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Rev. Christopher Chelpka
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For a little while, lower the
and then the angels. You've crowned him
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with glory and honor, putting everything
in subjection under his feet. Now,
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in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.
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At present, we do not yet
see everything in subjection to him, but
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we see him who, for a
little while, was made lower than the
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angels, namely Jesus, Crowned With
Glory and honor because of the suffering of
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death, so that, by the
grace of God, he might taste death
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for everyone, for it was fitting
that he, for whom and by whom
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all things exist, in bringing many
sons to glory, should make the founder
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of their salvation perfect through suffering,
for he who sanctifies and those who are
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sanctified all have one source. That
is why he is not ashamed to call
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them brothers, saying I will tell
of your name to my brothers in the
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midst of the congregation, I will
sing your praise and again I will put
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my trust in him, and again, behold, I am the children God
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has given me, since therefore the
children share in flesh and blood. He
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himself likewise partook of the same things
that through death he might destroy the one
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who has the power of death,
that is the devil, and deliver all
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those who, through fear year of
death. We're subject to lifelong slavery.
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For surely it is not angels that
he helps, but he helps the offspring
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of Abraham. Therefore, he had
to be made like his brothers in every
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respect so that he might become a
merciful and faithful high priest in the service
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of God, to make propitiation for
the sins of the people, for because
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he himself has suffered when tempted,
he is able to help those who are
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being tempted. Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling,
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consider Jesus, the Apostle and high
priest of our confession. And now
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let's turn to chapter twelve. These
things, these quotations that the author of
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Hebrews has brought forth and these points
that he's been made. He's made,
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he then elaborates through the book and
then we get some of the conclusions and
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applications. I'm here in twelve,
so chapter twelve, I'll begin it verses
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three through four. So remember we
just finished with consider Jesus. This is
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one of the applications. Therefore,
of all these things, consider Jesus,
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and now Hebrews, twelve three,
consider him who endured from sinner such hostility
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against himself, so that you may
not grow weary or fainthearted in your struggle
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against sin. You have not yet
resisted to the point of shedding your blood
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mud. And then, as we
read earlier two verses, now twelve and
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thirteen. Therefore, lift your drooping
hands and strengthen your weak knees and make
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straight paths for your feet, so
that what is lame may not be put
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out of joint, but rather healed. And now twenty two and twenty three.
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But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the Living
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God, the heavenly Jerusalem, into
innumerable angels in festal gathering and to the
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assembly of the firstborn, who are
enrolled in heaven, and to God,
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the judge of all, and to
the spirits of the righteous made perfect.
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And then finishing with twenty eight and
twenty nine. Therefore, let us be
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grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot
be shaken, and let us offer to
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God acceptable worship with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
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So as we consider these words as
we consider who God is, a
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consuming fire, and the way that
he manifests his self and his message in
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the world. We consider also ourselves
and the angels. The conclusion of all
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this, the thing that you have
to walk away from, is what or
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walk away with, sorry, Walk
Away with is what Hebrews twelve ends with.
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Therefore, let us worship God right, let us be grateful for receiving
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a can, a kingdom that cannot
be shaken, and let us offer to
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God acceptable worship, with reverence.
And this is our chief end is Christians,
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our purpose, the reason God made
humanity was to come and worship him.
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At the end of the Christmas Carol, Angels from the Realms of Glory,
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which will sing after the sermon,
there's a line of refrain that ends
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every verse. Come and worship,
come and worship, worship Christ the newborn
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king, and that call to come
and worship is the very call that we
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have here in Hebrews. It's the
call that is on all of our lives,
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it's who we are as a church, and it's also the evangelistic call
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that we go out to the world
and we tell people come and worship,
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come and worship right. This is
what it's all all about. And each
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verse of that Song, if you
know it angels from the Realms of Glory,
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is meant to get us to that
invitation. In Verse One, the
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Glorious Angels are called to proclaim the
birth of the Messiah. In verse two
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it's the shepherds, and verse three
it's the wise men. Leave your studies,
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come contemplates some thing greater. In
verse four it's God's people who have
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been waiting for the Lord, and
in Verse Five It's just throw your hands
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up. It's all creation, all
right, all creation, common worship,
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come and worship, worship Christ,
the newborn king. Each of these verses
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of this song are like a royal
trumpet blast announcing this invitation, inviting the
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world to come and to celebrate Jesus, to worship him as our Lord and
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as our God. Why? Because
of the things that are mentioned here in
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Hebrews and throughout the scriptures. In
this invitation, we have an invitation to
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celebrate the final conquering of evil.
As we read, Jesus came to conquer
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Satan himself, our fear of death. He came to conquer evil, he
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came to redeem our sins, all
resulting in our marriage with Christ, all
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of these things. That's great victory
of freedom from slavery, a marriage all
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rolled into one, one person.
As we unpack these things, there are
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so much, so many different things
that we can consider, different ways that
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we can think and reflect and glory
in the glorious salvation that God gives to
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us, and that's a good thing. As the author of Hebrews Rights,
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we need to pay attention, we
need to remember, pay attention and,
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because we tend to to forget right, we need to pay close attention,
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and one of the things that we
can pay attention to are the angels.
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Interestingly enough, perhaps if you're not
familiar with Hebrews or if you haven't thought
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about it a while, you were
surprised by all this talk about angels.
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I didn't know there was this much
stuff about angels and Hebrews. There is
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at this particular moment in history.
It seems to me that the way that
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we tend to think about angels,
this one one part of God's saving plan
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that mostly most of us fall into
one or if two camps, very unhealthy
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camps. On the one side you
have people that forget about them almost so
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frequently. You'd think that they didn't
believe in angels. On the other hand,
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you have people on the other side
who worship them, pray them,
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pray to them and generally turn them
into idols. Well, the Bible holds
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to neither of these positions. Neither
forgets them or is afraid of them or
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doesn't want to talk about them,
nor does it worship them and glorify them
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in the way that we do with
God. So let's think a little bit
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a moment, for a moment about
the angels from the Realms of glory,
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these angels that are spoken about in
Hebrews and other places, and then think
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about the place that they play in
this new kingdom. Well, the first
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thing to remember about angels is that
they are created beings, and Psalm one
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hundred forty eight, they are listed
among the many different things God is created,
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including the sun and moon, water, beasts, cattle, creeping things
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and humans. Colossians one tells us
that through Jesus all things were created,
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both the visible and the invisible,
and this statement, I think, is
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paralleled in the very first verse of
the Bible, Genesis one one. In
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the beginning, God created the heavens
and the earth. The invisible and the
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visible. It's all under him.
It's all under his sovereign power. The
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Bible also teaches us that, like
us, angels are rational, emotional individuals.
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They have names, they shudder,
they praise, they hide their faces
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as they glory, they announce and
they serve. This is one of the
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things that Hebrews mentions up. Are
They not ministering servants? The angels are
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servants of the Lord, and one
of the most remarkable things about them is
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God has particularly designed them and set
them to the task of serving us.
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That's their charge. Matthew eighteen ten
says, see that you do not despise
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one of these little ones, for
I tell you that in heaven, their
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angels always see the face of my
father, who is in heaven. This
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reverse verse reminds us that one of
the many ways that God cares for us
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is through his angels. Now,
this does not put them above God,
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anymore than the sun or wind or
other people that also serve us. It
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simply makes them another one of the
means that God uses, like a builder
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with a hammer or a chef with
a knife, God uses his created means
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to do his work. As we
read, and Hebrews one hundred and fourteen.
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Angels are ministering spirits sent out to
serve for the sake of those who
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are to inherit salvation, and we
see an example of this in Luke when
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the Angel Gabriel comes to Mary and
says to her, I am Gabriel,
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I stand in the presence of God
and I was sent to speak to you
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and to bring you this good news. The Bible also teaches us that there
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are a lot of them. In
revelation five hundred and eleven, John Numbers
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the angels at a hundred million.
Not Tens of thousands, he says,
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or hundreds of thousands, but thousands
of thousands of angels, he says,
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were numbered around the throne. The
author of Hebrews says that they came,
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that we come into an innumerable gathering
of of angels. The ones that John
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sees around the throne of God,
the hundred million that he sees around God's
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throne, are perhaps only a portion
of the angelic population. The Bible also
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teaches us that the angels are not
only numerous, but they are glorious.
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They are often feared when they are
seen, as when the shepherds in the
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field see an angel, and the
angel says to them, as they often
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say to humans, fear not,
an angel told the shepherd and notice,
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and you might remember this, right
before the shepherds heard this announcement from the
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angel, to fear not. That
happened right before a multitude of heavenly host
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made themselves visible before their eyes.
I have come to bring you a good
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news of great joy. You hear
that they are messengers, they are these
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scent ones Hark the Herald right they
harold these these good things to the world.
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As we reflect on these things,
a pattern emerges. We see the
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angels are glorious, powerful servants of
the Lord. They are made by him,
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they proclaim his praise and they serve
him. They are amazing creatures who
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rightly deserve our awe, but they
never deserve our worship, for, like
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us, they are creatures, they
are servants, they are under the command
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of God. But there's one more
thing that we need to say about angels,
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and it's this from Hebrews A,
chapter one, Verse Five Four.
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To which of the angels did God
ever say, you are my son Today,
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I have begotten you, or again
I will be to him a father
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and he shall be to me a
son, none of them. That's the
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point. God never said these words
to any angel, which of course begs
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the question to whom where they spoken? Well, they were spoken to a
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human, to David, first of
all, in the promises that were made
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to him, and ultimately to God's
incarnate son, human son in Flesh,
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Jesus Christ. There's a contrast that
we see in chapter one, verse seven,
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of his angels, he says he
makes his angels, wins his ministers
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a flame of fire, and that's
amazing, that's awesome, but it doesn't
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compare to what he says of the
Sun that we read. In Verse Eight.
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Of The Sun, he says your
throne, Oh God, is forever
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and ever, the scepter of uprightness, is the scepter of your kingdom.
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So what we see is that these
passages of a scripture about kingdom and authority,
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about power and even a human kingdom
and Human Authority and human power are
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all coalescing and coming around in a
single person, Jesus, who is also
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God. Now, why did God
do this? Why did he make Jesus
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lower than the angels, as he
says in verse nine, and then Crown
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him above them? Because of what
we have because, because of what God
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says in Verse Ten of Chapter Two, it was fitting that he, for
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whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory,
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should make the founder of their salvation
perfect through suffering. And it goes on
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to say that Jesus becomes like his
brothers. Those whom he comes to save
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are those who he becomes like.
Verse Fourteen, since therefore, the children,
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that means the children of God,
US, share in flesh and blood.
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We are human, we have these
bodies. We are not spirits,
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unlike the angels are. He himself
likewise partook of the same things, namely
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flesh and blood, that through death, he might destroy the one who has
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the power over death. You see
what the author of Hebrews is saying.
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You see what God is saying.
He's saying Jesus can't became like us.
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Jesus took on humanity so that he
might die. If he had become an
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angel, he wouldn't have had flesh, he wouldn't have died. And why
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did he die? He says that
he might destroy, in his death,
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in his suffering, the one who
has the power of death, that is,
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the devil, and then deliver all
those who, through the fear of
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death, were subject to life long
slavery. Conclusion, Verse Sixteen. For
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surely it is not the angels he
helps, but he helps the offspring of
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Abraham. Therefore, he had to
be made like his brothers in every respect
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so that he might become a merciful
and faithful high priest in the service of
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God. So who is this?
Jesus? Jesus is the one who is
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the son of God, who took
on human flesh, who became incarnate out
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of love for us so that he
could call us brothers. And this would
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happen through his own loving death,
his sacrifice. Jesus became man so that
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he could die like a man,
so that he could raise men in salvation,
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so that, instead of remaining in
our sins and cowering, fearing death,
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fearing the judgment of the God of
God, of constantly being under the
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control of Satan, who had who
wields this power of guilt and shame and
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fear and death in our lives,
God becomes us so that we can be
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set free. That's why he didn't
become an angel. That's a remarkable thing.
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The angels, as glorious as they
are, as wonderful as they are,
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as much as God loves them.
He didn't become an angel, he
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became a man. He was made
like us, a little lower than the
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angels. He endured suffering and shame, he endured death itself so that he
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could raise us all up in him
and establish a kingdom of men and angels
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that would last forever, a kingdom
that cannot be shaken, a kingdom in
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which we now stand. And so
that then takes us to chapter twelve.
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When we come to chapter twelve,
the author says that we have not come
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to Mount Sinai, like the Israelites
did when God rescued them, redeemed them
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out of Egypt. We've not come
to Mount Sinai and and we have not
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been established into a kingdom that can
be shaken and fall apart, is indeed
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it did, because of their disobedience
to the law, because of their sin.
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Now we have come to Mountain Zion, verse twenty two, and to
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the city of the Living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and what is in
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this place? The innumerable angels infestal
gathering, and to the assembly of the
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firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven
and to God, the judge of all,
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into the spirits of the righteous made
perfect. Everyone's there, all right,
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all the servants of the Lord,
those who have gone before us,
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who have died in Christ and have
been and who are now with him,
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those angels in that gathering, in
all of this, through Jesus, who
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is our perfect mediator, fully God
and fully man, who speaks a better
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word than the blood of Abel,
the author says, through him and through
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his blood we have standing in this
place, in this kingdom, in this
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city. If you want to go
around in the world, you need a
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passport or some kind of documentation that
says you get to be here, you
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belong here, you have a right
here, right otherwise you are illegal or,
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as he's talks about here, illegitimate
children, children that don't belong,
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not rightfully here. But that's not
who we are when we are in Christ.
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We belong to the Kingdom of God. Through Jesus, through his blood,
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we are able to come and worship. And that's the conclusion of chapter
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twelve, and that's, of course, the conclusion of the him angels from
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the Realms of Glory. Therefore,
let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom
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that cannot be shaken and offer to
God through Christ acceptable worship, with reverence
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in awe. It's not acceptable worship
to go to the sun, of the
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moon and angel, hume in anything
that God has created and hope that somehow
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that thing, of that person will
be your access into the heavenly places.
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We have a perfect mediator, the
one who is crowned a little lower than
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the angels but now sits at the
right hand of God, ministering on your
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behalf, a man for a kingdom
of men and a kingdom over all all
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of creation, a kingdom that cannot
be shaken. In light of all of
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this, do not grow weary.
Strengthen your spines, strengthen your knees,
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keep on walking, keep your eyes
on Jesus, consider him the author and
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perfector of your salvation and, when
your faith is placed in him, worship
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the Lord and call others to the
same. Amen. Let's pray to our
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God now.
