What is the familiar patternyou default to when lifegets really hard?

Does this pattern reveala “holding onto” Christor losing grip, slipping back?

What do you need to hold onto Jesus, to press on in following Him??

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3 Layers in the Word Picture

What were you made to be?

What’s happened to us?

What is God doing about it?

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What Were You Made to Be??

6 But there is a place where someone has testified: "What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor 8 and put everything under his feet." In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. (Heb. 2:6-8 NIV)

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What Happened to Us??

Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. (Heb. 2:8)

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What Happened to Us??Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. (Heb. 2:8)

The final problem thathaunts us is DEATH (Heb. 2:14-15)

Instead of us being on top of the world… …the world is on top of us

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What Is God Doing about It??9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. 10 In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. (Heb. 2:9-10 NIV)

Jesus comes as your CAPTAIN to engage in the fight on your behalf

He doesn’t engage the fight asa super-hero…

Jesus engages the fight as a BROTHER(2:9, 14, 17)

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What Is God Doing about It??10 In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. (Heb. 2:9-10 NIV)

Jesus comes as your CAPTAIN to engage inthe fighton your behalf

Jesus engages the fight as a BROTHER(2:9, 14, 17)

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What Is God Doing about It??Jesus makes you His sister/brother,

crowned with glory and honor that now exceeds the angels (2:5,10-13)

Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. (Heb. 2:11 NIV)

Do you understand whatthat means??