We are one with our elder Brother, then, in death and resurrection,
and here is the death-blow to Satan’s lie of universal brotherhood and
universal fatherhood. The firstborn of many brethren is brother only to
those who share in his death that they may share also in his new birth.
One With Our Lord as Witnesses
The third word from the Old Testament quoted in the second chapter
of Hebrews which attests the humanity of our Lord is this: “Behold,
I and the children whom God hath given me.” These words from Isaiah
8:18 were originally from the lips of Isaiah, who said: “Behold, I
and the children whom God hath given are for signs and for wonders
in Israel for Jehovah of hosts.” Dr. W. J. Erdman once remarked that
when Isaiah’s two sons walked along the streets of Jerusalem they were
living sermons for the children of Israel to read. The name of one
was “Mahershalal-hash-baz,” and whenever an Israelite looked upon
this son he heard God saying to him “the spoil speedeth, the prey
hasteth.” If he believed God he knew that this was a prophecy of the
terrific judgment of God that was to fall on a sinning nation. Isaiah’s
other son was “Shear-jashub,” or “the remnant shall return,” and the
discerning Israelite who could read this sermon aright saw in it the
glad hope of God’s grace in the day of judgment saving a remnant of
those who put their trust in him. The name of the father of these two
sons, “Isaiah,” means “the salvation of Jehovah.”
Evidently the thought is that our Lord and we, his brethren, are still
for signs and wonders in setting forth the salvation of Jehovah in its
two phases, of terrific judgment that is to come upon a disobedient
world and the glad message of salvation to the remnant who shall
believe.
The second quotation from the Old Testament used in the second chapter
of Hebrews to prove our Lord’s true humanity is in these remarkable
words: “I will put my trust in him.” How can this quotation have any
bearing on the fact that he is our brother and that he lived down here
as a man?
The Heart-Throbs of Our Human Lord
The quotation is from the second verse of Psalm eighteen: “The Lord
is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength,
in whom I will trust.” These originally are “the words of David,
the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of this
song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his
enemies, and from the hand of Saul.” But, as a noted Bible teacher has
pointed out, the Holy Spirit put into the mouth of David words that
went infinitely beyond his own experience, words that could only be
fulfilled in their true meaning when the greater Son of David came and
met the forces of evil that were faintly foreshadowed by the enemies
David met.
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