Hebrews 1:4-14 Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.… I. Let us consider, WHAT CHRIST IS IN HIMSELF, AND THIS AS TO HIS PERSON AND OFFICE. 1. As to His person, He is the eternal Son of God — the second Person in the glorious Trinity — who bad a being, and a very glorious one, before He appeared it, our world, even from everlasting. 2. As to His office. Though He was not incarnate till the fulness of time, the office of Mediator was what He was early appointed to, and consented to undertake; and so He speaks of Himself as "set up from everlasting, from the b ginning, or ever the earth was" (Proverbs 8:23). II. Let us see WHAT HIS PEOPLE HAVE FOUND HIM TO BE UNTO THEM. III. THAT WITH RESPECT TO BOTH THESE, IT MAY BE SAID OF HIM, "THOU ART THE SAME, AND THY YEARS SHALL NOT FAIL." 1. He is the same in Himself, as to His person and office, God in our nature, the great Immanuel, and so the only Mediator between God and man. 2. The same as to His interest in His Father, and acceptance with Him: the Beloved in whom He is always well pleased. 3. And with respect to us, the same as to His ability and willingness to save. APPLICATION. 1. May it be said of Christ, that He is the same, and His years fail not "? Let this put every Christless sinner upon looking out after an interest in Him. And this for these two plain reasons. (1) You have the same need of Christ and interest in Him with any that are gone before. (2) You have the same encouragement to come to Christ, under the assurance that He is the same as to His person and office, His fitness for His work, and delight in it. 2. Despair is most unreasonable in such as sit under the sound of the gospel, which tells us of Christ's coming to save sinners, assures us of His having saved the chief of sinners, and represents Him as after all the same. 3. Let believers rejoice in Christ as unchangeable. (D. Wilcox.) Parallel Verses KJV: Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. |
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