#DailyDevotion Jesus Is Not Ashamed To Call Us Brothers

Heb. 2 ¹¹He Who makes men holy and those who are made holy all have one Father. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brothers. ¹²He says: I will tell My brothers Your name, in the congregation I will sing Your praise. ¹³And again: “I will trust Him.” And again: “Here am I and the children God has given Me.”

These verses supply the proof for the claim in verse 10: “It fitted Him well, for Whom and by Whom everything exists, that in bringing many sons to glory He should make the One Who gives them salvation perfect through suffering.” These verses today follow “bringing many sons to glory.” In verse 10, “Whom is the Father.” In verse 11, “He” is Jesus. Jesus is the One who makes men holy. He makes us holy by His suffering. We are made holy through baptism into Him, where we participate, not only symbolically, but in truth and deed, Jesus’ death and resurection. (Rom. 6) The Father is Father to Jesus from all eternity, having been begotten from Him from all eternity. He is declared His Son, also according to His humanity at His baptism, His transfiguration and His resurrection. He has reversed what Adam, the first son of God (Luke 3:38) did. Where the first Adam sinned and brought death into the world, Jesus, the second Aama by His obedience, has brought life into the world.

Now to show this, the author quotes Psalm 22, “²²I will spread Your fame among My brothers; I will praise You in the congregation.” Now just to think, he quotes Psalm 22 is just perfect, as verse 10 mentions Jesus’ suffering and Jesus quotes Psalm 22 on the cross, “My God, My God, why did You forsake Me?” As we see the suffering and death in the first half of the Psalm which Jesus quotes, we see the rest of the Psalm fulfilled as the author Hebrews quotes it here. Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers. It was for this purpose Jesus humbled Himself from His exalted position with the Father in eternity to become man, to make us His brothers. He certainly could have been ashamed to call us brothers, as He shares our flesh and blood, and we sin ever so often. But He shares our flesh and blood, and pays the redemption price to redeem us and to call us brothers. He has shared with us the name of the Father which He Himself bears and is in Him. He truly sang the praise of the name in the midst of His disciples and has given that name to us. He calls us His brothers who have been baptized into His name.

To further prove Jesus has brought many sons to glory, He quotes Is. 8, “^17.. . . I wait for Him. ¹⁸ Here am I and the children the LORD has given Me” Earlier in this chapter of Isaiah, the Messiah is spoken of, “¹⁴Then He will be a holy temple, but also a stone both houses of Israel will stumble over and a rock they will fall over and a snare and a trap for those who live in Jerusalem. ¹⁵Many will stumble over them, fall, be broken, trapped, and caught.” Having been revealed as the Messiah, the Son of God, those who did not stumble over Him, are also His children through baptism into Him. As His children we are also His brothers. In Matt. 10 Jesus says, “³²Whoever will confess Me before other people, him will I confess before My Father in heaven.” So here we see the fulfillment of that, having been made holy and brought to the Father, He calls us brothers and calls our name out to the Father. We could hardly believe it is true if it hadn’t been written down for us.

Heavenly Father, Jesus came down to redeem us and in that redemption He has called us His brothers. Grant us faith to believe this and to walk in this all the days we participate in His suffering until we see Your glory. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.