Last week we looked at Christ’s resurrection, how he had the power to raise his flesh up from the grave.  Not in a vacuum, but in unity of operation with the Father and the Holy Spirit.  Whatever God does, all of God does.  The Son raised his flesh from the dead, through the Father, in the Spirit.  The question becomes if Jesus raised his own flesh up from the grave, why are there verses like the one in Hebrews 5 that say Jesus looked to the one who can save him.  And the one in Luke where Jesus commits His spirit into the hands of the Father.  

The key to understanding these verses is contained in Psalm 45.  Psalm 45 quoting the Father, says My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the King: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.  Psalm 45 has also been interpreted as the Father saying my heart erupts with My good Word.  John says Jesus came forth from the bosom of the Father.  The Father brings forth His Word; He brings forth His Wisdom; the eternal Son; from His bosom, to be His pen, because He wants to engrave His counsel on our hearts.  He wants to engrave the knowledge of His everlasting kindness on our hearts.  

Heb 5:1  For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
Heb 5:2  Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
Heb 5:3  And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
Heb 5:4  And no man takes this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
Heb 5:5  So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
Heb 5:6  As he says also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.  
Heb 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Heb 5:8  Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Heb 5:9  And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him

This is about the Father engraving on our hearts the counsel of His goodness through His pen; his tongue; His Word; His Son, the express image and brightness of his person.  This is about the Father shepherding us to Himself through the body he prepared for the eternal Son …. Thats why Hebrews calls Jesus the author of eternal salvation.  He authors eternal salvation for those who partook of flesh and blood, by engraving in our hearts the goodness of the Father to minister His divinity to our humanity.  That’s the good matter the Father wants to indite.  He wants to author eternal salvation in the earth.  

When the Father wants to author eternal salvation in the earth.  When He wants to engrave in our hearts the divine mystery.  He doesnt bring it about alone, but rather He fulfills it through His own Wisdom, that is through the Son, because the Son is the fulness of divine revelation.  Divine revelation comes from the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.  The Father begets the Word, who expresses what resides in the Father, because the Word is the same essence as the Father.  The Son reveals the Father’s will through his incarnation, cross, resurrection, and ascension.  The Son is the primary agent of divine revelation.  The Father is the object of revelation.  And the Spirit is the means by which the Son operates.  

It can’t be just anyone who can reveal the divine counsel to mankind; it’s not just anyone who can engrave the Fathers counsel on the hearts of man.  Hebrews says it had to be someone who was fully God, but also fully man.  They would need to be fully man so they can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.  And they would need to be fully God, so they can be kept from the passions aroused in the flesh through the fear of death.  

Hebrews 5:7 speaking of Jesus says in the days of his flesh.  Whose flesh is it?  The Son of God’s flesh; who has always been with God, and has always been God.  Thats why it says in the days of his flesh.  There’s a time when he wasnt in the likeness of sinful flesh.  His existence predates his flesh because he’s the self existent one. Hebrews is telling us the one who is before all things; who created all things, the one who is the express image and brightness of the Fathers person, is THE SAME one, it’s not a different one, it’s this same one, who took human flesh to himself.  He took human flesh to himself without a change occurring to his nature.  Even though He’s born a man, he continues to be the divine essence.  It’s just that now he’s a divine man.  In order for Jesus to be the author of eternal salvation, he must be first be divine, and then partake of flesh and blood without his nature changing.  You need to be both fully God and fully man to be a highpriest after the order of melchisedec.  Thats why Hebrews says though he was a Son, meaning he was always divine.  Divinity is what he always was, so he had to partake of flesh and blood, and in his flesh suffer, the same way the children suffered, to be made perfect as the author of salvation.  

When hebrews 5:7 talks about Jesus offering up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared.  Does this mean Jesus needed a savior like we do?  Certainly Not.  His incarnation is salvation personified.  The name Jesus means Savior.  The context of Hebrews 5:7 isnt that Jesus himself needed a savior.  He cant be the author of salvation if he himself needs a savior.  The author of Hebrews wants us to see Jesus is truly human; that His suffering wasnt a mirage or merely symbolic.  His prayers and sufferings are meant to demonstrate the depth of his humanity.  Jesus, in his flesh suffered.  He felt the same weight of the fear of death in his flesh and in his soul, that we all feel.  So that in him entering the depth of our despair, but also being the fulness of divine revelation; he can engrave the love of the Father, on the hearts of all those who will allow him.  

Explain cross briefly 

Heb 2:10  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.

Heb 4:14  Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Heb 4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Its true God cannot suffer, but the eternal Son, took to Himself flesh and blood, so that in his flesh he can suffer just as mankind has suffered.  Jesus had to experience the depth of the passions that are aroused in mortal flesh, through the fear of death.  Christ was tempted in all points as we are.  He felt the height; the width; the depth; and the breadth of the fear of death, yet without sin.  Only a divine man can resist sin in the flesh.  The only flesh that can resist the passion aroused by sin, through the fear of death, is the flesh of God.  The divinity of the Word kept his flesh from sin, so that in his flesh being kept from sin, it would manifest the fulness of the divine revelation, shepherding those who dwell in flesh and blood to the Father.   

No one comes to the Father except through the Son.  No one can see the Father except through the Son.  The only way Jesus can bring us to glory, as Hebrews 2 says, is if he’s the express image and fullness of the Father’s essence.  The Son cannot be the Father’s Word; he cannot be the Father’s wisdom, if He is not the fulness of the divine essence that resides in the Father.  He cannot fully reveal the Father, nor teach what is in the Father, if he does not contain in Himself the fulness of the Father’s essence.  This is why John so boldly says no one has seen the Father but the Son.  No one can truly declare the Father.  No one can reveal the fulness of the Father’s counsel, but the Son, because no one was in the light with the Father from all eternity.  None of the patriarchs or prophets, were light from light, true God from true God.  

It’s not just the power to raise the dead that abides in Jesus.  He’s the fullness of the divine revelation.  He’s the Fathers Word.  He’s the Fathers wisdom.  He’s the strength the Father has in Himself to bring mankind to glory.  The Fathers strength to teach is Jesus.  So in the days of his flesh; in the weakness of his flesh; when he’s looking to the Father; he’s revealing the divine counsel to the children who partook of flesh and blood.  It’s not a sign the Word isn’t divine; it’s not a sign the Son is impotent.  What’s happening is the Son is looking to the one whom he’s eternally indwelling, and who is eternally indwelling him; knowing the authority he’s been given by the Father to take up his flesh, and at the same time leading us to the Father.  We partook of flesh and blood.  We were sown in corruption, and because of that Jesus also partook of flesh and blood.  So that in Him being eternally in the Father’s bosom; eternally begotten of the Father; but now also in flesh and blood, calling us brethren, being fully touched with the feeling of our infirmities; tempted in every way we were; his humanity kept from sin by his divinity; looking to his union with the Father; looking to the divine essence he’s always shared with the Father, He is simultaneously revealing the Father’s will to minister His divinity to our humanity.  leading us to the Father.  The express image; the son who has neither beginning of days nor end of life; tore the veil; that is he brought us to the Father through the days of his flesh, showing us the reward the Father has in His hand for us isn’t punishment, its His Son.  He is the Father’s pen, authoring salvation, engraving on our hearts the goodness of the Father to make us partakers with Him in his divinity.