Romans 8:16-17a "The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (we don’t have to wonder if we are one of God’s children if we have believed Paul’s Gospel in our heart for Redemption which leads to our Salvation) 17. And if children, then heirs; (just like in an earthly family. The first born child usually is the heir of all of the father’s wealth. So we’re) heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;…"
Now we know that’s unbelievable, but that’s the prospect. Christ is the heir of everything that’s ever been created or ever will be, and we in turn are joint-heirs with Him. Isn’t that enough to just shun the things of this world for a little while? And the world thinks we’re missing it. Well, we’ve got news for them, we’re not missing anything, but rather they are. They’re missing everything, because the world is nothing but a pigpen by comparison to the glory that will be revealed to us or rather in us.
Romans 8:17b "…if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Hebrews 1:2 "Has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds;" Our Lord Jesus Christ created everything! Now let’s move on into verse 3. And what a loaded verse:
Hebrews 1:3a "Who (speaking of Son) being the brightness of His glory,…" Whose glory? The Godhead. The whole Triune God! Now we've had just a little glimpse of that back in Matthew chapter 17 so let’s look at it. This is just a little window that God gives us from time to time. But this little glimpse should be enough to make our hearts leap, because we’re going to be partakers of this in the full, one day. We think we’re getting closer to that day.
Matthew 17:1-2 "And after six days Jesus toke Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up to an high mountain apart, (from all the rest of the activity. Even from the other nine) 2. And (Jesus) was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light."
Now look, we can’t look on the sun without being blinded. We imagine that somehow or other the three were protected from it, or they too would have been blinded as Saul of Tarsus was on the road to Damascus. But here He was transfigured before them, and suddenly that lowly Jesus of Nazareth Who had been walking those dusty roads of the Nation of Israel is transfigured. He does shine like the sun, and His raiment became white as the light.
Now again, many can’t comprehend the brightness of that kind of light. Now we all know of the experience of Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. We think it was that same light that just literally blinded him, and scarred his eyes when he was confronted with that light from the Person of the risen Son. So the Son, the One Who had walked the earth, who had humbled Himself to be crucified and slain, and as He said on the cross, "It is finished!" And nothing else can be added to it. Nobody can put their fingers to the work that Christ accomplished, because it’s all done. It is perfect. As in the seventh day of creation when all was finished and He rested on the seventh day from His works of creation. Though many have added to it and are still adding their opinions to it.
Hebrews 1:3a "Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person,…" Now we think sometimes people get the wrong idea from Genesis where it says, "God created man in His image." (Genesis 1: 26-28) Now we want to remember at the time of the creation, God had never appeared in human form so far as we know from Scripture. But rather He was Spirit! So He didn’t create Adam in likeness of a physical body that the Godhead had, because they didn’t have one, as they were Spirit. Adam was created as a spiritual being later to be placed in a physical body which housed God's glory (Genesis 2: 6-7)or if we will Christ, until Adam was separated from God by disobedience and fell into sin and death. Death being the separation from God (Genesis 2: 15-17) (El, Christ or God the Son, His old Testament name is controversial as it's spelling is not clear). In Ephesians Paul reveals that there are four dimensions and that humanity only lives in a three dimensional world at this time. (Ephesians 3:17-19) So man was literally created from the pattern of an invisible creator, patterned after the invisible Spirit God, as a divine being (Genesis 1: 27). But in order for man to function in creation, we know God put the invisible man into a visible body (Genesis 2: 6-7).
And that had to be, because all of creation in basic science, is again made up of three things. "Matter, time, and space!" Take any one of those away and we don’t have a universe. It’s just plain and simple isn’t it. Matter – a star, a moon, a person. We are matter moving through time, in space, and that’s creation! So God took this invisible part of us and placed it in a body a house. The same way with Himself. When He came and He placed that Spirit being, the very mind, will, and emotion of the Son in a body, He became then the visible manifestation of the invisible God (Luke 1: 38; Genesis 3: 15; Psalm 40:7). This is why we maintain then that the human being is eternal, whether he is lost or saved, he’s going to live some place for eternity, because God’s eternal, and man was created in God’s image, in the sphere of the eternal.
Hebrews 1:3a "(The Son) Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power,…"
"And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist." Everything in the universe is held together by the power of the Word of Christ! And if He should ever relinquish His Authority or that power, the universe would go into fission, and would utterly be burned up, which will probably happen one day, just before we get the New Heaven and New earth. But nevertheless, everything is held in control by the Word of Christ’s power.
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