Address—C. Hendricks
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Turn with me tonight to Hebrews chapter 1, Hebrews chapter 1, and verse. One God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past 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 worlds.
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 anytime Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Then 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 Angel 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.
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 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?
What a glorious chapter this is.
How it exalts and magnifies the person of God's beloved Son.
Hebrews was written.
To Jews, to Hebrews. It was written by the Apostle Paul and he doesn't write as an apostle. He doesn't even mention himself. In fact, he speaks in the 3rd chapter of the Lord Jesus as the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.
And so he he retires from that position that he had as a scent of God to to the Gentiles and apostle to the Gentiles. But here he's a teacher.
And he's teaching from mainly much of the Old Testament Scriptures and alluding to that which these these Jewish believers now those that had professed to receive the Christ as the Messiah.
Jesus as the Messiah.
He's bringing before them.
These precious things which they would understand and know.
You have to really have some some grasp of the Old Testament, some knowledge of the Old Testament in order to understand Hebrews. And he's writing to a, to a people here that had a Jewish heritage and had embraced outwardly Christ as Savior and their Messiah.
Beautiful how it begins, begins with God.
God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners.
Spake in time past unto the Fathers, by the prophets. They would understand that.
Referring to the Old Testament scriptures which they they knew and revered, held in high esteem, and how that God had spoken to that people over and over again many times in many ways and.
He'd spoken to the fathers, their fathers, those that they revered and looked up to.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses and David and Solomon, you could go on and on and name the ones that were looked up to in the Jewish.
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God had spoken. The Old Testament is filled with God speaking. Thus saith the Lord. You get that expression over and over again in the prophets. Thus saith the Lord.
But now it's not just speaking through a prophet.
Now it says hath in these last days are at the end of the times when the prophets were predicting the coming of the Messiah. Now that that time had come, God at the end of these days. It's a, it's an it's a technical expression introducing the Messiah himself.
The end of these days God has spoken unto us.
By his son.
And the new translation by Mr. Darby, he has it in the person of the Son. In Son, literally. It's not God speaking through a prophet.
Some secondary source, so to speak, but God himself speaking in the person of the Son, the one who came down here, the one who became a man. In this first chapter of Hebrews we have His divine glory brought out so beautifully.
And so wonderfully in the 2nd chapter, his blessed humanity and.
In his work and what he accomplished when he became a man and some of both is in both chapters, but especially in this beginning of of Hebrews. Hebrews was written to show the the greater things of Christianity over Judaism.
Infinitely greater.
Judaism contained the shadows.
The predictions of a coming Messiah and they weren't even clear in the Old Testament, though their scriptures, if they searched them accurately, testified to who he is and that he was not only to be a man, but that he was God over all, blessed forever.
Well, the New Testament scriptures bring this out very, very vividly and especially.
A chapter such as this.
Do we have to remember now He starts out with the sun God speaking to us, not through some prophet, Jeremiah or Isaiah, Ezekiel, any of these prophets of the Old Testament, but he's speaking himself personally in the person of his Son.
He hath in these last days, or at the end of these days, when the sire would be introduced.
He's spoken in Sun.
Whom he hath appointed heir of all things.
This one who had been presented to them.
Jesus the Christ.
The one whom their people were guilty of having crucified.
Clamored for his blood when Pilate would have released him.
And they demanded that.
Barabbas be released to them. Well, what then shall I do with Jesus, whom ye call Christ?
Let him be crucified, was their response.
Let him be crucified.
They would not have him.
And what Hebrews is?
Is doing is presenting Him before them, Him who He is and what He has accomplished and how that He eclipses all of the prophetic scriptures that pointed forward to Him as the coming 1 He has now come.
In the person of the son.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
This is Jesus was written on that cross, the king of the Jews.
Well, he's presented to them here as the Son, the Creator.
God has appointed him air of all things. Everything will come under His authority and His righteous sway.
By whom? Also he made the world's. That's a that's a technical expression for the universe. He made the worlds, he made the the stars, the galaxies, the constellations, everything. The work of his hands, the work of his. I was reading in one of the Psalms tonight, the work of his fingers. It says another Psalm says he commanded and it was done. He spake and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast.
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And as this this very epistle says in the 11TH chapter, it says by faith we understand that the worlds were framed.
By the word of God, God spoke them into existence. So all of these expressions are given to us. He He made it by his hands, He made it by his fingers, and he spoke it. And here it says, by whom also He made the world's.
These the creator.
The Creator cannot be the creator without being God without being God, and so he's setting him before them.
The law was given to the enter through the disposition of angels, and angels had great a great part in the the old economy of the Old Testament.
And now he's presented as being worshipped by the angels. So much better than the angels.
He's better than any of their He's better than the angels in the 1St chapter. He's better than Moses. He's better than Aaron.
He's better than any of the worthies of Abraham.
Any of the worthies of the Old Testament. He's the Melchizedek priest to whom Abraham gave a 10th.
Of everything.
And what he's setting before these Jews is the glory and the greatness and the supremacy.
Of this glorious person.
The Son of God.
That's why they crucified him, because he said that he was the Son of God. They understood his claim when he said that he was making himself equal with God. And so he was they, they understood it correctly. They understood that claiming to be the Son of God is claiming to be on inequality with God, not inferior, but equal with God.
So he's the creator, he's the heir of all things. He's the one who made the world's.
Who being the brightness, the effulgence, the outshining of His glory?
No creature could be the effulgence of the brightness or the outshining of the glory of God.
Now this is all predicated of God. The word Father doesn't appear.
It's God that he is is glorifying.
And whom he is exalting here?
The bright shiny, the out shining, the brightness of his glory.
And the express image of his person. Again, I have to correct the expression, and I'm correcting it by the new translation of Mr. Darby's, literally the expression of his substance. And if you have a new translation, read his note on that. He says it is an is. It is a statement predicated of God, not of the Father.
Expression of this person would give the thought that he was the expression of the father. Well, you get that in John 14 where he says.
He that had seen me had seen the Father. That's the truth of Scripture. But that's not what Paul is saying here. He is the expression of the very substance, the very essence, the very essential nature of God Himself.
Now who could be that?
If he was not himself, God impossible.
A creature cannot be the expression of the substance of God, the essence of God, but this one that he's setting before them.
Is just that.
He's the brightness of his glory, the expression of his substance.
His essential being is what that word substance means.
And upholding all things by the word of his power, not only did he make the worlds and speak them into existence.
But he upholds all things. By the word of his power he sustains all things.
It's not like something that it's like the the person that the old watches where they had springs and you wound them up and that set them going and then let them go on their own. That's the idea that some have of the universe that God just wounded up and started everything spinning and the planet spinning and the galaxies and so on, and then he retired.
Not so not that's not what Scripture says. He upholds all things by the word of his power. Should he withdraw that for a moment, we would all perish.
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The very the very breath that I take to give this message and as you sit there and listen to it, the very breath that you breathe is from him.
And he could. If he withdrew that, you would perish in a moment.
This, this is this person, the upholder.
Of all things, by the word of his power now he's infinitely greater than angels.
Angels are merely servants.
And when John in the Book of Revelation, when he fell down and worshipped the Angel, the Angel rebuked him and said, stand up.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a fellow servant. And when he fell down before, when Cornelius fell down before Peter.
Peter told him to stand up. He was just a man. But John makes the mistake. John, the beloved apostle, makes the mistake of wanting to worship an Angel, and he's rebuked for that.
The Lord Jesus received worship. If he was a mere creature, as some have said, that would have been blasphemy.
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. To worship a creature is idolatry and deserves judgment. The Lord is the object of worship in many ways.
Upholding all things by the word of His power.
Wonderful, glorious person we're considering here tonight.
Now, when he had by himself.
Purged our sins. The expression has a peculiar reflexive force to it. He had of himself, and by himself and for himself purged all things.
When he had by himself purged our sins.
Now, again, I'm going to refer to Mr. Darby's translation.
My reference to it brings out the necessity of having a very accurate translation in order to get the real force of what is being said here.
It doesn't say He purged our sins.
Quoted in the new translation when he had by himself made purgation for sins.
The point is not the emphasis on putting our sins away, as a wonderful of truth as that is, and that's certainly a truth of Scripture. But what he's bringing before, before these believers, these Hebrew believers, is that he made purgation for sins. He's bringing before them the greatness of the work.
Altogether apart from its application to you and me.
Thank God it is applied to you and me and our sins are gone. But he's not talking about putting our sins away specifically. He's talking about doing a work of such value before God as to make the purgation of sins possible.
When he had by himself purged our sins or made purgation for sin.
It's the value of the work that is before us.
In this chapter.
And through Hebrews. Take for instance there's another expression in the 9th chapter of Hebrews, if I can put my finger on it.
Yes.
In verse 12 of Chapter 9, neither by the blood of goats in calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. Now you'll notice the translators have added in italics because it's added words for us. But that's not the point of the verse. That's not the point of this first chapter either. The point is not what He did for us so much as what He did.
Value of the work itself.
And so that ought to be, having obtained eternal redemption.
Of course it's for us and later on.
In verse 24 we have it correctly of Chapter 9, for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us. They're the for us ought to be there.
But in verse 12, it shouldn't be there. It ought to be just having obtained eternal redemption, in contrast with the sacrifices of the Old Testament, which had to be repeated over and over and over and over again.
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But his one work.
Accomplished an eternal redemption. And of course we know it's all for us, but first of all, for the glory of God.
And I believe that's the emphasis here for the glory of God, going back to chapter 1.
When he had by himself purged sins, made purgation for sins.
He sat down again. The new translation gives the reflexive force of the word of the verb. He sat himself down on the right hand of the majesty on high. It isn't here that God raised him and sat him down, but he raised himself and sat himself down. In other words, the glory of the person and the majesty of the work is what is before us.
In Hebrews.
He sat down. He sat himself down on the right hand of the Majesty, the Greatness on high.
You have that expression.
Presented 4 different ways at four different times in Hebrews. This is the first one sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. The next one is in chapter 8.
Verse one.
Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum. We have such a high priest who is set.
On the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
Quite an expression.
Again, we have it 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.
And again, we have it in the 12TH chapter.
Verse 2.
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who 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, those expressions is just a little different.
And how beautifully they express what's in the context.
Of the chapter going back to the first chapter now.
Verse 3 again.
Who being the brightness, the effulgence, the out shining of His glory, and the expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat Himself down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Being made again. New translation more correctly taking a place.
So much better than the angels being made. Gives the thought that.
God made himself.
Know this, the more correct rendering is he took a place greater better than the angels.
The angels were very prominent and very revered in their connection with the giving of the law, and with the Old Testament economy of things. And here's one now in contrast with the angels. He took a place so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. He is not an Angel.
As some have erroneously and blasphemously said.
He's not the the highest Angel. He was not Satan's brother as some have. I think the Jehovah's Witnesses say that or the Mormons. I'm not sure which, but absolute absolutely wrong.
He is the creator.
The Sustainer and the Upholder. He is the eternal Son of God.
Whom God has spoken by now, not now. Not now through angelic intervention, not now through prophets of the Old Testament, but God Himself directly speaking in the Person of the Son.
As he hath obtained a more excellent name than they.
He asked by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they now. Verse 5 For unto which of the angels?
Said he at anytime God speaking.
Thou art my son.
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This day have I begotten thee.
Notice those two phrases. Thou art my son. That's a statement of what he ever ever was.
He never became the.
He was always the son thou art. My son is what he. He is in his essential person.
But this day, that's a point in time. Now that's the incarnation. This day have I begotten thee.
Now this word begotten is used in more than one sense in Scripture. When we read of him in John's writings as the only begotten Son, John 316 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. That's not referring to his being begotten in time at all. That's referring to His being of the same essential.
Essence as the Father, as the other persons of the Godhead.
But here.
Thou art my son, a statement of who he ever was this day.
Have I begotten thee, the one who was the Son of God, in whose person God is now speaking to us?
Was begotten in time.
Born of the Virgin.
That's a quote from the second Psalm. Let's look at it.
It's quoted 3 times in the New Testament.
In the second Psalm.
Verse 6.
Well, I'm going to read the whole Psalm. It's so beautiful. Why do the heathen rage?
And the people imagine a vain thing.
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together.
Against the Lord, against Jehovah. Notice it's all capitals there, Jehovah, and against his anointed. Now the word anointed is translated in the Old Testament Messiah.
But that when it says he's the Messiah, he's the anointed.
And in the New Testament, Christ, Christ means the anointed. So the Messiah is the Old Testament equivalent of the word Christ. In the New Testament they both mean anointed, the anointed 1.
Now the king was anointed.
The prophet was anointed and the priest was anointed.
Speaks of him in his characters as in his humanity. Here the prophet, the priest, and the king, the anointed, the Christ.
So it says, these rulers of the earth, the kings of the earth, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, against Jehovah, against God, and against his anointed.
Saying let us break their bands asunder and castaway their cords from us. They did not want to be under the.
US restraint of the Divine Majesty.
And then we read, He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.
I used to think this is the only time that it speaks of the deity laughing, but there's another instance, and there may be more than one. Came across it fairly recently. It's it's always the thought of God laughing at the puniness and the inability of man to thwart any of God's purposes. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Now the father says.
Jehovah says his Father, Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree.
The Lord hath said unto me. Now the Messiah himself speaks. He says, I will declare to the decree the Lord Jehovah had said unto me.
Thou art my son.
This day have I begotten thee. That's the quote that we have in Hebrews 1.
And then?
Jehovah says to the Messiah to.
To the United 1 ask of me.
And I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron.
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a Potter's vessel. Serve the Lord with fear.
And rejoice with trembling kiss the sun, bow to him.
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Lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled. But a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Kiss the sun.
Thou art my son.
This day have I begotten thee. While we're on that verse, I will give you the other instances. Look to Acts 13.
Acts chapter 13, where it's quoted again.
Verse 33.
God hath fulfilled the same.
He's talking about.
The Old Testament scriptures relating to the Messiah.
And he says, God hath fulfilled the same unto us, their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus.
The word again shouldn't be there, it should be in brackets. He raised him up. Now this is not referring to the resurrection, it's referring to his being raised up as a prophet.
Says in Deuteronomy, I think it's 18. God shall raise up unto you a prophet, him shall ye hear in all things. It's that kind of raising up that he's talking about here in that he hath raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Every time you read that this day have I begotten thee, it's referring to his being begotten in time and coming into this world as a as a babe.
The incarnation.
The next verse gets gets the resurrection.
Verse 34 as concerning that he raised him up from the dead.
Now no more to return to corruption. He said on this wise I will give you the sure mercies of David. So when he's referring to the incarnation, he quotes Psalm 2, Thou art my son this day have I begotten thee. When he's referring to the resurrection in verse 34, he quotes I will give you the sure or the faithful mercies of David quotes a different scripture.
And then it says, Wherefore he saith also in another Psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption. That of course another scripture referring to the resurrection.
All right, going back to Hebrews 1.
We saw.
My Son, this day have I begotten thee, and.
Then we have it in Psalm.
In uh.
Acts 13.
Referring to his being raised up as the Messiah on earth.
And in the 1St chapter of Hebrews again.
Uh.
Verse 5.
In contrast with the angels.
He says unto which of the angels, said he, at any time Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. He didn't say that to angels.
And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. In this chapter He's a he's contrasting his glory with that of angels. The last time that's quoted is in the 5th chapter of Hebrews and will just refer to it and then come back here in the 5th chapter, verse 5.
So also Christ glorified not Himself to be made in high priest. Now it's connected with the high priest. But he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, today have I begotten thee.
That's introducing him here below thou art my son is what he always was today have I begotten thee is his coming into time as a as a babe, as he saith also in another Psalm, another place. Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Interesting to compare these quotes of the second Psalm and how they're they're put in different settings in Acts and in in Hebrews one in.
In contrast with the angels and then in the 5th chapter in connection with his priesthood.
OK, going back to Hebrews 1.
And verse 5.
For under which of the angels, said he, at anytime Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
And again now he quotes another scripture.
I will be to him a father.
And he shall be to me a son.
This is a scripture referring to, I believe Solomon the son of David. God says I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. Now in verse 6 and again when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, this is referring to the time when he will come back and be brought into this world and reign as king.
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He saith, and let all the angels of God worship him.
No, He is no Angel. He is no creature. He is God the Son.
And when he comes back as the first begotten into the world to establish his rights here and to set up his Kingdom.
The word is, let all the angels worship him.
And of the angels he saith.
Who maketh his Angel spirits and his ministers a flame of fire? The angels are simply here as servants to do the will of the of God, to do the will of their master.
And they carry that out very beautifully.
But unto the Son he saith the contrast of the Son with the angels.
Thy throne, oh God here is God the Father is not spoken of as the Father, but that's who it is. He's speaking God himself, speaking about his Son, and to his Son he says, Thou art.
He says thy throne, O God.
Is forever and ever. He calls him God.
God the Father calls God the Son, God establishing who he is. I like what one brother said he said survey was taken in the poll was taken in the United States as to who Jesus is and some small percentage or maybe 40% said that he was the Son of God. And then he pursued that a little further to find out what do you mean by the Son of God? He said to him, well, he said I am a son of God is Jesus.
Different than I am, as the Son of God and the man said, well, I guess not.
And the brother said, I assure you.
I am if you knew me and if you knew who Jesus is. There is an infinite distance.
And difference between the two of us.
When he is called the Son of God, the Son of God, not one of the many sons of God by redemption.
Which is what we are. And He is called that. He is unique, the unique, only begotten Son of God. And here God himself speaking, and 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. These are all quotes from the Old Testament Psalms.
Portions of the Old Testament which these Jewish believers would readily know and understand.
And he's bringing the Old Testament scriptures, which they've they outwardly bowed to.
To bear upon the exultation of this person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thou is loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God.
Hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
That expression reminds me of what we let's look at it in Zechariah. Zechariah 12, I think it is.
Zechariah, 13.
And verse 7.
A Waco sword against my shepherd.
This is Jehovah speaking.
Against the man that is my fellow.
Saith the Lord of Hosts.
Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, against the man that is my fellow, my equal, my fellow. God says God, Jehovah says of this shepherd, this Messiah.
But in now in this chapter Hebrews 1. Going back to it, verse 8 again. But unto the Son he sayeth, I throw, No God is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy Kingdom. Thou is loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. In Zechariah 13 God Jehovah calls the Messiah his fellow.
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He is equal 1 with him.
But here the Messiah speaks above or it's spoken above, the Messiah having fellows.
That's because he became a man.
That's because he came into our sphere.
And now he has fellows, those he associates with himself as the eternal Son. He is Jehovah's fellow.
As the Christ, the one who came here and became a man, he has his fellows, all those that believe.
God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
And thou, Lord, in the beginning has laid the foundation of the earth.
And the heavens.
The works of thine hands. Before I comment on that, I want to go back to Romans 8.
To make my point, and I don't think I've made very well in Romans 8.
And the point is.
He is Jehovah's fellow. He is alone in that.
But he has men of many fellows, and we get that in Romans 8 put in a different way.
Verse 29. For whom he did foreknow.
He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. Speaking of you and me, we're going to be like him.
That he might be the first born among many brethren.
Moreover, whom he did predestinate them he also called, and whom he called them he also justified, and whom he justified them he also glorified.
He's the first born among many brethren.
As the first born.
From among the dead in his humanity he rose from the dead. He associates many brethren with him, with him.
As the eternal Son.
He has no brethren.
He's alone.
Alone with the Father and the Spirit in the Trinity.
In his essential glory, but has become man.
He has many fellows and many brethren.
All right, going back to Hebrews 1.
Verse 8 again I love to read it. But unto the Son he saith, God says, Thy throne, O God, God speaking to his Son, and about his Son, and he calls him God.
Is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness. Is the scepter of thy Kingdom.
Thus 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.
Has laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
Says at the end of verse 2, By whom also He made the worlds. And here we have it again. 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 show wax, old as doth A garment, and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed. It's just as as though he's wearing this coat. He takes the coat off, he folds it up, he sets it aside, and they're all changed. That's the universe.
This is the greatness of this person.
The Sun.
Who is God?
Who in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth?
And the heavens are the works of thine hands.
They shall perish.
But thou remainest.
We change, we sing, we change. He changes not. Our Christ can never die.
And they all shall wax old, as doth a garment.
The whole universe is winding down.
The law, the second law of thermodynamics, entropy is increasing, confusion is increasing, disorder is increasing. It is not going the other way like evolution would tell us. It's not going from from a simple thing to a complex thing. Instead, it's going from complexity into simple things. Everything is wearing out. Everything is running down. But here is one that does not change.
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He remains, He's the same. He is God.
They shall perish, but thou remainest, and they all shall wax old as death of 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. Look at Malachi.
Malachi.
These are scriptures that these Jews that he's writing, this epistle to the Hebrews 2 are familiar with, we're familiar with.
Verse 6 of chapter 3 of Malachi.
For I am the Lord, I am Jehovah.
I change not.
Therefore, ye sons of Jacob.
Are not consumed.
I change that.
Go back to the 102nd Psalm for a moment.
102nd Psalm.
This is what he's been quoting from.
Beautiful Psalm of the Messiah.
It says in verse 30 at 23 he weakened Messiah speaking.
He weakened my strength in the way he shortened my days. He was cut off right in the midst of his days.
33 years old, a young man.
I said, Oh my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. And now here comes the divine answer to him. There's a break right at that point in that verse. It's a Messiah addressing God the Father and then God responding, Thy years are throughout all generations. God says to him, of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Yeah, they all shall wax old like a garment, and is a vesture. Shalt thou change them?
And they shall be changed, but thou art the same.
And thy years shall have no end.
That's what he's quoting from here in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Verse 11. Again, 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 ears shall not fail.
Now again he contrasts this, this great, this great person that he's been talking about with the angelic beings. But to which of the angels, said he, God, at any time sit on my right hand until I make thy thine enemies thy footstool.
Did he ever say that to angelic beings? No.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them? Who shall be heirs?
Of salvation.
That's what they are.
They are servants.
Nothing more.
Nothing more than servants.
The 10th Psalm. He's just quoted from that.
They would understand that.
They knew it.
He's using the Old Testament scriptures, bringing them forward in profusion.
To set before them the glories of this person, the Messiah, the Anointed of God, the Son of God.
110th song.
Verse One The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand.
Until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Notice it says the Lord said unto my Lord. It's a Psalm of David. David had brought the wrote the Psalm, and he says, Jehovah the Lord, all capitals said unto my Lord Adonai.
Sit at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Here you have God the Father, the first Lord, Jehovah, saying unto Davids, Lord, who's the Messiah?
Sit at my right hand till I make that enemies thy footstool.
Notice how the Lord Jesus uses this scripture in Matthew 22. Turn to Matthew 22.
Verse 41.
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ?
The Anointed 1. The Messiah.
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Whose son is he?
They say unto him, the son of David.
That's right, he is the son of David.
Remember Bartimaeus? He cried out. Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
That's true, but now the Lord asked them another question.
He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit?
Call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Now that's the 110th Psalm, the first verse that we just read. If David, then call him Lord.
How is he his son?
And that's the mystery of this person.
As the son of David.
That's his humanity.
As the Son of God.
David's Lord. That's his deity.
Did they understand this?
No man was able to answer him a word.
Neither durst any man from that day forth ask him anymore questions.
If you know who he is.
If you are one of the blessed.
And you know who he is, and you could answer the Lord's question.
That the Pharisees could not answer.
You are blessed above all the men that don't know who he is.
To which of the angels, said he, at any time sit down with my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
They know that not all ministering spirits head forth to minister for them who shall be heirs.
Of salvation.
That's what angels are.
There's there are servants. They're servants to God and they serve us.
Minister to us.
But we now are in the inner circle.
Knowing who the Lord Jesus is, the one who spake God, speaking in the person of His Son, the one who upholds all things, created all things, sustains all things, is the air of all things, is the outshining of the glory of God, the very expression of God's substance. This is that glorious person.
That he's been talking about.
Before whom the angels bow and worship. When he comes back, they will worship him.
Worship God. What a chapter.
I.
132.
132 in closing.
The Person of the Christ.
Unfolding every grace once slain, but now alive again in heaven.
Demands our praise.