One Monday, we started the week by looking at the cross.

It's always a great way to start the week right by looking at the cross.

And we saw there that the manner of Christ's death was fitting.

It was fitting.

In that episode, an APJ 1816, Pastor John told us to underline and draw a big red circle

around that word fitting in Hebrews 210, where it says, for it was fitting that he, for whom

and by whom all things exist and bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder

of their salvation perfect through suffering.

The fittingness of Christ's public humiliation on the cross is a profound point worthy of

much study and hours of meditation.

Pastor John said to us last time, because, quote, God's eternal decision to achieve our

salvation through the sufferings of Christ is not arbitrary or whimsical or meaningless,

but is owing to a profound fitness and suitableness, unquote.

In this fittingness of the cross calls for intense focus from us and we focus on the cross

to resist drifting away from the gospel.

That's a major theme in the book of Hebrews.

And I wanted to connect Monday's episode with today's sermon clip and we do that with

Hebrews chapter 2 verse 10.

Here's Pastor John preaching on this text in 1996 talking about gospel drift and how

to avoid it.

Here he is.

Now, the reason I call him a forerunner or in your booth and I call him a captain, that's

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