THE SOVEREIGNTY OF JESUS

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in Heaven. So He became as much superior to the angels as the Name He has inherited is superior to theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say,

“You are My Son; today I have become your Father”?

Or again,

“I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?

And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says,

“Let all God’s angels worship him.”

In speaking of the angels, He says,

"He makes His angels spirits, and His servants flames of fire.”

But about the Son He says,

“Your throne, O God, will last forever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has set You above Your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”

He also says,

“In the beginning, Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the Heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”

To which of the angels did God ever say,

“Sit at my right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?

Hebrews 1:3-13

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

While we don’t know the sure identity of the writer of the Book of Hebrews, he must have been very well versed with the Jewish culture and history which leads one to believe he was a Hebrew himself writing to fellow Jewish Christians.

One of the key motives of this book’s writer was to reinforce the supremacy of Jesus over all things of the world. We opened this series by reading where God, who once communicated to the Israelites in Old Testament times “through the prophets at many times and in various ways”, chose to speak through His Son Jesus after His birth. This honor of being the divine spokesperson for the Father was just one of many God bestowed on Jesus because the scriptures tell us that God also appointed Him as “heir of all things” and that included the right to be given authority over all things in Heaven and earth (Matthew 28:18).

As we move today to the bulk of what’s left in chapter 1, we find further validation of Jesus and the superiority granted Him by His Father who He was One with (John 10:30). In verses 3 and 4, we find a summation of the Gospel and Jesus’ appointed role in it as He reflected “the radiance of God’s glory” and perfectly represented the being of His Father. Indeed, when it came to God and Jesus, it was the most flawless example of “like Father, like Son that the world had ever known.

Now, we shouldn’t misread this as meaning Jesus had a trouble-free life for the Gospels make it clear it was anything but that. Yes, Jesus ascended to sit “at the right hand of the Majesty in Heaven” but not before He suffered and died on Calvary’s cross, brutally beaten and fiercely persecuted while providing “purification for sins”. It was His destiny, one He fully understood from the very start of His ministry. For only He and He alone was perfectly sinless, the sole person on earth who could serve as the unblemished Lamb of God and be sacrificed to atone for all the world’s transgressions. Gaining total holy magnificence and stature only came to Jesus after He willingly surrendered everything to include His life to fulfill His Father’s will.  

As the writer of Hebrews wrote to the Jewish Christians, he drives home the point that Jesus reigned and ruled supreme over all things on earth and in Heaven which includes the angels, lest anyone feel they were somehow greater to the very Son of God. It’s obvious that some of the believers the writer was addressing had done this and so we find the author using Old Testament scriptures to validate the truth, sharing excerpts from the 2nd, 45th, 102nd, 104th, and 110th Psalms, 2 Samuel, 2 Chronicles, and Deuteronomy. Through these passages, which would have been familiar to the readers, the Word of God plainly delineates the sovereignty of Jesus and how God made the angels subordinate to Him.  

Friends, Jesus, our Savior, still sits on His heavenly throne at the right hand of God the Father, in full eminence over all created things to include the angels. Everything is subordinate to Him in Heaven and on earth, and a day is yet to come when He will come to judge everyone on the earth, the final determiner of who gains heaven and who is cast into Hell.

He and He alone is the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords. Let us bow before Him in humble, utter admiration, giving Him all the honor and glory and praise that He is worthy of, now and forever more.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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