God’s Closing Phrase for His Folks

“Way back, at many instances and in some ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets” (Heb. 1:1). However, the e book of Hebrews tells us, the state of affairs has modified. God’s Phrase has come to us in its fullness not as a collection of propositions or guarantees however as an individual: “In these final days he has spoken to us by his Son” (v. 2). In Jesus Christ, offered to us infallibly within the Scriptures, God basically says about Himself and His everlasting plan, “Right here is My remaining phrase. There’s nothing higher to say.”

That’s the reason Hebrews 2:1 tells us, “We should pay should nearer consideration to what we’ve got heard, lest we drift away from it.” What’s it that “we’ve got heard”? It’s the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which the creator of Hebrews has summarized for us within the opening of his letter. Hebrews 1:2–3 offers us 5 particulars concerning the Son that demand our consideration, consideration, and meditation.

1. Jesus Is the Inheritor of All Issues

In these final days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the inheritor of all issues. (Heb. 1:2)

From all eternity, the Son has had the promise of an inheritance. It’s evident from the start of His life on earth. The angel advised Mary about Jesus, “The Lord God will give to him”—that’s, as His inheritance—“the throne of his father David, and he’ll reign over the home of Jacob without end, and of his kingdom there will likely be no finish” (Luke 1:32–33).

On the finish His ministry, in John 16:15, Jesus affirmed the scope of this inheritance: “All that the Father has is mine”—in different phrases, every part! Because the hymn says,

He owns the cattle on a thousand hills,
The wealth in ev’ry mine;
He owns the rivers and the rocks and rills,
The solar and stars that shine.

And this identical inheritor of all issues, the hymn author reminds us, cares for us. To know Jesus Christ is to share within the guarantees and blessings of this inheritance (Rom. 8:17).

2. Jesus Is God’s Inventive Agent

In these final days he has spoken to us by his Son, … by whom additionally he created the world. (Heb. 1:2)

Paul says of the Son that “all issues had been created by him and for him” (Col. 1:16). And John affirms that “all issues had been made by him, and with out him was not any factor made that was made” (John 1:3). So not solely is every part to be positioned within the Son’s hand, however really, He was concerned in all of it within the first place. Every little thing that’s and was and will likely be has come by Him and is destined for Him.

In Jesus Christ, offered to us infallibly within the Scriptures, God basically says about Himself and His everlasting plan, “Right here is My remaining phrase. There’s nothing higher to say.”

There isn’t a fact that doesn’t have its origin within the Son. No scientist, no historian, no poet has ever mentioned or finished something exterior the bounds that the Lord Jesus set for them earlier than time started. He’s the start line of the world and all we will find out about it.

3. Jesus Shows God’s Glory

He’s the radiance of the glory of God and the precise imprint of his nature. (Heb. 1:3)

God’s “glory” is the seen expression of His presence. Moses requested to see God’s glory on the mountain (Ex. 33:18). This is identical glory that the apostles noticed within the face of Jesus Christ: “We now have seen his glory, glory as of the one Son from the Father, filled with grace and fact” (John 1:14).

Once we see what the Son is like, we see precisely what God is like. That’s why when Philip repeated Moses’s request—“Lord, present us the Father”—Jesus answered, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:8–9). The true and the total character of God is made open and clear to us within the particular person of Jesus.

4. Jesus Upholds the Universe

He upholds the universe by the phrase of his energy. (Heb. 1:3)

The Son, in His function as Creator, was not a watchmaker who wound the earth up and let it go. No, the identical highly effective phrase that created one thing out of nothing really retains the creation going. “In him,” Paul says of the Lord Jesus, “all issues maintain collectively” (Col. 1:17).

There isn’t a fact that doesn’t have its origin within the Son.

Jesus’ miracles reveal this cosmic actuality as by Him, the ability of God breaks into the course of regular occasions. It took solely a phrase for Jesus to calm the storm on the Sea of Galilee, simply because it had taken solely a phrase to create the Sea of Galilee. In awe, the disciples requested, “Who then is that this, that even the wind and the ocean obey him?” (Mark 4:41). He’s the very one who “upholds the universe by the phrase of his energy.”

5. Jesus Purifies and Petitions

After making purification for sins he sat down on the proper hand of the Majesty on excessive. (Heb. 1:3)

As a result of He upholds the universe, additionally it is within the scope of Jesus’ energy to uphold His creation—the top of which is humanity, made within the very picture of God. Most remarkably, He this did by “making purification” on the cross. At a second in time, the creator of time “bore our sins in his physique on the tree, that we’d die to sin and stay to righteousness” (1 Peter 2:24).

Jesus’ humanity was a necessity, however His divine id made this purification doable and completely efficient. A priest of the previous covenant “stands every day at his service, providing repeatedly the identical sacrifices, which might by no means take away sins” (Heb. 10:11). However Jesus “has appeared as soon as for all on the finish of the ages to place away sin by the sacrifice of himself” (Heb. 9:26)—an incomparable sacrifice.

Moreover, in contrast to the clergymen of the previous covenant, Jesus “is ready to save to the uttermost those that draw close to to God by him, since he at all times lives to make intercession for them” (Heb. 7:25). There’ll by no means be a day when He ceases to intervene on our behalf, placing His righteousness earlier than the Father and attributing it to all who imagine in Him as Lord and Savior. There’ll by no means be a day once we can’t draw close to to God in full assurance of religion (Heb. 10:22).

Pay Consideration!

In a pluralistic, syncretistic world, we could also be tempted to say, “No matter works for you!” However the Scriptures haven’t left that path open to us. God’s remaining Phrase has come to us within the particular person of His Son.

“Subsequently,” the author to the Hebrews reminds us, “we should pay a lot nearer consideration to what we’ve got heard” about this Jesus. Once we really feel ourselves starting to float away, we should elevate our eyes once more to God’s glory revealed in God’s Son, who will inherit all issues, who made us, who sustains us, who saved us, and who retains us.

This text was tailored from the sermon “Heed These Warnings” by Alistair Begg.