Hebrews 2:10-18 (Part 2)

I. The suffering of the Son appropriate for accomplishing salvation.
a. Through suffering the Son fully completed all required for salvation.
b. Through suffering the Son brings many sons (and daughters) into glory.
II. The Son willingly identified with humanity.
a. He became our sanctifier.
b. He established a spiritual family through His sacrificial death.
c. He modeled trust in God during suffering.
d. He has possession of all who are sanctified in Him.

III. The Son identified with humanity to rescue us.
-help = epilambanomai = to take hold of, to seize
-share in = koinoneo = take part in, share in, participate; here it is a perfect tense verb.
-partook = metecho = to have part in, to share in, partake, here it is an aorist tense verb
a. Through His death He rendered powerless the power of the devil.
-rendered powerless = katargeo = render inoperative, nullify, make ineffective, abolish
-Eph. 2:15
b. Through His death he freed the enslaved.
-might free = apallasso = set free from
-I John 4:18
-I Cor. 15:55-57

IV. Rescuing humanity required a genuinely human rescuer.
-had to be = opheilo = obligated, must
-made like = homoioo = to become like
a. He became our perfect High Priest.
i. Merciful.
-merciful = eleemon = merciful, sympathetic
-Matt. 23:4; Ex. 34:6
ii. Faithful.
-I Sam 2:35
b. He made propitiation for sins.
-make propitiation = hilaskomai = bring about forgiveness, take away, deal with mercifully, to satisfy
c. He is able to come to our aid.
-aid = boao = to help, to help someone in need.