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Our lives are characterized by repetition.
From the time we were born up through today and until we die, we do the same things everyday.
Everyday we sleep, eat, drink water, brush teeth, take shower, go to the bathroom, etc.
Most of the time in our lives is surrounded by activities that we repeat everyday.
We repeat these things because we have to, we need to.
Another thing that we need to repeat and be reminded of is the deity of Christ.
The author of Hebrews repeats eight times in v 2-3.
As I read this in the screen the highlighted/ bolder portions are these reminders
but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
He is the radiance of the glory of God
A few weeks ago we studied v 2 and learned that Jesus is God’s Son, that He is appointed by God the Father as the heir of all things, the world was created through Him and that Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God.
These are the first 4 reminders of the deity of Christ - and we know that this is part of the truth we need to continue filling our minds constantly and repetitively.
Today we will look at the other descriptions about Christ mentioned in v3.
These are the highlighted in the next slide.
and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
God’s Image
He is exact imprint of His nature, or He is God’s image.
Often when someone mentions the image of God we think of the fact that humans were created in God’s image.
Gen 1:27 says that “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.”
We know and believe this to be true.
But it is a rich idea and concept.
It is simple to understand, and at the same time quite profound and hard to comprehend!
How are we created in His image, since God is invisible and far greater than all of His creation?
There are books dedicated just to this concept and they explain this concept much better than I could try to describe in a few short sentences.
But, here is how I could attempt to summarize it.
God created human beings with attributes that reflect some of God’s attributes, such as we have a spirit, we can have knowledge and wisdom, we love and we have a sense of right and wrong.
These attributes are often called communicable attributes of God, because in a sense God shares some of His attributes with human beings.
Therefore, there is an intrinsic value to human beings, even after the fall, because we were created with some of His attributes.
However, this is not what Heb 1:3 is saying.
Rather it says that Jesus is the exact imprint of his nature.
Jesus is not created in God’s image, Jesus is God’s image.
Hebrews is not the only place in Scripture that says that Jesus is the image of God, Paul says in Col 1:15 “He is the image of the invisible God” and 2 Cor 4:4 “Christ, who is the image of God”
The language of exact imprint used in Heb 1:3 in extrabiblical Greek was the language use for the design on a coin that replicated the die from which it was cast.
So if you would take a coin and look at its cast you would see that it’s the exact same image down to its minute details.
Jesus is the perfect image of the nature of the Father.
Jesus Himself in John 14:8-11 answered Philip’s request to be shown the Father by saying “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Jesus was telling his disciples the same as Hebrews 1:3, I AM (capital I AM OT description of God) I am the exact imprint of the nature of the Father.
Everything in Jesus is a testimony of who God is, His words, His works, His sacrifice, His love, His compassion, mercy and grace.
If you ever come to a place to doubt Jesus’ deity this verse and the words from Jesus in John 14 make it clear that Jesus is God and without Jesus you cannot know God.
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I believe that those of us here know and believe in Jesus.
But do we live our lives like we really know Him?
A lot of people in America will say that they are believers, but live their lives like they do not know God.
Do you live like you know Jesus?
I think often we spend more time with God during tough times.
But what about the rest of the time?
We do the same things everyday, we are creatures of habit, we all have tasks that we do everyday.
We sleep, eat, drink, clean, organize things, work, rest, brush teeth, etc.
What if while we do these things we have a conversation with Jesus?
What if we would invite Jesus to help us with our repetitive work or tasks?
Often when I ask Byron to do something, he says, but why?
So, why should we do this?
First because Jesus is the exact imprint of God’s nature.
We have the privilege to come before Him, to know Him, to have fellowship with Him.
It’s how we will recognize the Father at work and His presence.
But, the author of Hebrews also gives us another reason, because Jesus upholds the universe by the word of his power.
Upholds the Universe
Some of you know that in antiquity people believed that Atlas, a Titan from the Greek Mythology, held the earth on top of his shoulders like a dead weight.
(chuckle) In the 21st century with the development in science people try to understand how the universe is held together.
Physics and Quantum Physics teach us that there are four basic forces in nature.
Gravity, Electromagnetic force, Strong Nuclear force and Weak nuclear force.
Two forces at the level of atoms and two forces at the level of astronomy.
However, even with all the research and study in these forces there is still a lot of unknowns, even with the oldest known force, gravity.
But what if gravity would stop.
We and other things would be floating around, but much worse than that, air and water would lose their attraction to earth and there would be no life without water or air.
We might give names to the forces that keep an atom together and the forces that keep celestial bodies in orbit.
We, as believers, don’t have to look any further than the Bible to answer the question regarding the holding together of the universe.
There are some who would argue but that’s “just faith in an unknown” I would respond then what is believing in gravity other than a faith in the unknown.
But it is Jesus who upholds the universe by the word of his power.
Back to our authority the Word of God.
Paul says in Colossians something similar to the author of Hebrews in
The language of upholding the universe by the word of his power seems to be correlated to Gen 1 where we learn that God created the world by the power of his word.
And applying what we have already learned - that Jesus is the Father’s exact image - it is not hard to believe and understand that He holds all things together.
All things are held together by His power.
He is the force that keep all the forces of nature together.
From the tiniest thing possible, the atoms.
He holds the entirely of the universe together.
For in holding the atoms together, he holds water and air and everything else together.
He is the one keeping us on the ground and making it possible to have air and water and sunshine.
So when we do the same things everyday, sleeping, eating, drinking, cleaning, organizing, working, resting, brushing our teeth, etc, we do these things we have a conversation with Jesus?
What if we would invite Jesus to help us with our repetitive work or tasks?
So, why should we do this?
Because Jesus is upholding the universe by the word of his power.
We can give Him thanks for holding everything together; from the atoms and molecules to the stars and planets, yet.
We lowly created sinful being have the privilege to come before Him, to know Him, and to have fellowship with Him!
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As if this second reason wasn’t enough the author of Hebrews also gives us another reason...
He made purification for our sins.
Purification for sins
There is so much packed in these three words: purification for sins.
The main problem in our world and in ourselves is sin.
Scripture, our consciences and experience testify that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
And of ourselves there is nothing we can do to pay for our sins because the wages of sin is death.
Heb 9:22 says that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
But what man could not do, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us.
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