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May 12 - Hebrews 2 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It's Shawn.
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  Here it is. Monday.
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  It's the 12th of May. Boy, that seemed like hard work
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  to get out, didn't it? I I hope you are firing on more
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  cylinders than I am on this Monday.
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  Here we go. We are cracking on this week
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  with the book of Hebrews. Yes, this wonderful exploration
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  of just how phenomenal your Saviour actually is and
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  everything that he has done for you.
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  Wow, this is wonderful. And today we get to read about
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  Jesus the Man. That's right, if this was a 60
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  minutes episode, it would say you might know him as Jesus the
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  God. But today we learn about Jesus
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  the man. So how about we do just that?
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  Let us read together the next chapter in our journey, Hebrews
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  chapter 2. So we must listen very carefully
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  to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it.
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  For the message God delivered through angels has always stood
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  firm, and every violation of the law and every act of
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  disobedience was punished. So what makes us think we can
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  escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first
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  announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us
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  by those who heard Him speak? And God confirmed the message by
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  giving signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of
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  the Holy Spirit whenever He chose.
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  And furthermore, it is not angels who will control the
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  future world we're talking about.
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  For in one place the scriptures say what are mere mortals, that
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  you should think about them, or a son of man that you should
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  care for him. Yet for a little while you made
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  them a little lower than the angels, and crowned them with
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  glory and honour. You gave them authority over all
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  things. Now when it says all things, it
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  means nothing is left out, but we have not yet seen all things
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  put under their authority. What we do see is Jesus, who for
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  a little while was given the position a little lower than the
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  angels, and because he suffered death for us, he is now crowned
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  with glory and honour. Yes, by God's grace Jesus tasted
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  death for everyone. God, for whom and through whom
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  everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory,
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  and it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his
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  suffering, a perfect leader fit to bring them into their
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  salvation. So now Jesus and the ones he
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  makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed
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  to call them his brothers and sisters.
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  For he said to God, I will proclaim your name to my
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  brothers and sisters. I will praise you among your
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  assembled people. He also said, I will put my
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  trust in him. That is I and the children God
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  has given me. Because God's children are human
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  beings made of flesh and blood. The sun also became flesh and
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  blood, for only as a human being could he die, and only by dying
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  could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of
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  death. Only in this way could he set
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  free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of
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  dying. We also know that the Son did
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  not come to help angels, He came to help the descendants of
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  Abraham. Therefore, it was necessary for
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  Him to be made in every respect like us, His brothers and
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  sisters, so that He could be our merciful and faithful High
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  Priest before God. Then He could offer a sacrifice
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  and would take away the sins of the people.
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  Since He himself has gone through suffering and testing,
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  He is able to help us when we are being tested.
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  Ah, Jesus, you have made it very, very certain that you are
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  for us. You didn't sit in heaven with
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  the theory that you proposed. No, you came here.
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  You became our brother. You lived a life just as we did,
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  and you suffered and you died for us.
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  Jesus, through everything that you did, you have guaranteed for
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  us a clear way to the Father, a clear way back to you to be
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  fully restored and fully accepted into your family once
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  more. We love you and we thank you,
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  and we pray all of this in your saving name, Jesus, Amen.