Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well this is part two of a series we're doing.

These were a number of teachings on the letter to the Hebrews and the New Testament that I did quite a few years ago.

This teaching comes from Hebrews chapter 2 and it's exploring the portrait that the author or the pastor,

as I like to call him or her, the anonymous pastor of the letter to the Hebrews.

But this person goes into quite a bit of depth exploring the portrait of Jesus as God become human.

But what kind of human?

What is it that the human story of Jesus reveals to us about the glory and power of God?

And he begins with this incredible meditation from Psalm 8 from the Old Testament and then

melds it together with images about the suffering Messianic King from the rest of the Old Testament.

And he hits upon this amazing truth that still this chapter was formative for me in my understanding of Jesus many years ago,

that it's God's power and glory and might that are most perfectly revealed in Jesus giving up his power and status to die as an act of love on behalf of others.

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