Thursday within the Octave of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord
Posted on December 31, 2020 by under
Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-12 (NKJV)
1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5 For to which of the angels did He ever say:
“You are My Son, today I have begotten You”?
And again:
“I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son”?
6 But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says:
“Let all the angels of God worship Him.”
7 And of the angels He says:
“Who makes His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire.”
8 But to the Son He says:
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
9 “You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”
10 And:
“You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
11 “They will perish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment;
12 “Like a cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail.”
Devotion
False teachers still say Jesus was just a “messenger”, that He was just a teacher who was no higher than other messengers of holy words. Even Satan was “just a messenger.” He started as a messenger of God, but he fell to become a messenger of his own lies in rebellion against God. But Jesus is higher than all the messengers. He is higher than the men (and women) that He favored to bear His truth into the world; He is higher than the spiritual messengers we know as angels; and He is certainly higher than the fallen angels who bring corrupted messages to kill men and attack God’s kingdom.
Jesus, the Christ, is the very Word of God and true person of the Godhead. He is the true message that was proclaimed by the faithful men and angels throughout the ages. Any religion that denies His divinity or minimizes His supremacy is a religion of dishonesty. The Jewish religion rejects that Jesus is the Anointed Savior. They also reject the Trinity, saying the plural references to God in the Old Testament are speaking of the angels with Him. Corrupted Christian bodies also diminish the authority of Jesus, making the words and reputations of created beings equal to or greater than He who rules from the throne of God, the incarnate Word by whom all things were made.
The true Church continues to confess that Jesus is the Christ, whom all the holy angels, archangels, all the company of heaven, and those in the communion of saints on earth worship as our God and Savior!
Prayer: Almighty and Everlasting God, direct our actions according to Thy good pleasure, that in the name of Thy beloved Son we may be made to abound in good works; through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
