Hebrews 1 Should Thrill Your Soul | Clip from The Jaw-Dropping Beauty of Jesus

He spoke that way to his closest friends. He says in John 15, I'm saying these things to you so that my joy may be in you and then he qualifies that and Your joy be play Roma full to the top and they didn't say your joy, right?

You can merge in melancholy, you know. Kind of straight face. Yeah, head to the cross. Yeah. Yeah, you should like stress that you want me to have your joy. That they knew him better Than anybody and when he said Here's really why I'm talking to you.

I speak these words to you Because I want you to have the joy. I have not like my joy my joy. I Want you to have that because if you have it your joy will be full. That's the way he lived and it's because the father anointed him To be such and I believe the father's saying to him here I have anointed you with this oil of gladness above all your companions Again, so that he has the security of knowing he has it's not I pictured it earlier as the father You know trying to reach out into this span of infinite expanse and get all the joy.

The Joy of Christ in His Disciples

It's really the father saying I'm giving you All of the pleasure of my heart. I'm giving you all of my love. I'm giving you all of myself and I believe that's what Jesus is saying to his disciples in John 15.

Well Jordan, there are a couple of really simple applications We can give immediately. But we're going to be talking about this theme further in our next episode together when we look at chapter 12 and the command to Look unto Jesus as we run the race, which we know is a word packed with quite a lot.

Omnifying Christ in Hebrews 1

So we'll we'll talk more about that dynamic of looking at Christ there, but one thing one application obviously is. It's what Rutherford said from prison. We want to Omnify him and he totally made up that word, you know.

So if you go to type it into your computer, it just keeps correcting it. So you just have to override it and I'm glad because you know. Even though even the choice of a word that's not an English word fine.

Because we're speaking of him and we run out of words and we're like little children. Trying to throw together some syllables that would in some measure be in harmony with what the father just said to us.

So we omnify we don't just exalt or magnify. We don't just want to clarify all that's true but but you know, we kind of jump off into the mystery of Christ and say Omnify make him To be what he really is.

See him to be what he really is all in all. Another good application is to take William Ames the Puritan and his definition of theology and apply it to this chapter one by one through all those descriptions to slowly walk through them and and What Isaac Ambrose one of our favorite writers when he described?

What we're reading about God in the person and work of Christ. He said it's noon day divinity. It's the Sun at its peak. It's the clearest most blindingly brilliant picture of God will ever have. Okay, then Ames said this so if that's the clearest theology Ames says Theology is the science or the study of living unto God.

Living Through Hebrews 1 in Light of the Incarnation

So to take time, you know the 30 32 descriptions. Why not devote a month? You know, I think of a December coming up. Why not devote the month of December in in light of the Incarnation celebration? So every day I just take one and I live the entire day.

Talking with the father about this one thing and asking him How does this change, you know? And if I have to take a pickaxe to my life and it's crammed full. You know schedule and and a heart that's already filled with too much if I have to take a pickaxe to make room for it.

Then by the grace of God do that. Last thing I'd want to say is this the most thrilling thing That comes to my mind in Hebrews chapter 1 is not Just that this is the Redeemer that benefited us. But it's that he is.

There is one man who has given to the father every ounce of love that he deserved. Yeah, and if we never had been Existed and if we had never been offered redemption the father is Satisfied with the infinite beauty of his son and then and so who cares about us in a sense, you know.

Like who cares if we even exist? Yeah, so but that the father's offering us.

That same son. Yeah, so that we also can be fully satisfied in him. It is amazing. You mentioned I preached seven years on Hebrews and something like seven years. William Gouge 17th century British fella 30 years.

It's because of stuff like chapter one, yeah, yeah wonderful.

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