Category: Devotions

The church needs people who have battled and are continually overcoming who they are in order to be who God has created them to be.

Throughout this letter the Pastor will pause from the main subjects to bring a warning to the people. This is the second time in the letter. This time the warning passage is quite long starting in verse 7 and continuing into chapter 4 v 13.

The battle is the same in 2024 as at the time of Israel’s Wilderness years:

1. Listen and obey His voice;
2. Know His ways
3. Watch your heart.

“See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. ¹³ But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. ¹⁴ We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. ¹⁵ As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion” (Hebrews 3 v 12-15)

The battle is not necessarily in the order I have given above. In fact the reason why we sometimes do not listen and obey and know His ways is because our hearts have hardened. One thing the Israelite story tells us is that you can have a hardened heart and not know it. You need accountability to tell you. You need a friend who is not afraid of you.

If they had been asked, ‘do you have a hard heart’ then they would say ‘No, their hearts are open to God’. They were worshippers and held to the laws of God. They were not Gentiles, unbelievers.

But they were locked-in. They were closed off from any further revelation from God other than that of Abraham and it would happen again post-Moses generation even right until the time of Jesus.

It is still possible today. We can hold to a revelation of God, an experience, a moment in time, a move of God’s Spirit that was so special and historical that it changed our lives for ever and we live in that experience for the rest of our lives. Of course we can also hold onto a hurt that happened to us. But anything new can then be rejected. What happens unbeknown to us is that the beautiful experience has become a calloused place in our lives. It has trapped us and we now no longer hear and see and understand what God wants to do today. We cannot see the open door set before us.

We need to unlock our heart. We need to change our prayers. We need to use new vocabulary. We need to search again. We need to focus on something new of the nature of God. If our God is a Holy God who demands our repentance and our submission then perhaps it is possible we can become so locked in to that revelation that it hardens us to the truth that He is a God of new things.

If we ever become locked-in then we will be locked-out from progressing in knowing God. This is what happened to God’s people in the Wilderness years and the Pastor does not want this for their community of believers in that generation.

Watch your heart. Ask someone you trust if they see danger there.

Throughout this letter the Pastor will pause from the main subjects to bring a warning to the people. This is the second time in the letter. This time the warning passage is quite long starting in verse 7 and continuing into chapter 4 v 13.

The Pastor is warning the people that they must listen to and obey the voice of God. He reminds them of the Wilderness story and the generation that never entered the Promised Land.

“That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ ¹¹ So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (Hebrews 3 v 10-11)

The Pastor highlights the response from God that His people did not know His ways.

A way is not just a thought, or a perceived attitude about something, it is how one lives their life.

It is the customs, institutions and achievements of a particular nation, people or group, it is called culture.

Is it possible to know the ways of God? Is it possible to truly know God? To know His culture?

Moses was around 81-82 years old when he asked God for something new? His task was to lead 10s of 1000s out of a country – these people were dysfunctional generationally. It was a hard task but the result would be wonderful. What does he pray? Was it, “Oh God help me, bless me, anoint me, appoint me, prosper me, help me, deliver me, fill me, reach me”?

Exodus 33 v13 Moses asked, “Teach me your ways.” Moses is asking God to show him His culture. I need to understand your culture, your ways, absorb your character into my character.

But at times God’s ways can be very strange. Looking back we can see why but at the time that is a hard difficult way to walk. But that’s the Bible and the story of God isn’t it?

At some point God is going to send a situation to you that will make you feel He is your enemy and not your friend. You will not recognise the hand of God. You are going to have to struggle and behind that struggle is God. It may not feel like God, the testing and provocation may feel like hell but through the struggle you will learn the ways of God.

Just ask Jacob who struggled with God and forever walked with a limp.

Just ask the Canaanite woman with the daughter who needed freedom and who declared, “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” (Matt 15:27)

What had she understood even in the place of rejection? It was this: ‘even Gentiles are included not just the Jew’.

She got it. She understood what the disciples didn’t. That even as an outcast if she persevered she would get a crumb. And one crumb from the masters table is all she needed.

The tests of God are never easy.

To have no hope, no prospects, be impatient, to lose strength; to become powerless, to have little success and yet not accuse God of any wrongdoing could be the point of the test. God does no wrong.

Just ask Job. “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted.” (42:2)

Just look at the cross!

The more we walk with what we know of God the more we will know His ways. The less rebellious we are the less we will stumble. It takes a lifetime and more to fully know the ways of God.

Maybe you don’t fully understand what God is doing or asking of you. You might not fully grasp the meaning but all you know is you need to surrender all and that is what you do.

The Pastor is reminding the people that to enter in (and we will discover what he is meaning about ‘rest’) then we will go through a season of testing as the Moses generation did and it is so that we might know the ways of God.

Throughout this letter the Pastor will pause from the main subjects to bring a warning to the people. This is the second time in the letter. This time the warning passage is quite long starting here in verse 7 and continuing into chapter 4 v 13.

“So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, ⁹ where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did.” (Hebrews 3 v 7-9)

The Pastor has already referred to how God declared Moses faithful in all of God’s house using the words from Numbers 12 when Aaron and Miriam were challenging his leadership. Continuing closely into the next story the Pastor uses the story of the report from the 2 spies on the Promised Land that was drowned out by the majority and who then missed the voice of God and suffered further consequences. He uses Psalm 95: 7-11 where the Psalmist quotes from the same story.

No one will ever forget what September 11th stands for. There were so many heroes that day. One such hero was Isaac Hoopii who was outside the Pentagon building. Wearing only his short-sleeved blue police uniform he ran into the blackness of the building. He called out, “Is anybody in here?” Wayne Sinclair and five colleagues were crawling through rubble directionless when they heard his voice. They cried out, and Hoopii responded. “Head toward my voice.” Following his voice, they soon made their way out of the crumbling building.

Today if you hear His voice.

There are people today, without direction, confused and in danger and they need to head toward the voice of Jesus.

You are in a 24hr. period that you will never have again, you didn’t have it yesterday and you won’t have it tomorrow.

Satan is out to attack your today. He’s not interested in tomorrow but today. He’s planning to mess it up, cause problems, to do everything he can to make it into a bad day. He uses yesterday to do that and he knows if he can destroy today he has broken your tomorrow.

God wants to keep today good. At the beginning of time at the end of each day God saw that it was good. He loves today. He loves the opportunity of now.

 He’s interested in the right now, this day. The most important time for God is now. Despite the attacks of Satan. Despite the circumstances and situations that are not good. To get to the end of this day and be able to look upon our Lord and say ‘Today has been a good day, I’ve kept it good, I have been listening for your voice’

The blessed life is the life that listens, hears and obeys.

However, there are other voices, there is the majority often that skew what God is saying. Be careful.

Safety in numbers isn’t always true.

10 said we can’t; 2 said we can.

10 saw God in light of their circumstances; 2 saw circumstances in light of their God.

10 were bothered about self-image; 2 weren’t bothered what they looked like.

And that night all the people of the community decided there is safety in numbers.

The outcome: 10 died and 2 survived. But the deaths of the 10 led to the death of a generation.

How many people built the ark? How many people defeated Goliath? How many people took on the 450 prophets of Baal? How many people died on a cross to save the world?

If they had listened to popular thought, to the safety in numbers theory, they would have missed their purpose. The whole office are doing this! … So? Everyone says! … So? I don’t want to be the odd one out! … Why? Following the crowd can sometimes mean you end up under a bus.

But it is the voice you see that is the most important. The voice of God. And today don’t be like the rest, don’t ignore what God is saying to you.

Without being cynical, sometimes because of how ‘awesome it was in the house today’ I wonder who actually was awesome. I really want the Church to thrive and be all that God intended us to be. However it is important that just as at the start of chapter 2 we are instructed to pay careful attention to the gospel that we follow another instruction to ‘fix our thoughts on Jesus’. Jesus is greater than the Church and all that happens within it. Jesus is greater than the greatest personality that God’s people can name, even someone like Moses.

“Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. ² He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. ³ Jesus has been found worthy of greater honour than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honour than the house itself. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. ⁵ “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. ⁶ But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.” (Hebrews 3 v 1-4)

• Jesus is greater than the titles within the house.

Jesus is the apostle (the only time in the NT he is given this title) and the high priest. Wasn’t Moses also sent? Aren’t we sent and therefore also apostles? Yes but the huge difference is that Jesus as God was sent to the world/to us and Jesus as God is the one who sends us. Jesus is the high priest and not even Moses was that, but it was Aaron, his brother with a sacrificial system that was calling out for something better. Jesus is that great high priest that the Pastor will speak of later in the letter in more detail. So whatever title you can think of, Jesus is greater.

• Jesus is greater than all the faithful works of the house.

The Pastor is quoting from Numbers 12:6-8 when he is defending Moses against Aaron and Miriam, ‘He is faithful in all God’s house’. Prophets received God’s Word from dreams and visions, Moses received it with a face to face meeting with God who appointed him to the house to serve as he and his generation look to a better future when the Messiah would come but Jesus completed his appointment as apostle and high priest … and as Messiah.

• Jesus has greater honour than the house.

Because Jesus as the Son is over the house. He owns the house. All the honour within it is underneath Him.

• Jesus as the Son is greater than the servant.

For the servant serves the Son.

• Jesus is greater in us … if we, the house, hold firmly to the confidence and hope.

His greatness demonstrated in our lives is not a guarantee. It is dependent on our continued unwavering hope and belief in Him.

Above all titles, works, honour, even demonstrations of servanthood and the Church itself, Jesus is greater.

Let’s get it right. Don’t fix your thoughts, attention so much on anything else but on Jesus. For He is greater.

The reason why you can do this life is because of Jesus.

Before we move forward into chapter 3 let us pause and look back on our journey so far.

In chapter 1 the Pastor told us that Jesus is the heir of all things; through whom also he made the universe; He is the radiance of God’s glory; He is the exact representation of his being; He sustains all things by his powerful word; He provided purification for sins’ and He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

Therefore, because of these facts, the Pastor teaches the people of God:

• You know this so don’t move from this position and don’t change the message handed to you, v1-4.
• You can face whatever comes against you for you are better, greater, more superior than your accusers because of His achievement and His gracious gift to you, v5-9.
• You are more than enough. You are not what the devil says you are. You are who Jesus has made you in Him, v10-13.
• You are helped by Jesus because of His incarnation, His atonement on the cross and His breaking of the power of the devil, v14-18.

Hebrews is about seeing Jesus. It helps those who are cast down, who have been discouraged, the lonely, the battered and bruised to see their high priest. Seeing Jesus is to see how He suffered but won. Seeing Jesus is to see how His victory is our victory. Seeing Jesus is to live in Him not at the mercy of this world. When we want to give up He is there making sure we don’t. He is able to be, do, say whatever is needed at the right moment in our lives.

That’s the message and that’s why we read Hebrews 2.

What is in front of you? What are you hoping for? Are you stepping into something new? Jesus is able to help you!

Are you anxious today? Are you afraid of your tomorrow? Place your life in the hands of the One who is able. The One who established the world and everything in it is the One who is here now with you by His Spirit.

Jesus is able to help you.

“Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵ and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. ¹⁶ For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. ¹⁷ For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.” (Hebrews 2 v 14-18)

Jesus is able to help you:-

• Because He knows what it is to be like you, v17

Priests were chosen from amongst the people in order that they may be merciful and faithful for they knew the problems of life. This is the theme of the entire letter, the incarnation in order to become the high priest which made the perfect atonement, something that the previous efforts of the OT sacrificial system failed to do. But Jesus became that high priest after walking this life as you are doing now.

• Because He atoned for our sins, v17

All the problems of humanity were placed on Him as the perfect sacrifice. The result is our sin is forgiven, our guilt is removed and our freedom is given.

• Because He frees those afraid of death, v15

Watch any follower of Jesus approaching death and you see them looking forward to the open door set before them. They are following a well-worn path firstly of Jesus and then all His followers. There is no fear.

• Because He has broken the power of the devil, v14

Though the devil continues to exist for now, Jesus has broken not only the power of death but the ‘power of him’ who holds the power of the devil. I remember a prophetic word I gave my church in the year 2001 when we would go through a traumatic season never known before and certainly never expected that it would be like walking past a snarling dog however that we should keep walking because the dog was chained up. That is the image I have today of the breaking of the power of the devil.

• Because He knows the suffering of temptation/testing, v14

It is difficult to distinguish between temptation or testing and probable means the same thing. He knows our weaknesses and He is able to help us through the most difficult of times.

When people (or you!) say you are not what you should be then remind yourself of this promise. When the voices of doubt say you need to perform and prove yourself in order to be accepted by God then it is a complete lie. Do not listen to that lie. It is a falsehood. Ignore it.

Jesus is able to help you.

You are complete in Him; you are alive in Him; you are free and not afraid; you are a child of God and belong to Him; you are without blame within His love; you have peace with God and the peace of God in your mind; you have the powerful strengthening enabling to be and do whatever needs to happen; you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you; you are chosen by God for this moment; you have everything you need for this life because you have Him; you are cleansed, forgiven and set aside for a holy life; you are saved by the grace of God. That’s who you are! It’s all because of Him. He’s got you and He will get you there for Jesus is able to help you!

Guilt can be good because it can bring you back to the path that you drifted from. Shame on the other hand says that you are useless and not worthy anymore to get back to that path. Maybe someone reading this devotion knows the feeling of being unworthy, you are not enough and the heart of the matter is the fact that you are a bad person.

Here is the truth: Jesus is not ashamed of you.

“In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. ¹¹ Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.¹² He says, “I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your praises.” ¹³ And again, “I will put my trust in him.”And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.” (Hebrews 2 v 10-13)

The Pastor uses again Old Testament Scriptures to prove Jesus is not ashamed of us.

These are the 3 important truths that will help to convince you today.

1. Jesus took your shame. Psalm 22:22 “I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your praises.” When Jesus hung from the cross and said the words, ‘My God my God why have you forsaken me’ he was quoting this same Psalm. One quotation and everyone knew the whole. In the mind of Jesus was not only verse 1 but the whole Psalm. This verse 22 is in the final section of the Psalm when the Psalmist/the sufferer is thanking God for rescuing him. Jesus is working his way through the Psalm as he takes our punishment, as he hangs in shame for our shame and the Pastor knows this. The Pastor uses this verse amazingly to show the people/you that you are a brother and sister of the Son. He has made you worthy to be called such and He is declaring that even now over you. The cross removes your shame so meditate once more on the power of it and rise from your feelings of unworthiness.
2. Jesus sees you as His child. Isaiah 8:17-18. “I will put my trust in him.”And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.” Isaiah is speaking of his own children but the Pastor rightly uses Isaiah as a sign and symbol of the Messiah and the children being the people/you. God has given you to His Son!
3. Jesus is making you holy. “Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family” v11. The Pastor is saying to the people that in the same family is the one being made holy (them/you) and the one who is making them holy, the Son/Jesus. So we shake of these feelings of unworthiness no matter even if we have evidence from the enemy of our soul to prove them and we acknowledge again that we are a work in progress, amen!
4. Jesus has finished what you could never have achieved. “It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered” v10. Not that Jesus became perfect but our pioneer of salvation completed, fulfilled and finished God’s purpose for our lives. So we don’t simply try harder, improve our lives, be better, a try and fail scenario throughout the year.
5. Jesus has given you a future. “In bringing many sons and daughters to glory” v10. So not only are we children and brothers/sisters we are also sons/daughters of the Son, Jesus. But He has given you a destiny. There is His glory in front of you. No matter what is behind you or how you feel in the present, His glory is ahead of you.

Those 5 truths are reason enough for you not to feel unworthy any more.

Jesus is not ashamed of you!

Take a look at your superior today. How do they display their position?

If someone is better and greater, what does that actually look like?

And what about you? Do you feel strong today? Do you feel greater than the situation you face?

Throughout this letter the Pastor will pause and give a warning to the people and we have just seen the first one in 2 v 1-4. It is like a parenthesis, a therefore thought from what had been mentioned.

So in effect we come back into the journey of the letter and can pick up from the end of chapter 1.

“To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” (1 v 13-14)

“It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. ⁶ But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? ⁷ You made them for a little while lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honour ⁸ and put everything under their feet. In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them. ⁹ But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honour because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”  (Hebrews 2 v 5-9)

The Pastor quotes from Psalm 8:4-6 and draws out truths that the Psalmist could not possible have known.

Truth 1: In the ‘world to come’ we have authority over even the angelic world.

Truth 2: If this is not yet a reality then it can be through our relationship with the Son, Jesus.

The ‘world to come’ is not some future state way beyond our present life. It is now. It is the world of the escape, of salvation, the era that Christ began.

The Psalmist recognises that it was God’s original intention that:

• We would be on His mind and in His care.
• For a little while we would be lower than the angels.
• That we would then be crowned with glory and honour.
• And that everything would be under our feet as we ruled.

This is not the experience of this world nor of the Pastor’s generation either. We don’t have this favour, this privilege and we are not reigning nor that powerful.

But we do see Jesus. And so did the Pastor!

The ‘son of man’ used for mankind by the Psalmist was taken by the Pastor and applied to the Messiah as Jesus used that title for himself, the Son of Man.

The Son came down, for a little while, incarnated from a position superior to everything, below the angelic order and to our level.

He ‘tasted death for everyone’ and was then crowned with ‘glory and honour’ so that we can now step into this world of salvation.

He came to show us what we were created for.

He came to show us our favour, our privilege, our reign and our power.

So am I better, greater, superior to the enemies that face me and the mountains before me?

Very much so but it is not my achievement or ambitious grab, it is His achievement and His gracious gift.

As I follow Jesus and walk His path then I experience the ‘glory and honour’ found in Him.

Whatever you are facing today and no matter how difficult your path of suffering may be and you may be facing the pressure of trials and many temptations. But it boils down to this. Everything is paused waiting for this one thing. This is all that matters:-

But we see Jesus.

Throughout this letter the Pastor will pause from the main subjects to bring a warning to the people. This is the first time in the letter.

“We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. ² For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, ³ how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. ⁴ God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.” (Hebrews 2 v 1-4)

Therefore is ‘there for’ what was spoken previously. Christ is better, greater, superior and supreme therefore don’t drift, don’t slowly move away from the position God has placed you.

The Pastor introduces us to what will be mentioned again later regarding the contrast between the Law and Moses and the new covenant/salvation and the Lord.

With reference to Deuteronomy 33:2 and Moses’ praise declaration that when God came with the Law on Mt. Sinai He did accompanied by ‘myriads of holy ones’ (angels) the Pastor reminds us of the importance of the Law and the consequences of disobeying it.

Therefore, the Pastor is saying if we drifted from the Law then that was serious but how much more if we drifted from the message of salvation which has come to rescue us from the position of being unable to keep the Law.

This message was brought by the Lord (Jesus).

It was given by the first apostles through their writing.

God validated this message through ‘signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit’ that these Spirit-filled believers have experienced.

Basically the Pastor is saying, ‘you know, you know, you know!’

You know the story of Jesus and salvation.

You know and have heard the story written by the original apostles.

You know God has confirmed this salvation message by the active power of the Holy Spirit.

(The trinity right here!)

This salvation is real and can be tested so don’t drift from it.

Don’t dilute this message.

Don’t substitute this gospel with some other gospel.

If you do, where can you go?

If you do, how can you escape?

The word ‘escape’ is there because the rejection of God’s Word is still and will remain real.

A gospel which is not offering an escape is no gospel at all.

The real gospel saves from death and punishment which still need escaping from.

There is no escape if you drift or dilute what was originally brought by the Lord, given by the apostles, confirmed by God through the power of the Holy Spirit and (I add) passed down through the ages (whithout editing) to us in 2024.

The opening chapter is wondrous but why is it so important for us today?

What we know about the rest of this letter is that there are several warnings. The Pastor is concerned that these Christians may either drift from their commitment to Christ or abandon their faith altogether. Here are some examples: 2:1-4 “We must pay more careful attention …”    4:12-13 “Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”    6:4-8 ” It is impossible … if they fall away … they are crucifying the Son of God all over again”    10:26-31 “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”    12:25-29 “If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?” 

The Pastor wrote these things not because their faith wasn’t real but because their suffering and persecution was very real.

For far less reasons people have abandoned their church communities and walked also from God. If their prayers are not answered the way they wanted they have given up. But this persecution was real and painful and there was more to come. It begged the question, was becoming a Christian a mistake? Had they done the right thing? If they hadn’t made their commitment to Christ then they would not be facing this suffering.

2024 is here. And for many around the world they are facing similar problems to the first century believers. Difficult days are here and ahead. Whether in Europe, the Middle East or northern Africa, Christians are struggling for their faith or trying to survive under evil regimes.

2024 is here. And I also think of friends who are battling cancer and other illnesses where miracles are needed. Friends needing breakthroughs. Each one have circumstances that may raise doubts like, ‘was it worth it?’

Hebrews 1 shouts many declarations with a response to that question, “YES it still is!”

The Pastor uses 5 statements that reveal the position and the power of the Son.

He is the heir of all things; through whom also he made the universe; He is the radiance of God’s glory; He is the exact representation of his being; He sustains all things by his powerful word.

The Pastor then uses 2 statements that reveal how the Son left his position to come to earth to walk where we are walking, in suffering and difficulty. The Pastor writes, ’He provided purification for sins’ and yet that humiliation of doing so is then followed by exaltation, ‘He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven’.

For those today who are humiliated in their body of suffering or in their situation that has become a mountain over them here is the pattern of the Son that the Pastor lays out. Because He went this way so will you and YOU will be exalted!

That’s the message.

Oh and one more thing, whether or not you are seeing many examples of angelic worship today (it still exists and if you are not aware then you are certainly seeing false worship), the message is also this: do not allow anyone or anything to distract you from the position and the power of the Son.

The Son is better, greater, superior and He is supreme than whatever you are hearing or seeing.

That is why we read Hebrews 1.

And now let’s move into the next chapter …