Hebrews Chapter Two: Becoming Human

My tummy is happily full of delicious dinner. If you haven't discovered this for yourself already, bacon makes everything awesome. A moment of silence for bacon now please.

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For an explanation of how I'm doing this study, please see chapter one's blog post. Alright, Hebrews two:

1 Here we have a warning to pay attention to what we have heard. But if you're anything like me, you're asking what it is we have to pay attention to...

2-4 Here we find the answer: salvation. In verse two it talks about how if every little sin (violation and disobedience) were punished, we would be in trouble. There would be no escape for us. But Jesus provided a way out, and the people that heard him during his ministry on earth passed on the knowledge of how to obtain that sweet salvation. Not only do we have their take on it, but we have signs from the Lord himself and the Holy Spirit burning inside of us.

5-8a At the present time, the angels are above us because they share in the glory of the Lord. But God did not destine them to share in his glory forever. He made us to share in that someday! I'm using an NIV translation of the bible, and in the footnote for verse seven, it mentions that you could also say, "You made him for a little while lower than the angels".

8b Everything in existence is under the power of God. There is nothing and no one more powerful than he is, and although our human bodies limit what we know about heaven and earth, we know God is above all. How wonderful is he!

9 By suffering death and bringing salvation to us, Jesus exalted himself and is once again crowned with glory and honor. Now he's not only our Lord, but our savior. He is our perfect high priest.

10-11 When Jesus suffered death, he not only brought himself glory, but he brought glory to us by washing us clean. The author of salvation, Jesus, made perfect by defeating death. Isn't this like, the most amazing thing ever? Can I get an amen? Now we are all perfect and of the same family, so Jesus doesn't even have a problem with calling us his children and brothers.

"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!"
~1 John 3:1

12-15 Psalm 22 is quoted here, and I recommend you take the time to read it right now. Jesus was only able to suffer death by becoming human like us. He took the power of death away from the devil, showing that he had complete power. Death was the only weapon the devil had, and even that was taken away from him at the cross.

16 Again, the lord did all this for us, not for the heavenly beings. When a point keeps being repeated like this, we should take note. This is for us!

17-18 By becoming like one of us, Jesus is able to understand what we're going through. He walked the same earth with all the same temptation and lusts. He knows what it's like, yet he still lived a perfect life. Although he knows we can't be sinless like he was, he provided the example of saying no to temptation by never giving in. The temptation was there, but he never let it have its way. We have the ability to do the same, and say no to the things of this world.

In closing, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for sort of falling off the face of the earth recently. I no longer have a Facebook and won't until next year sometime, but I still check my email every week at the least, so if you need to reach me there you can do that. I'm obviously still active here on my blog as well, so if you'd like to comment me anything, feel free. Have an awesome day! :D