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God has a Message for Us
When was the last time you can confidently say you heard from God? What did He say?
Is He still speaking?
What is He saying?
If you could hear from God, what would you want to know?
God is speaking good news.
The gospel.
The gospel of God is powerful.
It is shaping a kingdom that will overthrow all the kingdoms of this world.
Is it shaping you and me?
Do you and I understand the gospel?
Are we listening, or do we assume we know already, and we’ve stopped listening?
Long ago, but in these last days (the Messianic Age).
At many times, but in this time.
In many ways, but in one way.
The message came to our fathers through prophets.
But to us, by His Son.
It got much more personal.
(Matthew 21:33-46)
We learn that God is personal.
He can be known.
He wants to be known.
He is not a force, or an idea.
He is a person.
The Message is a Person
2b-4 are all about this person, Jesus, the Son of God.
Jesus is not just the last of a line of prophets.
He has inaugurated a new age.
The message is the same, but the old ways have made way for the new.
The Son speaks to us through His very being and nature.
He has given a final divine word.
This message is consistent with the message God has been speaking for centuries.
Jesus does not contradict anything in the scriptures.
But He is also unique and distinct.
He isn’t just a prophet, He is God in the flesh.
He embodies God.
Eight keys to understanding Jesus
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The Father appointed Him heir of all things (2).
We learn something about God here.
He is sovereign.
He has total authority over all things…and He has put God the Son in legal possession of it all.
Jesus has been put in His rightful place.
Jesus shares the sovereignty of God.
He has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.
2. God created the world through Him (2).
“World” = “the ages”, all temporal things.
He made all times and everything in them.
That means, when God created the universe through the work of God the Son, He knew this time right now, and that you would be here.
He knows you.
He knew you before anyone else, and He has a plan for your days.
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He radiates God’s glory (3).
In all His shining brilliance, power, authority, and truth.
In all His humility, kindness, faithfulness, and love.
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He is the exact representation of the being of God (3).
“Imprint” = like a stamp on a coin.
But this is not just a likeness.
It is the stamp, or the imprint, of the substance of God.
Everything God is made of, makes up the Son.
They share a nature.
Jesus shows us what God’s real being is.
If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus.
5.
He carries all things to their completion (3).
“Upholds the universe by the word of His power.”
“Upholds” = carries along.
“Universe” = all, everything.
Is there anything Jesus does not carry along?
No, nothing.
This is not Jesus standing at a bus stop, holding the world, waiting for something to happen.
This is Jesus, like a powerful running back, carrying the ball toward the goal line.
It is a dynamic image.
Speaking of dynamic, He is doing all this carrying all, everything to it’s completion in God’s plan by His “word”.
He only has to speak for things to happen.
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His atonement for sins is the completion of His work (3).
One of the things Jesus carries along is our sins.
Sin stains and defiles us, but Jesus’ death on the cross was a cleansing purification for our sins.
It carries them away.
7. Jesus has the place of highest honor (3).
We worship Jesus because He has been given the right hand seat, a shared throne, authority with God the Father.
Jesus is to be worshiped.
He is seated because He has completed His work.
8. Jesus is superior to the angels (4).
This may not mean much to you and me.
We don’t think much about angels, they kind of weird us out.
But for a Hebrew reader of this passage, an angel is a being created to dwell in God’s presence and carry out His plans.
The name of a heavenly being told you something about its purpose and nature.
Jesus’ name, “God Saves”, “God with Us”, “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”, take your pick, is better than the angels, because His work as the reconciler of man to God is better.
He is better than all the prophets.
He is better than any priest.
He is better than any heavenly messenger sent by God.
Whatever you can think of that’s good, right, beautiful, powerful, and true, Jesus is better.
As Nacho Libre says, “He’s the best!”
If you want to know God, get to know Jesus.
If you want to know yourself, who you were made to be, get to know Jesus.
What have I learned about God here?
God is personal.
He has a message for us, and it is good news.
In our sin, He has provided for our purification.
In the messy story of our lives, He has provided an end that will provide some eternal good out of it all.
Even though our world is a confusing place, God wants to be known, and He has spoken His message to us.
If God is speaking, how am I listening?
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