Why Was Jesus Born? (Hebrews 2:9–18)

• Will you turn with me, please, in your Bibles  to the 2nd chapter of Hebrews. Hebrews chapter   2, verses 9 through 18 is our text this  morning. For you that may be visiting with us,   I might say that we believe in a ministry that is  a teaching ministry. We endeavor at our services   to study the Word of God. Each service we take a  passage, usually going through a book.
• But because   it is Christmas Sunday we have left our normal  series in John’s gospel to study a particular   portion in the book of Hebrews chapter 2. As we  begin, let’s bow together in a word of prayer. Our Father, we would ask that our hearts would be  sensitive to your Holy Spirit as He teaches us,   that we might see and understand these truths,  God, that we might be able to focus again on   who Jesus Christ really is.
• Father, we do  not desire that any human be glorified,   but that the one who speaks be  lost in the truth itself. Father,   speak by Thy Holy Spirit to our hearts. We pray  and give You the glory in Jesus’ name. Amen. On the first Christmas Eve, the very first  Christmas Eve, earth was a oblivious to what was   happening, but heaven wasn’t.
• The innumerable holy  and elect angels were waiting in anticipation,   waiting to break forth in praise and worship and  adoration to the birth of a newborn child, a child   that meant that God had sent forth His salvation.  And on that first Christ Eve there was a farewell   going on in heaven. The Son said goodbye to  the Father, and the conversation that the Son   had with the Father, at least a part of it, is  recorded for us in the 10th chapter of Hebrews.
• Jesus is speaking to the Father and this  is what He said that first Christmas Eve:   “Wherefore” – verse 5 – “when He cometh into the  world,” – that is Christ – “He saith,” – that is   Christ speaking to God – ‘Sacrifice and offering  Thou wouldest not,’ – in other words, God was not   satisfied with just animals and blood sacrifice  – ‘but a body hast Thou prepared Me: In burnt   offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had  no pleasure.
• ’ Then said I,” – Christ continuing   – ‘Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it  is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God.’” Christ, on that first Christmas Eve said  goodbye to His Father. He said, “Father,   I realize that You’ve not been satisfied  with the blood of animals, but that You have   prepared a body for Me that I might go into that  world and be the final and ultimate sacrifice,   and I will do it because I come, as it is  written in Old Testament to do Thy will, O God.
• ”   And so Jesus Christ bid farewell to  His Father and began a journey that   was to end thirty-three years later on a  cross, and then through a resurrection,   to be glorified and exalted and restored back into  heaven to the glory that He knew before He came. Now, the body of Christ was divinely  prepared by God to be the instrument   which was to bring God to men, and which  was to be the perfect sacrifice for sin.