To: ALL WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From; GOD THE FATHER, THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD,
The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16 ]
Subject: MY WORD
Hebrews 1:1–13 (The Living Bible)
Long ago God spoke in
many different ways to our fathers through the prophets, in visions, dreams,
and even face-to-face, telling them little by little about his plans.
2But now in
these days he has spoken to us through his Son to whom he has given everything
and through whom he made the world and everything there is.
3God’s Son
shines out with God’s glory, and all that God’s Son is and does marks him as
God. He regulates the universe by the mighty power of his command. He is the
one who died to cleanse us and clear our record of all sin, and then sat down
in highest honor beside the great God of heaven.
4Thus he
became far greater than the angels, as proved by the fact that his name “Son of
God,” which was passed on to him from his Father, is far greater than the names
and titles of the angels.
6For the Lord declares, “This is the King of my choice, and I have
enthroned him in Jerusalem
7His chosen one replies, “I will reveal the everlasting purposes of
God, for the Lord has said to me, ‘You are my Son. This is your Coronation Day.
Today I am giving you your glory.’ ”
5-6For God
never said to any angel, “You are my Son, and today I have given you the honor
that goes with that name.” But God said it about Jesus. Another time he said,
“I am his Father and he is my Son.” And still another time—when his firstborn
Son came to earth—God said, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”
6The heavens proclaim His
righteousness and all
peoples see His glory.
7All who
worship images, who vaunt their idols, are dismayed; all divine beings bow down
to Him.
7God speaks
of his angels as messengers swift as the wind and as servants made of flaming
fire; 8but of his Son he says, “Your Kingdom, O God, will last
forever and ever; its commands are always just and right. 9You love
right and hate wrong; so God, even your God, has poured out more gladness upon
you than on anyone else.”
10God also
called him “Lord” when he said, “Lord, in the beginning you made the earth, and
the heavens are the work of your hands. 11They will disappear into
nothingness, but you will remain forever. They will become worn out like old
clothes, 12and some day you will fold them up and replace them. But you
yourself will never change, and your years will never end.”
13And did
God ever say to an angel, as he does to his Son, “Sit here beside me in honor
until I crush all your enemies beneath your feet”?
6But we know that there is only one God, the Father, who created all
things and made us to be his own; and one Lord Jesus Christ, who made
everything and gives us life.
