Hebrews 2:5-18

v5-9: God always remembers us. “He comes to see us, to see how things are going with us, what troubles us, what we need, what dangers we are exposed to, what difficulties we have.” This should encourage our hearts but also lead to remembering Him daily by coming to Him. “Let us never forget him.”

v10: It was God’s purpose that through Christ’s suffering many sons and daughters would be brought to glory. This glory is both present, “enjoying the glorious privileges of the Gospel,” and future, “in heaven, which will be true glory, an eternal glory that far outweighs all things.” We will only enjoy this glory if we are “children of God by both adoption and regeneration,” and if we are “true believers” we “are the children of God.”

v11-13: “Christ and believers are brothers and sisters.” This is the relationship we have with Christ; He is our brother, and wonderfully, He has declared His Father’s name to us, “that is, his nature and attributes, his mind and will.” How has He done this? “He did this in his own person while he lived among us, and then he did it by his Spirit poured out on his disciples, enabling them to spread the knowledge of God in the world from one generation to the next, to the end of the world.”

v14-16: Never was it the intention of Christ “to be the Saviour of the fallen angels.” When they fell, He “let them lie under their deserved punishment, defilement, and dominion of their sin, without hope and help.” Yet “there is hope and help for the worst sinners in and through Christ.” We should make the most of this “mercy that has been shown to [us] and not to the fallen angels.”

v17: Jesus “became human so that he might die; as God he could not die, and that is why he assumed another nature and state.” Ponder the love of God in this. “Christ knew what he must suffer in our nature, and how he must die in it,” and “still took it on himself so readily.”

v18: Our merciful and faithful high priest “is ready and willing to help those who turn to him in their temptations; he became human and was tempted so that he might be qualified in every way to help his people.” Isn’t this comforting to know because we experience many temptations each day and these temptations bring “distress and danger” to our souls?