*Psalm 97:7 - Some scholars favor this quotation as from Deut 32:43 which in the Greek (LXX) reads "Rejoice, ye heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him". An extraordinary brightness is said to have shone forth from between the cherubim. And fear came on all those living around them; and all these matters [rhema] were being talked about in all the hill country of Judea. He called me one day to tell me he loved me. So, when the writer to the Hebrews said that Jesus was the charakter (Greek #5481) of the being of God, he meant that he was the exact image of God. Glory (1391) (doxa from dokeo = to think) means to give a proper opinion or estimate of something and thus the glory of God expresses all that He is in His Being and in His nature, character, power and acts. Zondervan Publishing, Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. This great world of ours is upheld by Christ’s word. “If Messiah is David’s Son,” Jesus asked, “then how could Messiah also be David’s Lord?”, There is only one answer to this question. He says that he was the charakter (5481) of God's very essence. When the high priest went within the veil, he did not sit down. Let the thoughts of this make us watchful, diligent, and desirous of that better world. He is also THE IMPRESS OF THE DIVINE NATURE. (see note Hebrews 11:3). And the angel departed from her. Let a part of our private and public devotion be ever dedicated to the praise of Jesus; when we shall break forth into some hymn, or psalm, or spiritual song, singing and praising Christ with angels and archangels and all the hosts of the redeemed. He told them that a small hexagonal nut held the main rotor to the mast of the helicopter. (Lk 1:37ASV, Lk 1:37KJV), An illustration of this principle is found in Romans where Paul explains that, the gospel… is the power (dunamis) of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." (Read Hebrews 1:1-3) God spake to his ancient people at sundry times, through successive generations, and in divers manners, as he thought proper; sometimes by personal directions, sometimes by dreams, sometimes by visions, sometimes by … In the plural rhema ("words"), means saying, speech or discourse. Jesus sustains all things by His Word, and that Word has a divine power. It is most holy to the LORD.”. ALT: who being [the] outshining of His glory and [the] exact expression of His essence, and sustaining all the [things] by the word of His power, having Himself made by Himself a purification [or, purgation] of our sins, sat down at [the] right hand of the Majesty on high, Amplified: He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. The problem was he called from a cemetery with a rope swung over a tree limb and the other end around his neck. Dr. John Owen, who loves to explain the spiritual meaning in the Letter to the Hebrews by the types in the Old Testament, explains the brightness of the Father’s glory by a reference to the Shekinah over the mercy seat, which was the only visible token of the presence of God there. How this flies in the face of the modern teaching on self-sufficiency. The New Testament writers never doubted his ultimate triumph. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the. Athanasius rightly used Heb 1:1-4 in his controversy with Arius. Jesus is God's glory; therefore, we see with amazing clarity that the glory of God consists not in crushing men and reducing them to abject servitude, but in serving them and loving them and in the end dying for them. It was his right. What an awesome truth that the whole universe hangs on the word of Christ for its moment by moment existence! And yet they never doubted the eventual victory. KJV: 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, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Phillips: This Son, radiance of the glory of God, flawless expression of the nature of God, himself the upholding principle of all that is, effected in person the reconciliation between God and man and then took his seat at the right hand of the majesty on high (Phillips: Touchstone). Commentary on Hebrews 3:7-13 (Read Hebrews 3:7-13) Days of temptation are often days of provocation. They bore witness to the coming Messiah (Acts 10:43). Hebrews 1:1-3 The writer of the book of Hebrews returns again and again to the word “better” which is found some thirteen times in this book to show ... As John MacArthur states in his commentary, “Every religion is but man’s attempt to discover God. Therefore as the writer of proverbs exhorts us: Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. (He 9:26-note cf other uses in Hebrews of this key idea of "Himself" = Heb 2:14, 9:14, 9:25, 26- see notes He 2:14, 9:14; 9:25; 26), Vincent notes that "In carrying on all things toward their destined end of conformity to the divine archetype, the Son must confront and deal with the fact of sin, which had thrown the world into disorder, and drawn it out of God’s order. It is the most comprehensive, and it contains the highest number of insights into the text. O how we need to remember that it is not just any word but is the word of His power, the very word by which His omnipotent power is manifest in and through our life! Jesus' Own testimony was that "he who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me." In Heb. see note 2 Peter 3:2). God hasn't given Jesus something. Sat down (2523) (kathizo) represents a formal and dignified act and is a reference is to the Son’s glorification and ascension and His regal position as King. Probably composed on some marked episode in the reign of David, there is a glow, a sublimity, in the diction which no earthly monarch could exhaust. a charge against one (Mt 27:14 Jesus "did not answer him with regard to even a single charge" - rhema), a message (Ro 10:8 "But what does it say? In Hebrews 3, Paul admonishes us to hold fast to what Jesus taught us (see also Revelation 3:11). AND THE EXACT REPRESENTATION OF HIS NATURE: kai charakter tes hupostaseos autou: flawless expression of the nature of God (Phillips), the express image of His person (KJV, NKJV), [the] exact expression of His essence (ALT), He is an exact copy of God's nature. Here is a wonderful thought. Jesus relates to God the way the rays of sunlight relate to the sun. Initial impressions of Hebrews might suggest that the writer is detached from any context. John gives us the marvelous description of Jesus as ""the Word (Who) became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth" (Jn 1:14-note). (Jn 12:45), Phillip queried Jesus "show us the Father and it is enough for us (Jn 14:8), Jesus replied that "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (Jn14:9) Explaining that "the Father is in Me" and "the words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works." The gospel revelation is excellent above the former; in that it is a revelation which God has made by his Son. Continue reading commentary on Hebrews 3:7-19 and Hebrews 4:1-11. Its designation as a “baptism of repentance for the remission of sins” (Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3; Acts 2:38) means an identification with the forgiveness of sins. And no sooner had he passed to his home than there burst from the Church a tide of adoration which has only become wider and deeper with the ages. As a figure of speech charakter described a distinctive mark "impressed" on a person, by which he is distinguished from others. (Ps 16:11-note). "); Wisd. Jesus made but one sacrifice when He offered Himself and because His sacrifice is unblemished and spotless (1Pe 1:18, 19-notes), He can purify our sins, something that all the Old Testament sacrifices together could never accomplish, The writer of Hebrews goes to great lengths to explain Christ's sacrificial role and how His sacrifice made the Old Covenant sacrifices obsolete…. The cross was a stumbling block to Jews, but the writer does not apologize for it. But the behavior and exclamations of the servants of Jesus, arraigned before heathen tribunals, and exposed to the most agonizing deaths, were matters of public notoriety. In Mt 22:41-46 Jesus specifically applies Ps 110:1 to Himself. Sinful man needed purification of sins which in the Old Testament system required a priest to carry out the purification ritual. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; Hebrews 3:14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end; Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. ... (1:1-3) The epistle to the Hebrews begins as dramatically as a rocket shot to the moon. Today that same son is genuinely born again and sober and productive and still married to his first wife. The phrase can thus be translated He Himself had made indicating that when the Son of God made purification of sins, He did so by Himself, acting upon Himself, offering Himself as the Sacrifice for sin (Heb 9:26-note; He 10:12-note), and for Himself, acting in His own interest. This is not the rest following toil, but the rest of satisfaction in a finished work (cf "once for all" or "for all time" in the following verses - Heb 7:27-note; He 9:12-note, He 10:10-note, He 10:12-note; He 10:14-note John 19:30), This posture indicates that the work of redemption has been completed. Christ will have what He bought with His own blood, especially as He lives again to claim His purchase. Stated another way hupostasis is that which underlies the apparent and which therefore is the reality, the essence or the substance. Hebrews 11:3. They that will not yield to Him shall be broken with a rod of iron; He shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Katharismos - 11x in the Septuagint - Exod 29:36; 30:10; Lev 14:32; 15:13; Num 14:18; 1 Chr 23:28; Neh 12:45; Job 7:21; Ps 89:44; Prov 14:9; Dan 12:6, Sins (266) (hamartia) brought death to man and separation from fellowship and communion with God. So it’s understandable why pilots in the Vietnam War gave that little part the name “Jesus nut.”. Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. [1.] , Mk 1:44+ and He said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them. Rhema refers to any sound produced by the voice which has a definite meaning. "O come let us adore Him" "fixing our eyes on Jesus" (Heb 12:2-note). They looked upon them as mediators between God and men, and some went so far as to pay them a kind of religious homage or worship. Want to know what God does? It is thus a characteristic of that person and was a Greek idiom for a person’s features. 39:5 ("Behold, Thou hast made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime [Lxx = hupostasis ~ my existence] as nothing in Thy sight, Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Jesus is the shining of God's glory among men. (see notes Hebrews 7:27; 9:25; 9:26). Because of Him, we inhabit a created cosmos, not a chaotic accident. (Compare to) But Mary treasured up all these things (rhema), pondering them in her heart. Not by proxy did He serve us, but by Himself. (Believer's Bible Commentary). These two authors work together to explain the essential message for the original listeners or readers, unpack its timeless truth, and then provide a contemporary restatement and communication insights for the key biblical concept. So too we see God the Father by seeing Jesus for they are one God. The rays of the sun however are an extension of the sun. Later it came to mean the impression itself, usually engraved, cut in, or stamped on in the form of a character, a letter, a mark or a sign. Ex 29:36 “And each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify (Lxx = katharismos) the altar when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it to consecrate it. Hebrews 1:3 tells us that it is Jesus who upholds all things by the word of His power. Moses records that upon completion of the tabernacle, "the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory (LXX = doxa) of the LORD filled the tabernacle." Hebrews 1:3 tells us that it is Jesus who upholds all things by the word of His power. After he died to cleanse us from the stain of sin (NLT), After achieving forgiveness for human sins (TEV), When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt (Amp), As Matthew Henry so eloquently puts it "From the glory of the person of Christ he proceeds to mention the glory of his grace.". In the case of this first-century Jew, his act of faith in Messiah as High Priest would be the title-deed which God would give him, guaranteeing to him the possession of the salvation for which he trusted God. It does things. Jesus, the Son of God, is greater than Moses, a servant, and He is certainly greater than Elijah.We will do well if we first start with the teachings of Christ and use them to "interpret" the rest. You might argue from the second, that as the impression might be made on a very inferior material, so Christ's nature was a very unworthy vehicle of the divine glory; but this mistake is corrected by the first, for a beam is of the same texture as the sun. Somehow and somewhere they saw a power that was carrying the world and each life on to a destined end. The sins of others, especially of our relations, should be warnings to us. HEBREWS IVP New Testament Commentary Series. But the ray is of the same constitution as the orb from which it comes; if you unravel its texture, you will learn something of the very nature of the sun; they live in perpetual and glorious unity. Now Christ, our great High Priest, having, once for all, offered Himself as the sacrifice for sin, has now gone into the most holy place, and there He sits on the right hand of the Majesty on high. (Collected writings of W. E. Vine), The seated posture is one of of rest and yet in His exalted state Jesus is still bearing on all things toward their destined consummation, and is still dealing with sin as the Great High Priest, saving believing sinners in His precious blood and cleansing saints from the daily defilement of sin. When God hath made the pile complete.". All Rights Reserved. Let us draw near with holy boldness. This 59 part expository study of Hebrews was preached at Flagstaff Christian Fellowship in 2003-05. Here it probably means effulgence. More than the sounds of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high (Greek LXX uses hupselos) is mighty." The Father delights to honor Him. That he should by himself cleanse us from our sins is a wonder of love beyond our utmost powers of admiration, gratitude, and praise. The almost instinctive act of the little group, from which he was parted on the Mount of Olives in his ascension, was to worship him (Luke 24:52). But, on his forehead, the high priest wore a golden plate, upon which was deeply engraved, in Hebrew letters, the inscription, “Holiness to [or of] Yahweh.” Dr. Owen thinks there is a reference, in this “representation of his essence”—this cut-out inscription of God, as it were—to that which was on the forehead of the high priest, and which represented the glorious wholeness or holiness of Yahweh, which is His great glory. They say that it stands for “the whole body of documents bearing on the ownership of a person’s property, deposited in archives, and forming the evidence of ownership.” They suggest the translation, “Faith is the title-deed of things hoped for.” The Holy Spirit energized act of faith which a believer exercises in the Lord Jesus is the title-deed which God puts in his hand, guaranteeing to him the possession of the thing for which he trusted Him. Faith is the title-deed of things hoped for. My wife is still suffering the throes of anorexia. A child may ask that question, but so does an astronomer. That was one year ago. But, how much greater things are said of Christ by the Father! He holds everything together with his powerful word. AND UPHOLDS ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER: pherôn (PAP) te ta panta tôi rhêmati tês dunameôs autou: bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might (YLT), sustaining all the [things] by the word of His power (ALT), supporting all things by the word of his power (BBE), He holds everything together with his powerful word (ICB), sustaining, guiding, and propelling all things by the word of His power (Wuest), He regulates the universe by the mighty power of his command (TLB), He sustains the universe by the mighty power of His command (NLT), He holds everything together through his powerful words (GWT), upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power (Amp), sustains the universe with His word of power (Moffatt), bearing up all things by the utterance of His power (Rotherham), the utterance of Divine power (Pulpit Commentary). Now as our Mediator He "intercedes for us" in the presence of God. God’s Word says it is so. “But this one, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, from now on waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. We see the fulfillment in Hebrews where the author says that, "the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens" (see notes Hebrews 8:1; Hebrews 10:12; Hebrews 12:2), Paul explains the significance of Jesus' present Kingly and Priestly position writing that God, raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come. … but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." Reprinted by permission. Hebrews 8:1 Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a High Priest, Who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. Jn 2:6+ Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. The LORD (Jehovah) says to my Lord (Adonai): "Sit at My right hand, Until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet. If you put a solar-activated calculator in the sunlight, numbers appear on the face of the calculator. You shall find all this in the person of the God-man, Christ Jesus. John went on to say that "No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him." The Person of the Son is thus represented, not as of one apart from God, irradiated by His glory, but as Himself the sheen of his glory." When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. This, surely, ought to make us sing the song of songs. (Ro 1:16-note). Sin has made a great change in the world for the worse, and Christ will make a great change in it for the better. Hebrews 1:1-3 The essential dignity of the Son, by whom God hath revealed himself in these last days. Our God, the one and only true God, has the power to answer prayer, meet our needs, and change our lives. What has He spoken to you this week in and through His Word? Thus, he would have assurance. The author emphasizes this truth later writing that "now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." That is to say, there is not any glory in God but what is also in Christ: and when that glory reaches its climax, when God the Ever-Glorious is most glorious, that greatest glory is in Christ. Hebrews 3:1-6. The seated posture of the High Priest Jesus Christ is in contrast to the Levitical priests who never sat down so far as their tabernacle work was concerned because their work was never finished, because, the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near" (see note Hebrews 10:1), it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." He is is more literally "who being" this participle denoting what the Son is continually (present tense) in Himself essentially and independently of His manifestation in time. And so he died, because he affirmed, amid the assumed horror of his judges, that he was the Christ, the Son of God. Spurgeon - There is an allusion here, no doubt, to the high priest who, on the great day of atonement, when the sacrifice had been offered, presented himself before God. (iv) The sustaining power belongs to Jesus. The author is saying that whatever the Divine essence is, Jesus is the perfect expression and thus affirms the deity of Jesus Christ and alludes to the the plurality of God. "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, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. ", Lk 2:22+ And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord, Lk 5:14+ And He ordered him to tell no one, "But go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.". Christ will fold up this world as a garment, not to be abused any longer, not to be used as it has been. The author amplifies on this truth writing that Jesus functioned as both the Sacrifice (Offering) and the Sacrificer ("Offerer" or High Priest), Who, "does not need daily, like those high priests (Levitical priests under the Old Covenant), to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins, and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself." (NLT), He received the highest position, the one next to the Father in heaven (GWT), He sat down in heaven at the right-hand side of God, the Supreme Power (TEV). Hebrews 1:1–3 The Supremacy of God’s Son 1 Long ago, at many times and a in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but b in these last days c he has spoken to us by d his Son, whom he appointed e the heir of all things, f through whom also he created g the world. The Lord Jesus holds all things together and in their proper relationship to each other by His own power. 30:10; Job 7:21). (ii) The destined empire belongs to Jesus. 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All the angels worship Him, and all the blood-washed host adore Him day without night. The theological sense, person, is later than the apostolic age. But we may reverently accept the fact, so repeatedly emphasized, that Jesus is "the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father" (John i. i8). -one of the grandest miniature dramas in all literature. But to provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed. Wonder of wonders!" (Robertson, A. (Jn 1:18-note), Comment: The Greek word for explained is exegeomai [ek = out + hegéomai = tell, lead forward] means that Jesus as the God Man leads out or provides detailed information in a systematic manner of the glory of the Father. Doxa is used repeatedly in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) to describe the (Shekinah) glory of God. , MacDonald nicely summarizes the purifying work of the Divine glory, for I sure! 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