Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore
August 16, 2015
Scripture Reading: Hebrews 2:14-18 King James and Christogenea New Testament
Jesus Christ is sovereign! Man is not. They both cannot be sovereign at the same time. Jesus Christ is also sovereign in who He died for and saved! He died for the “sheep”, both past and present. He died even for many in the genetic line of the Israelites who had lived and died before He offered His sacrifice.
He died for the sin debt committed by Adam, Abraham, Noah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Joshua, David, Hezekiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea, Ezekiel, Aaron, John the Baptist, Samuel, Asa, Josiah, Elijah, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, Isaiah, Nehemiah, Ezra, Asaph, Obadiah, Haggai, Ruth, Boaz, etc. and rose from the dead to ensure that they too all received the promises of the Father. All these aforementioned people were dead when Jesus Christ was sacrificed and rose from the dead.
It does not say that He took on Him the “seed of Edom,” or the “seed of Canaan,” or the seed of Ishmael,” or the “seed of Japheth,” or the “seed of Ham,” or the “seed of the Zulus,” or the “seed of Shelah,” or the “seed of the Koreans,” or the “seed of the Indonesians,” but it says He took on Him the “seed of Abraham.”