Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Though He was the Son of God, He was not exempt from suffering but learned obedience in humble human life and service by the things He suffered. He obeyed in human nature as the head of fallen humanity, enduring temptation and conflict without sin to honor the law and show how human beings ought to obey. He was already perfect, yet by taking humanity and experiencing suffering and obedience He was made a perfect Saviour and called as high priest. Being thus made perfect He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. As compassionate and faithful high priest He understands temptation and suffering and succors those who are tempted, and those who would share His glory must share with Him in conflict, self-denial and suffering.
Son Learning Through Suffering
Though He was the Son and the Son of God, His sonship did not exempt Him from suffering, and He learned obedience by the things He suffered in a humble human life and service for humanity. That learning through suffering belonged to a life of self-denial, and His suffering and obedience are joined to His being made perfect and becoming the source of eternal salvation for those who obey Him. His life of self-denial and suffering also shows that His followers must share in conflict and suffering as they follow Him toward victory.
As Head of fallen humanity He learned obedience through what He suffered, obeying God in human nature through His earthly life. He endured suffering, temptation, and painful conflict with evil without sin, facing temptation as human beings do, believing God and overcoming. By facing that conflict He understands what people encounter in resisting sin, so He can sympathize with them, succor the tempted, and provide a way to endure temptation. His obedience was perfect and honored God's law, showing that people ought to obey and demonstrating how to obey, and by obeying as a human being He ennobled and elevated humanity while giving people a perfect example to guide their own experience. Through His victory the same divine power is available to people so they can overcome sin.
In the days of His flesh He offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent fear. Something of what He suffered is learned from His agony in the garden of Gethsemane. There He left His disciples with the charge to pray earnestly, went apart and kneeled down praying for the cup to be removed yet submitting to the Father's will, and being in agony prayed more earnestly with sweat as great drops of blood falling to the ground.
He did not become morally perfect from having been imperfect, but though already perfect He was made a perfect Saviour by experiencing suffering and obedience in human life. He was made perfect and called by God as high priest after the order of Melchizedek. He took humanity with its infirmities and temptations, bone of bone and flesh of flesh, as the great High Priest taken from among men, to understand human temptation so He could help and save people.
Perfected Saviour Helping Humanity
Though He was the Son He learned obedience by what He suffered in humble human life and service, and being made perfect He became the author and source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. In the days of His flesh He offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and being made perfect He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey, and these are the only conditions of salvation. True obedience softens and subdues the hearts of all who will be saved in God's appointed way. Those long in forbidden paths must learn as God's little children the lessons of obedience and humility, willing to learn every lesson and to work the works of God, for God cannot accept their labors or save them if they remain disobedient and hold that they can lift up or cast down as they please. His suffering was in sympathy with men, with the reproaches against God falling on Him.
Through His sinless life and the valuable offering and sacrifice on Calvary, sinful repentant human beings can be received by the Father, accepted in the Beloved, clothed with the robe of righteousness, enabled to render perfect obedience to the laws of God and obtain eternal life, and become obedient sons and daughters of God and members of the royal family, with sanctification of grace offered to everyone. As the great High Priest taken from among men, bone of bone and flesh of flesh to understand human temptation, He learned obedience by what He suffered, offering prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and being made perfect became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. His obedience in human life under suffering and temptation was perfect, and through His victory the same divine power is available to people so they can overcome sin. He did not become morally perfect from having been imperfect, but though already perfect He was made a perfect Saviour by experiencing suffering and obedience in humanity with its infirmities and temptations, and His obedience and suffering make it possible for humanity to receive a perfect character and be fitted for heaven.
By facing conflict with evil without sin He understands what people encounter in resisting sin, and He can sympathize with them, succor the tempted, and provide a way to endure temptation. He faced temptation as human beings do, believed God and overcame, and His experience enables Him to help those who are tempted. By experiencing human sorrow and temptation He came to know what a wounded, bleeding heart suffers, and He was made perfect through suffering for His saving work, so that His experience enables Him to sympathize with and help those who suffer or are tempted. To be Redeemer He had to know by experience what human beings suffer, including a wounded, bleeding heart, and His suffering taught Him obedience and made Him perfect, so that as compassionate, sympathetic, faithful High Priest now pleading before the throne of God He knows how to sympathize with and help a suffering church, and those in trouble should bring their sorrows to Him as One too wise to err and too good to do harm. Full of compassion on the ignorant and on those out of the way because He Himself was compassed with infirmity, tempted in all points as members of the human family are tempted, He knows how to rescue those beset by the powers of darkness.
He Himself is hurt when a wounding word unbalances one of His people. One who trusts in Him is never severed from Him but must live in His presence, look to Him, hold back provoking words, and draw near to God. In His human life He sought strength from the Father so He could endure trial and temptation and encourage others. His example teaches believers to seek daily help, grace, and power from God, especially in weakness and times of need. In the days of His flesh He offered prayers and pleadings with strong crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death and was heard because of His reverent fear, and being made perfect He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
Believers Learning Through Suffering
Though He was the Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered, and that suffering was part of His overcoming for humanity and the path by which He was made perfect as the Captain of salvation. His life of self-denial and suffering shows the way for believers, for sharing His glory and victory requires sharing in conflict, self-denial, and suffering as His followers follow Him toward the kingdom. Those who hope to share His glory must also share in suffering, meeting their trials in advancing without fear, complaint, or resentment.
Attaining perfection of character is not easy but a daily conflict, battle, and march, and entering the kingdom is through much tribulation, so that sitting with Him on His throne requires partaking with Him in His suffering. His suffering was in sympathy with men, with reproaches against God falling on Him, and calls believers to be patient under disappointment, to arm themselves with the same mind as Christ who suffered in the flesh, to stand in close union with Him and be content to partake with Him of His sufferings on earth even when disappointment meets them on the right hand and on the left, so that they may at last be glorified with Him and share His glory in the world to come. Trials met in advancing must not make believers timid and cowardly but be met without repining, complaint, cowardice, fear, resentment, or rebellion, trusting that Jesus will give the help asked for in faith.
His life sets the pattern and perfect example for God's children to guide their experience in their own experience as Head of fallen humanity. He served His Father faithfully and accepted sacrifice and toil to complete His work, so those who would be God's sons and daughters must prove their submission and obedience through faithful service. Those who serve Him should be shaped by obedience and should seek to restore rather than hurt or condemn others.
The verse teaches the general principle that a person learns as he passes along by the things he suffers, and being made to learn through suffering is consistent with being loved by God. Suffering, defeat, disappointment, reverses, illness, and the strain of excessive responsibilities teach obedience, wisdom, caution, and experience. Defeat and disappointment teach workers caution and give them experience for resisting the enemy through Jesus Christ and serving God in helping to save souls, and Christian love can turn that defeat to victory and teach carrying burdens more wisely.
The obedience learned by suffering means leaving patent-rights and other speculative business enterprises alone and not letting others draw one into them nor drawing others into them. Investing consecrated means in them and drawing others in brings anxious, overtaxing care that harms health and already diseased bodies, yields despondency deepening to despair, loss of confidence, and fear of being forsaken by God without mercy, and leaves one unarmed on the enemy's battlefield with means belonging in God's treasury worse than lost and anticipations unrealized. Those who fasten trembling faith upon the promises are delivered and have sorrow turned to peace and gladness, and any who feel free and capable to pursue such inventions should work among unbelievers and not make fellow believers their field nor use profession to decoy consecrated means.
The same lesson applies personally that one must learn as he passes along by what he suffers, as with Brother C. When consequences of a wrong course are not learned from they lead into further temptation and fixed habit, as when Daniels suffered consequences yet entered temptation and developed a fixed habit of spending money dishonestly. Those who reject counsel and choose their own course are left to learn from resulting hardship, and those in poor circumstances who lack management and judgment yet refuse counsel and insist on their own judgment are left to learn submission and humility by suffering consequences, for God's people must be subject to one another with mutual counsel supplying one another's lack. Those who have sinned and suffered learn obedience by repenting and being converted, holding still, watching and praying, and dying to self, so God will pardon, remove natural and hereditary tendencies, give His Spirit to enable overcoming, grant the overcomer's reward, accept them as servants to help save souls, and make them light-bearers to others.
Though He was the Son of God, He was not exempt from suffering but learned obedience in humble human life and service by the things He suffered. He obeyed in human nature as the head of fallen humanity, enduring temptation and conflict without sin to honor the law and show how human beings ought to obey. He was already perfect, yet by taking humanity and experiencing suffering and obedience He was made a perfect Saviour and called as high priest. Being thus made perfect He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. As compassionate and faithful high priest He understands temptation and suffering and succors those who are tempted, and those who would share His glory must share with Him in conflict, self-denial and suffering.
Son Learning Through Suffering
Though He was the Son and the Son of God, His sonship did not exempt Him from suffering, and He learned obedience by the things He suffered in a humble human life and service for humanity. That learning through suffering belonged to a life of self-denial, and His suffering and obedience are joined to His being made perfect and becoming the source of eternal salvation for those who obey Him. His life of self-denial and suffering also shows that His followers must share in conflict and suffering as they follow Him toward victory.
As Head of fallen humanity He learned obedience through what He suffered, obeying God in human nature through His earthly life. He endured suffering, temptation, and painful conflict with evil without sin, facing temptation as human beings do, believing God and overcoming. By facing that conflict He understands what people encounter in resisting sin, so He can sympathize with them, succor the tempted, and provide a way to endure temptation. His obedience was perfect and honored God's law, showing that people ought to obey and demonstrating how to obey, and by obeying as a human being He ennobled and elevated humanity while giving people a perfect example to guide their own experience. Through His victory the same divine power is available to people so they can overcome sin.
In the days of His flesh He offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent fear. Something of what He suffered is learned from His agony in the garden of Gethsemane. There He left His disciples with the charge to pray earnestly, went apart and kneeled down praying for the cup to be removed yet submitting to the Father's will, and being in agony prayed more earnestly with sweat as great drops of blood falling to the ground.
He did not become morally perfect from having been imperfect, but though already perfect He was made a perfect Saviour by experiencing suffering and obedience in human life. He was made perfect and called by God as high priest after the order of Melchizedek. He took humanity with its infirmities and temptations, bone of bone and flesh of flesh, as the great High Priest taken from among men, to understand human temptation so He could help and save people.
Perfected Saviour Helping Humanity
Though He was the Son He learned obedience by what He suffered in humble human life and service, and being made perfect He became the author and source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. In the days of His flesh He offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and being made perfect He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey, and these are the only conditions of salvation. True obedience softens and subdues the hearts of all who will be saved in God's appointed way. Those long in forbidden paths must learn as God's little children the lessons of obedience and humility, willing to learn every lesson and to work the works of God, for God cannot accept their labors or save them if they remain disobedient and hold that they can lift up or cast down as they please. His suffering was in sympathy with men, with the reproaches against God falling on Him.
Through His sinless life and the valuable offering and sacrifice on Calvary, sinful repentant human beings can be received by the Father, accepted in the Beloved, clothed with the robe of righteousness, enabled to render perfect obedience to the laws of God and obtain eternal life, and become obedient sons and daughters of God and members of the royal family, with sanctification of grace offered to everyone. As the great High Priest taken from among men, bone of bone and flesh of flesh to understand human temptation, He learned obedience by what He suffered, offering prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and being made perfect became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. His obedience in human life under suffering and temptation was perfect, and through His victory the same divine power is available to people so they can overcome sin. He did not become morally perfect from having been imperfect, but though already perfect He was made a perfect Saviour by experiencing suffering and obedience in humanity with its infirmities and temptations, and His obedience and suffering make it possible for humanity to receive a perfect character and be fitted for heaven.
By facing conflict with evil without sin He understands what people encounter in resisting sin, and He can sympathize with them, succor the tempted, and provide a way to endure temptation. He faced temptation as human beings do, believed God and overcame, and His experience enables Him to help those who are tempted. By experiencing human sorrow and temptation He came to know what a wounded, bleeding heart suffers, and He was made perfect through suffering for His saving work, so that His experience enables Him to sympathize with and help those who suffer or are tempted. To be Redeemer He had to know by experience what human beings suffer, including a wounded, bleeding heart, and His suffering taught Him obedience and made Him perfect, so that as compassionate, sympathetic, faithful High Priest now pleading before the throne of God He knows how to sympathize with and help a suffering church, and those in trouble should bring their sorrows to Him as One too wise to err and too good to do harm. Full of compassion on the ignorant and on those out of the way because He Himself was compassed with infirmity, tempted in all points as members of the human family are tempted, He knows how to rescue those beset by the powers of darkness.
He Himself is hurt when a wounding word unbalances one of His people. One who trusts in Him is never severed from Him but must live in His presence, look to Him, hold back provoking words, and draw near to God. In His human life He sought strength from the Father so He could endure trial and temptation and encourage others. His example teaches believers to seek daily help, grace, and power from God, especially in weakness and times of need. In the days of His flesh He offered prayers and pleadings with strong crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death and was heard because of His reverent fear, and being made perfect He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
Believers Learning Through Suffering
Though He was the Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered, and that suffering was part of His overcoming for humanity and the path by which He was made perfect as the Captain of salvation. His life of self-denial and suffering shows the way for believers, for sharing His glory and victory requires sharing in conflict, self-denial, and suffering as His followers follow Him toward the kingdom. Those who hope to share His glory must also share in suffering, meeting their trials in advancing without fear, complaint, or resentment.
Attaining perfection of character is not easy but a daily conflict, battle, and march, and entering the kingdom is through much tribulation, so that sitting with Him on His throne requires partaking with Him in His suffering. His suffering was in sympathy with men, with reproaches against God falling on Him, and calls believers to be patient under disappointment, to arm themselves with the same mind as Christ who suffered in the flesh, to stand in close union with Him and be content to partake with Him of His sufferings on earth even when disappointment meets them on the right hand and on the left, so that they may at last be glorified with Him and share His glory in the world to come. Trials met in advancing must not make believers timid and cowardly but be met without repining, complaint, cowardice, fear, resentment, or rebellion, trusting that Jesus will give the help asked for in faith.
His life sets the pattern and perfect example for God's children to guide their experience in their own experience as Head of fallen humanity. He served His Father faithfully and accepted sacrifice and toil to complete His work, so those who would be God's sons and daughters must prove their submission and obedience through faithful service. Those who serve Him should be shaped by obedience and should seek to restore rather than hurt or condemn others.
The verse teaches the general principle that a person learns as he passes along by the things he suffers, and being made to learn through suffering is consistent with being loved by God. Suffering, defeat, disappointment, reverses, illness, and the strain of excessive responsibilities teach obedience, wisdom, caution, and experience. Defeat and disappointment teach workers caution and give them experience for resisting the enemy through Jesus Christ and serving God in helping to save souls, and Christian love can turn that defeat to victory and teach carrying burdens more wisely.
The obedience learned by suffering means leaving patent-rights and other speculative business enterprises alone and not letting others draw one into them nor drawing others into them. Investing consecrated means in them and drawing others in brings anxious, overtaxing care that harms health and already diseased bodies, yields despondency deepening to despair, loss of confidence, and fear of being forsaken by God without mercy, and leaves one unarmed on the enemy's battlefield with means belonging in God's treasury worse than lost and anticipations unrealized. Those who fasten trembling faith upon the promises are delivered and have sorrow turned to peace and gladness, and any who feel free and capable to pursue such inventions should work among unbelievers and not make fellow believers their field nor use profession to decoy consecrated means.
The same lesson applies personally that one must learn as he passes along by what he suffers, as with Brother C. When consequences of a wrong course are not learned from they lead into further temptation and fixed habit, as when Daniels suffered consequences yet entered temptation and developed a fixed habit of spending money dishonestly. Those who reject counsel and choose their own course are left to learn from resulting hardship, and those in poor circumstances who lack management and judgment yet refuse counsel and insist on their own judgment are left to learn submission and humility by suffering consequences, for God's people must be subject to one another with mutual counsel supplying one another's lack. Those who have sinned and suffered learn obedience by repenting and being converted, holding still, watching and praying, and dying to self, so God will pardon, remove natural and hereditary tendencies, give His Spirit to enable overcoming, grant the overcomer's reward, accept them as servants to help save souls, and make them light-bearers to others.