Often in our lives, we wish God would just speak directly, concretely, telling us exactly what we should do or say, especially in the midst of major life decisions. It can be frustrating when He doesn’t do this. But God does speak to us, and here the author of Hebrews talks about how He does this.
This letter, though we don’t know the author, was written to Jewish Christians who were struggling to understand the nature and superiority of Christ versus the incomplete picture given to the Jews in the Old Testament.
In the past, God spoke through prophets, but that was not sufficient. There was a break of 400 years without any prophets, until the appearance of John the Baptist, the Herald of Christ, the new and final message, a message so vital that it came not merely as words but as a Person.
We are told several things here about Christ as the greatest message of God that we should remember when we seek to hear from God.
First, Christ is the heir of all things. He is bound to rule and care for His family. Ultimately, we are all His, as is everything around us. He is Himself the creator of all things. All the beauty of nature and all the genius of humanity has its origin in Him.
Second, He is the radiance of God’s glory. Like the light of the sun, we see the glory of God by the actions of Christ. He is, according Hebrews “the exact representation of God.” Christ himself said, “if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” Separate from the Father and yet unified in the Trinity. Even coming as an infant, a carpenter and itinerant preacher, the glory of God shone out of Him.
Third, Christ sustains all things. Everything we take for granted is granted us by the love and grace of Christ. This gives us hope, because our trust in Him rests on the same thing that supports the very universe.
And He doesn’t merely sustain the universe, but purifies it, and us. This work of purification was complete and full, and afterwards He rested at the right hand of the Father.
The message God spoke through His Son was amazing, complete and sufficient. Christ’s life is the message that is sufficient to guide us in our lives.
Like in the garden, though, we question the sufficiency of this message from God. Like children who haven’t finished their dinner and yet are hungry, we think we have consumed all of what Christ is and want something more and new. Rather than asking for a new message, we should seek to better know and understand the message God gave us through His Son. It is not a message that comes to us once and is then finished with us, but a message that progressively reveals more and more to us about how we should love and love and find satisfaction in Christ.
– Sermon Notes, Jeff Krabach, Seed Church, Lynnwood, WA, July 8, 2018
Hebrews 1:1-3
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