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vv 1-2) The greater spokesman.
We start off this study with a wonderful truth: God has spoken to man.
God isn’t far off in the distance, someplace in outer space, so far away that He is unconcerned with what is happening to man and his world.
The opposite is true: God is very concerned with our lives, with the trials and troubles, sin and evil, suffering and disease, death and decay- with all that happens to us.
Every little thing.
God has spoken to us; He has given us the wonderful words of life, light, and deliverance.
He has told us exactly how to overcome trials, temptations, corruption, and death.
Some might ask well, when did God speak to man, and where can we find the record of these Words?
If God is really not far off in the ether someplace- if God has really spoken to man, then we must find His Word and cherish it deeply.
Because it would mean that His World would bring everlasting life and victory over evil, trials, corruption, and death.
So again where is it found?
It is in two places:
God’s Word is found in the prophets.
In ancient times God spoke to man by His prophets, that is, by persons whom He had chosen to proclaim His Word to the world.
Who are these people?
They are men and women of the OT Scriptures.
But note a significant fact: God spoke through the prophets...
Notice “many times” (polumeros); in many separate revelations.
In “many ways” (polutropos)
So what dos this mean?
No human being could possibly receive and understand or explain the whole revelation of God.
God and the truth of God is too big for any one person.
Therefore, God had to make many revelations to many different people, and He had to use many different ways to speak to men.
The great theologian Matthew Henry states it well by saying that there had to be a “gradual opening of man’s mind concerning the Messiah, the Savior of the world.”
God spoke to Adam and told him that the Savior would come from the seed of the woman (Gen 3:15)
God spoke to Abraham and told him that the Savior would come from his seed (Gen 22:18)
God spoke to Jacob and told him that the Savior would come through the tribe of Judah (Gen 49:10)
God spoke to David and told him that the Savior would be born of his house (2 Sam 7:13)
God spoke to Micah and told him that the Savior would be born in Bethlehem (Mic 5:2)
God spoke to Isaiah and told him that the Savior would be born of a virgin (Isa 7:14)
Note also the different ways in which God spoke to the prophets:
He spoke to Moses in a great thundering voice in the midst of a storm (Exodus 19:19)
He spoke to Elijah by a still small voice (1 Kings 19:12-13)
He spoke to Isaiah in a vision (Isa 1:1
On and on the list could go, for God spoke to His prophets in many different ways.
But the point to see is this: each prophet could present only a part of God’s revelation.
Not a single person could have presented the whole revelation of God.
The full revelation of God is not found in the prophets.
Well… where is is found then?
This brings us to the second point.
God’s Word, His full revelation, is found in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Just as it states in verse 2.
This is unbelievable.
This should absolutely floor you!
For God could send no great messenger with His Word than to send His very own Son.
Before Christ, we only had fragments, bits and pieces of the full truth.
But now God’s very own Son has come to earth and revealed God, proclaiming all that God is.
He Himself is the revelation of God.
HE embodies the Word of God.
In fact, He is the Word of God.
Everything that God ever wanted to say to man is said in the person of Jesus Christ.
He is the perfect expression of God’s mind.
You might say then well why does this matter:
God loves you… He has not left you in the dark, trying to find truth about life and your purpose on your own.
God has spoken and revealed the truth about:
Where we have come from.
Why we are here.
Where we are going.
How we can overcome the difficulties and sin.
If we want to know the truth about God and ourselves we only have to look to God’s Son.
He is the solution.
Jesus Christ is greater than all the prophets; He alone is the supreme revelation of God.
As great as the OT prophets were, they do not hold a candle to God’s Son.
There is no greater spokesman.
v 2)The Heir of all things.
What do we mean by Jesus being heir?
That Jesus Christ is to receive and be “the lawful Owner of all things.”
Jesus Christ alone has inherited all that God is and has.
No other man is great enough or worthy enough to be the heir of God.
Jesus alone lived and walked perfectly before God.So what is Jesus going to inherit and receive?
Jesus inherited all power in heaven and earth: Mt 28:18
Jesus inherited the authority to dish out judgement upon men: Jn 5:22
Jesus inherited the Lordship over the dead and living: Ro 14:9
Jesus is going to inherit all government, establishing an eternal government: Is 9:6-7
Jesus inherited all the angels and all the other spiritual authorities and power: 1 Pe 3:22
v 2)The Creator and Maker of the entire universe
This is the third reason why Jesus Christ is superior to the prophets.
He has created both the universe and the ages that roll in one upon another, the event to event, and generation to generation.
Here in verse 2 the word for “world” is plural.
What this implies is that all dimensions of being, or other worlds/ planets, there may be Christ created them all and is the rightful God of all.
v 3) The very glory of God
You might as the question why is this important?
What verse 3 implies is that Jesus Christ Himself possessed the glory of God before He ever came into the world.
He has always existed in the glory of God; He is eternal.
What does glory mean though?
It means all the brightness of God- all the brilliance, radiance, splendor, and light of God’s Being.
Think about it like this family: Just as the glory of the sun’s light reaches down to earth and touches the lives of men, so Jesus Christ, who is the glory of God, reaches down and touches the lives of men.
We are called to reflect that glory to a dead and dark world.
That is the call of believers.
Just like the moon.
However we fail to do so when we get eclipsed by the world: Matthew 16:24-26
v 3) The image of God
Does this not just bake your noodle?
Jesus Christ is the express image or exact representation of God.
When we say “exact” it means the very stamp, mark, and impression- the very reproduction of God.
Jesus Christ is the perfect imprint and very image of God’s nature.”
What is even cooler is the meaning behind the word “image” which means substance.
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