TEXT Hebrews 2510 THEME The believer should find his dignity by submitting to Christ Many try to find it in their Work but when work does not go well or they cannot work they feel useless ID: 547869
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TITLE: Christ: The Model of Man's Dignity
TEXT: Hebrews 2:5-10
THEME: The believer should find his dignity by submitting to ChristSlide3Slide4Slide5
Many try to find it in their:
Work- but when work does not go well or they cannot work they feel useless
.Slide6
Many try to find it in their:
Work- but when work does not go well or they cannot work they feel useless.
Popularity- They try to be macho or well liked or loved only to find people are fickle
.Slide7
Many try to find it in their:
Work- but when work does not go well or they cannot work they feel useless.
Popularity- They try to be macho or well liked or loved only to find people are fickle.
Quality of what they do- perfectionist only to find it is an elusive pursuit
.Slide8
Many try to find it in their:
Work- but when work does not go well or they cannot work they feel useless.
Popularity- They try to be macho or well liked or loved only to find people are fickle.
Quality of what they do- perfectionist only to find it is an elusive pursuit.
Influence and power- only to find it a constant battle for which they find no security. Slide9
Inadequate sources of dignity.
A girl who does not have a boyfriend, or loses one, feels her life has lost all meaning and value. Slide10
Inadequate sources of dignity.
A girl who does not have a boyfriend, or loses one, feels her life has lost all meaning and value.
A
parent whose child has gotten in trouble feels they have failed and wants to get out of it. Slide11
Inadequate sources of dignity.
A girl who does not have a boyfriend, or loses one, feels her life has lost all meaning and value.
A
parent whose child has gotten in trouble feels they have failed and wants to get out of it.
A High
Schooler
looks to athletics or attractiveness and measure their worth by how much they have and they always feel they come up short. They idolize those who have it. Slide12
Objection from the Hebrew Christians
"Why did the Son of God become man
?” “How
are the sorrows, sufferings and death of Christ consistent with the sublime glories of the Son of Man as prophesied in the Old Testament?"Slide13
The answer
He who was above all angels became lower than the angels (in death) to lift men out of their base condition to set them in His own glorious level in His Father's kingdom.Slide14Slide15
What is the source of our true worth?Slide16
I. Man's Worth as God Made Him (5-8) Slide17
Hebrews
2:5-6
5
It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
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But there is a place where someone has testified:Slide18
The Statement:
The
angels were never to reign in this world or the world to come. They neither instigated the church nor do they rule it, nor shall they in the future. Slide19
Hebrews 2:7
“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
a son of man that you care for him?Slide20
The Question:
What
is Man?
The
author is quoting from Psalm 8. The Psalm opens, "0 Lord, Our Lord, how majestic is your name over all the earth." Slide21
The Question:
What
is Man?
The
author is quoting from Psalm 8. The Psalm opens, "0 Lord, Our Lord, how majestic is your name over all the earth."
Who is man in light of God's majesty? Slide22
Insufficient responses:
a. The idolater
.
Slide23
Insufficient responses:
a. The idolater.
b. The materialist.
Slide24
Insufficient responses:
a. The idolater.
b. The materialist.
Man’s
true dignity and nature has been distorted
Slide25
The Answer: Hebrews 2:7-8
7
You made them a little
lower than the angels;
you crowned them with glory and honor
8
and put everything under their feet.”
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In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them.Slide26
I. Man's Worth as God Made Him (5-8)
A
. Made a little lower than “
elohimSlide27
I. Man's Worth as God Made Him (5-8)
A
. Made a little lower than “
elohim
B. Crowned him with glory and honorSlide28
Note the dehumanizing effect of his death.
Isaiah 53:9
He
was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and
with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.Slide29
Note the dehumanizing effect of his death.
Isaiah 52:14
Just
as there were many who were appalled at him—
his
appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being
and his form marred beyond human likeness—Slide30
Note the dehumanizing effect of his death.
Psalm 22:6
But
I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by everyone, despised by the people.Slide31
Note the dehumanizing effect of his death.
Phil.
2
:7-8
Rather
, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!Slide32
I. Man's Worth as God Made Him (5-8)
A
. Made a little lower than “
elohim
B. Crowned him with glory and honor
C. We are kings: everything is under our feet.Slide33
Gen
2:15
Man was created to work and to reign given with only one restriction- to not eat of the forbidden fruit. He was commanded to be stewards of God’s creation.Slide34
Gen 1:26-28.
He was made with glory and honour.Slide35Slide36
What is the source of our true worth?Slide37
II. Man's Worth as
Sin
Made Him (8) Slide38
Hebrews 2:8-9
Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.
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But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered deathSlide39
II. Man's Worth as
Sin
Made Him (8)
1. We do not
see
our true worth
.Slide40
Gen 9:1-2
“Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.”Slide41
II. Man's Worth as
Sin
Made Him (8)
A. We
do not
see
our true worth.
B. We
are subject to death Slide42
This is how it goes for a slave, who constantly lives in fear not knowing enough, not doing enough, not ever measuring up. Without Christ and His grace, this is how we feel.Slide43Slide44
What is the source of our true worth?Slide45
III. Man's Worth as
Christ
Can Make Him (9-10) Slide46
Hebrews 2:9-10
9
But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone
.Slide47
Hebrews 2:9-10
10
In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.Slide48
III. Man's Worth as
Christ
Can Make Him (9-10)
A. He
suffered death on our
behalf.Slide49
III. Man's Worth as
Christ
Can Make Him (9-10)
A. He
suffered death on our
behalf.
B. His
suffering makes him the
pioneer
of our
salvation.Slide50
III. Man's Worth as
Christ
Can Make Him (9-10)
A. He
suffered death on our
behalf.
B. His
suffering makes him the
pioneer
of our
salvation.
C. We
share in His glory and honour. Slide51
Ephesians 2: 4
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,Slide52Slide53
APPLICATION
In Christ you are important. You are a Son of God.
You
are restored again to glory and honour through Jesus Christ.
God
created us with
worth.Slide54
APPLICATION
In Christ you are important. You are a Son of God.
You
are restored again to glory and honour through Jesus Christ.
God
created us with
worth.
1. Let
us recognize that Sin has frustrated and distorted our worth and dignity. Slide55
APPLICATION
In Christ you are important. You are a Son of God.
You
are restored again to glory and honour through Jesus Christ.
God
created us with
worth.
1. Let
us recognize that Sin has frustrated and distorted our worth and dignity.
2. Let
us recognize that God will restore that dignity and worth through faith in Jesus Christ. Slide56Slide57Slide58Slide59Slide60Slide61Slide62
Lesson
W
e
shouldn't throw away trash carelessly.
We
shouldn't throw away people either
.
God values people.Slide63