Good morning, everybody. It is great to be here today
with you when awesome day to come together to worship Our
God. This morning, I have the
privilege of studying with you from Hebrews chapter 1.
So we're going to start out my reading through the whole
chapter together. It's only 14 verses.
So if you like to get out your Bibles with me, I'm just going
to be reading from line, not up on the screen at this point.
Hebrews chapter 1, beginning in verse 1, says, God, who at
various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the
father's, by the prophets has in these last days spoken to us by
his son, whom he has appointed, heir of all things through whom.
Also, he made the world's who being the brightness of his
glory and the express image of his person and upholding All
Things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged,
our sins Sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High,
having become so much better than the angels as he has by
inheritance obtained. A more excellent Name than they.
For to, which of the Angels did he ever say you are my son
today? I have begotten.
You and again, I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a
son, but when he again brings the first born into the world he
says let all the angels of God worship Him and of the angels He
says who makes his angels spirits and his ministers, a
flame of fire, but to the sun he says your throne o, God is for
ever and ever. A scepter of righteousness, is
the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and
hated lawlessness. Therefore God, your God has
anointed you with the oil of gladness, more than your
companions. And you Lord.
In the beginning, laid, the foundation of the earth and the
heavens are the work of your hands.
They will perish but you will remain and they will all grow
old like a garment like a cloak. You will fold them up and they
will be changed, but you were the same and your years.
Not fail. But to, which of the angels He
has he ever said, sit at my right hand, until I make your
enemies your footstool, are they not all ministering Spirits sent
forth to minister for those, who will inherit salvation.
So this is the first chapter of the book of Hebrews.
And the reason I started here with this study is, I was
wanting to cover some things later in the book of Hebrews.
And as I tried to back up and getting context for those
comments, for those words, that Were written.
I kept backing up further and further to get better context
because it all builds so well. And so I said, why don't I just
start at the first chapter? And I'll start working through
the book of Hebrews, from this point, the next few times I
speak. So Hebrews chapter 1, a quick
little introduction to it, it was written to Christians who
are formally Jews, so Hebrews are Jews, that's the same thing,
one in the same. And so he's writing to
Christians who used to be Jews and these people are facing You
some difficulties maybe with the length of time that has gone
past after their conversion, maybe they're wanting to drift
back into Judaism. Because I mean, think about it,
that is their comfort zone. If you came from a system where
your whole culture, your whole nation is built around the
judaic system, then it was hard for them to leave.
And even once they're converted, it was easier to go back to
where they'd always know. And so the writer of Hebrews we
don't. Know who it is.
The first verse starts out by saying God and and so God is as
the is the spiders inspires these words, but we don't know
necessarily who wrote them, and that's not important because
this is God's word and he's instructing these Jews to keep
focusing on Jesus. And this first chapter is all
about that, as we read, it is lifting up Jesus.
It is magnifying Jesus so that they can see that.
Hey, when Walk away from Jesus. If you are feeling like you
you're just going to kind of go back to whatever you used to do
and serve God the way you were trying to serve God.
He's saying you can't just walk away from this man.
Jesus because he is so much more than a man and he's so much
greater than even an angel and we'll talk about that and more
in a little bit. So one of the overarching things
I want us to keep in mind as we go through the book of Hebrews
and teaching, we call these enduring understandings that we
want, you know, the audience to leave with is Is that we must
always be ready to change because God has called us to
change despite any discomfort we might face.
And that change is based on one God's will.
So number one, we follow God's Will and we do what will be best
for the growth of his people? Now that applies personally, and
implies, as it applies, as a church today that we must first
follow God's will. No matter if it makes us
uncomfortable and we must do. What's best for the congregation
within that? No matter.
How uncomfortable it may make us and going back to the things we
used to do and throughout the Book of Hebrews since these,
this is written to Jews, who knew the Old Testament, there's
going to be a lot of old testament old testament
references. So let's begin with verse 1.
We're going to walk through these verses and I'll spend more
time at the beginning, but will speed up as we work toward the
second half. So verse 1 says, God who at
various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the
father's by the prophets. So it's already established for
these people, they're on Common Ground.
They both know, they all believe in God, and they believe
together that God has spoken to their forefathers.
This is He established ground. He didn't need to recover this.
So it's important that whenever we teach we understand our
audience, as I've gone through the teaching, credential, that's
one of the most important things.
They teach us is know your audience know where they're at
and so since they already believe in God, they know that
God has spoken to them. He's alluding to this and he
mentions these various ways God in the Old Testament.
Spoke to his people and some very interesting and even
strange ways and Exodus chapter 3, he spoke to Moses by a
Burning bush. It says now Moses was tending.
The flock of Jethro his father-in-law the priest of
Midian and he led the flock to the back of the desert and came
to Horeb the Mountain of God verse 2 and the angel of the
Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a
bush. So let's keep that in mind as we
remember the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of
fire. So Moses was spoken to through
an Angel that's going to be important later.
So it's from the midst of a burning bush.
So he looked and behold the Bush was burning with fire, but the
Bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, I will now turn
the side and see this great sight why the bush does not
burn. I tried to find a real life
picture of someone burning a bush.
So it would be more. I don't know what we might see
but obviously I couldn't find a picture of a bush that was not
consumed when it was being burned.
So if you burn a bush, it's gonna have black smoke.
It's going to have the the the reaction that's created will
create things that. Our part of the burnt, the bush
being burned up. It must have had some foliage
honest till I don't know, but God has spoken in some strange
ways verse 4. So when the Lord saw that he
turned aside to look, God Called to him from the midst of the
Bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, here, I am then he
said do not draw near this place.
Take your sandals, off your feet for the place where you stand
is, Holy Ground. So God has spoken to to his
people through a burning bush. He spoke to Elijah.
Up by a still Small Voice in First Kings chapter 19.
It says, then he said this being God, go out and stand on the
mountain before the Lord, and behold the Lord passed by.
So, and so Elijah standing on this mountain and behold the
Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the
mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord.
Can you imagine seeing that? But the Lord was not in the
Wind. It's interesting and after the
wind, an earthquake. So, so then came this, the other
strong Windows ripping apart rocks, and you have an
earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake and after the
earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
And after the fire a still Small Voice, he spoke to Elijah
through. This still Small Voice verse 13
goes on to say, so it was when Elijah heard it.
Then he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood
in. The entrance of the cave,
suddenly a voice came to him. It to came to him and said, what
are you doing here? Elijah, so another fascinating
circumstance. They would have remembered
thinking back on the strange, and mysterious ways God, had
spoken to his people and a few more in Isaiah chapter 6.
He spoke to Isaiah by a heavenly vision.
We read that last week and our during the sermon, he spoke to
Hosea by his family crisis, that's really strange.
God has Hosea Marry a prostitute.
And then he creates a picture to show God's people.
This is what I see when you marry come to marry me as your
God and to follow me. And then you'd always turn back
and you go back to your prostitution.
That's a strange situation, but it's one of those various ways.
They could have remembered and he spoke to Amos by a basket of
fruit and Amos chapter 8, verse 1.
So when we get to Hebrews, there's various ways God has
spoken to his people. Route from the father's to the
father's, by the prophets. But in verse 2, he has in these
last days spoken to us by his son, God through a basket of
fruit through a burning bush through a whirlwind or through
the still Small Voice. All these things might have been
interesting mysterious and Reflections on God's power and
ability the greatest and power. The greatest in how personal
this communication is is the method of delivering his word by
his son. Now he was not Just the spoken
word, bringing the message, he was the word.
And so he lived that word and God spoke to us by Jesus is
actions and he spoke to us by Jesus's words themselves and
this isn't these last days. This isn't the time where we
are, this isn't the Messianic age and which Jesus has come, he
has died. He is risen again.
And now Jesus can come back to receive his own at any point.
It maybe a long age but this is the time these last days that we
are in now. And so he's going on next to
say, he's going to give a Sevenfold description
description of the sun. I don't know if 7 was intended
to be one of God's another place where he had his favorite as
special number seven for completeness.
But there are seven things here, it's going to describe Jesus.
As the heir of all things. It's going to scribe him as the
maker of the world's, it's going to describe him as the
brightness of his glory. The express image of his person,
the upholder of of all things, the purger of sins.
And the one who sits at the right hand of the Majesty on
high, let's get into those So, in verse 2, it says, whom he has
appointed heir of all things being Jesus.
So, as he's starting to introduce Jesus, and to, lift up
Jesus to these Hebrews, this is a opening line of all opening
lines. He is the heir of everything.
So he's not just a common man that you can leave through whom
also, he made the world's. So this word, world's does not
just mean the physical Earth that we live on or the physical
planet. That are around us.
It actually comes from the Greek, a on or something.
I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's where we get our
word eons, he didn't just make the physical space.
He made the time, he made the ages, he made all the dimensions
that we live in and he's saying through who through this man.
Jesus through this Creator. Jesus, he made the ages.
Good. This is similar in John 1:1 that
we read. Where it says, in the beginning
was the word and the Word was with God.
And the Word was God. This is Jesus, he was in the
beginning with God. All things were made through him
and without him nothing was made.
That was made in him was life. And the life was the light of
men. So this is not unique to
Hebrews, but this Hebrew writers trying to show them the
magnitude of Dove Jesus. And to show them that he's not
just he's not a secondary figure, he's not someone that
can just walk past. He is this man that he is the
creative force that they have known from the beginning.
Verse 3, he goes on to say, who being the brightness of his
glory and the express image of his person.
So when it says that Jesus is the the brightness of his glory
that comes from a word pal gasma, I believe that it is in
Greek but it basically means it's the radiance that comes
from a light source. So if you have a light source
like a light bulb or even like our Solar Sun, you have the
light source itself and then you have the radiance that comes out
for me. You have the Rays of the sun,
you have the light coming from a flashlight and he's saying that
that the radiance coming from the light of God is Jesus
himself. And that's important to note
because your light source. Has no use if it's trapped
within itself. If you have a flashlight with a
covered end, that light does no good for anyone who's trying to
use it. Jesus is the radiance that comes
from the father and he reaches us and when reading this, I was
thinking about Isaiah where it talks about Jesus being the arm
of the Lord, it does no good for us to have a great God up in
heaven, to have a great God who created us If you stepped away
and did not have a way of reaching Us in Isaiah describes,
Jesus as the arm of the Lord, the arm that reaches down to
Mankind and gives man access to God and his plan, that's the
radiance. It's the radiance that makes it
to us so that we can experience it and to know him Going on
verse 3 says, who being so finishes off by saying and
upholding All Things by the word of his power.
I missed the express image, the express image he's basically
saying he is an exact replica you might say so he's not just
like he's not like a knockoff version of the godhead.
Jesus is the express image. If you could took a stamp and
you stamped it you see the exact image that was on the stamp
Jesus is spiritually the exact. Image of God.
Okay. Then it says, upholding All
Things by the word of his power. So I don't know if the writer
was intending to bring in Greek mythology here, I don't have any
knowledge of that. But in Greek mythology, there
was, they had this, this Titan gardening, Atlas, And if you've
heard of the atlas, I think it's the weightlifting competitions,
that's where they get this idea of one who holds up the world,
atlas was tasked with holding up the Earth for forever and ever.
He was the one who had physically stand there and hold
the Earth above him, to keep it suspended, and the solar system.
It's almost, it's almost a mockery of these Greek gods.
That you have this, this mythical god.
Atlas, who supposedly would hold up the Earth, but when speaking
of Jesus, he upholds all things by just his word by just the
word that that spoke creation and doing into existence by the
word that gives us life. He upholds all that, he upholds
us. And in the solar system you
might say, he is what's giving us gravity.
He is like Chris said, last week holding all things together,
making everything sustain and survive and actually that word
upholding is better. Probably translate.
Yeah. Translated as maintain or
sustain, he's not just physically holding us up.
He is maintaining and sustaining all the time, his very creation.
Now this reminded me of Colossians 1:17.
Where it says, and he being Jesus is before all things.
And in him, all things consist Network consists.
If you look up in the definition in the concordance, one of the
secondary meanings that has is held together.
Now, the next slide I'm going to show you, I don't know if this
was something that God intended to be focused on and not
definition of consists being. Pain and sustained and held
together or if this is is just another way that creation points
to God. But this is, I'm going to show
you a picture under a microscope of a thing called laminate.
This here is a, is a protein that exists in our body and our
cells called laminate. And laminin is a cell adhesion
molecule. It's basically like rebar for
our body. So if you have concrete without
rebar, your concrete is going to crack and it's going to crumble
without the support, the the tensile strength of the rebar,
the iron going through the material and concrete would
crumble and crack. And so, we make concrete with
rebar in it. In our bodies, laminin acts as a
cell adhesion molecule holding all of our cells together.
And this is what it looks like under microscope.
That is an actual image of laminate and this is from some
scientific website. You can go to the Chinese
entities websites. They have the same picture and
what you see. What I see is one long leg and
three short legs. That resembles across to me.
The beauty of this. Whether God intended this or not
is that our bodies are literally held together by A protein that
is in the shape of a cross. You take that for what it's
worth. I don't think that's an
accident. I don't believe their accidents
when it comes to things like this.
But without this, our bodies would literally be a puddle of
cells on the floor. And it goes from the smallest
things like this. If you look out into the biggest
in the furthest reaches of our universe, This is a sight you'll
see. This isn't the middle of a
Whirlpool Galaxy seeing from the Hubble telescope.
This is from NASA's website. In the middle of a Whirlpool
galaxy far. Far away in the middle of a
black hole, they zoomed in far enough and they see a an image
that looks like a cross. In him, all things consist in
him, everything was created, that was created.
And whether we go down to the smallest, molecular level of our
bodies or into the greatest reaches of our universe.
I can see one long leg and three short legs.
It looks to me either like a man or like a cross glory and praise
to our God, into the Sun going on, in verse 3, upholding All
Things by the word of his power. When he had by himself purged,
our sins sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
The word purge means to get rid of someone or something of an
unwanted quality condition or A feeling, we all have those
unwanted qualities in ourselves. We, we have things that we don't
like about ourselves and the greatest thing that we have that
we could want to get rid of, is our own sin, our own messed up
in this, and Jesus was the only way for us to get that out.
We've got that unwanted quality, those unwanted stains in our
life. And Jesus Purge that out.
He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high that right
hand is significant especially in those days.
Because the right hand was not just a place for him to stand as
a servant. Or right hand was was an equal.
He was right there with you. That's not where the servants
stood, that is where the one with authority and power, stood
at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Verse for having become so much better than the angels as he has
by inheritance obtained. A more.
Excellent Name than that. So, Jesus has been described as
the one who's had the power from the beginning.
John 1 verse 1, in the beginning was the word was the Word was
God. The word was with God.
Jesus has always been there and had that power.
He is eternal. But it also says that he has
become so much better than the Angels.
Jesus had to come to Earth and he proved himself.
So he is great in, in the innate qualities that he has, he has
great, which it says here, he's by inheritance obtained, a more,
excellent Name than they. So, inheritance from the father,
he has been given that by the father.
So not only is he does he have it in himself.
He is also validated by God. Father himself, which is what
these Jews would have needed, right?
This is this is God, we know. So, who is this man here?
He says, God himself has given him an inheritance and a more
excellent Name than that, and he's going to talk more about
God's blessing on Jesus and a little bit.
And he is also, you might say earned his stripes.
Both physically are both literally and metaphorically on
Earth and Hebrews 2:10. It says, for it was fitting for,
Him for whom are all things and by whom are all things.
And Britney bringing many sons to glory to make the captain of
their salvation. Perfect through sufferings, he
is innately great. But he also became great he
proved himself And as have has obtained, that excellent name
and done exactly what we are doing here.
And he is still the all-mighty worthy God.
Now verse 4 says, he has become so much better than the angels
as he has by inheritance obtained.
A more excellent Name than they. So, that Angels is an important
details, including so why all of a sudden are we talking about
angels in light of how great? Is so as I understand from
passages like Colossians 2 Verse 18 and Galatians 1.
Verse 8, the early church had a little bit of trouble with this
idea of angels. They started to seems kind of
worship angels and maybe they were even thanking Jesus himself
as an angel. And this passage is one of many
that's trying to combat that idea.
He is saying that he has become so much better than the Angels,
okay? So let's talk a little bit about
angels when we and modern culture, think about angels, we
have this Hallmark mentality. A lot of times we have Hollywood
maybe in our heads of these cute little floating creatures but
that is it couldn't be farther from the truth of what angels
are in the Bible. So you might you might have seen
some statues like this, maybe you even have some supposed to
be Cute little baby angels in your yard but are our God has
has helpers. Has ministering spirits that are
actually quite different from these pictures and First
Chronicles chapter 21 verse 15 and 16.
We here where these angels are involved.
So, whatever picture you have in your head, create a blank slate
now, will clear the Clutter and let's create an image of an
Angel based on what we read here.
It says. And God sent an angel, an angel
one, Angel to Jerusalem to destroy it.
Jerusalem was one of the great cities and it says, God sent one
Angel to destroy the entire city.
But as he was about to destroy it, the and saw and was sorry,
over the Calamity and said to the destroying Angel, it is
enough now, relax your hand. So we note there that God is in
control of these angels, they are under his power, and the
angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing, floor of
ornan, the jebusite, then David lifted up.
His eyes saw, the angel of the Lord, standing between Earth and
Heaven. With his drawn sword, in his
hand and stretched out over Jerusalem.
I can't imagine what that looked like.
There's different times in the Bible where God, God, chooses to
let his people see physical forms of his power.
And this is one of those in the Old Testament.
We see where God had blinded their eyes, and then he opened
their eyes. Like when Balaam was riding the
donkey, the donkey stopped and he kept getting further and
further away until God, finally showed Balaam what was in front
of him and it was Angel, ready to wag his head off.
God, every once in awhile showed physical manifestations of his
power even though they were not physical.
Beings angels are not these finely sculpted human forms.
God has given them physical forms of times and what it made
Jesus do or what it made David do.
So it says Ben David and the elders covered with sackcloth
fell on their faces. Angels are the Servants of God.
Who have at times. Had to be murderous destructive.
Scary forces for God. That is quite different than
this picture. Now, why is that important?
Well, let's talk a little bit more.
Let's build this picture, even more of an Angel.
So, Revelation 10 verse 1, through 4.
I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven.
So this is a strong one clothed with a cloud.
So he's close to the cloud and the rainbow was upon his head
and his face was like the sun and his feet, like pillars of
Fire. And he had in his hand a little
book, which is open. So you have this seemingly,
massive powerful, being with a little book in his hand.
Open, he placed his right foot on the sea and his left on the
land and he cried out with a loud voice as when a lion roars
and when he had cried out, the seven peals of Thunder, uttered
their voices. That is an extraordinary scary.
Awesome image many times. When the Bible describes
Spiritual Beings, it describes what they are like not what they
look like. So when we think spiritual being
is think what they are, like, not what they look like and he
was like, this incredible being that is much different than a
fluffy little baby. So the reason of for doing this
is that these Jews knew that the Angels were great, They had they
didn't have a Hollywood Hallmark version of an Angel.
They knew the destructive, the great, the ministering power of
angels, and their ability to serve God and His judgments.
And angels will had a role in delivering God's word.
They revered the Old Law, they revealed the Old Testament and
all the words that were sent to the prophets.
And so, they really had a pretty decent view of Angels in that,
man. They are great.
They were But he's talking about angels to show them that they
are not even near the same level as Jesus.
Because he's going to say in a minute, these guys just flock
around and worship Jesus. You think angels are great verse
54 to which of the Angels did he ever say you are my son today?
I have begotten. You and again I will be to him a
father and he shall be to me a son.
He never said that to any angels, angels are described in
job as the sons of God. Lowercase s meaning that you
know, they're, they're God's Offspring.
God created them. We can be sons of God, we can be
God's people, but I I will beat you a father and I'll beat you a
son. He hasn't said that sin Angels
or does Jesus. His only begotten son, verse 6,
but when he again brings the first born into the world being
Jesus. He says let all the angels of
God worship Him. And of the angels, He says, who
makes his angels spirits and his ministers, a flame of fire.
The angels Don't worship. Jesus doesn't worship among the
angels as kind of one of these angels before God, Jesus is part
of the godhead that they come to worship.
Jesus is not God. The father Jesus is not God, the
spirit. He is God, the son.
He is worthy of the praise of the angels and he's worthy of
our praise. And Psalm 104 is where we get
this. These are Old Testament
passages. He's quoting here when he's
talking about, let all the angels of God worship him when
you go to the references. If, when you're studying your
Bible, you're wondering where these italicized quotes are
coming from. There's usually a key at the
bottom where it has the verse number and a letter next to it
and tells you where it's from, this one's from Psalm 104.
Psalm 104 says bless the Lord O My Soul, O Lord my God, you are
very great. You are clothed with honour and
Majesty, who cover yourself with light as, with a garment who
stretched out the heavens, like a curtain.
He lays the beams of his upper chambers and the waters who
makes the clouds, his Chariot, who walks on the wings of the
wind who makes his angels Spirits, his ministers, a flame
of fire when I read the Old Testament, I don't think about
this as being Jesus. I'm just thinking, you know,
maybe God the father, but Hebrews tells us that was
talking about Jesus. It says, I'm the son, he says
all these things first for who make his angels Spirits, his
ministers, a flame of fire, you who laid the foundations of the
earth, so that it should not be moved forever.
Do we see Jesus in this light as this great Eternal creative
Force? The Hebrews did not see him that
way. They thought he was someone
lower than they could leave and not worry about.
He is great. And if you want to read the rest
of the someone of for, I'm not going to do that now, but it
continues to compound the greatness of our God.
And we learned, that's about, Jesus Revelation. 5 tells us
this, then I should saw a strong angel.
Proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the scroll
and to loose it seals and no one was in heaven or on Earth or
under the Earth able to open the scroll.
So there was salvation that could not be administered, could
not be open. God's gift to his people.
No one in heaven, or on Earth or under the Earth.
Or to look at it verse 4. So I wept this is John the
Revelator writing this I wept because no one was found worthy
to open and read the scroll or to look at it.
First five, but one of the elders said to me, you know, we
Behold The Lion of the tribe of Judah.
The root of David has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose,
the Seven Seals. There was this Bleak picture.
And then, then I looked later in the chapter and I heard the
voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures and
the elders. And the number of them was Ten
Thousand Times, Ten Thousand and thousands of thousands.
So, that one angel, that was able to wipe out Jerusalem, he
was standing above. Of Jerusalem read and knock him
out. There was 10,000 times, 10,000
of angels surrounding saying with a loud voice.
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and
wisdom and strength, and honor and glory and blessing to these
Hebrews, to us, as we see the greatness of a physically
manifested powerful angel, these bow down in the thousands and
thousands to worship Jesus. Great is his name going on and
Hebrews 1 verse 8. But to the sun he says, so he's
not speaking angels. He speaking to the sun, your
throne, o, God is forever and ever, a scepter of
righteousness, is the scepter of your kingdom.
You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.
Therefore God, your God has anointed you with the oil of
gladness more than your companions.
This is another Psalm reference to Psalm 97.
They weren't connecting these Psalms to Jesus and he was
helping them do that. Verse 10, only a couple more
verses and you Lord. In the beginning, laid, the
foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of your
hands. They will perish but you remain
and they will all grow old like a garment like a cloak.
You will fold them up and they will be changed, but you were
the same. And your years will not fail.
And it's not like, you know, when Jesus set up his Covenant,
they were converted to him. It's not like he kind of
degraded and they had to, they had to depreciate him over time
because he started to get less and less.
It says no, you will fold them up.
You and they will be changed, but you are the same and your
years will not fail. You're not going to get weaker.
Just because we, and the early church have now, been around for
a few years. Maybe, 30 years, right, after
writing this, After 30 years, he hasn't come and so he's kind of
getting weaker. We can't really know if we trust
him. Well, us here at plans Road two
thousand years later, he is the same He is being worshipped and
he is great. And he has the power we've read
about and he will not fail. He is still sitting in heaven
with the same power. He always had He's been merciful
to let us do our thing for a while to let us decide what
we're going to do. He is there and he is here with
us today. Verse 13.
But to, which of the angels, has he ever said, sit at my right
hand, until I make your enemies your footstool, till I make, all
these people who are fighting against you just something, you
kick your feet up on. He never said that to any
angels, are they not? Are these angels, not all
ministering Spirits sent forth to minister for those, who will
inherit salvation. So, this brings our chapter of
the clothes, I love this last line.
He's talked about angels to give them a gauge for how great Jesus
is. He's talked about the power or
we've talked about the power. He has as God.
Now, all these things that are so much greater than you, all of
these things that could wipe you out with.
The snap of the finger. Do you not see that?
All these are just sent to minister to you and towards
salvation? I can barely lift a couple
hundred pounds, there's not much I can do especially compared to
all these things. But all these great forces are
working towards giving me salvation and tour giving every
one of you salvation. Do you feel important this
morning? Do you feel valuable this
morning? Should.
All these great forces. Are working towards providing
help for those who will inherit salvation through administering,
the word that we're reading and our God be with us all the time.
I hope this morning that we see the greatness of Jesus and I
hope we see today that we are valuable to him and that he is
the same God who is always been here and it was with us this
morning as we worship him. As Chris said last week, how
great is our God We thank you for listening to our podcast,
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