But we see Jesus!

Take a look at your superior today. How do they display their position?

If someone is better and greater, what does that actually look like?

And what about you? Do you feel strong today? Do you feel greater than the situation you face?

Throughout this letter the Pastor will pause and give a warning to the people and we have just seen the first one in 2 v 1-4. It is like a parenthesis, a therefore thought from what had been mentioned.

So in effect we come back into the journey of the letter and can pick up from the end of chapter 1.

“To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” (1 v 13-14)

“It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. ⁶ But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? ⁷ You made them for a little while lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honour ⁸ and put everything under their feet. In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them. ⁹ But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honour because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”  (Hebrews 2 v 5-9)

The Pastor quotes from Psalm 8:4-6 and draws out truths that the Psalmist could not possible have known.

Truth 1: In the ‘world to come’ we have authority over even the angelic world.

Truth 2: If this is not yet a reality then it can be through our relationship with the Son, Jesus.

The ‘world to come’ is not some future state way beyond our present life. It is now. It is the world of the escape, of salvation, the era that Christ began.

The Psalmist recognises that it was God’s original intention that:

• We would be on His mind and in His care.
• For a little while we would be lower than the angels.
• That we would then be crowned with glory and honour.
• And that everything would be under our feet as we ruled.

This is not the experience of this world nor of the Pastor’s generation either. We don’t have this favour, this privilege and we are not reigning nor that powerful.

But we do see Jesus. And so did the Pastor!

The ‘son of man’ used for mankind by the Psalmist was taken by the Pastor and applied to the Messiah as Jesus used that title for himself, the Son of Man.

The Son came down, for a little while, incarnated from a position superior to everything, below the angelic order and to our level.

He ‘tasted death for everyone’ and was then crowned with ‘glory and honour’ so that we can now step into this world of salvation.

He came to show us what we were created for.

He came to show us our favour, our privilege, our reign and our power.

So am I better, greater, superior to the enemies that face me and the mountains before me?

Very much so but it is not my achievement or ambitious grab, it is His achievement and His gracious gift.

As I follow Jesus and walk His path then I experience the ‘glory and honour’ found in Him.

Whatever you are facing today and no matter how difficult your path of suffering may be and you may be facing the pressure of trials and many temptations. But it boils down to this. Everything is paused waiting for this one thing. This is all that matters:-

But we see Jesus.