Radical Brotherhood

Radical Brotherhood

Hebrews 2:5-2:18

Radical Brotherhood Requires Radical Sacrifice

1. Jesus Exchanges Supremacy for Suffering

2. Jesus Sacrifice Makes Us Glorious Siblings

Bible Verse

John 14:1-6 (ESV)

¹Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

²In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

⁴And you know the way to where I am going.”

⁵Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

3. Jesus Destroys Death for Our Freedom

Galatians 5:1 (ESV)

¹For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Bottom Line Radical Brotherhood Requires Radical Sacrifice

Psalms 139:16 (ESV)

¹⁶Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.                                                             

Philippians 2:1-5 (ESV)

¹So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

²complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

³Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

⁴Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

⁵Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,