Hebrews 2:11
For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Both the one who sanctifies
The phrase "the one who sanctifies" refers to Jesus Christ, who is the source of sanctification for believers. The Greek word for "sanctifies" is "hagiazō," which means to make holy or set apart for a sacred purpose. In the context of the New Testament, sanctification is a process initiated by Christ's sacrificial work on the cross, which purifies believers and sets them apart for God's service. This highlights the active role of Jesus in the spiritual transformation of believers, emphasizing His divine authority and purpose.

and those who are sanctified
This phrase refers to believers who have been made holy through their faith in Christ. The Greek term "hagiazomenoi" is used here, indicating an ongoing process of being made holy. This suggests that sanctification is not a one-time event but a continuous journey of spiritual growth and maturity. It underscores the intimate relationship between Christ and His followers, as they are continually being transformed into His likeness.

are of the same family
The concept of being "of the same family" is deeply rooted in the idea of spiritual kinship. The Greek word "pantes" implies a collective unity among believers and Christ. This familial bond is not based on human lineage but on a shared spiritual heritage through faith. It reflects the profound truth that believers are adopted into God's family, becoming co-heirs with Christ. This unity is a source of encouragement and strength, as it assures believers of their identity and belonging in God's eternal family.

So Jesus is not ashamed
The phrase "not ashamed" is significant in understanding Christ's relationship with believers. The Greek word "epaischunomai" means to feel shame or disgrace. By stating that Jesus is not ashamed, the author of Hebrews emphasizes Christ's willingness to identify with humanity, despite their imperfections. This reflects the depth of His love and grace, as He embraces believers as His own, without reservation or hesitation.

to call them brothers
The term "brothers" (Greek: "adelphoi") is used here to denote a close, familial relationship between Jesus and believers. This is a radical concept, as it elevates believers to a status of intimate kinship with Christ. In the historical and cultural context of the early church, this would have been a powerful affirmation of the equality and unity among all believers, regardless of their background or social status. It highlights the transformative power of the Gospel, which breaks down barriers and creates a new community of faith centered around Christ.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jesus Christ
The one who sanctifies believers, making them holy and setting them apart for God's purposes.

2. Believers
Those who are sanctified by Jesus, becoming part of God's family.

3. Family of God
The spiritual family that includes Jesus and all believers, emphasizing unity and shared identity.

4. Sanctification
The process of being made holy, which is initiated and completed by Jesus.

5. Brotherhood
The relationship between Jesus and believers, highlighting the intimate and familial bond.
Teaching Points
Unity in Christ
As believers, we are united with Christ and each other, forming one family. This unity should be reflected in our relationships and community life.

Identity in Christ
Our primary identity is as members of God's family. This should influence how we see ourselves and how we live our lives.

Sanctification Process
Recognize that sanctification is both a completed work in Christ and an ongoing process in our lives. We should cooperate with the Holy Spirit in this transformative journey.

Christ's Acceptance
Jesus is not ashamed to call us His brothers and sisters. We should live in a way that honors this relationship and reflects His love.

Encouragement in Trials
Knowing that we are part of God's family can provide comfort and strength during difficult times, reminding us that we are never alone.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does understanding our identity as part of God's family impact the way we interact with other believers?

2. In what ways can we actively participate in the sanctification process in our daily lives?

3. How does the knowledge that Jesus is not ashamed to call us His brothers and sisters affect our self-worth and confidence?

4. What practical steps can we take to foster unity within our local church community, reflecting the unity we have in Christ?

5. How can the concept of being part of God's family provide comfort and encouragement during personal trials or challenges?
Connections to Other Scriptures
John 17:19
Jesus speaks of sanctifying Himself for the sake of His followers, which aligns with His role as the sanctifier in Hebrews 2:11.

Romans 8:29
This verse discusses believers being conformed to the image of Christ, reinforcing the idea of being part of the same family.

Ephesians 2:19
Believers are described as members of God's household, which connects to the familial language in Hebrews 2:11.

1 Peter 2:9
Believers are called a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, which ties into the concept of sanctification.

Psalm 22:22
This Old Testament prophecy is fulfilled in Jesus, who declares God's name to His brothers, showing the fulfillment of familial unity.
Christ and His BrethrenD. Young Hebrews 2:11
His Exaltation Endears His Association with His FollowersJ.S. Bright Hebrews 2:10-13
The Oneness of the Sanctifier and the SanctifiedW. Jones Hebrews 2:11, 12
All Men are Brethren in ChristW. Jones, D. D.Hebrews 2:11-13
Brotherhood with ChristG. Fisk, LL. B.Hebrews 2:11-13
Children a Life.WorkChristian AgeHebrews 2:11-13
Children to be Brought to HeavenD. L. Moody.Hebrews 2:11-13
Christ and His BrethrenE. Deering, B. D.Hebrews 2:11-13
Christ not Ashamed to Call Us BrethrenW. Jones, D. D.Hebrews 2:11-13
Christ not Ashamed to Call Us BrethrenNewman Hall, LL. B.Hebrews 2:11-13
Christ SingingU. R. Thomas.Hebrews 2:11-13
Christ the Restorer of the Divine Ideal of HumanityW. Landels, D. D.Hebrews 2:11-13
Christians Joint-Heirs with ChristT. W. Medhust.Hebrews 2:11-13
Man's RedeemerHomilistHebrews 2:11-13
SanctificationHomilistHebrews 2:11-13
Some Reasons Why the Word Because FleshA. Maclaren, D. D.Hebrews 2:11-13
The Brother Born for AdversityT. B. Brown, B. A.Hebrews 2:11-13
The Graciousness of ChristH. W. Beecher.Hebrews 2:11-13
The Unity of Christ and His PeopleAlex. Anderson.Hebrews 2:11-13
Unity of Sanctifier and SanctifiedA. B. Bruce, D. D.Hebrews 2:11-13
The Incarnation a Necessity of the Redeeming Work of ChristC. New Hebrews 2:11-16
People
Hebrews
Places
Jerusalem
Topics
Ashamed, Brethren, Brothers, Cause, Family, Holy, Makes, Origin, Reason, Sanctified, Sanctifies, Sanctifieth, Sanctifying, Shame, Speak
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Hebrews 2:11

     1040   God, fatherhood
     1065   God, holiness of
     2030   Christ, holiness
     5661   brothers
     6745   sanctification, nature and basis
     7024   church, nature of
     7028   church, life of
     7120   Christians
     7155   saints
     7923   fellowship, in gospel
     8272   holiness, growth in
     8348   spiritual growth, nature of

Hebrews 2:10-15

     5681   family, nature of

Hebrews 2:11-12

     6610   adoption, descriptions

Hebrews 2:11-17

     5682   family, significance

Hebrews 2:11-18

     7388   kinsman-redeemer

Library
September 22. "We See not yet all Things Put under Him, but we See Jesus" (Heb. Ii. 8, 9).
"We see not yet all things put under Him, but we see Jesus" (Heb. ii. 8, 9). How true this is to us all! How many things there are that seem to be stronger than we are, but blessed be His name! they are all in subjection under Him, and we see Jesus crowned above them all; and Jesus is our Head, our representative, our other self, and where He is we shall surely be. Therefore when we fail to see anything that God has promised, and that we have claimed in our experience, let us look up and see it realized
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

Note B. On the Word for Holiness.
The proper meaning of the Hebrew word for holy, kadosh, is matter of uncertainty. It may come from a root signifying to shine. (So Gesenius, Oehler, Fuerst, and formerly Delitzsch, on Heb. ii. 11.) Or from another denoting new and bright (Diestel), or an Arabic form meaning to cut, to separate. (So Delitzsch now, on Ps. xxii. 4.) Whatever the root be, the chief idea appears to be not only separate or set apart, for which the Hebrew has entirely different words, but that by which a thing that is
Andrew Murray—Holy in Christ

Men Chosen --Fallen Angels Rejected
But now we wish to draw your attention to two instances of God's doing as he pleases in the fashioning of the works of his hands--the case of angels, and in the case of men. Angels were the elder born. God created them, and it pleased him to give unto them a free will to do as they pleased; to choose the good or to prefer the evil, even as he did to man: he gave them this stipulation--that if they should prefer the good, then their station in heaven should be for ever fixed and firm; but if they
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856

The Destroyer Destroyed
There is something fearful in death. It is frightful even to him that hath the most of faith. It is only the gildings of death, the afterwards, the heaven, the harp, the glory, that maketh death bearable even to the Christian. Death in itself must ever be an unutterably fearful thing to the sons of men. And oh! what ruin doth it work! It darkens the windows of the eyes; it pulls down the polished pillars of the divine architecture of the body; it turns the inhabitant the soul, out of its door, and
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858

Christ --Perfect through Sufferings
Our text invites us to the consideration of three particulars: first, that Christ is a perfect Savior; secondly, that he became so through suffering; and thirdly, that his being made perfect through suffering will ennoble and dignify the whole work of grace. "It became him"--it seemed fitting--that in bringing many sons unto glory he should make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." I. To begin, then, first of all with the joyous thought, so well known to you all, but so necessary
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 8: 1863

A God in Pain
(Good Friday.) HEBREWS ii. 9, 50. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. What are we met together to think of this day? God in pain: God sorrowing; God dying for man, as far as God
Charles Kingsley—The Good News of God

Christ's Work of Destruction and Deliverance. Rev. John H. James.
"That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."--HEBREWS ii. 14, 15. There is a special and ordained connection between the incarnation and the death of our blessed Lord. Other men die in due course after they are born; he was born just that he might die. He came "not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give" his "life a ransom for many." It is therefore
Knowles King—The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern

The Song of Christ
T. S. M. Heb. ii. 12 There sounds a glorious music As though all the Heavens rejoice; There is One who singeth, and wondrous Is the gladness of His voice. A joy of surpassing sweetness, Of love no speech can tell; I hear, and my heart is broken, For the Voice I know full well. That Voice that has called me ever, Called through the years of sin; At my door beseeching and knocking "Let Me, even Me, come in." And now in His joy He singeth, In His joy He singeth of me, And all the Heavens make music
Frances Bevan—Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others

Communion Broken --Restoration
Cant. ii. 8-iii.5 "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest happly we drift away from them."--Heb. ii. 1 (R.V.). At the close of the first section we left the bride satisfied and at rest in the arms of her Beloved, who had charged the daughters of Jerusalem not to stir up nor awaken His love until she please. We might suppose that a union so complete, a satisfaction so full, would never be interrupted by failure on the part of the happy bride. But, alas,
J. Hudson Taylor—Union and Communion

The Unbeliever's Unhappy Condition
This morning, with the burden of the Lord upon us, we shall speak upon the words of the text. Our first point shall be a discovery of the guilty one, "he that believeth not the Son." Next, we shall consider his offense; it lies in "not believing the Son;" thirdly, we shall lay bare the sinful causes which create this unbelief; and, fourthly, we shall show the terrible result of not believing in the Son: "he shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." May the Spirit help us in all. I.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871

Guiltless and Without Sin.
"For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens."--Heb. vii. 26. Throughout the ages the Church has confessed that Christ took upon Himself real human nature from the virgin Mary, not as it was before the fall, but such as it had become, by and after the fall. This is clearly stated in Heb. ii. 14, 17: "Forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself took part of the same . . . . Wherefore in
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

The Son and the Angels.
HEBREWS i. 4-ii. 18. The most dangerous and persistent error against which the theologians of the New Testament had to contend was the doctrine of emanations. The persistence of this error lay in its affinity with the Christian conception of mediation between God and men; its danger sprang from its complete inconsistency with the Christian idea of the person and work of the Mediator. For the Hebrew conception of God, as the "I AM," tended more and more in the lapse of ages to sever Him from all
Thomas Charles Edwards—The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews

The Jordan: the Decisive Start. Matthew 3:13-17. Mark 1:9-1Luke
3:21-22. The Anvil of Experience: knowledge only through experience--the Fourth, Daniel 3:25.--three Hebrews, Daniel 3.--Babylonian premier, Daniel 6:16-23.--George Mueller--Jesus made perfect through experience, Hebrews 2:10. 5:8, 9. 7:28, l.c.--all our experiences, Hebrews 2:14-18. Philippians 2:7. Hebrews 4:15, except through sin, Hebrews 4:15, l.c. 7:26. 2 Corinthians 5:21, f.c. 1 Peter 2:22. 1 John 3:5, l.c.--Jesus' suffering, Philippians 2:6-8. Hebrews 2:9, 17, 18. 4:15. His obedience, Luke
S. D. Gordon—Quiet Talks about Jesus

"For what the Law could not Do, in that it was Weak through the Flesh, God Sending his Own Son in the Likeness of Sinful Flesh,
Rom. viii. 3.--"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh." For what purpose do we meet thus together? I would we knew it,--then it might be to some better purpose. In all other things we are rational, and do nothing of moment without some end and purpose. But, alas! in this matter of greatest moment, our going about divine ordinances, we have scarce any distinct or deliberate
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Circumcision, Temple Service, and Naming of Jesus.
(the Temple at Jerusalem, b.c. 4) ^C Luke II. 21-39. ^c 21 And when eight days [Gen. xvii. 12] were fulfilled for circumcising him [The rite was doubtless performed by Joseph. By this rite Jesus was "made like unto his brethren" (Heb. ii. 16, 17); that is, he became a member of the covenant nation, and became a debtor to the law--Gal. v. 3] , his name was called JESUS [see Luke i. 59], which was so called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. [Luke i. 31.] 22 And when the days of their
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

The Child Jesus Brought from Egypt to Nazareth.
(Egypt and Nazareth, b.c. 4.) ^A Matt. II. 19-23; ^C Luke II. 39. ^a 19 But when Herod was dead [He died in the thirty-seventh year of his reign and the seventieth of his life. A frightful inward burning consumed him, and the stench of his sickness was such that his attendants could not stay near him. So horrible was his condition that he even endeavored to end it by suicide], behold, an angel of the Lord [word did not come by the infant Jesus; he was "made like unto his brethren" (Heb. ii. 17),
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Letter iv. You Reply to the Conclusion of My Letter: "What have we to do with Routiniers?...
My dear friend, You reply to the conclusion of my Letter: "What have we to do with routiniers? Quid mihi cum homunculis putata putide reputantibus? Let nothings count for nothing, and the dead bury the dead! Who but such ever understood the tenet in this sense?" In what sense then, I rejoin, do others understand it? If, with exception of the passages already excepted, namely, the recorded words of God--concerning which no Christian can have doubt or scruple,--the tenet in this sense be inapplicable
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc

"And for Sin Condemned Sin in the Flesh. "
Rom. viii. 3.--"And for sin condemned sin in the flesh." The great and wonderful actions of great and excellent persons must needs have some great ends answerable to them. Wisdom will teach them not to do strange things, but for some rare purposes, for it were a folly and madness to do great things to compass some small and petty end, as unsuitable as that a mountain should travail to bring forth a mouse. Truly we must conceive, that it must needs be some honourable and high business, that brought
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

How Christ is to be Made Use Of, as the Way, for Sanctification in General.
Having shown how a poor soul, lying under the burden of sin and wrath, is to make use of Jesus Christ for righteousness and justification, and so to make use of him, go out to him, and apply him, as "he is made of God to us righteousness," 1 Cor. i. 30, and that but briefly. This whole great business being more fully and satisfactorily handled, in that forementioned great, though small treatise, viz. "The Christian's Great Interest," we shall now come and show, how a believer or a justified soul
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life

Christianity
WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? WHAT is Christianity? The question seems a belated one. It never was more pertinent than now. Its pertinency rests upon two facts. First: the modern drift in Christianity and its absolute failure. Second: the phenomenal triumph of primitive Christianity. The modern drift is antagonistic to doctrine and repudiates the miraculous. It sets aside the virgin birth, has no toleration for atonement by sacrificial death, and positively refuses to accept the bodily resurrection of our
I. M. Haldeman—Christ, Christianity and the Bible

The Essay which Brings up the Rear in this Very Guilty Volume is from The...
The Essay which brings up the rear in this very guilty volume is from the pen of the "Rev. Benjamin Jowett, M.A., [Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, and] Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford,"--"a gentleman whose high personal character and general respectability seem to give a weight to his words, which assuredly they do not carry of themselves [143] ." His performance is entitled "On the Interpretation of Scripture:" being, in reality, nothing else but a laborious denial of
John William Burgon—Inspiration and Interpretation

Jesus Makes a Preaching Tour through Galilee.
^A Matt. IV. 23-25; ^B Mark I. 35-39; ^C Luke IV. 42-44. ^b 35 And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up went out [i. e., from the house of Simon Peter], and departed into a desert place, and there prayed. [Though Palestine was densely populated, its people were all gathered into towns, so that it was usually easy to find solitude outside the city limits. A ravine near Capernaum, called the Vale of Doves, would afford such solitude. Jesus taught (Matt. vi. 6) and practiced solitary
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Characters and Names of Messiah
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. S uch was the triumphant exultation of the Old Testament Church! Their noblest hopes were founded upon the promise of MESSIAH; their most sublime songs were derived from the prospect of His Advent. By faith, which is the substance of things hoped for, they considered the gracious declarations
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1

How Christ is to be Made Use of as Our Life, in Case of Heartlessness and Fainting through Discouragements.
There is another evil and distemper which believers are subject to, and that is a case of fainting through manifold discouragements, which make them so heartless that they can do nothing; yea, and to sit up, as if they were dead. The question then is, how such a soul shall make use of Christ as in the end it may be freed from that fit of fainting, and win over those discouragements: for satisfaction to which we shall, 1. Name some of those discouragements which occasion this. 2. Show what Christ
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life

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