2:9
So how do we know everything will one day be subject to us (and this is the consistent teaching of the New Testament)? We see Jesus. Just as we all died in Adam, all shared in the consequences of his sin, we all live in Christ if we believe. This is the concept of federal headship. Jesus was made lower than the angels when He came to earth as a man. Now He has been exalted and is crowned with glory and honour (hence taking 2:8 as “them”). He suffered death and tasted death for all of us. He died the death we should have died. Jesus’s going to the cross was an act of grace on God’s part. Sometimes people paint the cross as though it is Jesus appeasing a reluctant God. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Father and Son were working together from the very beginning.
2:10
God’s purpose is to bring many sons to glory. We are adopted into God’s family and we have the status of sons. When it speaks of making perfect it is not implying that Jesus was once not perfect, rather it means He is made complete. Jesus entered time, so things had to be executed in time. “It is fitting”. We tend to miss the significance of Jesus’ suffering, of how ridiculous or offensive this can seem to some. In NT times the Jews could not grasp the point that the Messiah should die. Today Muslims have the same problem, so they deny that Jesus did actually die. We have a Messiah who suffered, and this is the only way He could provide salvation, and it is absolutely right that He should do so.
So how do we know everything will one day be subject to us (and this is the consistent teaching of the New Testament)? We see Jesus. Just as we all died in Adam, all shared in the consequences of his sin, we all live in Christ if we believe. This is the concept of federal headship. Jesus was made lower than the angels when He came to earth as a man. Now He has been exalted and is crowned with glory and honour (hence taking 2:8 as “them”). He suffered death and tasted death for all of us. He died the death we should have died. Jesus’s going to the cross was an act of grace on God’s part. Sometimes people paint the cross as though it is Jesus appeasing a reluctant God. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Father and Son were working together from the very beginning.
2:10
God’s purpose is to bring many sons to glory. We are adopted into God’s family and we have the status of sons. When it speaks of making perfect it is not implying that Jesus was once not perfect, rather it means He is made complete. Jesus entered time, so things had to be executed in time. “It is fitting”. We tend to miss the significance of Jesus’ suffering, of how ridiculous or offensive this can seem to some. In NT times the Jews could not grasp the point that the Messiah should die. Today Muslims have the same problem, so they deny that Jesus did actually die. We have a Messiah who suffered, and this is the only way He could provide salvation, and it is absolutely right that He should do so.
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