GYC Conference 2024: Wherever He Goes

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

The Greatest Battle Ever Fought: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane

Harley Southwell

01 Claustrophobia: Journey to the Heart of the Earth

02 Resisting Unto Blood: Tempted Beyond What We Are

03 Sleeping or Weeping: Which Disciple Will You Be?

04 Why the Son Had to Die

05 What to Do If You Betray Jesus: Can You Be Restored?

All right, session number 2, resisting unto blood, tempted beyond what we are.

Unpin your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 2, that's where we're gonna be spending the majority of our time in this session.

And before we begin, I'm just going to offer another quick word of prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much that we can be back together again, and we pray that as we are reading, study your scriptures once again, that these inspired words will be illuminated to our minds.

It's probably my favorite book of the Bible to mine through, to study through.

There's so much Old Testament referenced and expounded and explored.

I just preached a whole series on the book of Hebrews recently as well, which is where I knew that this this seminar session would be so applicable from it.

1 of the things that's really fun to do when you study the book of Hebrews is to notice in each chapter, and sometimes there's more than multiple in each chapter, the things that are better.

What was revealed by God in the Old Testament was good.

But now that Jesus has come, things are better.

All right, and all these different aspects are better.

And so you just go from chapter 1 all the way down to the last chapter, and you see over and over again, we have a better covenant, we have a better high priest, we have a better sanctuary, we have a better sacrifice, we have a better rest, A better Sabbath, all this kind of stuff.

That was good when we had then, but what we have now is better.

Now, in Hebrews chapter 1, we don't have time to study through it now, but that leads us into the context of what we're talking about in chapter 2.

Paul goes in by saying, Jesus gives us a better revelation, that's the first couple verses, and he's better than the angels, and has a better name than the angels.

It's all about the elevation and all about showing the divinity of Christ.

A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.

So This is all about the divinity of Christ, chapter 1.

In chapter 2, it gets all about the humanity of Christ.

And how we have him being better than the angels in chapter 1.

Chapter 2, He's the better man, he's the better human.

All right, and we're gonna see that as we go through that.

Now, in the first couple of verses, we'll skip over the first couple of verses, there are parenthetical statement, a warning.

That's 1 of the interesting things as well to study in Hebrews.

There are a series of 4 warning passages interspersed between the main argument that Paul is making.

But we're just going to start in verse 5 today.

It says here, for he has not put in put the world to come of which we are speaking in subjection to the angels.

So he's still talking about the angel aspect.

1 of the other reasons that Jesus is better than the angels is because he's not put the world in subjection to the angels but rather 1 testified in a certain place saying, what is a man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you take care of him?

Psalm 8, verses 2 to 6 is what's being referenced here.

And I love how he just says, someone says in a certain, he says in a certain place.

Now I don't know why it's written that way, but maybe it's comforting to know that the author of Hebrews also sometimes seems to forget references to scripture, but I don't think that's actually what's going on here.

But what we have him doing here is he's applying this Psalm to Jesus.

Or the son of man that you take care of him?

You have made him a little lower than the angels.

So he just said, hey, he's better than the angels.

Now he's saying he's made him a little lower than the angels.

You have crowned him with glory and honor, and have sent him over the works of your hands.

You have put all things in subjection under his feet." So after telling us about how Jesus was better than the angels, he tells the people here, he tells us, about how he was made lower than the angels now.

And even though he is lower than the angels as a man, he's still going to have all things put in subjection under his feet.

And so what we have here is his lowering being a temporary situation that's being discussed here.

For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that's not put under him.

But now we do not yet see all things put under him.

He has authority, he has dominion, but we don't yet see everything.

Yes, there is this now and there is this not yet.

You might have heard this idea in scripture.

There is the yes, it's happening, yes, it's happened, but it's also not yet fully realized.

But the fact that it's being confirmed, means, and we know that it's going to happen, well, that's really good.

So we don't see everything put under his feet just yet.

But we see Jesus, who is made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone.

So humanity is made lower than the angels and Jesus is then made lower than the angels as well, temporarily, and the reason for this is for the suffering of death.

And now we see him crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone.

Jesus is made a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor, and by the grace of God, suffering and dying.

How many contradictions can you fit in 1 verse, it seems?

He's made lower, he's elevated, he's crowned with glory and honor by suffering and dying.

It's all over the place it seems, but it's super deep when you look at it.

What we have to notice here as well, that he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone.

When we think of taste, is that just like a little sip?

Is that what Jesus did when he drank the cup in the Garden of Gethsemane?

So these verses are telling us that Jesus now is this ideal human.

Adam gave up the dominion that was supposed to be his, made a little lower than the angels and given dominion over all things.

And, but Jesus is going to have all of that dominion and has had all that dominion restored.

And as a result of his suffering and death, he is then crowned with glory and honor.

But notice also there's some further insights that he has about what makes Jesus this better man.

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 suffering.

I'm going to talk about a couple different tangential points just because we're going through this verse by verse, but We're all going to this main point at the end.

Notice how God allows judgment of his plan of salvation.

And we look at him and say, oh yeah, this is really good.

All right, this is the thing I love about, this is the thing that I love about God is he allows himself to be judged.

He's, and we see this all through scripture and I'm going a bit off track here, but we see in the book of Genesis, Abraham saying to God, shall not the judge of all the earth do what is right?

In regards to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

All through scripture we see God's investigative judgments are investigated for the purpose of transparency and to allow judgment of his judgment.

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