_THE REVELATION IN JESUS CHRIST_ ‘God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son.’ Hebrews 1:1 To know God must be the great aim of man. Reason says it, and Scripture affirms it. For all things... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE FATHER AND THE SON_ ‘I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son.’ Hebrews 1:5 The question appropriately suggests itself: How was this prophecy fulfilled? How was God ‘a Father’ to Christ?—how was Christ ‘a Son’ to God? I shall only suggest one or two lines of thought. I. GOD H... [ Continue Reading ]
_DIVINE WORSHIP_ ‘Let all the angels of God worship Him.’ Hebrews 1:6 Worship, true worship, in the sense of bowing down before a present Saviour, in the sense of adoring a new-born King, this is a tribute which Christ claims from His servants above all others on the day of His birth. They are th... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE UNCHANGEABLENESS OF GOD_ ‘Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.’ Hebrews 1:12 As against our feeling that we have made our own fate, that our sins have laid such hold upon us that we are not able to look up, the redeeming entry of God upon His disordered world is above all the man... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS_ ‘Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?’ Hebrews 1:14 The word translated ministering is a strictly liturgical one. It means a service of prayer and praise and thanksgiving, and one which the angels render fo... [ Continue Reading ]