How Jesus Relates to us
Let’s Start with identity this morning, then move to see how Yeshua relates to us!
Hebrews 2:11 establishes the foundation:
“He is not ashamed to call them brethren.”
Yeshua does not relate to His people as subjects, clients, or distant followers. He binds Himself to them as family. The One who sanctifies and the ones being sanctified are declared “of one.” That is shared identity, shared house, shared name.
Now place that beside the Torah instruction:
Leviticus 25:35–40 commands how a brother is to be treated when he falls:
support himdo not profit from himdo not enslave himlet him live beside you
This is not charity language. This is covenant family law.
Here is the connection:
Yeshua doesn’t just call us brothers—He treats us according to the law of brotherhood.
When we were spiritually bankrupt, He did not exploit our weakness.He did not extract from us.He did not bind us in permanent servitude.
Instead:
- He restored us rather than profited from us
- He lifted us rather than leveraged us
- He brought us near rather than kept us at distance
This aligns directly with the heart of God revealed in Torah:
“that your brother may live beside you.”
That is exactly what Yeshua secures—life beside Him.
He fulfills this at the highest level:
- Leviticus says: do not treat your brother as a slave
- Yeshua says (John 15:15): “I no longer call you servants… but friends.”
- Leviticus says: let him live with you
- Yeshua says (John 14:3): “I will come again and receive you to Myself.”
- Leviticus says: fear your God in how you treat your brother
- Yeshua demonstrates the fear of God by perfectly honoring us as family, even to the point of laying down His life
So the statement is not sentimental—it’s legal, covenantal, and costly:
He is not ashamed to call us brothers, and He proves it by treating us as brothers under God’s law.
Not at a distance.Not as liabilities.But as those who belong in His house.