He Is God

 DEVOTION

TO HEBREWS

HE IS GOD

Heb 1:5-9

5 For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father"? Or again, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son"?

6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him."   7 In speaking of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, his servants flames of fire."  

8 But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy."  

NIV

These are three of the six truths the writer to the Hebrews expresses about the supremacy of Jesus. First, there is no one else in the heavenly realms that God calls, “My Son” and that He calls himself, “Your Father”. God shows himself as both the Father and the Son, a relationship that exists nowhere else in heaven. No angel can claim this relationship. This also establishes, the absolute deity of Jesus, so that we can know that Jesus is God. Secondly, however, God also calls Jesus his firstborn into the world. This is the time that the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary causing her to become pregnant with the Son of God and was told his name is to be Jesus. This was the best in our history as humankind, for the Son of God came in our form to save us from our sins and give us the right to be children of God. Not only do the angels worship Jesus, but the whole world worships Him. We are reminded of the day he entered Jerusalem that day we celebrate as His triumphed entrance and call that day Palm Sunday because of the way the people responded to Jesus riding into Jerusalem on the colt of a donkey and how the Pharisees told him to rebuke the people. Jesus said that even if they did remain silent, the stones would cry out, and the earth would cry out in response to Jesus. That is we should always be in worship of Jesus, even more than the angels worship him. Thirdly, we notice that Jesus has a throne that will last forever. We always think of the Father on the throne with Jesus at his right hand, the place of honor. However, about the Son, the Father said, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever”. The Father calls the Son God. If anyone ever had any doubts about Jesus being God, what is said here ought to put that doubt far away, because it is clear that God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, they are the three in one. Jesus is always known as righteousness and is the one anointed with the oil of joy. Therefore, because Jesus is with us, that is we have accepted him as our Lord and Savior, and therefore our God, and He is with us forever and ever, for he said that he would never leave us nor forsake us. Consequently, we are to hate wickedness and love righteousness. The devil stands for all that is wicked, and Jesus represents all that is righteous. He is our righteousness. Let us always worship our Lord Jesus, He is our God.