THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT
PROGRAM AIR DATE: 2-14-21
LESSON TITLE: HEIR OF ALL THINGS
WELCOME
HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO KNOW GOD AND TO HAVE THE HEALTH, STRENGTH, AND WILLPOWER TO GIVE THIS TIME TO HIM ON THIS LORD'S DAY MORNING. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING GOD FIRST TODAY AND CHOOSING TO COMMIT THIS TIME OF OFFERING TO HIS SERVICE. TODAY, WE WILL AGAIN BE UPLIFTED THROUGH OUR COMMITMENT TO SERVING GOD AS COMMANDED, AS WE APPROACH HIS ALMIGHTY THRONE. HOW ENJOYABLE IT WILL BE TO WORSHIP OUR GOD THROUGH PRAYER, SONG AND THE STUDY OF HIS MATCHLESS WORD. WON'T YOU DO YOUR PART THIS MORNING TO SEE THAT OUR WORSHIP TOGETHER IS ACCEPTABLE SO THAT OUR GLORIOUS CREATOR MAY BE GLORIFIED? NOW, AS WE BEGIN OUR OFFERING TO GOD, WILL YOU BOW WITH ME IN PRAYER!
PRAYER: OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY OF LIFE - WE THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE THAT WE HAVE TO BE CALLED YOUR CHILDREN AND TO BE SERVANTS AND WORKERS IN YOUR KINGDOM. AND HELP US THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY TO BE LIGHTS IN THIS WORLD AND ALWAYS TO DO THOSE THINGS THAT BRING GLORY AND HONOR TO YOUR PERFECT NAME. WE THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT OF JESUS AND IN HIS NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
WELL, IT'S TIME TO JOIN IN OUR SONGS OF PRAISE. THE FIRST SONG OF THE MORNING REMINDS US THAT WE HAVE ALL THE CARE AND PROTECTION THAT WE NEED FROM GOD. THE QUESTION IS, "ARE YOU TRUSTING IN HIM WITH YOUR LIFE?" SO, WONT YOU JOIN IN WITH THE CONGREGATION AT THIS TIME AS WE SING TOGETHER, "HIDE ME, ROCK OF AGES."
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS
DO YOU EVER SAY THINGS YOU REGRET? DO YOU EVER WISH YOU COULD TAKE SOMETHING BACK THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY BLURTED OUT? WELL, IF YOUR LIKE ME � WE ALL STICK OUR FOOT IN OUR MOUTH FROM TIME TO TIME. AND GUESS WHERE IT GETS US � INTO TROUBLE. SOLOMON UNDERSTOOD THIS TO BE THE CASE AS WELL, AS HE MADE THIS STATEMENT IN PROVERBS 21:23, THERE WE READ, "WHOEVER GUARDS HIS MOUTH AND TONGUE KEEPS HIS SOUL FROM TROUBLES." WOW, WHAT A GREAT LESSON TO LEARN � IF ONLY WE COULD FOLLOW THIS GREAT ADVISE! LET ME USE ANOTHER SCRIPTURE THIS MORNING TO HELP US BE IN BETTER CONTROL OF THE THINGS WE SAY. IN JAMES 1:19, GOD SAYS, "SO THEN, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, LET EVERY MAN BE SWIFT TO HEAR, SLOW TO SPEAK, SLOW TO WRATH;" IF WE COULD ONLY LEARN TO THINK BEFORE WE SPEAK. IF WE COULD ONLY LEARN TO CONSIDER THE IMPACT OUR WORDS WILL HAVE. AND IF WE COULD ONLY CONTEMPLATE WHETHER OUR WORDS WILL REALLY DO GOOD AND BUILD UP, OR IF THEY WILL HARM AND TEAR DOWN. BRETHREN WE ALL NEED TO LEARN TO CONTROL OUR WORDS! BUT WHY? WELL AGAIN THIS VERSE TELLS US THAT IT KEEPS US FROM WRATH. BECAUSE IF WE FALL INTO WRATH, NOTICE WHAT JAMES SAYS THAT DOES TO US IN VERSE 20 OF THE SAME OPENING, "FOR THE WRATH OF MAN DOES NOT PRODUCE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD." DO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE GOD? DO YOU WANT TO HAVE WORDS THAT ARE PURE, WHOLESOME AND EDIFYING TO THE HEARER? THEN BROTHER, SISTER AND FRIENDS, LEARN TO CONTROL YOUR MOUTH!
WE ARE EXCITED TO HAVE A GUEST SPEAKER WITH US TODAY WHO IS NO STRANGER TO MANY OF YOU. BROTHER TREY SULLINS IS WITH US AGAIN TO LEAD US IN THE MAIN THOUGHTS OF THE DAY. BROTHER TREY IS THE MINISTER FOR THE OMAHA CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OMAHA, ARKANSAS. WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THIS GOOD BROTHER AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HIM LEADING US IN OUR STUDY FROM GOD'S WORD IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. AS FAR AS OUR TOPIC OF THE DAY, THIS MORNING WE WILL BE STARTING A NEW SERIES OF STUDY ENTITLED, "A MORE EXCELLENT NAME." OUR SPECIFIC LESSON OF THE DAY WILL FOCUS ON THE TRUTH THAT JESUS IS, "HEIR OF ALL THINGS." SO STAY WITH US AND AFTER OUR NEXT SONG TOGETHER, BROTHER SULLINS WILL BE LEADING US IN THE MAIN THOUGHTS OF THE DAY. BUT FOR NOW LET'S JOIN TOGETHER IN OUR SECOND SONG OF THE MORNING. THE NAME OF THIS HYMN, "DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD."
LESSON
BY TREY SULLINS
GOOD MORNING AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AGAIN AS WE CONTINUE OUR STUDIES. ISN'T IT GREAT THAT WE CAN SPEND TIME WORSHIPING OUR GOD AND STUDYING FROM HIS WORD? OF COURSE, WHAT BETTER THING COULD WE BE DOING ON THE LORD'S DAY THAN THIS. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR BEING HERE. WE ARE GOING TO BE BEGINNING A NEW STUDY AT THIS TIME AS WE ONCE AGAIN CONTINUE OUR STUDIES AND WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 AT A DIFFERENT THEME HAVING TO DO WITH WHO OUR SAVIOR REALLY IS. AND IF YOU WILL LOOK THERE WITH ME IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 BEGINNING THERE IN VERSES ONE THROUGH FOUR WE WILL START TO SEE OUR MAIN TEXT AND WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE PULLING OUR LESSONS OF THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS FROM. RIGHT THERE in HEBREWS 1:1 IT SAYS - GOD WHO AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IN VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE OF TIME PAST OF THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS - AS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS AND THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS. WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS AND SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH. AND HAVING BECOME SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS AS HE BY INHERITANCE OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY. FINISHING UP THERE IN VERSE FOUR WHERE WE DID IT IS ACTUALLY WHERE OUR TITLE FOR THIS LESSON OR THIS THEME OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS COMES FROM. A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY. AND JESUS CHRIST, HAVING THAT MORE EXCELLENT NAME, IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT. WHY IS IT THAT HE HAS A MORE EXCELLENT NAME? YOU THINK ABOUT THE NAME JESUS AND EVEN JOSHUA INTO THE HEBREW LANGUAGE AND WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS TO US AND THE BIBLE HERE AT LEAST IN HEBREWS 1:1 THROUGH 1:4R CERTAINLY DESCRIBES TO US WHY HIS NAME IS SO MUCH MORE EXCELLENT. AND SO THAT'S WHERE OUR THEME WILL BE. LOOKING HERE EVEN AT THIS TIME YOU CAN SEE BEGINNING IN VERSE ONE WHY HIS NAME IS SO MUCH MORE EXCELLENT. IT SAYS AS WE JUST READ - GOD HAS SPOKEN VARIOUS TIMES IN VARIOUS WAYS TO THE PROPHETS. BUT YET AT THESE LAST DAYS SENT HIS SON JESUS TO SPEAK TO US AND TO BRING THE WILL OF GOD. AND YOU REALLY SEE A LOT OF THAT IN JOHN CHAPTER 1 IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES. BUT IF YOU LOOK THERE EVEN TO VERSE TWO THAT'S WHAT WERE REALLY GOING TO BE STUDYING THIS MORNING. IT SAYS AS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS. THAT HEIR OF ALL THINGS - WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN AS JESUS IS THE SAVIOR AND AS HE'S THE ONE WHO BRINGS US SALVATION BEING THAT SAVIOR - THE ONE WHO TELLS US THE WILL OF GOD - WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT HE'S THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS? AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORDING EVEN THERE OF COURSE THE FIRST PART BEING HEIR TELLS US THAT HE IS ONE TO INHERIT SOMETHING. AND YOU THINK ABOUT HEIR MEANING OF COURSE THAT VERY THING BUT EVEN BEFORE THAT IT SAYS THAT HE WAS APPOINTED TO THIS POSITION OF BEING THE HEIR. NOW LOOKING EVEN TO THE TEXT THERE THE WORD APPOINTED MEANS THAT HE WAS GIVEN THIS POSITION. AND ACTUALLY IF YOU LOOKED AT IT MORE LITERALLY IT WOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE THAT HE WAS SET IN THIS POSITION OR PUT UP AS THIS PERSON WHO IS THE HEIR. AND WHO DID THIS? WELL, OF COURSE GOD THE FATHER HIMSELF. HE APPOINTED JESUS CHRIST AS THE HEIR. IF YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY ALL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WHO HAS THE AUTHORITY TO APPOINT SOMEBODY FOR SOMETHING? IT WOULD BE GOD ALMIGHTY OF COURSE. HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS, AFTER ALL HE CREATED ALL THINGS.
IN ACTS CHAPTER 17 VERSE 24 IT SAYS - HE DOESN'T EVEN NEED US AS THOUGH HE NEEDS WORSHIP OR MEN'S HANDS TO WORSHIP HIM. AND OF COURSE HE DOESN'T. HE'S THE ALMIGHTY GOD - YET WITH THAT ALL AUTHORITY AND THAT ALL POWER WHAT DID HE DO? HE SENT JESUS CHRIST HIS SON AND APPOINTED HIM AS THIS HEIR OF ALL THINGS. HE DEFINITELY HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DO THIS. NOW YOU LOOK EVEN TO WHAT WE JUST MENTIONED A MOMENT AGO. WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT HE IS THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS? THE WORD HEIR AS WE SAID THERE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AN INHERITANCE. EVEN TODAY PEOPLE WILL SET UP THEIR WILLS AS THEIR THINKING ABOUT THE NEXT THINGS THAT WILL COME AFTER THEY LEAVE THIS EARTH AND WHERE THEIR POSSESSIONS WILL GO. THAT IS WHAT WE DO. WE SET UP A WILL AND THOSE WHO WILL RECEIVE THOSE ITEMS MENTIONED IN THE WILL ARE THE ONES INHERITING. AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT JESUS CHRIST IT IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME EXCEPT GOD THE FATHER ISN'T DYING. HE'S PASSING ON AND HAS PASSED ON ALL THINGS TO JESUS CHRIST. IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 28 VERSE 16 THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS SAYS ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH. WHEN JESUS CAME TO THIS EARTH GOD THE FATHER GAVE HIM ALL THINGS - HE INHERITED ALL THOSE THINGS FROM GOD. EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1 IN VERSE 22 EVEN TELLS US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS AS WELL AS WE UNDERSTAND FROM GOD'S OWN WORD THAT IT SAYS - AND HE PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET AND GAVE HIM TO BE HEAD OVER ALL THINGS. AND IT FINISHES OUT THERE BY SAYING TO THE CHURCH. SO ALL THINGS BEING UNDER HIM AND HIM BEING THE HEAD OF ALL THINGS - AND THAT'S GOING TO COME BACK INTO PLAY A LITTLE BIT LATER - SO REMEMBER THAT IN YOUR MIND HOW JESUS IS THE HEAD AND HE HAS BEEN GIVEN ALL THINGS AND OF COURSE TO THE CHURCH. AS IT SAYS GOD THE FATHER GAVE JESUS ALL THIS AUTHORITY. HE GAVE HIM ALL THESE THINGS YET WHAT IS SO UNIQUE ABOUT JESUS, AND REMEMBER THE QUALITIES OF CHRIST THAT MORE EXCELLENT NAME. WHY IS IT MORE EXCELLENT? JESUS CHRIST DIDN'T REALLY SEEK AFTER SUCH GLORY OR SUCH POWER AS THE SCRIPTURES WOULD INDICATE TO US. YOU THINK ABOUT EVEN HISTORICALLY KINGS AND PRESIDENTS AND THOSE IN GREAT POSITIONS OF POWER HAVE GENERALLY SOUGHT MORE POWER. AND THAT GOES SPANNING HUNDREDS THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF HISTORY. OFTEN TIMES THESE PEOPLE IN POWER WILL SEEK OUT MORE WEALTH OR MORE AUTHORITY TO TAKE FROM OTHERS OR THEY'LL TRY TO DO THINGS TO MAKE THEMSELVES STRONGER AND TO KEEP A GREATER CONTROL OVER THE PEOPLE THAT ARE UNDER THEM. BUT WAS JESUS ( PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 2 VERSE FIVE ) TELLS US THAT HE WAS A WHOLE LOT DIFFERENT THAN THAT.
AND IF YOU NOTICE THERE IN PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 2 VERSE FIVE IT SAYS - LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU WHICH WAS ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS. WHAT IS THAT MIND WHO BEING IN THE FORM OF GOD DID NOT CONSIDER IT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD BUT MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION TAKING THE FORM OF A BONDSERVANT AND COMING IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN - JESUS CHRIST BEING GOD HIMSELF IN THE FLESH; BEING ONE WHO CERTAINLY HAD POSITION AND AUTHORITY AND POWER GIVEN BY GOD, AND YET HE DIDN'T EVEN COME TO THIS EARTH IN A GREAT GLORIOUS MANNER THAT PHYSICALLY WE MIGHT THINK OF AS A GREAT AND GLORIOUS THING. HE DIDN'T COME WITH CHARIOTS AND ARMIES AND ALL THESE THINGS. HE CAME AS A HUMBLE MAN AND HE CAME AS ONE REVEALING THE WILL OF GOD; TEACHING AND HAVING COMPASSION UPON HIS CREATION. AND THAT IS SO DIFFERENT FROM THE WORLD. REMEMBER THAT EXCELLENT NAME. WHY? BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH HE HAD ALL THIS AUTHORITY AND POWER HE WAS SO HUMBLE. AND AS THAT TEXT IN PHILIPPIANS 2 CONTINUES ON TO SAY HUMBLE EVEN TO THE POINT OF DEATH. WITH THIS AUTHORITY AND WITH THIS POWER WHAT DID HE DO? HE WENT TO THE CROSS AND DIED FOR ALL OF US THAT WE MIGHT HAVE THAT SALVATION. AND HOW DO WE GET THAT SALVATION IS REALLY WHERE THE REST OF OUR STUDIES ARE GOING TO TAKE US. YOU SEE, IF JESUS CHRIST WAS GIVEN ALL AUTHORITY AND ALL POWER BY GOD THE FATHER HE IS THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS PUT IN THAT POSITION BY GOD.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO US? YOU SEE, AS HIS PEOPLE AND HIS PEOPLE BEING THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIS WILL AND OBEY HIS WILL TO BECOME CHRISTIANS AND CONTINUE OBEDIENCE TO HIM THOSE WHO DO THAT WILL ALSO BE HEIRS AS WELL. AND THAT'S THE GREAT BLESSING THAT THE BIBLE TELLS US ABOUT. IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS IN CHAPTER 8 IT'S ACTUALLY DEALING WITH THIS VERY THING AND OF COURSE IN SEVERAL PLACES AS WELL. ROMANS CHAPTER 8 THERE IN VERSE 17 NOTICE WITH ME WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS - AND IF CHILDREN THEN HEIRS OF GOD AND JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST. IF INDEED WE SUFFER WITH HIM THAT WE MAY ALSO BE GLORIFIED TOGETHER. NOW YOU SEE FROM THIS TEXT THAT JESUS OR PAUL RATHER IS TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND EXPLAINING TO US THAT IF WE HAVE THAT SON SHIP IF WE HAVE THAT POSITION AS HIS CHILDREN THEN WHAT DO WE GET? HEIRS WITH CHRIST. THAT'S THE END RESULT. AND SO YOU MIGHT THINK ABOUT IN THIS LIFE OF A PHYSICAL THING LIKE THAT WHERE SOMEBODY ADOPTS A CHILD AND THEN THAT CHILD THEN RECEIVES A PART OF THE INHERITANCE FROM THAT PERSON WHEN THEY LEAVE THIS EARTH. IN A SENSE THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID WITH US. HE CAME TO THIS EARTH, DELIVERED THE WILL OF GOD TO US, AND DIED FOR US SO THAT WE CAN BE HIS CHILDREN IF WE MAKE OURSELVES HIS CHILDREN - BY BECOMING CHRISTIANS, BY DOING WHAT HE WANTS US TO DO, FOLLOWING HIS WILL, HAVING THAT FAITH AS JAMES ALSO TALKS ABOUT WHICH LEADS US TO OBEDIENCE TO HIM. AND WHEN WE DO THAT AS WE JUST READ ONCE AGAIN QUOTING HEIRS WITH OR JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST. HOW AWESOME OF AN IDEA IS THAT! JESUS CHRIST GIVEN ALL AUTHORITY GIVEN ALL THINGS AS HE SAID IN MATTHEW 20:16 AGAIN - ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH. AND WE CAN BE HEIRS WITH THAT SAME PERSON - JESUS, WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN ALL OF THIS AUTHORITY. AND PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR THAT! ANOTHER ONE IN PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 1 IN VERSE 29 AGAIN SHOWS US A VERY SIMILAR IDEA. BUT PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 29 SAYS - FOR TO YOU AND IT HAS BEEN GRANTED ON BEHALF OF CHRIST NOT ONLY TO BELIEVEE IN HIM BUT ALSO TO SUFFER FOR HIS SAKE. AND REMEMBER WHAT WE JUST MENTIONED THERE FROM ROMANS CHAPTER 8 VERSE 17 - HEIRS WITH CHRIST IF INDEED YOU SUFFER FOR HIS NAME. WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT HERE IT'S BEEN GRANTED ON BEHALF OF CHRIST NOT ONLY TO BELIEVE IN HIM BUT ALSO TO SUFFER. AND SO PUTTING UP WITH LIFE'S PROBLEMS, PUTTING UP WITH WHATEVER YOU MIGHT HAVE COMING YOUR WAY - FOR THE SAKE OF CHRIST SO THAT OF COURSE THEN IN THE END THAT INHERITANCE COMES TO US. EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1 TELLS US ALSO ABOUT THIS INHERITANCE. THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS IS REALLY A POWERFUL BOOK TO UNDERSTAND THIS PRINCIPLE. IF YOU SURVEY THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS ALL THE WAY FROM WHERE WE ARE AT NOW TO ALL THE WAY DOWN TO WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH NOW WHAT YOU HAVE BASICALLY IS PAUL WRITING TO THE EPHESIAN BRETHERN OR THE HOLY SPIRIT SENDING A MESSAGE TO THE EPHESIAN BRETHERN EXPLAINING TO THEM THAT GOD SENT ALL BLESSINGS FROM HEAVEN. AND WHEN HE SENT ALL BLESSINGS FROM HEAVEN ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT HE SENT WAS HIS WILL - HIS WORD THAT WE MIGHT KNOW WHAT TO DO. WELL, THERE EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 11 IT SAYS - IN HIM WE ALSO OR ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE. THEN IT CONTINUES ON TO TALK ABOUT HOW IF WE MAKE OURSELVES LIKE THOSE SELECTED GROUP OF PEOPLE THAN THAT INHERITANCE IS EXACTLY WHAT WE RECEIVE. AND THAT ELECTED GROUP OF PEOPLE AGAIN THE CHILDREN OF GOD; THE FOLLOWERS OF HIM WHO OBEY HIM FROM HIS WORD HAVING THAT FAITH THAT LEADS TO SALVATION AS THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS TELLS US ABOUT AS WELL. THAT'S THE INHERITANCE THAT WE GET. AND YOU FOLLOW THIS PROCESS ALL THE WAY OUT. IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF THE BLESSINGS OF GOD. FINALLY THERE IN GALATIANS AND CHAPTER 4. IF YOU NOTICE ALSO AGAIN TO THIS END OF RECEIVING THAT INHERITANCE GALATIANS CHAPTER 4 TELLS US - THEREFORE YOU ARE NO LONGER A SLAVE BUT A SON. AND IF A SON THEN AN HEIR OF GOD THROUGH CHRIST. AND THIS IS ALSO SOMETHING THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS DEALS WITH. AND GALATIANS IS SORT OF LIKE A SMALLER BOOK OR RATHER THE BOOK OF ROMANS DEALS WITH AND GALATIANS IS LIKE A SMALLER BOOK OF ROMANS IN A SENSE. BUT ONE OF THE GREAT DEALS THAT THEY HIT IS THE FACT THAT WE'RE SLAVES OF SIN AND ALSO HE GOES IN THE BOOK OF GALATIONS TO TALK ABOUT THE SLAVE OR THE SON OF THE SLAVE WOMAN. THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN AND IT GOES BACK AND FORTH ON THESE IDEAS OF THOSE WHO WERE UNDER A DIFFERENT LAW - UNDER THE LAW OF SIN. EVEN AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND NOW EVERYONE IS FREE UNDER THE LAW OF CHRIST. AND SO IN THIS INSTANCE WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT? YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO WAS A SLAVE AND NOW HAS BEEN SET FREE BY CHRIST - A FREEDOM THAT LEADS TO THEM BEING A CHILD OF HIS WHICH THEN LEADS TO THE INHERITANCE THAT HE SO PROMISES. AND ALL THESE CONNECTIONS, ALL OF THESE BLESSINGS CAN BE OURS IF WE ONLY SERVE HIM - IF WE ONLY DO WHAT HE TELLS US TO DO.
SO LOOKING BACK THERE TO THE BOOK OF HEBREWS IN CHAPTER 1 AS WE THINK ABOUT AGAIN THIS THING THAT WERE GOING TO BE CONTINUING ON AND HAS EVEN STARTED THIS MORNING THE APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS HE WAS SET IN THIS POSITION GIVEN ALL THIS AUTHORITY AND WHAT DID HE USE IT FOR? HE USED IT FOR EACH ONE OF US THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF ETERNAL LIFE. THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT INHERITANCE IN HEAVEN WITH GOD ALMIGHTY LEAVING THE WOES OF THE WORLD AND BEING WITH THE CREATOR. CAN WE REALLY ASK FOR MORE FROM HIM? AND CERTAINLY WE CAN'T AND WE OUGHT NOT TO EVEN WANT TO IF THE BIBLE IS TELLING US HER HOW WE OUGHT TO ACT. CONTINUING AND FINISHING UP HERE IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 VERSE FIVE NOTICE NOW WHAT IT TELLS US THERE BEGINNING. IT SAYS - FOR TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS DID HE EVER SAY YOU ARE MY SON. TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU. AND AGAIN I WILL BE A FATHER AND HE SHALL BE TO ME A SON BUT WHEN HE AGAIN BRINGS THE FIRSTBORN OF THE WORLD HE SAYS LET ALL THE ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM AND OF THE ANGELS HE SAYS WHO MAKES HIS ANGELS SPIRITS AND HIS MINISTERS A FLAME OF FIRE. THEN BUT TO THE SON HE SAYS IN VERSE EIGHT YOUR THRONE O GOD IS FOREVER AND EVER A SCEPTER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, IS THE SCEPTER OF YOUR KINGDOM. YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED LAWLESSNESS THEREFORE GOD YOUR GOD AS ANOINTED YOU WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS MORE THAN YOUR COMPANIONS. AND ONCE AGAIN NOTICING THE SEPARATIONS, NOTICING THE DIFFERENCES EVEN THE COMPARISON HERE IS MADE BETWEEN THE ANGELS AND THE SON OF GOD JESUS CHRIST. IT OUTLINES TO US JUST HOW IMPORTANT HE IS! JUST HOW EXCELLENT THAT NAME REALLY IS! IN VERSES FIVE SPECIFICALLY THERE DID YOU NOTICE WHAT IT SAID ABOUT HIM? BUT TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS DID HE EVER SAY YOU ARE MY SON? THE ANSWER IS THE NONE OF THEM. GOD ALMIGHTY JESUS CHRIST THE SON AND THE GREAT BLESSING ABOUT THAT IS WHAT WE MENTIONED THERE HEBREWS OR RATHER EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 22 - HE IS THE HEAD OF ALL THINGS. AS THE HEAD OF ALL THINGS (EPHESIANS 1:23) SAYS - WHICH IS HIS BODY THE FULLNESS OF HIM WHO FILLS ALL IN ALL. WHEN WE PUT OURSELVES IN THAT BODY WE HAVE THAT GREAT BLESSING, THAT FILLING BLESSING, THAT BLESSING THAT LEADS US TO THIS GREAT INHERITENCE. SO WE ASK OURSELVES THE QUESTION. ARE WE IN THAT BODY? ARE WE LIVING THE WAY THAT HE WANTS? DO WE HAVE THE INHERITANCE OF GOD?
CLOSING COMMENTS
WHAT A BLESSING IT HAS BEEN TO JOIN TOGETHER IN THE THINGS OF GOD THIS MORNING. THANK YOU FOR DOING YOUR PART IN MAKING ALL THESE THINGS TO BE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. AS ALWAYS, WE INVITE YOU BACK EVERY LORD'S DAY MORNING AT 730, AS WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO THIS OFFERING FOR GOD!
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THERE HAS NEVER BEEN OR WILL THERE EVER BE A NAME LIKE JESUS! FOR HE IS OUR GOD AND THEREFORE HAS ALL POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER ALL THINGS. TRULY OUR LORD IS HEIR OF ALL THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE AND THE LIFE TO COME. ARE YOU A SERVANT OF CHRIST TODAY?