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Welcome to Day 2231 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nHebrews-3 Subjection...Suffering...and Sanctification \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nPutnam Church Message \u2013 04/30/2023\n\n\u201cSubjection\u2026Suffering\u2026and Sanctification\u201d\xa0 Hebrews 2:5-18\n\nLast, we continued our extended series through the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. Our focus was not to drift away from our spiritual foundation. Today, I will read Hebrews 2:5-18.\n\nPerspective (Point of View)\u2014that\u2019s what the first-century readers of Hebrews needed and what we all need as we face the tsunamis of suffering in this life. We need to recognize where we are in God\u2019s story and trust that the pioneer\xa0and perfecter of our faith will bring this world (and all His faithful followers) to a good and glorious end. The remainder of Hebrews 2 provides this perspective.\n\nFollowing his comments regarding angels in chapter 1 (and a strong warning that Christians must guard against neglecting their salvation in 2:1-4,) the writer of Hebrews returns to his discussion of angels, this time in their relationship to humanity. At the beginning of God\u2019s story, humans were originally designed to exercise dominion over the created world. But on this side of Genesis 3, after the fall of humanity, that original intention for men and women was suspended, and we are subject to suffering and the effects of a cursed world. However, the writer of Hebrews pulls back the curtain ever so briefly and gives us a teaser trailer of a future in which the ultimate Son of Man, Jesus Christ, will lead the redeemed to realize their full potential in God\u2019s plan. Coming to their rescue, Jesus Christ will restore to humanity what they lost in Adam.\n\nUntil then, we\u2019re all stuck in an often bleak series of scenes characterized by suffering. But even amid this suffering, God is working things together for our good and His glory (Rom. 8:28). Until Christ comes and establishes the new global Eden, that is, the finalization of God\u2019s kingdom, we can expect to suffer through the long, arduous, and often painful process of sanctification.\n\n2:5\u20138\n\nIt is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.\xa06\xa0But there is a place where someone\xa0has testified:\n\n\u201cWhat is mankind that you are mindful of them,\na son of man that you care for him?\nYou made them a little\xa0lower than the angels;\nyou crowned them with glory and honor\n\nand put everything under their feet.\u201d\n\nIn putting everything under them,\xa0God left nothing that is not subject to them.Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.\n\nThe connection would be seamless if we read Hebrews 1:14, skip 2:1\u20134, and pick up with 2:5. In 1:14, the author refers to angels as ministering spirits who render service for \u201cthose who will inherit salvation.\u201d Then, in 2:5, he mentions angels again and refers to the future world \u201cabout which we are speaking,\u201d connecting the readers not to the warning of 2:1\u20134, but to the argument of 1:1\u201314. This suggests that the warning passage in 2:1\u20134 should be understood as subordinate, yet eminently important. It\u2019s as if the author is a referee at a football game and calls a \u201ctime-out\u201d in the action to step onto the field, point out actual or potential infractions, and warn players that a...