could sit
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face to face with each one ofyou, is what difference would it
make if you lived with anunshakable confidence this time
tomorrow, wherever you findyourself?
What difference would it make?
What kind of culture would youinfuse wherever you find
yourself this time tomorrow?
What would that actually looklike?
The question you might ask mein response would be okay, how
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do I get that unshakableconfidence?
Well, listen, I said God madeit all.
We lost it all, but Jesus gaveit all.
Jesus gave it all.
Look with me at verse eight.
At present, we do not yet seeeverything in subjection to him,
that is, mankind, but we seehim who, for a little while, was
made lower than the angels,namely Jesus, crowned with glory
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and honor because of thesuffering of death, so that, by
the grace of God, he might tastedeath for everyone.
What does that mean?
What does it mean that Jesuswould have to taste death for
everyone?
Well, do you remember thatscene in the Gospels Matthew 4,
when Jesus is tempted by Satanin the wilderness.
Or, as one author put it, whenJesus and the devil sort out
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that who works for whom.
I like that.
In Matthew 4, satan offeredJesus all the kingdoms of the
world.
If Jesus would just worship him.
And we read that and we're likeis the devil delusional?
Like does he know who he'stalking to?
Why doesn't Jesus just put himin his place?
Listen, the devil wasn'tbluffing.
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He had the authority over allthe kingdoms of this world.
Why?
How?
Because he was given it by Adam.
This is why Jesus can say hecan refer to Satan as the ruler
of this world in John 12.
Paul calls him the God of thisworld in 2 Corinthians 4.
John the Apostle says the wholeworld lies in the power of the
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evil one.
1 John 5.
The devil really does have realauthority.
And where did he get it from?
He got it from Adam, and sothis is why the Apostle John
says the reason the Son of Godappeared was.
I wonder what you would fillthat blank in with.
The reason the Son of Godappeared was to destroy the
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works of the devil.
1 John 3, 8.
How does Jesus do that?
Look at the text with me.
In verse 14, it says this Since, therefore, the children share
in flesh and blood, he himselflikewise partook of the same
things, why did Jesus take onour flesh and blood?
It goes on.
It says this that through death, he might destroy the one who
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has the power of death, that is,the devil.
You see, jesus had to becomeman for two reasons One, to
identify with his people andsecond, to die for his people.
He couldn't die.
His divine nature couldn't die,only his human nature could,
and so we had to take on ourflesh and blood, so he could
take on our death.
That's what Jesus came to do.
And so what actually did he do?
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Well, we were lost when we welost it all when we were tricked
by the devil.
But Jesus won it all when hetricked the devil.
John Owen called it the death ofdeath in the death of Christ.
I call it Jesus Judo.
You can tell who's moresophisticated of the two of us.
Listen.
Jesus defanged the devil bybeating him at his own game.
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Acts 3 puts it like this youkilled the author of life.
Think about the conjunctionthere.
You killed the author of life,and it says whom God raised from
the dead the very weapon thatSatan wielded death Jesus used
to defeat him.
How did he do that?
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Look at verse 16.
For surely it's not angels thathe helps, but he helps the
offspring of Abraham.
I love that the author ofHebrews summarizes all that
Jesus came to do as he helps.
It's just so simple and sostraightforward, and if you're
anything like me, you need alittle help, right?
Anybody in here need a littlehelp, because if so, I know a
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guy.
He helps.
He helps.
It says we say around here, allof us need all of Jesus for all
of life.
How does he help?
Look at verse 17.
Jesus had to be made like hisbrothers and sisters in every
respect purpose clause here sothat he might become a merciful
and faithful high priest in theservice of God to make
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propitiation for the sins of thepeople.
You see, the devil's powerwasn't just death, it was
deserved death.
That's a big deal.
You and I, we all sin by natureand by choice, and Romans 6.23
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says that the wages of sin isdeath.
The devil doesn't have a.
He's not feigningigning hispower.
He actually has the power ofdeath because you deserve to die
because of your sins.
That's what scripture says, andso that matters, because the
devil hangs this death sentenceover your head like a guillotine
on a thin thread, do you see?
And?
And so then we?
We are enslaved to the fear ofdeath.
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That's what scripture says here.
But Jesus took that deathsentence for us and then broke
its hold To set us free, todeliver us.
Verse 17 says Jesus had to bemade like his brothers and
sisters in every respect.
Why it says to makepropitiation for the sins of his
people.
You see, because Jesus took ourcross, we get his crown Said
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differently Jesus's crown wasthorny, so that we could be
crowned with glory.
That's what the text says here.
Jesus restored our authority bygiving us his victory.
When Jesus rose, he declaredall authority in heaven and
earth has been given to me, inMatthew 28.
And so the death andresurrection of Jesus launches
nothing less than a new humanity, a new creation.
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And it was to Jesus that Godsubjected the world to come.
Hebrews 2.5.
Now, jesus gave it all to winback everything we lost in the
fall.
The great Christmas hymn saysfar as the curse is found, there
is nothing.
It says in verse 8.
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It says now, in puttingeverything in subjection to him,
he left nothing outside hiscontrol.
What's contained in there?
Everything, everything is underJesus' control.
That's what the text says to us, but right now we don't see
everything fully restored theway that it was meant to be.
But we do see Jesus, verse 9.
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We do see Jesus, and thatchanges everything.
It changes everything about thestory we live in.
In fact, many of you are parentsin this room and you parent
your children according to astory, a worldview, a
metanarrative that they liveinto.
I was reading a book onparenting and this was helpful.
It was just really simple.
It says every child needs aworldview shaped by three things
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.
Number one the gospel, becausechildren need to know what to do
with their guilt and theirshame and their fear and their
death.
So they need the gospel.
Number two they need God'ssovereignty.
They need to believe thateverything is subjected to King
Jesus.
Nothing excepted Everything.
Every hair on their head isnumbered.
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A sparrow doesn't fall from thesky except from their father's
hand.
They need that kind of the steelin your spine and the boldness
that that gives a child to facea sometimes scary world.
They need God's hand.
They need that kind of thesteel in your spine and the
boldness that that gives a childto face a sometimes scary world
.
They need God's sovereignty andthey also need a hopeful future
.
They need to be able to lookinto the future and expect that
better things are yet to come.
That gives children confidence.
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It gives them the ability to goout into the world to actually
be the kind of people whosteward God's authority wherever
they find themselves.
And so we get all of thatactually in Hebrews 2.
We see all three of those thingshere in this text.
That's the story of the world Iwant to close here, which is
God made it all.
We lost it all.
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Jesus gave it all.
Now we get it all.
We get it all.
Look with me at verse 10.
For it was fitting that he, forwhom and by whom all things
exist, in bringing many sons toglory, should make the founder
of their salvation perfectthrough suffering.
For he who sanctifies and thosewho are sanctified all have one
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source.
That is why he is not ashamedto call them brothers.
Before he was executed by theNazis, dietrich Bonhoeffer, at
age 39, told a fellow prisonerthis is the end For me, the
beginning of life.
Where do you get that kind ofaudacity, that unshakable
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confidence?
Well, in an earlier sermon,bonhoeffer said this life only
really begins when it ends hereon earth.
Death is only dreadful forthose who live in dread of it,
but we can transform deaththrough faith.
You see, bonhoeffer got whatour text is saying in chapter 2,
verse 15.
Jesus came to set us free fromthe fear of death, and when you
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no longer fear death, you canlive truly free.
And so that's what it means inverse 10 when it says that Jesus
came to bring many sons toglory.
God's goal is to crown you withhis glory so that you can live
alive with all that is yours inJesus.
That's God's goal.
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Your glorification is God'sgoal.
That's remarkable.
If we let that sink in, we getit all.
That's what the text is saying.
Is that we get it all.
Jesus was put in the ground sohe could restore your crown.
That's such good news for us.
And yet, christian, although wehave it all, we don't live like
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we have it all.
Why is that?
Look at verse 11.
It says this he's not ashamedto call them brothers.
Why did the author of Hebrewshave to put that in there?
Here's my hunch.
Since the devil lost the powerof death, he's going to do
whatever he has left.
What does he have left?
Shame, shame.
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You see, he can't kill you, buthe can bench you.
How does he bench you?
How does he make it so that youcan't live as if you have it
all in Jesus Christ?
He shrouds you with shame.
The two-step strategy of Satanis deception and accusation.
Deception and accusation.
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He tempts you into sin and thenhe accuses you for it, which is
why this is such an importantpiece here that he's not ashamed
to call us his brothers andsisters.
You see, the symptoms of shamelook like this you won't let
people into your life.
You hide, you fear beingexposed, and there's a saying in
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the addiction world which isyou're only as sick as your
secrets.
You know who knows that thedevil.
You know who has your secretsjust always before your eyes so
that you hide the devil.
Listen, if you're in this roomright now and you know you're
hiding and you're terrified ofbeing found out, he's winning in
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your life.
That's what that means.
It doesn't mean you don'tbelong to Jesus.
It just means you're notappropriating what Jesus has
done.
He came to deliver you fromfear.
He came to set you free fromthe devil's dominion in your
life.
He doesn't have the power ofdeath over you anymore, but he
does have the power of shame andhe uses it.
He wields it against you.
But listen, we cannot undoshame by doing, because shame is
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a problem of being, and so theonly thing that can undo shame
is to feel the affection ofJesus for you as you are right
now.
Verse 11 says Jesus is notashamed to call you his brothers
and sisters, but you don't knowmy past.
He's not ashamed.
But you don't know what I didlast night.
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He's not ashamed, but you don'tknow what I did last night.
He's not ashamed, but you don'tknow my story or my ethnicity
or my body or my personality.
He's not ashamed.
That's what the text says.
Don't take it on my authority.
Listen.
We lost it all because webelieved the lies of the serpent
over the truth of our king.
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Don't give it back to him.
He's speaking over you right now, in this moment.
He's saying I'm not ashamed tocall you brother or sister.
Do you believe it?
Will you trust it?
Will you come into agreementwith it, or are you going to
continue to buy into the lies ofthe evil, one?
He's trying to set you freethis morning the lies of the
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evil one.
He's trying to set you freethis morning.
And some of you, you belong toJesus, but you live shrouded in
shame.
And he's looking at you andhe's saying I'm not ashamed, I'm
not ashamed of you.
Look at everything I did.
I gave it all so that you couldreceive it all.
Some of you in here, you don'tbelong to Jesus and he's drawing
you.
He's saying listen.
Some of you in here, you don'tbelong to Jesus and he's drawing
you.
He's saying listen, fear death,the devil, shame.
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They've got you enslaved.
You want to be free, I'll setyou free.
Just come to me.
So, whoever you are, whereveryou are, come to Jesus, come to
him afresh.
Come to him for the first timeor the 50th time, I don't care,
just come to him, because thisis the true story of the world.
God made it all.
We lost it all.
Jesus gave it all.
We get it all, and anyone canget in on this.
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Let's pray, jesus, we thank youfor good news.
We thank you for good news.
I pray even now that those ofus who experience shame for
whatever reason, that you wouldbe about the business of setting
us free now.
That those of us who experienceshame for whatever reason, that
you would be about the businessof setting us free, that you
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would set us free from thetemptation to think we can undo
our shame by doing more or beingbetter.
You've already done it all.
Would you open our tight fistedhands to receive everything you
have to give to us by faithalone?
We pray this in your name, lordJesus Amen.
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