Father Mike Schmitz

Right.

The same thing.

It's the same thing.

If you look at the rays of the sun and the sun itself, it's the same thing.

You also would say the very stamp of his nature.

If you have the stamp, like the imprint, the insignia on a ensign ring, right?

That stamp is the same as the ring itself, the stamper.

And so they're basically saying that here is Jesus who is much higher than the angels.

In fact, in chapter three, he says that he is not only higher than the angels, he's higher than Moses who gave us the law.

But in Moses, he was a servant, but Christ is a son.

And this is so incredible.

Gosh, there's so many things you want to be able to say about this because you not only have him higher than the angels, and at the same time, he was lifted up, purified, made perfect by what he suffered.

I want to just highlight this one.

Now, not that Jesus needed to be made perfect in that sense that you and I need to be purified, like our hearts need to be purified.

That's not the same kind of thing.

But here he is going through this privation, going through suffering for the sake of those who made his brethren.

And this is just incredible.

So let's go back to chapter two, verse nine.

We see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering and death, so that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.

This is what Jesus has done for you and for me.