Hebrews 2:1 Drifting. The influences against which we are warned by the words of my text are those of currents which are flowing just where we are, and which may operate so insidiously that we may not know of their effect until, perhaps, it is too late to resist their power. Of these currents I wi... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:5 ; HEBREWS 2:4. Why does the Apostle speak about the angels? He has shown from Psalm ii., from Psalm xcvii., from 2 Sam. vii., from Psalm cx., most clearly that the man Jesus is none other than God, and that therefore in His humanity also He is highly exalted above all angels. But what i... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:5 Consider: I. What it is that the Son of man, humbling Himself for us, hath endured. There are two expressions used to suffer death and to taste death. Let us remember that between Jesus, as He was in Himself and death, there subsisted no connection. In Him Satan could find nothing. Dea... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:6 Faith. I. When man rises above the merely savage state, he begins to show some signs of faith; some evidences of his looking forward to a future; some reliance upon powers which are unseen. For, observe, the savage lives by his bow or his nets; the next step is to the pastoral or agric... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:8 (R. V.) History is a succession of economies or dispensations, of which the Christian is the crown and completion. It follows on the rest, realises all they designed, and embraces the whole future of the coming world. The threads of the ages have been woven in the great loom of Time wit... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:10 Life ascending into Heaven. I. At the moment that our blessed Lord was standing on the Mount of Olives, in the early morning, with a few faithful men around Him, and passed up into heaven in their sight, victorious, to begin His everlasting reign at that moment the whole world lay in i... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:11 The Mystery of Godliness. I. Our Lord has the Divine nature, and is of one substance with the Father, which cannot be said of any creature. He it was who created the worlds; He it was who interposed of old time in the affairs of the world, and showed Himself to be a living and observa... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:11 I. The first truth which is brought before us in these verses is, that Jesus, who is not ashamed to call Himself brother, and us His brethren, is one with us. We who are sanctified by Him, and He who sanctifies, are of one. Christ is He who sanctifies. The source and power of sanctifica... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:14 In Bondage to the Fear of Death. I. There is no real ambiguity in the passage before us, though it may appear so at the first glance, in the use of the word _death._Our Lord is said, by means of death, to have destroyed him who has the power of death. On the first occasion of its use,... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:16 Christian Sympathy. I. We are all of one nature, because we are sons of Adam; we are all of one nature, because we are brethren of Christ. The thought of Him, "the beginning of the creation of God," "the first-born of every creature," binds us together by a sympathy with one another, a... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 2:18 I. The Divine Son of God, before His incarnation in our flesh, was in His own personal being separate from the sons of men. The counsels of infinite love resulted in His becoming the Saviour of the world of that world whereof man was the head and lord. It pleased Him, in His amazing con... [ Continue Reading ]