Very true Jim, as a Jew and one wishing to please God, naturally He would obey, but what does the Hebrew writer say of Him?
Hebrews 2:10 In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Author of WHOSE salvation? Salvation?
14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--
15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
destroyed death.
24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
new covenant.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Grace, salvation, Jesus sitting at the right hand of God, new covenant, death destroyed, All done. All done at the cross.
A High Priest sacrificing all for all.
God bless
dan
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