Title: Considering Jesus (7 of 66)
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Hebrews 2:5-18
From the series: The Supremacy of Christ
A Study of the Book of Hebrews
In all my years of preaching through books of the Bible, I am going to do something tonight that I only remember doing one other time. I'm going to preach a 2nd sermon from the same set of verses.
I don't know if there is a more deserving passage of being treated this way than the portion of Hebrews 2 we studied last time. But notice the first verse of chapter 3 says we are to DO something in light of the doctrinal truth from chapter 2. Namely, we are admonished to "Consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Confession."
While we will look at this phrase more fully in our next lesson, I want to go back and examine 5 things we should CONSIDER about Jesus.
The word "consider" we find in 3:1 is derived from 2 Greek words that literally mean "to fasten our eyes" or "to fix our attention."
This is a common theme for the writer. In 2:9 he states that we do SEE Him. In 12:2 we are told to, "Fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith."
This is the thought that often fills our singing. We may sing, "Open the eyes of my heart Lord, I want to see You." Or perhaps, "Open my eyes that I may see." Or even, "Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face."
Now, in our case, we do not LITERALLY see Him. The concept here is about seeing Him rightly in our mind. In other words, we should have the right thoughts about Him.
That's important, because lots of people have thoughts about Jesus, but it's not the Jesus of the Bible. For example, some people worship Cultural Jesus. This is the Jesus of the ball game. We pray to this Jesus just before the cussing at the umpire starts.
This Jesus is the "moment of silence" Jesus.
This Jesus sanctions everything going on in a polite community because they put Bible verses on their T-shirts.
This Jesus is the iconic leader of ...
Author: Mike Stone
Text: Hebrews 2:5-18
From the series: The Supremacy of Christ
A Study of the Book of Hebrews
In all my years of preaching through books of the Bible, I am going to do something tonight that I only remember doing one other time. I'm going to preach a 2nd sermon from the same set of verses.
I don't know if there is a more deserving passage of being treated this way than the portion of Hebrews 2 we studied last time. But notice the first verse of chapter 3 says we are to DO something in light of the doctrinal truth from chapter 2. Namely, we are admonished to "Consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Confession."
While we will look at this phrase more fully in our next lesson, I want to go back and examine 5 things we should CONSIDER about Jesus.
The word "consider" we find in 3:1 is derived from 2 Greek words that literally mean "to fasten our eyes" or "to fix our attention."
This is a common theme for the writer. In 2:9 he states that we do SEE Him. In 12:2 we are told to, "Fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith."
This is the thought that often fills our singing. We may sing, "Open the eyes of my heart Lord, I want to see You." Or perhaps, "Open my eyes that I may see." Or even, "Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face."
Now, in our case, we do not LITERALLY see Him. The concept here is about seeing Him rightly in our mind. In other words, we should have the right thoughts about Him.
That's important, because lots of people have thoughts about Jesus, but it's not the Jesus of the Bible. For example, some people worship Cultural Jesus. This is the Jesus of the ball game. We pray to this Jesus just before the cussing at the umpire starts.
This Jesus is the "moment of silence" Jesus.
This Jesus sanctions everything going on in a polite community because they put Bible verses on their T-shirts.
This Jesus is the iconic leader of ...
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