Hebrews 5:8a
"Though he were a Son,…"
Again, we have to remember how we've stressed that term Son in the first two chapters of Hebrews. He was not just a carpenter’s son, He was not just Mary’s son, He was the very Person of the Godhead that created everything, but He said that He was the son of man (as such He was a God-child in our humanity). And the term used by Ezekiel more than any other prophet. He was the One to Whom the rest of the Godhead imparted all the responsibility of creation and of this work of the Redemption through the Last Supper and then on the Cross and now our Salvation. Where we released into His hands our souls/spirit as well. For its not of our works that any man should boast but it is of His doing in us. And so:
Hebrews 5:8
"Though he were the Son, (He was all powerful,) yet he learned (what?) obedience (to respond to the responsibility that had been given to Him by the Godhead as a whole) yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered;" Throughout His earthly ministry to Israel and their resistance of unbelief to what He was saying, and doing. Then in that agony leading up to and going through that death on the cross. Now He did it in this fashion as our example as we're to learn of Him in the same fashion (Matthew 11:25-30) as He has already passed through it for us, we can gain the victory over all things through Him. We except it all by trusting in His Faithfulness and obedience. Now verse 9,
Hebrews 5:9
"And being made perfect, (complete, is a better word. A complete Redeemer, Savior, a complete Reconciler, and One Who forgives and saves us to the uttermost) he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him (Christ)."
Back up a page or two - we covered almost the same identical word "author" in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 10. We like to use all these Scriptures because they all compliment each other.
Hebrews 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 (first in line, and next the same word) of their salvation perfect (or complete (Peter and Isaiah uses a different word found in 1 Peter 2:24 “healed”), but what did it take?) through suffering."
Christ had to suffer in order to become then the Captain of our salvation, or as it says here, now come back to chapter 5 verse 9, the "author of our salvation." Without the suffering it could have never happened. And again His suffering started shortly after He fulfilled all righteousness. How? By the required water baptism with John. In compliance to the Levitical Law. So it is also of us before we can leave our first stated after redemption has done its perfect work in us, in preparation for His salvation. Now verse 9 again.
Hebrews 5:9
"And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;"
Well what’s another word for obey? Believing. In fact, we just ran across a verse in Acts and we didn’t remember ever stressing it in any teaching. It just sort of hit us like a thunderbolt as we were reading in prayer. Come back with us to Acts chapter 13. My, this is a verse we’ve missed all these years.
Acts 13:35-39a
"Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep, (he died) and was laid unto (with) his fathers, and saw corruption: But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known unto you therefore, my and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: (and here it comes in the next verse) And by him all that believe are justified…"
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