Hebrews 5:5 “In the same way, Christ did not take on Himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to Him, “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.” God’s Son??? It’s inheritance and appointment language. Jesus is not a created being. Jesus is eternally God and the quotation of […]
Let’s face it: God can be scary. Especially if He’s angry with you. But even when He’s pleased with you overall, He’s always holy and that alone can be scary. Jesus made a point of demonstrating in His life that we should view God the way Jesus did: as Father. While God is Jesus’ Father […]
Visitation Principle 11: Jesus Came to Simplify our Options Hebrews 3:12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. One can only turn to or turn away, believe or don’t believe, be forgiven or remain in one’s sin without forgiveness. That’s […]
Walking in victory isn’t just a matter of being appointed to victory, it’s a matter of being faithful to it. Jesus came to show us how it’s done. Continuing our look at Visitation Principles we can find in the Letter to the Hebrews, we come to a tenth. Visitation Principle 10: Jesus Needed to Show […]
Hebrews 2:17 For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. The Virgin Birth is first among the many reasons why […]
To fully understand the reasons why Jesus came, we must begin by appreciating the role of the priest in Jewish life. A holy God simply cannot be approached by sinful people as if there is no distinction between us. The Jewish people of Jesus’ day dating back to Abraham took that as a given. Modern […]
Visitation Principle 7: Jesus Came to Help Abraham’s DescendantsHebrews 2:16 “For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants.” Wait. Are you saying Jesus only helps Jews? Nope. And that’s not what the author to Hebrews is saying, either. First, in its context, the author is saying that Jesus isn’t focused on helping […]
Don’t you see? It had to be this way. Hebrews 2:14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death– that is, the devil– 15 and free those who all their lives were […]
Continuing our look at the Letter to the Hebrews and finding “Visitation Principles,” the mysterious unknown author develops his (or her) Christology even further. Angels worship Jesus. But what of this “firstborn” stuff? Will we all be gods? No. Firstborn is inheritance relationship, and it’s based upon Jesus’ obedience and setting a standard of righteousness only […]
So long as Jesus was fully God, but not also fully man, He couldn’t have paid for our sin in full because He lacked the relationship with mankind. Humanity was the one under the death sentence, not God! Therefore, we see our Visitation Principle 4: Jesus came to man in the usual way, as a […]
