But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. (10) For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (11) For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren

The author of letter to the Hebrews is unknown. This epistle was intended as solace and encouragement to Hebrew Christians who were opposed and persecuted not only by Gentiles but especially from their fellow countrymen who thought them apostates. They had turned their back on the Jewish religion – which was legalized by Rome – and put their faith in the suffering and dying Messiah. The death of Jesus was fitting because of God’s perfect justice which demanded a penalty be paid for sin. God is righteous and holy and as such that sin must be judged. The author of Hebrews is showing why Jesus’s death – and the shameful death in a cross – was not by chance but God’s foreknowledge also meant that this was His eternal plan.

Humankind, since Adam, had been under the curse of sin and death, living as fallen creatures in a fractured world in rebellion against God Who created him. And the penalty for man’s sin is death – physical and spiritual death. Worse, human beings are incapable of doing anything for their own pardon. In God’s eternal plan, Christ, as true God, voluntarily became true man but without man’s sinful nature; He entered this chaotic and threatening world to deal with the penalty for sin as our substitute. In Jesus’s suffering and death as Messiah, confirming his perfect humanity, the faithful are made righteous because Jesus bore the wrath of god which we should have borne .

ALL things are by Him and for Him. Christ Jesus became man to accomplish the work which He alone could do. In 1 Corinthians 1: 23-25 the apostle Paul writes “but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, (24) but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. (25) Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”