What Do We Believe?
Hebrews 2:1-4
James 1:22-24
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies i a slum because he cannot image what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
C.S.Lewis
“Do I worship a God who wants to keep me down?”
John Lennox
“I’ll tell you the kind of God I worship. I worship the kind of God, Who made me in His image and coded Himself into humanity, came into our world, to provide a basis through HIs death and resurrection that I could become something that I was not by creation and that is a son [child] of God.”
“The notion that God is trying to keep us down is actually the original lie”
God as Human…Why?
- To regain man’s lost dominion (Hebrews 2:6-9)
- To bring many into Glory
- Hebrews 2:10 (NLT)
- “10 God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation.”
- Ephesians 1:19-23
- Hebrews 2:12 (NLT)
- “12 For he said to God,
“I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters.
I will praise you among your assembled people.”“
- “12 For he said to God,
- Hebrews 2:10 (NLT)
- Disarm Satan and deliver us from death
- Hebrews 2:14-15 (NLT)
- “14 Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. 15 Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.“
- Romans 6:5-11
- Hebrews 2:14-15 (NLT)
- A sympathetic high priest
- Hebrews 2:17-18 (NLT)
- “17 Therefore, it was necessary for him to be made in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters,[a] so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. Then he could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people. 18 Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.“
- Hebrews 4:14-16
- Hebrews 2:17-18 (NLT)
God has been and still is pursuing you.
Have you been crucified with Christ and raised to walk in newness of life?
OR
Are you still chasing the desires of self?
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