Address—C. Hendricks
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Please turn with me tonight to Hebrews chapter one verse one God who at sundry times and in diverse manners.
Fake in time passed unto the Fathers by the prophets.
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things.
By 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 on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
For under which of the angels said he at any time?
Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, and again I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son. And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, and let all the angels of God worship him.
And of the angels he saith, who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever.
And ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy Kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity.
Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
And thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
They shall perish, but thou remainest, and they all shall wax old as doth a garment.
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed.
But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. But to which of the angels, said he, at any time sit on my right hand?
Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them?
Who shall be heirs of salvation?
Very familiar scripture.
I've read tonight.
In order to really understand and appreciate.
This epistle which begins with such a beautiful setting forth.
Of the Person of Christ.
Who he is, what he has accomplished.
We have to understand that the writer was writing to Jews here, to the Hebrews.
To the Israelites.
And to those that who had made a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And there was a danger there that some of them might go back to Judaism.
And renounce Christianity and come to the awful conclusion that Jesus was not.
The true Messiah, after all. And that their leaders.
Were right in crucifying him.
This was the danger.
That he's dealing with in this epistle and he's setting before them. How much better than Judaism is Christianity, how much greater is the Lord Jesus than any of the greats of the Old Testament, any of the angelic hosts, any of those that they could think of?
They I remember when the the Pharisees said.
We know that God spoke to Moses. As for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
That was the that was the mindset of those that were the leaders in Israel who did not.
Receive the Lord Jesus when He came into the sheepfold into the nation of Israel.
Through the door.
Umm. He found his own sheep there, and he called them by name and he led them out.
And this is what he's doing here in the Epistle to the Hebrews is leading his sheep out of Judaism. The natural tendency of their hearts was to cling to the old, to cling to the old order of things. They knew that God had spoken to Moses and given the law. It was a God-given religion. It wasn't a false religion like the Gentiles had, but it was one that God had sanctioned and had given himself.
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But now the true shepherd of the sheep had entered into the sheepfold.
And found his own sheep there, And there are many of the Jews that were not his sheep. And he called his own sheep by name, and he led them out of the sheepfold to follow him.
And he led them into the blessings of Christian truth.
And what he was about to establish based on his death and resurrection and ascension to the right hand of God from which he sent down.
The Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit on earth, a divine person on earth, and a man in the glory of heaven above.
And he brings this out in this epistle.
But he begins with the greatness of his person.
Beautiful to see how he does it. They knew that God had spoken to them in the Old Testament through the prophets, and sometimes through angelic means. But what does he say in this first verse? God, who at sundry times in in diverse manners referring to the Old Testament, now spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.
How often when we read the Old Testament, we read thus saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God Himself, speaking through the various prophets that he had raised up.
Hath in these last days of.
A more accurate translation says at the end of these days, the end of the days in which Messiah was to be introduced.
Messiah had come. This is what they had to lay hold of very firmly. They had to see that all of these scriptures that spoke of His coming the first time were fulfilled in the Lord's first coming.
Some mathematician that there is very good at statistics.
Has calculated the probability that one man could fulfill all of the scriptures that spoke of the Messiah coming the first time by chance, and the number was so infinitesimally small that it was virtually an impossibility.
The Lord Jesus fulfilled all of the Scriptures, came of the seed of David.
He was born of a virgin, he was born in Bethlehem. And you could go on and on and on.
Recounting the various scriptures that were fulfilled at his first coming.
Just as certainly will the scriptures refer to His second coming.
Be fulfilled in their time and way and place.
God, who at sundry times in a diverse manner spake and time passed on to the fathers by the prophets, hath at the end of these days, now that the Messiah has introduced, spoken unto us by His Son in the person of His Son. It's not using a prophet, or not using now an angelic messenger, but God Himself.
Has come in the person of the Son.
God manifest in flesh, the Word became flesh, dwelt among us, we beheld His glory. John says the glory is of an only begotten from with a Father full of grace and truth.
Yes, he came.
First time he came in grace, the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. He came and God has spoken to us, not by some secondary source, some prophet or even an Angel, but God himself speaking and that person the Son.
In these last days, or at the end of these days spoken unto, God has spoken to us.
In Sun, literally in the person of the sun.
And then he speaks of what God has done for that one who became a man. He came flesh. He came to where we were. If He was to reach you and me, if he was to reach us and to bring us into blessing, He had to come to where we were.
He had to become one of us.
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And so he did.
And as we listen to his words in the four gospels as he spoke them.
We are listening to God manifest in the flesh, speaking, God speaking.
In the person of his son.
Whom he hath appointed.
Heir of all things.
Remember in Mark chapter 12.
When the.
The father sent various servants and they mistreated them. They rejected them.
They even put some to death and finally he said. I will send them my son. They will reverence him.
And when they saw him, they said this is the heir.
Let us kill him and seize upon the inheritance, and they killed him and cast him.
Out of the vineyard.
Well, God has appointed this one. They called him the heir, and they were right. They recognized him the.
They seem to have a sense of who he was, as he says in John 7. I believe it is. Ye both know me, and you know whence I am.
And I am not come of myself, but he sent me.
God has made him appointed him heir of all things.
Think of that.
Think of the greatness of this person.
In whom God has now spoken to us directly.
Not by some other messenger, but God himself speaking. He got his appointed him heir of all things.
By whom also he made the world's.
John's gospel says he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. There are young people here in the room tonight. I want to stress this to you. You are in a world that did not know him.
And that does not know him today the world.
Mankind, in his unregenerate, unsaved state, does not know.
This person of whom we are reading.
I know I'm speaking to a company of Christians here tonight and you're not of the world, he said. That they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own, but because ye are not of the world.
Therefore the world hated you, and you will experience this if you are true and faithful to Him, to the one who created the world, but whom the world did not know and does not know. If you are true and faithful to Him, you will find that it will give out the same treatment to you as it gave out to Him.
We have been living in a country where it's been misunderstood that this world, this world system around us in this country is a Christian one. And they are. They've been favorable to the Bible. We can be thankful that God has kept the door open in this land, but we're beginning to feel.
That this nation in which we Live Today is fast turning away from this book and from the one of whom it speaks, the one who has spoken to us in Son, turning away to darkness, turning away from the light to darkness. One has not been born of God and received the Holy Spirit. He is in darkness.
But here was the one who made the world's it says the universe. It's an expression.
That refers to the whole universe made the world's. He's appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world's. Well, just in that verse I was quoting from John 1, He was in the world. The world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, his own things, his own nation, and his own people.
Received him not doesn't say they didn't know him. We saw in that passage in Mark 12 This is the heir. Come let us.
Kill him and seize on the inheritance. They knew him.
They knew they recognized him, but they did not receive him.
And there are many that way today in this scene. They did not receive him. Well, if you've received him.
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You belong to him. You're going to have to learn to stand for him in a world that does not know him and amongst those that will not have him as Lord of their lives.
To stand for him.
Whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also made the world.
This world, the universe, it's a Jewish expression for the universe.
Who being the brightness of his glory, the effulgence, the outshining.
Of the glory of God. No creature can be that. No creature can be the outshining of God's glory.
The one who is that is.
Equal with God the Father and God the Spirit, The Trinity is composed of three divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Trinity is not composed of two divine persons, the Father and the Spirit, and a creature.
Lord Jesus is no creature, He has got over all blessed forever and this is what the Jews had to realize to get ahold of to make their faith rest in that God himself has come spoken to us in Son.
Through being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person. That's not quite correct the way it reads in our King James.
That gives you the thought that he was the express image of the person of the Father.
But that's not really the thought here. I'll read it more literally. The expression of his substance, It's of God, it's of God. Here was one who came and expressed God in his essence, God in his.
Essential substance.
It's not a it's not a word of the Father. John's gospel, we have Jesus as the eternal Son, the revealer of the Father. But here we're dealing with God. God has spoken in Son and he is the expression of God.
Now, no creature can be that all of these expressions, if we enter into them correctly.
We will see that he's talking about a divine person.
The person of the.
The expression of his substance, his essence, his essential being, That's what's meant by this.
They had to come up. They had to lay hold on this, this wonderful truth.
That he expressed the very essential being of God Himself.
And upholding all things.
By the word of His power, it says earlier by whom also He made the world, He created the world, He was the Creator.
He spake and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. Sometimes in the scriptures it says he made the world's by his hands. Another place it says he made the world's by his fingers. It's beautiful to see the the words that the Spirit of God uses to try to portray to us of the, the, the, the handiwork and the the marvel of the workmanship of this creator.
This creator God.
Not only did he create the universe, not only did he speak it into existence out of himself, sometimes it says he, sometimes you hear it said that he created the worlds out of nothing.
Well, there was never nothing that's not good English.
But it's the truth. There was always God.
There was always God.
Just think for a moment before he spake the world's into existence, and the angels were created before this world.
Because it says in the book of Job that when he laid the foundations of the earth.
The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Those are the angelic hosts. They were there first, and they rejoiced at the creation of this scene.
Of the universe.
The angelic beings.
Well, not only did he create at all, he didn't just create it all. Like someone takes a watch and he lines up the watch. This is the old time watch with a spring and a Winder on it, and then he lets it go and lets it run. And God didn't do that. He's not doing that. He's upholding all things, maintaining all things.
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In a factory, you have a factory that's built. We were looking at this tremendous project today about this vast water reservoir that they are building. You think of the tremendous amount of engineering and the workmanship and building of the dams and and all that that they have planned. It's an awesome thing.
But once they get it going, man will not retire.
And let it run by itself.
Know there's got to be maintenance, the equipment has to be maintained and sustained and.
So it is with the universe. God is the great maintenance man.
Say that he's the one that upholds and maintains all things by the word of his power. Should he cease to do that?
There's a verse in the book of Job that says that the only thought of himself.
And withdrew to himself his power. All men would cease to exist in a moment.
The very next breath you take is given to you from Him. The very words and the strength that a man has to deny God and to say there is no God is given to him by the God that He is denying. Otherwise he couldn't even utter those words.
He makes his reign to reign on the just and the unjust and.
Even those that are blasphemers of himself.
He upholds all things by the word of his power.
So he's not only the creator of all things, but he's the sustainer of all things.
When he had by himself purged our sins. Again, I have to correct this a little bit.
The point here is not so much.
Our sins that he put away, but it's the point of the writer is the greatness of the work itself, independent of its application to you and me. When he had by himself made purgation for sins.
That's the work that he's talking about. He's talking him, this wonderful passage of the greatness of his person and the greatness of his work when he had by himself made purgation for sins.
He sat down and again, it's reflexive. It says he sat himself down on the right hand of the majesty on high. It's not as other scriptures say God sat him down, and that's the truth of Scripture.
Romans 6 says he was raised by the glory of the Father. That's the truth of Scripture.
But he also said destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.
And here he raises himself, he ascends, and he sits himself down.
At the right hand of the Majesty on high.
You get that expression found four different ways in this beautiful epistle to the Hebrews.
Here it is. He sat down, sat himself down on the right hand of the Majesty.
On high.
The 8th chapter.
Says now the things verse one. Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum. We have such an high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens.
Again in the 10th chapter.
Verse 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins.
Forever sat down on the right hand of God.
Again in the 12TH chapter.
Verse 2. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith.
For the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Different aspects of truth, but here he sat himself down. It's the greatness of his person and the greatness of his work that is prominently, predominantly before us in this first chapter of Hebrews. He is setting before these Jewish believers.
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The glory of his person and of all that he has done.
And continues to do, upholding all things by the word of His power.
He sat himself down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels.
The other translation gives the thought a little better taking his place.
Not so much that God sat him there, and God made him greater than the angels.
But he took a place.
Greater than the angels?
The angels had a lot to do with establishing the Old Testament economy and the giving of the law.
It was given. Well, let's turn to Acts Chapter 7, Acts Chapter 7, where we have Stephen's wonderful message.
Recounting the history of the nation of Israel and speaking to the.
The leaders there.
And he says in verse 51, Stephen says this is at the end of his message.
Before the council, ye stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost, as your Father's did. So do ye. Which of the prophets have not your Father's persecuted, And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of the just, One of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers, who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
They received the law by the disposition of angels. Again you have it.
In the 3rd chapter I think it is in Galatians.
Galatians, chapter 3.
Verse 19.
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions.
Till the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels.
In the hand of a mediator.
So again in chapter 2 of.
Chapter 2 of Hebrews.
Verse 2 for if the words spoken by angels.
Was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward.
How shall we escape if we neglect so great?
Salvation.
The angels gave the law.
They were instrumental in that.
And they made much of angels in the old economy of things.
And here we have now, going back to the first chapter, verse 4 taking a place.
By so much better.
And the angels.
There are those in Christendom cults that deny that Jesus is God, that say that he was an Angel, the brother of Lucifer, Satan.
That's a wicked lie, and not what the God, the truth of God, tells us here. He took a place much better than the angels, as he hath by an inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
For under which of the angels, said he, at any time thou art my Son.
This day have I begotten the God the Father never said that to an Angel.
This proves, does it not, for those who have their eyes opened, that the one of whom he is speaking here is no Angel.
That's what he always was, never became the Son, was always the Son from all eternity.
This day that's a point in time, this day of I begotten thee. He came into this world begotten in time, born of the Virgin.
And brought him to his own creation. God, now speaking in the person of the Son down here is a man.
Tremendous truth.
Tremendous truth.
For under which of the angels said he at anytime Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? That's the second Psalm he's quoting from. You'll find out in this epistle to the Hebrews. He's not the apostle. Paul wrote it. He's not an apostle in this epistle. He's a teacher, and you see him teaching from the Old Testament Scriptures. Who is the apostle in this epistle? Well, the third chapter tells us.
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In this epistle.
Verse 1, chapter 3. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. The Lord Jesus is the apostle, the sent one of God, and he's the high priest, the one who represents us. As an apostle, He represents God to us as the high priest he represents.
Us to God.
So the apostle.
All who wrote this epistle doesn't write as an apostle. He writes as a teacher, teacher of the Old Testament.
Verse 6 Now again, when He bringeth in the first begotten, well, let me read the verse 5 again. For under which of the angels said he, at any time Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. That's the Incarnation, when He became a man. And again I will be to him a Father, and He shall be to me a Son. That was His whole pathway down here. He referred to Him as Father all the way through.
John's Gospel is the revelation of the Father through the Son.
And so he speaks to him in this way and again, verse 6, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, now that's the future time, that's when he will come back and set up the Kingdom. When he brings in that blessed 1 into the world, he saith, what does he say? But all the angels of God worship him.
So here he's to be worshipped by the angels. You remember John who?
Who wrote the revelation?
Who wrote John's Gospel? In the three Epistles he lay on his bosom, and when he saw that Blessed One in his judicial glory in the 1St chapter of Revelation, he fell at his feet as dead.
And the Lord came to him and touched him, and said, fear not.
I am the 1St and the last I was dead. I'm alive forevermore. And later in the in the revelation, I think it's the last chapter he fell down before the Angel to worship him that was telling him these wonderful things and he said stand up. I am my fellow servant worship God.
One of the greatest proofs that Jesus is God is that he received worship.
From his creatures.
And the angels worship him. He's not an Angel. He's not Lucifer's brother. All these blasphemous teachings are answered clearly. Talk to us and answered from the scriptures of truth.
And of the angels he saith verse 7, Who maketh his Angel spirits?
And his ministers a flame of fire. They are simply servants to do His bidding, and to carry out His will as he directs them.
But the angels worship.
And they are servants.
But verse 8 says, But unto the Son, he saith, Now here you have God's.
God's pronouncement, God's estimate, God's statement as to who this person is.
He is speaking.
To his Son, and he says, thy throne, O God.
Is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness?
Is the scepter of thy Kingdom.
Has loved righteousness and hated iniquity. This is God the Father speaking to his Son, and he calls him God. He says thy throne, O God.
Is forever and ever.
Not too long ago there was a poll taken in the United States and who Jesus is.
Well, many said he was the Son of God.
But then he the one that was pursuing this question, he says, well, I'm a son of God. Am I any different than Jesus?
And the person said no, I don't think so.
And the one that said that, he said, well, if anyone knows me and he knows who the Lord Jesus is, there's an infinite difference between us.
He is the Son of God, not by creation, not by redemption.
But by eternal generation, if I can put it that way, he was always that.
And.
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God speaks to his Son, unto the Son, he saith.
Thy throne, O God.
Godfather addressing his Son, calling him God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy Kingdom.
Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God.
Hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Above, thy fellows turn back to Zechariah. That's the second to the last book in the Old Testament.
Zechariah.
Malachi is the last and as you go back, you come to Zechariah.
Chapter 13 of Zachariah and verse 7.
Awake, O sword against my shepherd, Jehovah speaking.
And he speaks of his shepherd.
And against the man that is my fellow. Now here is God speaking about the Messiah, the Shepherd of Israel.
The Messiah, and he calls him my fellow, my equal. That's the force of fellow.
Saith the Lord of Hosts. The man that is my fellow, the man that is my fellow, Here's a man who is the fellow of Jehovah God himself.
The Lord Jesus, who is Jehovah God but now viewed as a man. He is Jehovah the Father's.
Hello, saith the Lord of hosts, Smite the shepherd, the sheep shall be scattered. That was the cross when he was smitten for our sins. But I, I, I referred you to this because He refers to His son, to the man, the son who became a man as his fellow. All right. Now turn back to Hebrews 1 again.
Verse 9 Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee.
With the oil of gladness above thy fellows, here is the one who is Jehovah's fellow.
God over all blessed forever, who himself as a man has Hallows.
And you're one of them.
And I'm one of them. We are his fellows against the man.
That is my fellow, the Lord says. And here it says, He has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
And thou, Lord, in the beginning.
Has laid the foundation of the earth Well, we read that in the second verse of chapter 1.
He made the world by him, and He upholds all things by the word of his power.
And here again it's stated, Thou, Lord, in the beginning has laid the foundation of the earth.
And the heavens.
The works of thine hands.
His hands made them.
Those hands which he laid upon the little child took them up in his arms, in his hands, and blessed them.
Those hands that he laid upon thee, the leper, and touched him, and he said, I will, if thou wilt Falcons make me clean, I will be thou clean those hands, those blessed hands.
That were pierced. That were pierced.
I think I may have told this story before, but I'm going to tell it again. Some may not have heard it. That was a Roman Catholic lady who was dying of cancer in the hospital and the sister in the Lord visited her and brought her the gospel, wonderful life giving, life saving gospel of the grace of God. She was dying of cancer and the priest came in to give her the last rites.
And she said to the priest, Let me see your hands.
And my hands, he said, yes, let me see your hands. And the priest showed her his hands and she said you won't do the man that forgave my sins has nail prints in his hands.
He had learned.
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To trust the Lord Jesus and only Him.
And though how necessary that is for.
These Jews to see the greatness, the glory, the majesty of his person, and the infinite value of His work for the salvation of their precious souls.
Thou, Lord, in the beginning has laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
They shall perish, but thou remainest, and they all shall wax over stuff a garment.
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up.
And they shall be changed.
But thou art the same.
Thy years shall not fail.
He's speaking to a man.
Jehovah's fellow who has fellows down here and yet.
The one he addresses as God.
Thy throne of God is forever.
Endeavor.
Do you know this person? Do you know him personally?
I don't mean about him.
Talked about many wonderful attributes and characteristics and truths respecting him, but do you have a personal acquaintance with this Blessed One?
You see your personal savior.
That's the question that we have to put to each one of you.
Each one of you children not Does mommy and daddy believe and are they saved? No, that won't bring you in.
You have to believe yourself.
And receive him.
As your own savior.
Thou art the same.
And thy years shall not fail.
He looks at the universe as just like we put on a coat and a vesture and we take it off and we fold it up and we set it aside. And that's that's the greatness of this person. The the language is such to show that that he is infinitely above.
The universe and man talks about these galaxies and all this so many millions of light years away. Well, that's nothing to him. This God that we're talking about is infinite.
Infinite.
Chapter Ends. But to which of the angels said he at any time sit on my right hand?
Till I make thine enemies thy footstool, you remember in Matthew 22. Well, let's turn to it. We have time.
Matthew 22.
And verse 41.
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ?
Whose son is he? Now He's addressing these Pharisees, these doctors of the law, those that knew the Old Testament scripture so well.
And he says, What do you think of Christ? Whose son is he?
They say unto him, the son of David, and they were right. You remember the blind man, he cried out, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. He was the son of David. That was one of the that was one of the many scriptures that had to be fulfilled.
In the Messiah that came the Son of David. They were right. Then the Lord asked them another question.
He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord?
Saying The morgue said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. Where did he say that if culture place here, and turn back to the 110th Psalm. 110th Psalm.
This is what he's quoting.
And notice if the heading of the Psalm is a Psalm of David, so David is the author of this Psalm, and it starts out the Lord Jehovah, all capitals saith unto my Lord David's Lord, who was the Messiah.
Jehovah said to my Lord David says the Messiah, sit thou at my right hand.
Till I make thine enemies hyphen stool.
David says to his Lord, Sit.
Jehovah says to him.
Sit at my right hand.
And David calls.
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Messiah, my Lord, he said to my Lord.
Now this is what the Lord is referring to in Matthew 22.
Verse 43 Again he saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying?
The Lord said unto my Lord.
The Messiah sit down on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Notice the next question. If David then call him Lord.
How is he his son? They said he was the son of David, but David called him his Lord.
He says how can he be David Son and Davidde Lord at the same time?
And that is the mystery, that in this person of the Godhead He is God, Davide, Lord and Man, Davidde, Son. They couldn't answer this, and no man was able to answer him a word.
Neither durst any man from that day forth asked him any more questions.
David's Lord.
David's son is David's Lord.
Verse 13 again of Hebrews one, to which of the angels said, He at any time sit on my right hand?
Until I make thine enemies thy footstool. He never spoke like that way to an Angel.
Are they not all ministering spirits?
Sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed.
To the things which we have heard.
Last, at anytime we should let them slip or slip away from them, and that was the danger of the that these Jews were in of slipping away from these precious things that we have been looking at.
Person and work of Christ and going back to Judaism, so he says.
Solemn warning to them.
We ought to give them more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, the things of Christianity, the things that had been preached to them to take them out of Judaism and bring them into Christian truth.
Lest at anytime we should slip away from them. Apostatize. That's what he's warning against. For if the words spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward, when they disobeyed the law, they were judged.
The law said cursed is the man that continue with not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
And they brought themselves under the judgment of God, he says, if that happened in the Old Testament.
When they broke the law, the holy law of God, how shall we escape for free?
Jews that have received far greater light than they ever had in the Old Testament economy. How shall we escape if we neglect?
So great salvation.
Which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord. Those are the Gospels, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard them, the Apostles.
God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, The book of Acts.
And with diverse miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to.
His own will.
For unto the angels.
Had he not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak? Now he talks about the world to come. He's talking about the millennial earth. The Lord is going to reign over it. He hasn't subjected it to angels.
In the Old Testament, what God did, he did through angels. Now the sun has come. God has spoken in the sun, and now he's going to subject everything to a man.
And he's coming back.
And he?
And he's coming back and he's going to establish his rights in this world. Remember Acts chapter 1?
They went out to the mount.
Of olives.
And he was taken up from them.
And they saw him go to heaven, and now, taken up into the glory, he was a risen man on earth for 40 days.
And then he went to heaven.
And then ten days later, he sent down the Holy Spirit, and Christianity began formally. It was established by the coming of the Holy Spirit and a man in the glory.
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And that's.
Christian Truth.
That's what characterizes this present day.
And in the glory of God.
A man who is not here.
But is risen and glorified and the Spirit of God sent down to unite us, to link us, to associate us to that man in the glory we now a heavenly people. We have a heavenly calling so different from Judaism. Judaism was an earthly people with an earthly calling and a law of commandments and so on pointing forward to a coming Messiah. That Messiah has come they crucified.
He came unto his own. His own received him not. They wouldn't have him.
But as many as received him, to them gave he the power, the right to become children of God.
Even to them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood, not of your earthly parents, because mommy and daddy.
Are saved. That doesn't save you.
Nor of the will of the flesh. You can't see yourself. Nor of the will of man. No one else can save you. Even the one that's brought the gospel to you can't save you. I can't save you. But of God, born of God.
The new birth is a sovereign act of God, as He brings the Word of God to bear upon the conscience of man, and he receives it.
The hour cometh, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God.
And they that here shall live.
Faith cometh by hearing.
Hearing by the word of God when you hear the word of God and believe it.
There's life there, I said. It was said last night that there's no such thing as faith without life and life without faith. They come at the same moment, and it's a work of God's sovereign grace.
Faith is a gift of God, and so is life.
He's the originator of it all.
He hasn't put 2 angels.
The world to communism put the world to come to subjection to angels.
But I'll close with verse 6 and a few verses but one in a certain place testified saying.
What is man?
That thou art mindful of him. He's quoting the 8th Psalm here.
Or the Son of man that thou visitest him, but madest him a little lower than the angels. Thou crownest him with glory and honour did set him over the works of thy hand. There's a man that's been set over all things. He's the heir of all things. Everything is in subjection to this blessed man. First man miserably failed. The second man, the last Adam. He's the man of God's counsels.
Him being delivered by the determinant, counsel, and foreknowledge of God, Peter said, Ye have taken in with wicked hands, have crucified and slain.
But God raised him from the dead.
Gave him glory.
Thou has put all things in subjection under His feet, for in that He put all in subjection under Him. He left nothing that is not put under Him. But now, right now, we see not yet all things put under Him. We don't see it yet. The Kingdom hasn't come yet, but it's coming. But we see Jesus.
Who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death. That's the truth these Jews had to realize. He had to die, He had to suffer. He had to go into death before the Kingdom could be established. They were looking for a king to come in power and glory and establish them as the chief of the nations, the head of the nations, without the sufferings that he underwent on the cross.
Little taking into account their moral state and their need of a suffering savior before there could be a reigning ruling savior.
We see not yet all things put under him, but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man.
For it became him God, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things?
In bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Oh, how the Jews had to learn this truth.
They stumbled over that.
They stumbled at the stone that was on the earth, and they stumbled on that, the stumbling stone, Christ in his humiliation.
They couldn't put that together. They were for a reigning Christ, Christ in glory. Well, he's coming. But first he had to die. He had to suffer.
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For both he that sanctifieth, that's the Lord Jesus, and they who are sanctified, that's all, that's us are all of 1.
One nature.
One life.
Or which causes not ashamed?
To call them brethren.
Well, we'll close there.
May God bless his precious what a person, what a person we have before us.
Let's sing hymn #14 in closing.
Him #14.
Park 10,000 voices crying Lamb of God with 1 accord.
1000 thousand Saints replying wake at once the echoing chord.
Brightness of the eternal glory.
Shall thy praise on uttered lie? Who would hush the heaven sent story?
Of the Lamb who came to die, came from Godhead's fullest glory.
Down to Calvary's depth of woe.
Now on high we bow before these streams of praises ceaseless flow sing His blessed triumphant rising, seeing Him on the Father's throne, Sing till heaven and earth surprising reigns The Nazarene of.
179.
Brightness of the Eternal.
Glory.