Hebrews 2:13
I Will Put my Trust in Him
And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. (Hebrews 2:13)
And again, I will put my trust in him. The Holy Spirit has full control of the written word of God. How many times has your heart been troubled and the Lord Jesus Christ through His Spirit says, Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27; 14:1) It is the Spirit of grace whereby the Holy Ghost magnifies God the Son, and teaches and reveals all the wonder of Jesus Christ, our Lord. We understand only in part as repentant sinners born from above. We rely on the Holy Spirit for our spiritual life, for He is the instructor of our soul and spirit. The Holy Spirit magnifies the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives, and once again, He reveals in Hebrews, chapter 2, the great mystery of the relationship of the children of God with Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and the mystery of His relationship with God the Father. He is the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. The Lord Jesus has declared all that the Father, and the Spirit of God is in relationship to Himself. All three members of the Godhead are in complete unity with each other; and Jesus Christ has revealed God unto us as the Son of God and the Son of man.
In the Godhead there is an inseparable love and trust which defines the God of love. Man does not understand the love of God, he does not understand that God is love; for man’s love has been tainted by sin, and only grace will allow man to receive the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. God’s love must come from above, it must come in the very Person of the Lord Jesus Christ for He is the gift of God’s love. The phrase, ‘for God so loved the world,’ is what He has done for the world in Adam. This was a divine action because God is love.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (1 John 4:8)
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9)
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10)
The Holy Spirit always guides the children of God to the Person of Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God is here to reveal all the intrinsic glory of the Son of God, as well as the glory He will receive at His second coming. God the Father will establish His throne on earth with all glory and honor. Meanwhile in the Church Age, the children of God, those who have been bought with His blood, are to glorify Him in body, soul, and spirit. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. (Matthew 22:37) We are not His glory, but He is our glory. We share this glory as an inheritance, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. So precious is He in our sight, how much more precious is He to God the Father, the Father of light in whom there is no shadow of turning. Does not He find His Son precious? He is the manifestation of preciousness, this is His very Person. The trust within the Godhead is unique, in that, it is part of the whole. In Hebrews 2:13 He, through example, is reminding the children not only to trust in Him, but to trust in God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit. The Lord Jesus is the Savior of the world, turn with me now to John’s Gospel. Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. (John 16:32) With the cross before Him, His hour had come, Christ relates to His disciples the relationship that He has with God the Father. It is the reality of the great trust within the Godhead, although all forsake Him, He is always in the presence of the Father. He brings out the impossibility of being cast off because He is in the Father, and the Father is in Him. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (John 14:20) Also the greatness of the Father was before Him, at all times. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. (John 14:28) In verse 28, we see the complete subjection of God the Son to God the Father. Remember when the Lord Jesus spoke these words, He had not yet made of twain one new man by His death on the cross.
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (Ephesians 2:15)
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (Ephesians 2:16)
Ephesians 2:15 and 16 encompasses both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the Book of Hebrews. Chapter 1 of Hebrews is the display of the glory of the Son of God. Chapter 2 of Hebrews is the display of the glory of the Son of man; of twain, He made one new man. This is a marvelous truth that can only be revealed by the Spirit of God to the children of God. As we saw the glory of the Son of God in Chapter 1, the Spirit of God is revealing, in a wonderful way, the Son of man, Jesus Christ. This revelation shows us the humility and the subjection of our blessed Lord.
I will put my trust in him. His subjection and trust are anchored in eternity. This subjection and trust was always part of the Son of God. As He trusted God the Father in all things, He now, in verse 13, relates that trust to us, the pearl of great price, the children of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. Let us return to the Gospel of John 14:20. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. This verse shows the unity between God the Father and God the Son, it also shows the unity between the children of God and their Savior, Jesus Christ. This is a comparative verse to Hebrews 2:13, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. In this unity no one whether in heaven, in earth, or in all the realms of eternity can separate us from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35)
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (Romans 8:36)
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (Romans 8:37)
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, (Romans 8:38)
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39)
In Romans 8 the Apostle stretches out all realms before us; they are incapable of separating us from the love of God. We, as the children of God, have been given of the Father to the Son; and His Father, who is greater than all will not let one of us slip out of His hand. We have been bonded to His Son by Calvary’s cross. No greater price could have been paid for our spirit and soul. Only God’s pure and precious Son could have given Himself for us. Think what a great price this was; and yet, as a pearl of great price, we stand before Him in all His righteousness, and in all His glory; who, therefore, can separate us from the love of God? We are of His bone, and of His flesh, we have been called out of this world to be with Him for all eternity. There are no false prophets, or false professors of Christ who can turn us from the inheritance which we have in Jesus Christ. We have literally been given to the Son of God by God the Father. Not only does God the Holy Spirit minister to us, but one of His responsibilities is to keep us as the members of the Body of Christ. All three members of the Godhead have chosen us before the foundations of the world in Christ Jesus our Lord.
As the Son of man, the Lord Jesus was tempted in all parts, as we are, yet without sin. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15) Not only is He pure, He is also the great Purifier, and He has purified us before God. A diamond may be cut to show forth it’s beauty, but he who cuts the diamond can not change the purity of the stone, he can only reveal the beauty that is beneath the crust. So the great Purifier of the souls of men stands with the children of God and says, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
The Lord Jesus has not only received us as His brethren, but purified us with the sacrifice of Himself on the cross of Calvary. This was, and is, a love that is beyond our comprehension. Our hearts bow to the Son of God in this great love which cannot be broken. For, once again, God is love, and God the Son laid down His life for us. It was the divine purchase in His blood. Verse 13 of Chapter 2 seems like a refrain of verse 12, or a continuation of praise.
As the Lord of glory surveys His precious possession He glories in them. In verses 12 and 13, we have the ‘I wills, ’Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. (Hebrews 2:12) And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. (Hebrews 2:13)
1. I will declare thy name unto my brethren.
2. in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee
3. I will put my trust in him
In Hebrews 2:12 and 13 we see a unity of God the Father, and God the Son, and His brethren seen through the eyes of the Spirit of God. In Hebrews 2, the word, ‘brethren’ is used 3 times in verses 11, 12, and verse 17. All 3 refer to a relationship of blood between the Lord Jesus and His redeemed. In the remainder of the Book of Hebrews the word, ‘brethren’ is only used 5 times, and all 5 references are referring to the brethren of the Apostle in a national and kindred sense. (Hebrews 3:1, 12; 7:5; 10:19; 13:22) All 5 refer to the Apostle’s brethren as Israelites. In Hebrews chapter 2, all 3 mentions of ‘brethren’ are in relationship to the Son of God. Let’s look at them one at a time.
Verse 2:11 — We are His brethren under His sanctifying blood. All the claims of God against us are gone forever; and we now have the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. In God’s sight we have no blemish because God the Father sees us in the beloved Son, Jesus Christ; therefore, there is nothing to bring shame to us. We stand in the finished work of Christ on the cross.
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. (Galatians 6:14)
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. (Galatians 6:15)
I am completely set aside for Christ in His finished work. I have been taken from the world by Him; therefore, in Christ I am crucified to the world. In fact, the world no longer wants to recognize me, for I am dead in Christ; the world, also, is crucified to me. I have no place here, my place is with Christ in glory.
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (Colossians 3:1)
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (Colossians 3:2)
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3)
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4)
I have no place in this world for my only place, or residence, is in Jesus Christ. All that I am, and all that I can ever be, is found in Him. He has removed me into His presence by His death upon the cross of Calvary.
Verse 2:12 — He is the great minister of the covenant in His blood. He delights in the Father’s will. (Hebrews 10:7) Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. (Hebrews 10:7) He relates His obedience unto us, and we are to follow His great example.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; (Hebrews 10:8)
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. (Hebrews 10:9)
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:10)
The Apostle referred to this example in Romans 12:1, that we should present our bodies a living sacrifice unto Him. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)
Verse 2:17 — The Lord Jesus was made like unto His brethren. This is one of the most profound mysteries of the Godhead. That God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:19) And the wonderful a companion verse found in 1st Timothy 3:16, And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. Great is the mystery of godliness, and so, the Spirit of God unfolds this mystery throughout the New Testament, For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:, (Isaiah 28:10) until we all come to the perfect knowledge of God in His Son, Jesus Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:. (Ephesians 4:13) On our journey through this life, let us grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. (2 Peter 3:18)
I will list some companion verses for your study: Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 15:34; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Colossians 1:10; 2 Peter 1:2.
In every verse of Scripture there is a primary and a secondary subject. They maybe hidden beneath the leaves but they are there. In Chapter 2, verse 13 our last issue is divine Sovereignty in the security of the children of God. The Creator of all things has received from God the Father the children that the Father has given Him. As I have mentioned previously we have been given to Him before the foundations of the world. We were hid in Christ, all the creation, and creatorial power was sent forth specifically for the plan of God’s redemption of man; so that God could have a glorified people in His glorious Son. He could look on His Son with His Bride, the redeemed of the Lord, and this would be according to all His good pleasure, and He would be satisfied in His great unfathomable love. This love is the eternal helix of love without end, without beginning, one continuous flow of God’s love in His Son. It is the Lord Jesus who shrouds His bride with His great love. Behold I and the children which God hath given me. Amen.
© 2015, Michael Haigh
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All Scripture references are from the Authorized King James Bible. (KJV)