For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying,
“I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”
Jesus is not ashamed to call us “brothers.” That is an amazing truth. We can rejoice in God wanting to establish a relationship with us. Through Christ’s sacrifice we have begun and will be completed in Christ as His brother and God’s child. Note how F.F. Bruce states this in his commentary:
(NIC_HE) For a consecrating priest and those whom he consecrates are all of one stock” (NEB). That is a general truth, and in this supreme instance it is exemplified by the fact that not only do he who consecrates and those who are consecrated share a common humanity but also he is the Son of God and they are sons and daughters of God. It is by his sacrifice of himself in obedience to God’s will that they are sanctified, as appears more fully later in the epistle—“sanctified once for all through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ” (10:10). By his death they are consecrated to God for his worship and service and set apart for God as his holy people, destined to enter into his glory. For sanctification is glory begun, and glory is sanctification completed. And since those who are sanctified to God through his death are sons and daughters of God, the Son of God is not ashamed to acknowledge them as his brothers and sisters—not only as those whose nature he took upon himself, but those whose trials he endured, for whose sins he made atonement, that they might follow him to glory on the path of salvation which he himself cut.
We have been established in Christ through His obedience to the cross. That creates a relationship with God. As “brothers” we have the privileges of what comes with being a child of God. We can rejoice in who we are in Christ and that relationship with God through Him.
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