And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up,
and they shall be changed.
But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
But to which of the angels said he at any time,
sit thou on my right hand,
until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
Are they not all ministering spirits
sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
And so we see again here that we're going back and forth
in chapter one about how Jesus is so much better
than the angels, okay?
Then we get into chapter two.
He again compares Jesus to the angels.
And it says in verse number five,
if you jump down to verse five of chapter two,
"For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection
the world to come, whereof we speak."
But he has put it in subjection unto who?
It's under subjection to Christ, but not to the angels.
Verse six, "But one in a certain place testified,
saying, 'What is man, that thou art mindful of him,
or the son of man that thou visitest him?
Thou madeest him a liar, but not the angel of God?'"
"Thou madeest him a little lower than the angels;
thou crowned him with glory and honor,
and didst set him over the works of thy hands."
This is a quotation of a scripture
that's talking about mankind in general.
So mankind in general, human beings in general,
the son of man in general, is a little lower than the angels.
Does everybody see that?
It says that God made man a little lower than the angels.
He crowned man with glory and set him over
the works of his hands.
That was put all things in subjection under his feet.
Let's keep going, this gets easy to understand in a moment.
For in that he put all in subjection under him,
he left nothing that is not put under him.
But now we see not yet all things put under him,
but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death,
crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God,
should taste death for every man.
So what the Bible's teaching here is that Jesus Christ
is so much better than the angels.
It said it in chapter one, right?
Jesus is so much better than the angels.
He has obtained a more excellent name.
He's the creator.
He upholds all things by the word of his power.
Yea, he is God himself, okay?
And he is the expressed image of God the Father.
So he's so far beyond the angels, it's not even funny.
But then in chapter two, he pulls out this idea
that human beings in general are a little lower than the angels
and that Jesus Christ basically came down
from his exalted position of being in heaven.
He thought it not robbery to be equal with God.
But what did he do?
He made himself of no reputation.
He took upon himself the form of a servant
and was found in fashion as a man.
And here's the thing, here in Hebrews chapter two,
it's talking about the fact that Jesus was made
a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.
So he basically came down from his high and lofty
exalted position far above the angels,
far greater than the angels.
He humbled himself and took on the form of a human being,
which actually made him a little lower than the angels,
because that's the human experience
is being a little bit lower than the angels.
And what was the purpose of Jesus
being made a little lower than the angels?
It says for the suffering of death,
so that he basically came down to this earth
and was robed in human flesh and lived as man on this earth
so that he could die for us,
so that he could die on the cross for us.
And that was the main purpose of his coming.
Obviously he did a lot of things while he was here,
but the main thing is that he came to save us.
And he gave his life on the cross,
and he was buried and rose again in the Bible.