Sermon November 12, 2006
*Hebrews 1.1-3 The Most Important Thing God Has Ever Said*
*A. TWO STATEMENTS ABOUT GOD*
/*1. God has already spoken to people in the past*/ [1]
/ God spoke to the fathers in the prophets in many portions
and in many ways…/
/*2. God has now spoken to us more clearly*/ [2]
/God has spoken to us in His Son…/
*B. SEVEN STATEMENTS ABOUT THE SON OF GOD*
/*1. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance*/
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/* 2. Through the Son God made the universe and everything in it*/
/*3. The Son reflects God’s own glory*/
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/* 4. Everything about the Son represents God exactly*/
/Jesus is the flawless expression of the nature of God/ [JB
Phillips]
/* 5. The Son sustains the universe by the mighty power of His Word*/
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/* 6. The Son died to cleanse us from the stain of sin*/
/And can it be…/
/ ‘Tis mystery all: th’ Immortal dies:/
/ Who can explore His strange design?/ [Charles Wesley]
/* 7. The Son sat down in the place of honor */
/* at the right hand of the majestic God of heaven*/ [7.25]
*C. THREE LESSONS FOR US ABOUT GOD AND HIS SON*
*/1. Let’s be glad that God speaks!/*
/A silent God is an unknown God/ [AW Pink]
If God had not spoken we would never know Him.
/*2. Let’s be glad that God speaks the truth!*/
Because of who the Son is [the seven statements above]
we know that what God says to us through Him is true.
/* 3. Let’s be glad that God speaks in love!*/
By sending the Son into the world to die for us
God was saying…I love you!
*John Olson*
Wickedness is disadvantaging others to serve yourself
and righteousness is disadvantaging yourself to serve others.
