Bible Text: Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 | Preacher: Lieutenant Rob Westwood-Payne | Series: Help! | In this sermon on Hebrews 2:1-4, we are challenged to remind ourselves who Jesus is and what he’s done, so we can avoid drifting away from our faith.

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How Communication Has Changed Over the Years

First we grunted at each other. Then we began to speak to each other. Then we developed symbols that represented our speech. Then we found ways of sharing our writing – stone, clay, papyrus, parchment and paper. Then came the printing press, and that changed everything! It ignited revolutions across the world and a major renaissance.

After that, nothing much happened in the realm of communication, for hundreds of years.

Until the telegraph arrived in 1837, followed by the first commercially successful typewriter in 1868. Then Alexander Graham Bell changed everything again. Then came the electric typewriter and cordless phones.

Then came the personal computer and the software to operate it and everything changed again. Then just a few years later came the internet and the World Wide Web and everything changed again. Then came the iPhone and it all changed again.

Once upon a time, to communicate with someone you had to be within shouting distance. Now you can tap a few keys and communicate with someone the other side of the world.

That, my friends, is a brief history of the communication changes we’ve seen. But we’ve missed one out:

The God Who Communicates

Psalm 19:1–4 ESV

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

God speaks. He communicates with us. He is the One who reveals himself to us.

Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12, NIVUK

God’s final word: his Son

1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.

Jesus made fully human

5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6 But there is a place where someone has testified:

‘What is mankind that you are mindful of them,

    a son of man that you care for him?

7 You made them a little[h] lower than the angels;

    you crowned them with glory and honour

8     and put everything under their feet.’[i][j]

In putting everything under them,[k] God left nothing that is not subject to them.[l] Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.[m] 9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honour because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

10 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 11 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.[n] 12 He says,

‘I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;

    in the assembly I will sing your praises.’[o]