Think Wink.

Today I was finishing up my meditation upon Hebrews 1-2 and the writer’s argument as to why we must pay much closer attention to the message of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation” (Hebrews 2:1-3). All of Hebrews 1 and Hebrews 2:5-18 is an argument for why we must “pay much closer attention to what we have heard” and to not “neglect such a great salvation.” The following quote is how I summed up the two chapters.

Therefore the Glory of Jesus is so bright and radiant and splendorous! He is God in every sense of the word. He is the very effulgence of God’s glory and the full expression of his nature and being and essence. But Jesus is, as the image of God, the Son of God. Thus he is the God-Son who is more glorious than all of the angles for they have never been called Son. And he is greater than all of the angels for as he is God’s Son, he is Yahweh himself. And this God-Son became flesh and blood so that he could suffer the weaknesses of his children, his brothers and sisters, the descendants of Abraham. And so this incarnated Jesus died on the cross and from the weakness of a human the God-Son was able to secure mercy for us and God’s faithfulness to us as he pleaded our case before the holy and almighty God. And so we must heed the message of salvation that he brought with him for God punished those who failed to heed the message of the angels who brough the Law. The question that Hebrews 1-2 begs us to ask is if Jesus, the incarnate God-Son, is more glorious than the angels as he is the very glory of God himself, then will God punish those who fail to heed his message? The answer that the author of Hebrews puts across the words of his letter is a most definite YES! God will not allow his very glory, which Jesus embodies and radiates, to be belittled and drug through the mud. He will not allow his honor to be stolen and trampled underfoot and violated. He will not let himself be made so little of by not heeding his message of salvation. He will vindicate his glory, his honor, that his Son embodies! Therefore we would be wise to heed the call of faith that Jesus Christ commands. Jesus is merciful and faithful to his brothers and sisters. The question is, that we must ask ourselves, are we one of Jesus’ brothers or sisters? Are we one of his children? Are we one of those whom Jesus tasted death for so that he might bring us to glory? If we believe unto Jesus, delight in him as our sole soul-satisfying possession, then we can know that we are one whom the author of Hebrews says of Jesus, “he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters” (2:11).

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