Hebrews 2:5-18
January 26, 2025
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“In order to cure most of the ills of human life… Let [man] be endowed with a greater propensity to industry and labor; a more vigorous spring and activity of mind; a more constant bent to business and application… But it is hard; I dare to repeat it, it is hard, that being placed in a world so full of wants and necessities; where almost every being and element is either our foe or refuses its assistance – – – we should also have our own temper to struggle with, and should be deprived of that faculty, which can alone fence against these multiplied evils.”

~ Dialogues concerning Natural Religion by David Hume (1711-1776), a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist

“If nature’s red in tooth and in claw
It seems to me that she’s an outlaw
‘Cause every death is a question mark
At the end of the book of a beating heart
And the answer’s scrawled in the silent dark
On the dome of the sky in a billion stars

But we cannot read these angel tongues
We cannot stare at the burning sun
And we cannot breathe with these broken lungs
So we kick in the womb and we beg to be born
Deliverance!”

~ “Come Back Soon” by Andrew Peterson, an American Christian musician and author

“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”

~ The essay “The Red Angel,” in Tremendous Trifles by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), noted English writer and journalist

Sermon Passage

Hebrews 2:5-18 (ESV)

⁵ For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. ⁶ It has been testified somewhere,
“What is man, that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man, that you care for him?
⁷ You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you have crowned him with glory and honor,
⁸ putting everything in subjection under his feet.”
Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. ⁹ But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
¹⁰ For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. ¹¹ For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 saying,
“I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”
¹³ And again,
“I will put my trust in him.”
And again,
“Behold, I and the children God has given me.”
¹⁴ Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, ¹⁵ and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. ¹⁶ For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. ¹⁷ Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.