JESUS, THE FINAL AUTHORITY
Hebrews 1:1-9
THE OLD TESTAMENT , THE AGE OF THE LAW
V:1. \” After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets.\”
A. The Old Testament is the recording of God\’s Word to the Jews.
1. God used 30 different people to record the Old Testament over 1500
years starting around 1450 BC.
2. Each writer wrote what God revealed to them at that time.
3. The revelation to each writer was unique in some ways and confirmation
of the Word in other ways.
B. God chose the Jewish nation in which Jesus would have His fleshly
descendants to be the first to receive His Word.
1. God gave the Jews His Law which served as a tutor until Grace came
in the form of His Son.
2. Israel had an exclusive relationship with God.
a. God freed them from slavery.
b. God opened their eves to see Him.
c. God opened their ears to hear Him.
3. According to the dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Old Testament was complete
at least 300 years before the birth of Christ.
4. Christ referred to the Old Testament throughout His ministry.
a. Why did He refer to the Old Testament?
b. Because it was His Word.
c. It was the righteousness of God.
d. Because the Old Testament condemned man for his sins.
e. Because it recorded all of God\’s commands.
f. Because it is a record of Israel\’s disobedience and rejection of God.
g. Because it foretold His coming as the Messiah for mankind.
THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE AGE OF GRACE
V:2. \” In these last days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.\”
A. With Jesus death on the Cross, He fulfilled all the requirements of the Law.
1. The age of the Law ended with Jesus death and the Age of Grace began with His
resurrection.
2. The New Testament began with the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
3. Jesus is King, High Priest and prophet.
B, Jesus is the creator of all thing.
1. According to John 1:3 everything was made by Him and nothing was made
without Him.
2. God the Father appointed Him the inheritor of all things.
a. This points to the unity of Jesus and the Father.
b. This also points to Jesus and the Father as the co creators of all things.
C. Jesus is the person of the Son in the Holy Trinity.
1. Jesus was always Son, who was presented to the world through His birth in
in Human flesh into humanity.
2. Jesus is the Spirit of God that took on human flesh for our salvation
D. In the Old Testament God\’s revelation was through His prophets.
1. In the New Testament times, the Age of Grace, God\’s final revelation
is though His Son.
2. God\’s revelation through His Son is that salvation of mankind is through
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
3. While we were yet sinners Christ death on the cross paid our sin debt in FULL.
4. The Will of Father in the Age of Grace is communicated through the Son.
a. The future judgment of unbelievers is communicated through the Son.
b. The future glory of believers is communicated through the Son.
THE GLORY OF THE SON OF GOD
V: 3 \”The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.\”
A. Jesus and the Father are one
1. Jesus in the flesh was the exact replica of the Father.
2. Jesus in the flesh was man and God.
3. He was holy and without sin,
4. He loved righteousness and hated sin.
5. He walked on earth with all the aspects of the Father.
6. He told His disciples, that whoever has seen Him has seen the Father.
7. The world came into being by His Word and is maintained by His Word.
B. His death on the cross was the victory over sin.
1. All believers in Jesus Christ are made clean by His shed blood on the cross.
2. He ratified the New Covenant with death on the cross putting an end to
all animal sacrifices for one time atonement of sins.
3. His death and resurrection established Him as the final and only High Priest.
3. The blood of Jesus is the atonement of all sins, past, presence and future.
C. Jesus came down from heaven to satisfy our sin debt.
1. Jesus returned to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father
making intercessions for you and I.
2. All of our prayers are directed to the Father through Jesus. Matt 21:21-22
HIS POSITION IN HEAVEN
V: 4-5. \” Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs. The Son Is Superior to Angels 5 For to which of the angels did God ever say, \”You are my son! Today I have fathered you\”? And in another place he says, \”I will be his father and he will be my son.\”
A. Angel are created being. Ezekiel 26:12-15
1. They are messengers of God.
2. They were created to give God praise.
3. Lucifer, an Arch Angel, who we know as Satan, was part of God praise team until
his pride forced him out of heaven. Isa 14:12
B. Angel after their creation, were capable of sin. Ezekiel 26: 12-15
1. In Genesis, God created the heaven and the earth.
2. Angels were created before the earth was created. Job 38:4-7
C. Jesus being spirit is elevated above all spiritual beings.
1. Jesus is the creator of angels.
2. Jesus became Son to be salvation of mankind.
a. Angel were not called on for this task.
b. They announced the birth of Jesus in human flesh.
3. Angels have only the limited power God gives them for specific task. Ex 14:19
4. Jesus has all power.
D. God the Father established the Son relationship with Jesus.
1. Jesus being equal to the Father submitted Himself to the will of the Father.
2. Jesus said, not my will but the Fathers will.
HIS MISSIAHSHIP
V:6-7. \” But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, \”Let all the angels of God worship him!\” 7 And he says of the angels, \”He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,\”
A. God is spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
1. The Lord makes it clear that there is a hierarchy of spiritual being.
2. Jesus is the supreme spiritual being.
3. Jesus the creator, always was and always will be.
4. Jesus has no beginning or ending.
B. Angels are commanded to worship the Lord.
1. Angels are the Lord\’s ministers.
2. Angels are under the command of Jesus. Matthew 26:53
C. Angels worship the Lord Jesus in His first coming and will worship Him in His second
coming. Matt 16:27
HIS KINGDOM
V: 8-9. \” But of the Son he says, \”Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions with the oil of rejoicing.\”
A. Jesus is the King forever fulfilling the promise God made with David.
1. Jesus is the author and the sustainer of righteousness.
2. Jesus is the author and the finisher of our faith. Heb 12:2
3. His blood shed on the cross to make us righteous before the Father
B. God has empowered Jesus to be our joy.
1. Life is in Jesus Christ.
2. Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life.
LETS PRAISE GOD FOR OUR SALVATION IN JESUS CHRIST.
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Parkway
Houston, Texas 77010
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