1, Hebrews chapter 1, the title
of the message, Christ the Son, Christ the King, Christ the Son,
is what we have here. We have the Son, we have His
kingship, Thou throw no gods forever and ever, The Scepter of Righteousness
is the Scepter of Thy Kingdom and we have Christ the same.
He said, Thy years shall not fail. He's going to wind all
this up. It started with Him and it's
going to end with Jesus Christ. In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth. Hebrews, God. God, it says. We looked at the first three
verses, and to touch just a little bit on another verse or two,
but I want us to look at verse 4 through 14, but GOD HAS SPOKEN. That's mercy. He didn't have
to speak to us. He could have left us alone.
He could have left me alone. He didn't have to send the gospel
my way, but He did. by His grace and love to me and
to you who believe, God spoke and God sent the gospel to us. He crossed our path with the
gospel and He taught us the gospel,
taught us about the Lord Jesus Christ and He taught us here that salvation
is of the Lord and of the Lord only. WHEN HE BY HIMSELF PURGED
OUR SINS, HE SAT DOWN, RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH.
WHEN HE BY HIMSELF, SALVATION IS NOT A COOPERATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN
ME AND JESUS CHRIST. SALVATION IS HOLY OF THE LORD. HE SAVED ME. And if you're saved,
He saved you, didn't He? IT WASN'T A COOPERATIVE EFFORT.
Jesus Christ has NEVER EVER BEEN IN MY HANDS TO DO SOMETHING WITH. I WAS PUT INTO HIS HANDS. IT'S
WHAT'S HE GONNA DO WITH ME, NOT WHAT I'M GONNA DO WITH HIM. IT'S
WHAT'S HE GONNA DO WITH ME. HE'S THE SOVEREIGN. I'M THE SUBJECT. HE'S THE POTTER. I'm the clay,
I'm the clay and He has every right to make me a vessel of
mercy or a vessel of wrath. Does He not have that right?
That's what Paul tells us in Romans, He has every right to
do with us as He will. I sure thank God He's merciful,
I thank God He's merciful. Now the emphasis here is going
to really be put on the Son being superior to the angels first
here in verse 4 but why is so much attention given in this
first chapter to Christ superiority over the angels? Well first I
think this, we must remember that the Hebrews were given the
Old Testament That's their history and the
Old Testament says a lot about angels. We don't read much about
that in the New Testament. We don't need them like they
did because we have the complete Word of God, don't we? We have
the complete Word of God. You see angels it says were used
in the disposition of the law in Acts 7 verse 3 in Galatians
3 19 they were used in the giving of the law. Angels met Abraham
before going to Sodom and Gomorrah. One of them was the Lord. Elisha
asked the LORD to open the young man's eyes that he might see
that there were more with them than with the enemies, and what
did he see? He saw a whole hillside of flaming
chariots and horses which were angels. He makes his angels spirits
and his ministers a flame of fire. They are represented, and
we'll get that in a minute, but they are represented as wind
and fire because he says he makes his angel spirits the translation
of that is winds but I'll get to that in a minute.
Now some of the Hebrews were given to worshiping angels. This is here over in Colossians. Listen to what Paul writes to
the Colossians. I looked this up today on angel
worship and there was a whole list of all these different religions
and their worshiping of angels. Paul says in verse 18 of Colossians
2, Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility
and worshiping of angels. THEY WERE PRONE TO WORSHIP ANGELS. WE ARE PRONE TO WORSHIP ANYTHING
BUT GOD, AREN'T WE? WE ARE PRONE TO IT. AND SO THE
HEBREWS, SOME OF THEM, WERE GIVEN TO WORSHIP
OF ANGELS. AND ANGELS WERE KNOWN TO HAVE
SUPERIOR POWER. YOU KNOW, ONE ANGEL KILLED 85,000
MEN AT ONE TIME. they were messengers from the
presence of God. In the Old Testament Isaiah when
he lifted up his eyes he saw the Lord high and lifted up his
train filled the court and he saw the seraphims and the cherubims
flying crying holy holy holy lord god almighty and one of
them took a tong and took a hot coal from off the altar and touched
his lips THEY ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD
AND THEY DO HIS BIDDING. BUT THEN NOW CHRIST APPEARS. CHRIST COMES ALONG A MAN. A MAN. NOT AN IMPRESSIVE LOOKING MAN. THERE IS NO BEAUTY THAT WE SHOULD
DESIRE HIM. NOT AN IMPRESSIVE LOOKING MAN. BUT MUCH MORE THAN A MAN. MUCH
MORE THAN A MAN. The God-man, this is God in human
flesh. I just sat back and thought about
that today. The Creator of heaven and earth actually became a man.
God completely, all that God is completely contained in that
man. The fullness of the Godhead dwelled
in him bodily. All that God is in all His glory
IS IN THAT MAN JESUS CHRIST. HE'S TRULY THE GOD-MAN. And the
writer of Hebrews is going to make it very clear that Jesus
Christ is on a whole other level and there's none that can be
compared to Him. I read one place where some thought
He was just another angel. No, He's God. He's God. Listen in Isaiah 46 5. To whom will you liken me? Who
said this? Who's saying this? This is the
Lord speaking. This is the Lord Jesus Christ
speaking in Isaiah 46 5. To whom will you liken me and
make me equal and compare me that we may be alike? Who are
you going to compare me to? Who can we compare Jesus Christ
to? Who can we compare God to? He says here in verse 1, I mean
verse 4 of chapter 1, being, this is what He is, being made
so much better than the angels as He hath by inheritance, by
His union with the Father, His inheritance. You know, I have the same nature of my
parents, my dad, my mother, I have the same nature, the same genetics
that they have. He is who he is by inheritance,
by his union to the Father. As he hath by inheritance obtained,
not attained, he obtained, and not by merit, NOT BY CREATION,
HE ATTAINED IT BY UNION. Christ said, You've seen the
Father, you've seen Me, you've seen Me. And because of this,
He has a more excellent name than the angels. Don't even use
His name in the same breath as that of an angel, Gabriel or
Michael. HIS NAME IS HIGHER ABOVE ALL
NAMES. THERE IS NO NAME GIVEN UNDER
HEAVEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED, BUT ONE NAME. ONE NAME. THERE IS ONLY ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN
GOD AND MEN, AND IT IS NOT ANGELS. I read that today where there
was one group who called on angels. Catholicism, I forget the name
of the angel they call on to intercede for them. THERE IS
NO ANGEL TO INTERCEDE FOR US. Christ is our mediator. Christ is our high priest. He's
our intercessor. He's our intercessor. This better
name is His oneness with the Father. Our Lord truly possessed
all power and glory and honor as the Son of God. He possessed
it. He said to the wind and to the
rain. What did He say? Be still, peace, be still. What happened? It lay down at
his feet. He said to the demons, Come out!
And they came out. They came out because when he
spoke, it's God speaking. It's not just another man. It's
God Himself speaking. Angels are created spirits, but
the Son's eternal. He's eternal. You see, the child
is born, the man. This is where his midiatorial
ship comes in. There's a man, there's a man
between us and God. There's a day's man between us,
but the Son's given, He's given. For unto which, name one, name
one angel. unto which of the angels said
he at any time thou art my son." Name one angel, there's a bunch
of them, they are innumerable. Now which angel did God ever
say you're my son? He never, He never. If you'll notice in the scriptures
when the angels are spoken of as sons of God they're spoken
of collectively But when the Son is spoken of, He's spoken
of singularly, My Son. God spoke from heaven
and what did He say? This is My Beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased. Hear ye Him. This day have I
begotten thee. When the Son of God came into
the world, it is written, A BODY hast thou prepared me. PREPARE
ME. He assumed our nature except
for sin. This verse has to do with the
meritorial work of Christ, it has to do with His person as
a man. This day have I begotten thee because God the Father did
not beget God the Son. They're one, they're both, they're
equal, they're eternal, they're one God, one God. We know there
are three distinct Persons in the Godhead, but there's only
one God I Believe that I can't comprehend
that I cannot comprehend that at all But there's one God, but
there's three distinct persons And now we see here his relationship
with the Lord Jesus Christ, the Man Christ Jesus. His relationship
to the Father is the same as it was before He came into this
world and became a man, it's the same. The relationship did
not change. I will be to Him a Father and
He shall be to me a Son. You see, the humanity of Christ
did not change His relationship to God, it didn't change. I'LL BE TO HIM A FATHER, AND
HE'LL BE TO ME A SON, AND CHRIST ALWAYS CALLED GOD HIS FATHER.
I GO TO MY FATHER AND YOUR FATHER. You know, over in Isaiah 6, He's
called the Father. It's one of His names, He's called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father.
That's what He's called. and then we see his relationship
here to the angels and again when he bringeth in the first
begotten or that word is first born now we know in the scriptures
THE FIRSTBORN WAS THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS. THE FIRSTBORN, HE
INHERITED THE THRONE BECAUSE HE'S THE FIRSTBORN. GOD SET THIS
UP IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TO POINT TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO'S
THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE, AND WHO'S ALSO CALLED THE FIRSTBORN
FROM THE DEAD. AND AGAIN, WHEN HE BRINGETH IN
THE FIRSTBORN INTO THE WORLD, the womb of a virgin a tender
plant and you know he brought him again into the world when
he raised him from the dead when he raised him from the dead he
came back into this world for what 40 days something like that and he saith when he brings him
again into the world of the firstborn he said let all the angels of
god worship him they are commanded to worship him Worshiping anyone anything short
of being God is idolatry, it's idolatry. They were commanded
to worship Him because He's their God, He created them, He created
them. He's their Lord, He's their Creator,
He's their God, and He's our Lord and Savior He's our Lord and Savior. He
died, He died that He might redeem us from the curse of the law.
You know it says that He took not on Him the nature of angels
but the seed of Abraham, the promised seed. Our Lord's preeminence was set
forth from the very beginning of His incarnation. He was called
he was it was said he born king where is he this born king when
he was a baby in the manger they worshipped him the angels came
and they worshipped him you see it over in luke chapter 1 i believe
it is they worshipped him a baby laying there in the manger that's
that's god there that's god almighty she wraps him up in his swaddling
clothes and she carries him over and lays god she lays god in
the manger How condescending is God to allow that to happen
to him? This man, this is God. He grows
up as a tender plant, this is God. It's astounding, isn't it? I asked the Lord when I was reading
this, because I've preached from Hebrews several times, I've read
Hebrews many times, and that's why in my prayer I said, Lord,
make it fresh. Make it don't I don't want to
be like well I've read death so many times I want it to be
like I read it for the first time I was just impressed today
of thinking I'll be standing here preaching Christ and yet
Christ his presence here, verse 2 or 3, gather together, and
yet there is a man seated in glory watching and observing
Me standing here preaching, and you listening, and us together
worshiping. This is so! This is so! Man, Christ's incarnation did
not make Him no less God. He didn't make Him no less God.
Who hung on the cross? WHO HUNG ON THE CROSS? THE SON
OF GOD! It says over in the book of Acts
that HE PURCHASED THE CHURCH, THAT GOD PURCHASED THE CHURCH
WITH HIS OWN BLOOD! GOD DID THAT! GOD DID THAT! This is what makes HIS CRUCIFIXION
SO AMAZING, SO GLORIOUS, AND YET THOSE WHO CRUCIFIED HIM AND
PERISH, THEY'RE GONNA SEE THE GOD THEY CRUCIFIED, GOD-MAN,
A MAN, YES, BUT GOD, THEY'RE GONNA SEE HIM, AND THEY CRUCIFIED
HIM. BUT EVERYBODY'S GUILTY OF THAT.
EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE GUILTY OF HIS BLOOD. I was talking to Madison the
day she called me, and she's taking a class in World War II,
and she was talking about, she was so depressed about it, she
said, it's just so depressing to hear about all those Jews
being killed and murdered in the gas chambers and all of that. She said, why? I said, because I said, well,
this has something to do with it, Madison. They said, let his
blood be on us and on our children. And it is. I said, be careful
what you ask for. I said, it is to this day. It
is to this day. I said, when God came, they despised
and rejected him and spit in his face and then beat him to
unrecognizable, then hung him on a cross. and said, Let His
blood be on us and our children, NOT IN A WAY OF SALVATION. They belittled Him. They said,
Ah, well, if He just let His blood be on us and our children,
we ain't worried about who He is. He's not who He says He is,
so why should we worry about it? Now to say that, the vast part of religion would
throw up right now. They would just have a fit right
now, saying that God's hand was in that. Was it or not? People need to face who God is.
We need to, in preaching, we need to make people face who
God is. And we don't play around with
the gospel, we don't mess around with God's glory. We don't do
that. That's serious business. It's
serious business. The Lord Jesus Christ in His
Incarnation was no less God. And this also may have to do,
as I already said, with His Resurrection and again when He brings the
Firstborn into the world, when He brought Him back from the
dead. But it's also another proof of His Deity. The angels are
commanded to what? Worship Him. Worship Him. THEY ARE NOT COMMANDED TO JUST
HELP HIM LIKE THEY ARE US. THEY ARE COMMANDED TO WORSHIP
HIM. YOU KNOW WHAT? SOMETIMES I WONDER,
AND THIS IS ME, SOMETIMES I WONDER HAVE I EVER, EVER REALLY WORSHIPED
GOD? HAVE I EVER REALLY DONE THAT?
WHEN YOU THINK OF WORSHIP, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF? UTTER SUBMISSION, COMPLETE SUBMISSION,
and to give to that person you worship all the love, all your
heart, your mind, your soul. As Paul said in Romans 12, it's
only a reasonable service to present your bodies as a sacrifice.
He said that's just a REASONABLE SERVICE! Have I ever really God, have
I ever done that? I believe I have, but not like
He deserves. And you have, but not like He
deserves. I think if we could actually see Him right now, if
He would open Heaven, we could see Him in His glory, we would
be so embarrassed of our worship WE WOULD BE SO EMBARRASSED OF
OUR LOVE. WE'D NEVER TALK ABOUT OUR LOVE FOR HIM ANYMORE, WE'D
TALK ABOUT HIS LOVE FOR US. WE DO LOVE THE LORD, I KNOW THAT,
BUT MY, MY, MY. WHEN WE SEE HIM IN THAT DAY AND
WHAT HE'S ACTUALLY DONE FOR US, OH THAT WILL BE GLORY FOR ME. AND OF THE ANGELS HE SAITH, WHO
MAKETH HIS ANGEL SPIRITS AND HIS MINISTERS A FLAME OF FIRE?
You know the answer to that question, Who Maketh His Angel Spirits
and His Ministers a Flame of Fire? HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST! THAT'S WHO MAKETH HIM, THAT'S
WHO MADE HIM. AND ALTHOUGH ANGELS ARE GREAT
IN POWER AND THEY ATTEND GOD'S PRESENCE AND DO HIS BIDDING,
YET THEY ARE AT THE END OF THE DAY, CREATED SPIRITS! CREATED SPIRITS! And although they are HIGH RANKING
OFFICIALS OF HEAVEN RIGHT NOW, THEY WILL NOT BE HIGHER THAN
YOU WHEN THIS IS OVER. We were made a little lower than
the angels, and it speaks of Christ, but US IN CHRIST, for
a little while, for a little while. WE STAND ON THAT NEW HEAVEN,
NEW EARTH. THEY WON'T BE ABOVE US. THEY
WILL NOT BE ABOVE US. AND THEY WILL NOT BE MORE POWERFUL
THAN WE ARE. IT WON'T HAPPEN. THAT'S JUST FOR A LITTLE WHILE
RIGHT NOW. NOW WE HAVE IN VERSE 8, CHRIST THE KING. WE HAD CHRIST
THE SON IN HIS SUPERIORITY OVER THE ANGELS, NOW WE HAVE HIM AS
KING. WHEN GOD SPEAKS TO THE SON, WHEN HE SPEAKS TO THE ANGELS,
HE SAYS WHO MAKES THEIR SPIRIT? Who makes their spirit and his
ministers a flame of fire? But now when He speaks to the
Son, He calls Him God. He calls Him God. God, listen,
this is God speaking to God. God is calling God, God. That's
what's going on. But unto the Son, He saith, Thy
throne, O God, is for ever and ever. A scepter of righteousness
is the scepter of thy Kingdom that's written over in Psalm
45 verse 6 and 7 and it's in Luke 1 32 and 33. But the Father here speaks to the Son and He calls Him God. What honor
and glory the Father puts upon this man, this man Jesus Christ. This is God calling that man,
that God-man mediator, calling him God. Was it Thomas that said,
My Lord and my God? He got it right. And he says,
His scepter is a scepter of righteousness. This explains His government. This explains His government.
He rules in righteousness. What He does, everything He does,
even right now, is right. I was trying to, you know, I
don't know if you can explain anything, but I was just telling
this to Maddie. I said, you know, I said, he
exercises, because she asked me, she said, why are we still
killing each other? I said, because the nature of man hasn't changed.
I said, you know why history hasn't changed? Because our nature
hasn't changed. That's why history never changes.
That's why we repeat history. What I'm saying, we repeat history
because we don't change. Our nature is the same as far
as it's fallen nature. And it's God who exercise sovereign
constraint. She said, why are some good and
some bad? I said, there's not good and
bad. They're all bad. They're all bad. I told her, I said, if God did
not exercise sovereign constraint over the human race, we would
all be at each other's throat. We'd all be bad. I mean, it would
be, we couldn't live on this earth. I said, we couldn't live
on this earth. It would be impossible. We would actually self-destruct
because we're in a body and we would self-destruct. Sooner or
later, if God let us be who we are, it probably had never gotten
past the first millennium. I doubt that it even got close
to that and would have self-destructed. But He says here, Thy throne,
His throne, the Lamb upon His throne. I was trying to think
of that song and I couldn't think of the title of that. The Lamb
upon His throne. But anyway, It's His throne and
the Lamb is upon His throne. His throne shows His dominion
and power right now, ruling and reigning all things. And His throne is His by right,
no one's going to take it from Him. It's an everlasting throne. His kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom. All other kingdoms right now that we see in this world
all other kingdoms including the united states of america
is going to be dissolved we're going to come to an end there
is an end to this country there's an end to china there's an end
to russia there's an end to every country on this earth there is
no end to his kingdom no end to his reign and his dominion
no end to it And then verse 9 it defines the character of our
King as the Mediator, as God's Man Mediator. This defines His
character, look at this, Thou hast loved righteousness. Now
we know as God He loved righteousness but as a man, a real man, He
loved. You know what you love defines
who you are, what you love. MAN, it says, DRINKS THE NICKELTY
LIKE WATER. NOW IT'S LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND HATED. Is He allowed to do that? Is God allowed to hate? Jacob
have I loved, Esau have I hated? Is there anything wrong with
that? Absolutely not! Absolutely not! God can hate as well as He can
love, but His hatred is PERFECT! HE HATETH ALL THE WORKERS OF
INIQUITY. I don't want to be on that side.
I don't want to be on that side of God. Oh, I want to be in Christ. That's where His love is found.
THE SON LOVES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH. HE EMBRACES IT. AS A MAN
HE EMBRACED IT. Satan tried to get Him to let
go of it. men tried to get him to let go of it but he loved
righteousness and he hated lawlessness that's what that means lawlessness he hated lawlessness now because
of this therefore god even thy god hath anointed thee with the
oil of gladness above thy fellows he had the spirit without measure
as a man he had the spirit without measure and he was anointed above
his companion which were sinners saved by his grace. Jesus Christ is the holy man
that did not ever grieve the Holy Spirit. You know the word
of God says, Grieve not the Holy Spirit. We do, don't we? And we have. Too many times.
He never did. As a man, he never grieved the
Holy Spirit by having a thought he shouldn't have had. Entertaining
a thought he shouldn't entertain. Saying a word he shouldn't have
said. An action he shouldn't have done. He never grieved the
Holy Spirit. He had the Spirit without measure. God the Father has given him
a name that's above every name that at the name of Jesus every
knee is going to bow and every tongue going to confess that
he's Lord to the glory of God the Father and then we come to
the immutability of the Lord Jesus Christ he's the same listen
to this and we need to read this carefully so that we don't give too much
attention to this earth, to this life. And Thou, Lord, in the
beginning, this is the Lord Jesus Christ being spoken of here.
And Thou, Lord, in the beginning, back there in Genesis 1.1, has
laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works
of Thine hands. Here's more proof of His deity.
They shall perish you ever go back into Genesis
and you read it and you say and it shows on the first day God
created this and the second day third day fourth day fifth day
sixth day seventh day rested if anything starts by time what's
it say if there's a time on anything it says there's an end to it
that's the only reason you have time and there's a starting point
and there's an end point THEY SHALL PERISH! EVERYTHING CREATED HAS A TIME
LIMIT ON IT, EVEN US, ON THIS EARTH. I don't know how long
I'll live, if I ever reach the age of my parents, 90s, about
92, I don't, God knows, but there's a time limit on every person
on this earth. OUR TIMES, DAVID SAID, ARE IN
THY HANDS. our times they are they shall
perish the earth growing old sin is wearing it out just as
it's wearing us out sin is wearing time listen time and sin is wearing
me out it's it's wearing me out they shall perish the sin has
no effect on jesus christ That issue is over. In the fullness
of time, God sent forth His Son into this world, made of a woman,
made under the law, that He might redeem us from under the curse
of the law. But that time is over. That time
is over. TIME HAS NO BEARING ON JESUS
CHRIST. None. But Thou remainest says on over
in hebrews 13 thou art the same yesterday today and jesus christ
the same yesterday today and forever but thou remainest and
they shall wax old as doth the garment the earth is getting
old isn't it it's old it groans a lot doesn't it i think of that
when you see here earthquakes volcanoes when i see a volcano
I think of the earth throwing up that's what I think of it's
just vomiting all this sin and stuff it has to deal with it's
just vomiting is what it's doing so next time you see a volcano
you just think of the earth vomiting CREATION HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO
VANITY, TO THIS SIN. IT'S GROWING OLD, OLD, OLD, OLD. BUT THOU REMAINEST, THOU REMAINEST. AND THOU SHALT FOLD THEM UP.
You know what I thought of this? How hard is it to fold a shirt? How hard is it to fold towels?
fold up towels you fold up a blanket how hard is it to fold up a blanket
that's how easy it is for the lord to fold this up and it's
over there's no strain no challenge to his power when it's all said
and done he said that last elect he'll fold it up like an old
garment and put it away put it away It served its purpose. It has served the whole purpose
of creation, the whole purpose of this earth is for God to redeem
a people. A multitude of sinners, no man
can number. They're going to be made to conform
to the image of his Son. They're going to live on a new
earth with him and this matter of sin is going to be dealt with and
it's never going to raise its ugly head again never now when all that's accomplished
and as it says in the first corinthians 15 when he has put down all rule
and all authority he will deliver up the kingdom to god the father
when he is done that's what he's doing right now he's putting
down all rule and all authority and as a vesture shalt thou fold
them up, and they shall be changed. You know, we are going to be
changed in the twinkling of an eye, aren't we? We're going to
be changed. This mortal is going to become
immortal. This corruptible is going to become incorruption.
There's going to be a change, a real change. But He's not going to change. Aren't you glad Jesus Christ
doesn't change? You and I are up and down like a thermometer.
Aren't you glad He's the same yesterday, today, forever? His
love never flickers. Ours does. We get cold like the
church at Ephesus. You left your first love. They
didn't even know it. You know that's why so many marriages
break up. They leave that first love of
each other and they don't even know it. It happened so imperceptible
they don't even know it. Then they wonder what happened. But our Lord's love never changes. It never changes. WE MAY GROW
COLD IN LOVE, BUT HE WON'T. HE LOVES ME JUST AS FERVENTLY
NOW. YOU LISTEN, HE LOVED DAVID JUST
AS FERVENTLY WHEN HE WAS COMMITTING ADULTERY AND HAD HER HUSBAND
MURDERED AS HE DID WHEN HE WAS A SWEET PSALMIST OF ISRAEL WRITING
THE PSALMS. THAT'S THE TRUTH! THAT'S THE
TRUTH! ART THE SAME, AND THY YEARS SHALL
NOT FAIL. BUT TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS SAID
HE AT ANY TIME, SIT ON MY RIGHT HAND, TILL I MAKE THY ENEMIES
UPPUTS TO HIM? WELL, THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE. HE NEVER SAID IT. HE NEVER SAID IT. HE NEVER SAID
IT TO ANY ANGEL. IT WAS NOT GIVEN THEM TO REIGN,
TO RULE, AND TO RECEIVE SUCH GLORY. IT WAS GIVEN TO THE SON.
ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS? THIS IS ALL THEY ARE.
THEY ARE CREATED SPIRITS, SENT FORTH TO MINISTER FOR THEM
WHO SHALL BE HEIRS OF SALVATION. THEY ARE JUST CREATED SPIRITS.
NOW THEY STILL HAVE A MINISTRY AND ARE LOOKING AFTER US, THEY
DO, THEY WATCH AFTER US, BUT THEY DON'T DELIVER MESSAGES TO
US. THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING. THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING WITH THE
WORD OF GOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. WE DON'T NEED AN ANGEL TO DELIVER
US A MESSAGE! WE CAN HAVE GOD'S WORD! BUT THEY
STILL WATCH OVER US! THEY STILL WATCH OVER US! AND
THEY STILL BEHOLD THE FACE OF OUR FATHER, OUR FATHER, THEIR
CREATOR!