Hebrews 2

Question and Answer:

* Warning to Pay Attention

1. Why should we pay more careful attention to what we have heard? [vs 2:1-3]

Answer: We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

2. How did God confirm the message of salvation? [vs 2:4]

Answer: God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

* Jesus Made Like His Brothers

1. Who will control the future world the author is talking about? [vs 2:5-8]

Answer:

"5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6 But there is a place where someone has testified:

"What is mankind that you are mindful of them,

a son of man that you care for him?

7 You made them a little[a] lower than the angels;

you crowned them with glory and honor

8 and put everything under their feet."[b][c]"

2. Who are Jesus' brothers/sisters mentioned in today's passage? [vs 2:10-17]

Answer:

"In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 11 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.[g] 12 He says,

"I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;

in the assembly I will sing your praises."[h]

13 And again,

"I will put my trust in him."[i]

And again he says,

"Here am I, and the children God has given me."[j]