WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.919 How did you learn obedience? 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:06.639 What would you say? 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:11.199 When I Yeah, failed. 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:17.679 When I did that, we we do like a we call it a pre-preach in the kids' ministry for the volunteers there. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:20.480 And someone yelled out, the hard way. 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:23.679 How did you learn obedience the hard way? 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:30.399 Um and if you're like most of us, of course, human, uh we do choose the hard way. 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:34.240 That's the whole point of disciplining our children. 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:45.200 And oftentimes it's a very cyclical, very repeatable, very uh the same, and then the same, and then the same, and then the same, and then the same, and then the same, again and again and again, right? 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:48.240 Uh please obey, please listen, please obey. 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:57.759 Uh, most of us, right, what we know about obedience, we learned ultimately by failing at it and being corrected. 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.359 Now, in our passage today, there's a bit of a puzzle that has been presented. 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:09.280 Uh, Hebrews 5.8 says that Jesus learned obedience. 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:15.680 But of course, I mean, basic you know, Sunday school 101, Jesus never disobeyed. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.000 Jesus did not go from disobedient to obedient. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:25.120 So, how do you learn obedience if you never have failed at it? 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:33.680 Well, the answer to that question ultimately gets to the very center of what Jesus did for you on the cross. 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:42.959 And it's also the very reason that, as Hebrews says in chapter three and four, that you can rest this very morning in the gospel that he provides. 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:44.560 But I want to ask and answer that question. 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:47.120 How did Jesus learn obedience? 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:48.560 And what exactly does that mean? 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.719 And how does that connect to the salvation that he has secured for us? 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:54.319 If you got your Bibles, please go there. 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:55.840 Hebrews chapter 5. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:05.920 We're going to be reading verses 7 through 10 this morning, looking ultimately at the obedience of our great high priest. 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:19.759 So it says in Hebrews 5, verse 7, In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death. 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.840 And he was heard because of his reverence. 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:28.719 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:43.759 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:48.560 Now, want you to notice here again in verse 7, it says, In the days of his flesh. 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:54.080 So this is speaking about uh the incarnation, of course, that Jesus, the eternal Son of God, took on flesh. 00:02:54.240 --> 00:03:02.400 He was born of the Virgin Mary, and in the days of his flesh, in his earthly ministry, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications. 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.599 Now, of course, this is a regular part of the ministry of Jesus. 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:15.680 He would often go away from his disciples alone and pray to his father, but there's a very specific occasion that is marked here in Hebrews 5:7. 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:24.080 It says, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:30.240 Now, when, if you're thinking about this, when did Jesus pray with loud cries and tears? 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:31.199 Just shout it up. 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:34.639 The Garden of Gethsemane. 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:43.280 So Hebrews 5 7 is referencing that, which by the way, the Garden of Gethsemane happened the night of Jesus' betrayal. 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:49.680 So the order of events were he had the Last Supper with his disciples, where he institutes the Last Supper. 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:59.039 This body represents my blood, he says, or this bread represents my body, this cup represents my blood, which is the new covenant for you. 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.719 As often as you eat, as often as you drink, do this in remembrance of me. 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:11.439 Then he leaves from the Last Supper and he goes to the Garden of Gethsemane, where he prays, he offers up, it says prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears. 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:16.800 And then ultimately, right after that, he was betrayed by Judas. 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.600 And you know how the story goes. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:27.519 So in the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears. 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:35.040 A picture, the Garden of Gethsemane, of course, Jesus knows full and well what's on the other side of that evening. 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:36.879 He knows what the morning brings. 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:44.399 He knows what the events that were were planned even before the foundation of the world that were about to unfold. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:51.360 He recognizes, as he's already said multiple times throughout all the different gospel accounts, that the Son of Man must suffer much. 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:53.040 The Son of Man must die. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.800 I came to give my life as a ransom for many, Jesus says. 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.839 So he knows good and well where he's headed. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.920 He recognizes what's on the other side of the cross, or even what awaits him before the cross. 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:09.600 And so he goes to Gethsemane in this moment, in this hour of agony. 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:16.000 And it says he offered up prayers and supplication with loud cries and tears. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:17.839 Now I want to do something a little bit different this morning. 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:38.319 I want to show you kind of three different things that Hebrews 5 highlights about the obedience of Jesus, and then connect that, of course, to the gospel and the salvation that he secured, uh, what it says here, the eternal salvation in verse nine, but then kind of have some application of looking at Jesus as our example and what we ought to do in response. 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:40.480 So here's the first thing that the text points out. 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:48.160 Point number one, Jesus obediently and prayerfully persevered through trial and testing. 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.720 Now, specifically in the garden. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:56.639 I want to read for you one gospel account, Matthew, of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:01.439 But Jesus obediently and prayerfully persevered through trial and testing. 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:05.439 Now I want you to notice those two words, obediently and prayerfully. 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:15.439 And as I read this account from the Garden of Gethsemane in Matthew 26, look for those, the obedience of Jesus and him prayerfully persevering through trial and testing. 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:23.439 So Matthew 26, beginning in verse 36, it says, Then Jesus went with them, with his disciples, to a place called Gethsemane. 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:28.959 And he said to his disciples, Sit here while I go over there and pray. 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.519 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, that's James and John. 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:41.040 So we have the inner three, taking with him Peter, James, and John, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:46.399 Then he said to them, My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.920 Remain here and watch with me. 00:06:50.399 --> 00:07:01.519 And going a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed, saying, My father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:06.639 Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:19.759 Just a few verses later, it says, Again, for the second time he went away and prayed, My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done. 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:26.079 Now notice the the agony of which the state of that Jesus is in. 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.600 Notice uh the the the anguish that he's experiencing. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:33.360 He even says, My soul is very sorrowful. 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:38.959 One of the gospel writers says it was as if drops of blood was falling from his brow. 00:07:39.279 --> 00:08:05.360 He was in absolute sorrow and in anguish, and in the midst of that sorrow, understanding that the full weight of what he was about to endure, recognizing, as it says, Jesus himself says, that the cup that was reserved for him, the cup of God's wrath, the a cup in the Old Testament represented God's wrath or judgment that would be filled up and then poured out on God's enemies. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:17.600 And here we see in the gospel of Matthew, Jesus says, Let this cup, if it's possible, let this cup of God's wrath and his judgment and his justice pass from me. 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.319 He's in utter anguish. 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:28.720 But he continues his prayer, nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:46.960 So even in the midst of the greatest sorrow that the man Jesus had ever encountered, he remained obedient, he remained prayerfully faithful, and he persevered through the trial. 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:53.519 And he says, Again, my father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:09:03.519 Now, what's interesting in our text in Hebrews 5, verse 7, it says, In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications. 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:10.559 Now, I want you to notice how this parallels verse 1 ultimately in chapter 5. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:21.840 For every priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of man in relation to God to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:28.559 Now, verse 7, in the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications. 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.799 So, what is Jesus offering up in his prayers? 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:41.519 Now, for the priest in the Old Testament, the Aaronic priests, the Levitical priests, what they're offering, it says, is gifts and sacrifices for sins. 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:51.440 And in fact, on the day of atonement, the high priest would have to offer a sacrifice first for himself for his own sins, and then on behalf of the people. 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:58.639 It says that in verse 3, because of this, he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins, just as he does for those of the people. 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.000 Oh, Jesus, of course, is the spotless lamb. 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:08.240 He is sinless, he is completely perfect and pure and righteous and just. 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:12.240 So Jesus is not offering a sacrifice for his own sins. 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:13.840 Well, what's he's what is he offering? 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:18.320 What is Jesus offering in his prayers and supplication? 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:30.720 I think the obvious answer that we see in Hebrews 5 and even in Matthew 26 in the Garden of Gethsemane is that Jesus is offering to his father full obedience, full submission. 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:37.200 And do you hear that when he says, Not my will, but yours be done? 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:38.720 He's in the garden. 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.720 He recognizes what's what's about to happen on the cross. 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:52.720 He understands the weight and the gravity and the severity of the cup of God's wrath that was about to be poured out on him for the sin of the world. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:58.639 And he says, Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:05.919 So Jesus in the garden offering up to his father complete and utter submission, perseverance and obedience. 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:08.480 That's what Jesus offers. 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:16.480 Now I want to, just by kind of an analogy, an illustration, I want to parallel this to Israel on the edge of the promised land. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.440 That was talked a lot in Hebrews chapter three and four. 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:21.360 They were used as a negative example. 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.879 Israel, they made it all the way to the edge of Canaan. 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:25.919 And do you remember what happened? 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:30.399 They sent 12 spies into Canaan and they came back and they said, God is good. 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:31.840 Let's go in there and take it, right? 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:33.039 Is that what they said? 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:34.960 Uh maybe two of them did. 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.639 But 10 of them were afraid. 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:42.320 We're like grasshoppers compared to them. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:43.279 They're giants. 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:45.440 The land is not good for us. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:46.720 We cannot do this. 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:48.000 We will be killed. 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:49.360 We'll be destroyed. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:51.679 I mean, they're just given over to fear. 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.120 They're given over to their anxiety. 00:11:55.279 --> 00:12:04.720 And as a result, they're trembling, their fear culminates in this disobedient rebellion as detailed in Numbers chapter 14. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:06.960 They rebel against Moses and Aaron. 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:08.879 They rebel against God. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:14.240 And as a result, Hebrews tells us they were unable to enter the promised land. 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:17.200 If you're in Hebrews 5, turn back to Hebrews 4. 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:21.519 Want you to see what the author of Hebrews tells us about this reality. 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:23.279 Verse 6. 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:36.080 He says, Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, this rest that we talked all about, the different kinds of rest and the rest that we have in Jesus Christ, the rest of our salvation, the rest of our eternal hope that He secures for us. 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:42.960 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news, that's Israel, they failed to enter. 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:43.840 What does it say? 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:59.840 Because of disobedience, because their lack of faith, their giving in to fear, led them to disobey, to rebel, to reject God and his word and his commands, and they ultimately did not make it. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.279 They failed to enter because of disobedience. 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.840 They made it all the way, right to the edge. 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:22.799 But but their opponents, their fear of what was on the other side, kept them from humbly submitting themselves to the Lord, entrusting themselves to God and his sovereignty, and ultimately kept them from obeying. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:29.120 Their fear and their uncertainty and their lack of trust, their lack of faith in the Lord. 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:37.440 Now parallel that to what we see happening and spoken of in Hebrews 5 of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:44.320 Jesus is on the edge of securing for us in the Garden of Gethsemane promised rest. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:14:06.159 I guarantee you, if you want to call it an opponent, the sin, the wrath of God, the sin of the world that was going to be placed on him, the wrath of God that was going to be poured out on him, was far more of something to be worried about than the giants in Canaan. 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:06.879 You get me? 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.799 He's on the edge of securing for us our promised rest. 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:12.399 He's facing immense challenge. 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:15.360 He's facing immense trial and testing. 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:16.960 But what do we see? 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:26.000 Where the spies in Israel failed because of their disobedience, Jesus succeeded. 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.080 Jesus was not overcome with his fear. 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:40.399 Though he is very sorrowful even unto death, though he recognizes the reality of the wrath of God about to be poured out on him because of the sin of the world. 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:52.879 Hebrews tells us, for the joy set before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame. 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:59.039 And so where the spies in Israel failed, Jesus succeeded. 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:10.960 Jesus walked headlong into the opponent of sin and death to conquer it on behalf of those who would believe and trust in him. 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:13.279 That's what Hebrews 5 7 is all about. 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:18.000 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications. 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:23.360 He offered up his obedience, his submission to the Father. 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:37.679 Now, what's interesting here, if you go back to Hebrews 5, is as Jesus offered up verse 7 prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death. 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:43.919 And he was heard because of his reverence. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:51.200 Now, when the scripture talks about being heard, at least in this context, it means that his prayer was answered. 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.799 Now the question is, how could that be? 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.080 Because of course Jesus did in fact die. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:12.639 So his prayer was answered, but but not by being excused or exempt from death, but by being victorious over it and being strengthened to endure it. 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:22.480 I think it's in the Gospel of Luke, uh, the Garden of Gethsemane account where Luke talks about an angel appears to strengthen him, to encourage him. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:38.799 So Jesus' prayer was answered, not because he was exempted from death, but because God gave him the strength to endure the suffering of the cross and ultimately to overcome it by rising again from the dead three days later. 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:41.519 So his prayer was answered. 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:49.120 His faithfulness and obedience was honored, his life was vindicated by the Father. 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:50.879 And his prayer was answered. 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:55.039 He knew he was about to be betrayed. 00:16:55.120 --> 00:17:00.799 He knew what the cup of wrath was what it would require of him. 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:07.279 And he said, Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:08.720 Now, what's a lesson? 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:15.039 What's an application that we can pull from this obedience that Jesus showcases? 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:30.160 The obedience and prayerful perseverance of our Savior in the garden to keep moving forward towards the cross, to not shrink back, but to endure the cross for the joy set before him, despising the shame. 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:43.359 I think one simple application is like Jesus, looking to Jesus as the example, in the midst of intense trial, in the midst of intense suffering and sorrow, he cries out to his father in prayer. 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:45.839 We must do the same thing. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:18:05.440 Cry out to God in prayer in the midst of your trial, in the midst of our suffering, in the midst of our sorrow, in the midst of feeling just the weight of this world, perhaps the weight of our own sin, looking to Jesus who humbly, obediently, and prayerfully persevered. 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:10.799 I think the example for us is to do the same thing. 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:16.079 This reminded me of the song What a Friend We Have in Jesus. 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:22.000 The second verse goes like this Have we trials and temptations? 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:23.920 Anyone in this room? 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.599 Is there trouble anywhere? 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.640 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.640 Can we find a friend so faithful? 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:42.880 Who will all our sorrows share? 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:46.400 Jesus knows our every weakness. 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:50.559 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:58.559 Of course, Hebrews 5 is placing the emphasis on Jesus' obedience, Jesus' perseverance, Jesus' submission. 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:06.240 But I think there's just a good application for us to look to the example of our Savior, which in the midst of a trial, in the midst of sorrow, what did he do? 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:08.319 He cried out to the Lord. 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:12.079 He prayed to his father. 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:16.960 What great encouragement that we can find by doing the same. 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:20.160 Can we find a friend so faithful? 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:22.480 Who will all our sorrows share? 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:26.720 We have a great high priest who is able to sympathize with our weaknesses. 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.519 Jesus knows our every weakness. 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:33.680 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:43.920 Now it goes on in verse 8 and says, Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:46.079 Now it's written that way for a very specific reason. 00:19:46.240 --> 00:20:06.240 Although he was a son, the author of Hebrews wants you to feel the kind of uh the paradoxical reality, the tension that's being spoken of here, that the eternal son of God, who knows all things, who possesses all knowledge, all power, all authority, it says, learned something. 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:09.920 He learned obedience through what he suffered. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:12.720 Well, that should stop us in our tracks. 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:17.440 Well, how could that be? 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:19.039 What does that mean? 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:31.039 Because although he was a son, equal with God, sharing an eternal glory with the Father and the Spirit, although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:33.759 What does this teach us about Jesus and his obedience? 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:41.839 But point number two, Jesus humbly learned obedience through enduring suffering. 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:45.519 Jesus humbly learned obedience. 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:52.319 And we'll clarify that as we go because there's there's some missteps that we can take with reading and interpreting a verse like that. 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:53.440 But that's what it says. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:58.400 Jesus humbly learned obedience through enduring suffering. 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:03.839 Now I want to walk through what Hebrews has said about Jesus' suffering up until this point. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.880 So if you got your Bibles, go to Hebrews chapter 2. 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:16.480 I want you to see, because there has been, this is the in chapter 5, this is the fifth time that Jesus' suffering has been mentioned. 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:21.519 The first comes in Hebrews chapter 2, verse 9. 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:34.559 It says, But we see him for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor for what reason? 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:43.440 Because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:44.480 That's the first example. 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.160 Jesus is suffering, he might taste death for everyone. 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.160 He was crowned with glory because of the suffering of death. 00:21:52.400 --> 00:22:10.880 Now, the very next verse in chapter two, it says, For it was fitting that he for whom embodied Whom all things exist, and bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.039 That sounds a lot like what we just read in Hebrews chapter 5. 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:22.000 He he learned obedience and he is perfected, it says, and being made perfect in Hebrews 5:9. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.160 We saw that there in Hebrews 2 10. 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:29.039 Making the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:36.319 So the third example of Jesus' suffering is in chapter 2, verse 18. 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:51.759 It says in verse 17, just for some context, he had to be made like his brothers, like us, like you and me, in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God to make propitiations for the sins of the people. 00:22:52.000 --> 00:23:01.839 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:04.480 So three times in one chapter, he suffered. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.359 He was made perfect through suffering. 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:12.640 He himself has suffered when tempted, and as a result, he can help you when you are tempted. 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:14.960 Even in chapter four, go there. 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:29.759 Chapter four, beginning of verse 14, says, Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, that is hold fast our confession. 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:39.759 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:52.079 He's been tempted, and that includes through suffering, through trial, through experiencing deep sorrow and anguish, anguish, such as the Garden of Gethsemane. 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:58.079 So all this all that gets us back to our chapter, chapter 5, verse 8. 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:14.960 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.960 Now this makes me think of what Paul says in Philippians chapter 2, verse 8. 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:32.079 You remember Philippians chapter 2, where it's Paul's making a point about the humility of Christ, who did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant, becoming in the likeness of men. 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:40.000 Philippians 2, verse 8 says, And being found in human form, that sounds a lot like Hebrews 5 7, in the days of his flesh. 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:53.200 Paul says, and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 00:24:53.519 --> 00:25:00.640 So although he was a son, Hebrews 5.8, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:06.559 Now the question is, what does it mean that Jesus learned obedience? 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:07.920 Well, this is kind of how we started. 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.279 You and I learn obedience the hard way, right? 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:14.400 We have to be corrected again and again and again. 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:16.559 There are two ways to learn obedience. 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:19.759 There's failing to obey and being corrected. 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:20.960 That's you and me. 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:23.920 We have failed countless times. 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:30.319 We still fail at times to obey, and we must be corrected by the Spirit, by the Word, by God's people. 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:31.519 We must be corrected. 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:33.920 There's failing to obey and being corrected. 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:37.119 That's one way that we learn obedience. 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.440 But biblically, Jesus, of course, this is not true of him. 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:46.480 Jesus was not failing to obey and being corrected by Mary and Joseph. 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:47.519 That didn't happen. 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:49.119 He was perfect. 00:25:49.519 --> 00:26:02.480 So the the the other way that someone can learn obedience is to have obedience tested and experiencing the weight of faithfully enduring. 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:08.720 And that's the kind of learning that Jesus is said to have gone through here in Hebrews 5. 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:26.240 His his obedience is being pushed against by his sorrow, by his anguish, by the temptations and trials that he endured, by even the weight of the cross, the reality of the cup of wrath that he knew he had to drink. 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:31.920 It's being pushed against, like it had never been pushed against before. 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:39.519 And so in that sense, his his obedience went from untested, at least in this way, to tested. 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:42.480 And yet without sin. 00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:49.200 Jesus, it says, learned obedience through what he suffered. 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:54.640 His suffering in Hebrews is essential to his learning. 00:26:55.680 --> 00:27:02.799 He experienced the full weight of his obedience being tested and was faithful to the end. 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:06.720 His obedience was tested and pushed against. 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:09.920 In the Garden of Gethsemane, sorrow, anguish. 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:20.720 And yet he was faithful, he humbled himself, he was obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:27.519 So of course, we see Jesus, who is learning obedience in the midst of suffering, through suffering. 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:31.359 What is the application for you and I? 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:34.079 Looking to the example of Jesus. 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:49.119 I would say, just like Jesus, we should humbly submit to God's will in all areas of life, regardless of the cost, regardless of the pressure, the temptation, the trial. 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:58.960 We should look to Jesus, who is the perfect example of humble submission, of his obedience being tested and was faithful to the end. 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:05.920 That's the response that we should have looking to our Savior. 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:14.160 So then the text answers the next question: what was the result of Jesus learning obedience through suffering? 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:16.400 It says another surprising thing. 00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:19.599 It says he was made perfect. 00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:23.839 His result was him being made perfect. 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:26.319 Look at it with me in verse 9 of chapter 5. 00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:38.559 It says, in being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him. 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:46.400 Being designated by God a high priest after the order of Elchizedek. 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:51.759 Here's the third lesson we see about Jesus' obedience from Hebrews 5. 00:28:52.160 --> 00:29:00.400 Jesus' obedience qualified him to become the source of our salvation. 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.359 That's what the text says. 00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:17.359 Now Jesus was made perfect, not in a moral sense, not where he's increasingly getting more and more godly, or he's increasingly putting off more and more sin. 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:18.480 That's not what it means. 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:21.759 Jesus was not made perfect morally. 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:25.920 Think of it this way: Jesus was made perfect missionally. 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:35.920 You should imagine that the Father, upon sending the Son into the world to accomplish salvation for those who would believe, he lays out these milestones. 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:38.400 This is what needs to be done. 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:41.359 Check marks along the way, if you will. 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:46.000 Here's the road from A to Z to accomplish salvation. 00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:48.079 This is the mission that you've been given. 00:29:48.240 --> 00:30:00.960 To say that Jesus is perfected is to say that he hit every single milestone along the way and he did it perfectly without sin and fully and completely. 00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:02.960 In fact, that's what the word perfect really means. 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:05.039 It means whole or complete. 00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:14.240 So to be the savior that the Father intended the Son to be, he had to walk the path of suffering that led him to the cross. 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:17.440 And that's exactly what he did. 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:22.799 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:29.920 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey. 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:37.519 The completion of the path that God laid out for him is the fulfilling of all what God commanded. 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:45.519 It made him perfect, it made him a complete savior that secured a perfectly complete salvation. 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:46.720 You understand? 00:30:46.960 --> 00:31:10.160 That everything that Jesus did in his life, everything that Jesus endured, all the suffering that he persevered through was necessary for him to be a complete Messiah, a complete savior, to faithfully complete the task that the Father had given him to accomplish salvation for those who would believe. 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:28.720 Notice what it says in verse 6 of Jesus. 00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:37.920 As it says also in another place, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:45.200 So the priesthood that Jesus steps into, the office of Jesus being priest is forever. 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:52.079 And so that's why the author of Hebrews can say he became the source of an eternal salvation because he is a forever priest. 00:31:52.319 --> 00:32:00.960 His priesthood is permanent, and his eternal salvation is secured for those who would obey him. 00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:16.319 Now we might struggle with this phrase to all who obey him, that it says there in verse 9, being made perfect, complete, which by the way, the he wasn't perfected in the full sense until his resurrection and his ascension, his exaltation to the right hand of the Father. 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:22.480 But it's all bound up in the reality of his suffering, his death on the cross, his resurrection, his victory over sin and death. 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.119 And now he rules and reigns from the right hand of the Father. 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:26.000 He was perfected. 00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:27.039 He was made perfect. 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:29.680 He did all that the Father intended him to do. 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:37.279 He became the source of salvation to a very specific person, a kind of people to all who obey him. 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:44.559 Now that might make some of you nervous because, of course, the Bible says unequivocally that salvation is by grace through faith. 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.559 Not of yourselves, it is the gifts of God, not of works, so that no one may boast. 00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:56.240 So how can the author of Hebrews say that this eternal salvation is for all those who obey? 00:32:56.480 --> 00:33:04.319 Well, because in Hebrews specifically, the author of Hebrews basically uses obedience and faith interchangeably. 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:06.559 We saw that a lot in Hebrews chapter 3 and 4. 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:09.519 Do you remember what we just read in Hebrews 4, verse 6? 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:13.599 That they did not enter, Israel did not enter into the promised land for what reason? 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.920 Because of their disobedience. 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:21.920 And even before that, he says, we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.160 They were not united by faith. 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:30.079 So the author of Hebrews has no problem interchanging obedience and faith. 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:30.640 Why? 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:35.039 Because obedience is an external evidence of an internal faith. 00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:39.519 Obedience is something that is true of those who have genuine faith. 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:41.519 This is what Auburn uh Auburn. 00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:43.200 I was watching Auburn football yesterday. 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:47.599 This is what Hebrews, Hebrews 11. 00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.319 I'm just a man. 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:52.160 Hebrews 11, verse 8. 00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.640 Hebrews 11, verse 8 says, By faith, by faith, Abraham obeyed. 00:33:58.880 --> 00:33:59.759 You know what it says that? 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:06.319 By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to place to a place that he was to receive an inheritance. 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:12.639 So the author of Hebrews has no problem in shorthand saying that those who have faith are those who obey. 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:14.960 And those who obey are those who have faith. 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:17.360 This is reminiscent of James, is it not? 00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:20.320 Show me your faith without works. 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:22.159 Faith without works is dead. 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:23.840 Faith without obedience is dead. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:28.400 Jesus himself says, If you if you love me, you will keep my commandments. 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:53.360 So he the author of Hebrews can say, without any contradiction, or without any sort of tension, that Jesus became the source of eternal salvation to all who obeyed, because all the all those who obey are those who believe. 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:56.079 Obedience follows faith. 00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:59.119 By faith, Abraham obeyed. 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:09.360 And Jesus, through his obedience, through his submission to the Father in the garden, through loud cries and tears, prayerfully persevering. 00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:11.760 He was praying to the one who could save him from death. 00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:12.880 His prayer was answered. 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:19.599 Again, not by being exempt from death, but by being delivered through death, having victory over death. 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:20.800 He was made perfect. 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:29.280 All that the Father intended him to do, he did fully, faithfully, and finally by faith Abraham obeyed. 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:34.239 So how do we respond to that reality? 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:36.400 That he was made perfect. 00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:39.840 He accomplished everything that was necessary for salvation. 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.159 He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him. 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:51.519 Well, I think the response and the application is rest in Jesus' perfect obedience for salvation. 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:56.639 This is reminds me of what Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5 21. 00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:04.800 He made him who knew no sin to become sin, so that you might become the righteousness of God in him. 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:06.800 That's what we're talking about. 00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:12.960 Rest in Jesus' perfect obedience for salvation. 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:14.639 And I want you to understand this. 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:17.679 Now hear me, hear me in context of what I'm about to say. 00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:25.440 Obedience is necessary for salvation, just not your obedience. 00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:27.360 Jesus's. 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:42.719 His obedience to the Father, his obedience to submit himself, to humble himself, to take on the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, humbling himself to the point of death, even death on a cross. 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:48.159 Without Jesus' obedience to the Father, there is no salvation. 00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:54.480 But the good news of the gospel is that though obedience is necessary for salvation, yours is not. 00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:04.480 What you receive upon faith in Christ is all of his righteousness, all of his obedience, all of his perfected work, as it says. 00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.760 He was made perfect and became the source of eternal salvation. 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.000 All of that becomes yours by faith. 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:15.519 What does Genesis 15 say about Abraham? 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:21.199 Abraham believed, and it was counted to him as righteousness. 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.639 Abraham believed, and as a result of that, he obeyed. 00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:28.960 The righteousness of God was his by virtue of his faith. 00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:31.840 That's what we're seeing here in Hebrews. 00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:33.199 Obedience is necessary. 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:37.440 Theologians call this the passive obedience of Christ, the active obedience of Christ. 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:39.519 There's different ways of categorizing it. 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:46.639 But without Jesus' full and final obedience to the Father, there is no salvation. 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:53.679 And that's why Paul can say in Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, for by grace you have been saved through faith. 00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:57.679 Because the work of salvation is done. 00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:35.280 And even in this context, in verse 10, all of that, he was designated by God, a high priest, after the order of Melchizedek. 00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:39.039 He was a qualified priest, he was a perfected priest. 00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:47.280 He was the exact priest that accomplished the exact things for your eternal salvation through faith in him. 00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:49.519 That's the message of Hebrews. 00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:52.480 That's what Hebrews 5, 7 through 10 is all about. 00:38:52.719 --> 00:39:00.639 The obedience of Jesus being pivotal and paramount to the salvation that he secured, such that you can rest. 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:06.960 Your obedience does not add or take away from the reality of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:13.039 But your obedience upon faith in him should be the evidence of the gospel in your life. 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:14.719 You've been made a new creation. 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.639 The old has passed away, the new has come. 00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.920 You've been born again, Jesus teaches in John chapter 3. 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.719 And as a new person with a new heart, the heart of stone has been removed, the heart of flesh has been given. 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:27.760 If that's true of you, of course obedience should follow. 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:34.320 Of course, that's going to you can say here to all who obey him through faith in him. 00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:38.159 Obedience is necessary for salvation. 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:42.480 But praise the Lord, it's not yours, and it's not mine. 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.119