Hebrews 2:10

Memory Verse

For it was fitting for Him, because of whom are all things and through whom are all things, to lead many sons into glory, the founder of their salvation through suffering to be brought to an intended end (Hebrews 2:10).

The glory—a display of the proper opinion of God the Father—that Christ now possesses was brought about through His suffering. He suffered for the sins of the people, the just for the unjust (1 Peter 3:18). God the Father heard His cries, loosing Him from the pains of death to die no more (Hebrews 5:7; Acts 2:2).

Christ’s suffering was not in vain. Through it, God the Father worked out His resurrection and the creation of a new man, in which Christ is the head and the Church is His body (2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 1:22–23). As the resurrected and glorified One, Jesus now sits at the right hand of God on high (Hebrews 1:3). He is above the principalities and powers (Ephesians 1:21).

Through Christ’s death on behalf of our sins and resurrection three days later, He is the founder and author of our salvation. A salvation that is based on grace through faith, not works (Ephesians 2:8). Through His suffering, God the Father has done that which eye has not seen nor ever entered into the hearts of men (1 Corinthians 2:9). Those who believe are now the children of God (1 John 3:2).