Man’s Original Role

“For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking. But one has testified somewhere, saying,
‘What is man, that you remember him?
Or the son of man, that you are concerned about him?
You have made him for a little while lower than the angels;
You have crowned him with glory and honor,
and have appointed him over the works of your hands;
you have put all things in subjection under his feet.’ For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.” Hebrews 2:5-8

As we come back to Hebrews 2 today, we are looking at four reasons why Jesus came into this world -
I. To recapture our lost destiny (Heb. 2:5-8)
We are no longer what we were in the beginning of creation. In these verses, we are referring to the human race - not the Son of God.

Question - God, why would You remember, and come and die for us, sinful as we are?
Because God had a plan.

“God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’ Then God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food’; and it was so.” Genesis 1:28-30

Man’s role was to rule - to be over the creation and worship the Creator. But man sinned and fell, and we have never been the same since. That brings us to verse 9. Into this situation, the Father sent the Son - into sin, loss of glory, and destruction, comes Jesus Christ to restore to us our position.

Now understand -
- Man was created to have dominion over all things.
- Instead of dominion, we suffered defeat when Adam handed the title deed of planet Earth into the hands of Satan (Gen. 3).
- Into this defeat comes Jesus.

He came with the purpose to recapture our lost identity, to restore us to what we were originally created to be. Why would God do that? Because God loves us and has a plan!