Christ himself was a student of, and a master of, and preacher of the Old Testament Scriptures. A Sermon Introduction for Hebrews 1:1-4. by David Allen | May 16, 2016 | Preaching, Sermons. Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12. What Shakespeare is to playwrights, the Mississippi to rivers, and Westminster to cathedrals, Hebrews 1:1-4 is to all the New Testament. By contrast, what we know about God through his self-revelation as Christ can be likened to the knowledge of the stars that we gain by looking at the sun, which is a great deal closer and which gives us an understanding about stars that simply would not be possibly otherwise. We are in the final, ultimate phase of God's self-revelation. Let me try and explain that. The quotation is from Psalm 110:1. Some artists put themselves into their work metaphorically, and others do so quite literally. All of which, of course, begs the question of the relationship, then, between the person of Christ and the 27 books which make up the New Testament and which came after the Lord Jesus had completed his earthly mission and ministry, and returned to heaven. The same thing can be said about our knowledge of the planet Jupiter, now that the Titan space probe has landed. In other words, the one to whom all things ultimately are given, is also the one through whom all things were initially made. Out of all the things that God has created, what is the most spectacular? Scripture: Hebrews 1:1–4. I grew up in a Lutheran church in Washington State. Then, years later, along comes God's Son, Jesus Christ, who, in addition to being God's final and sufficient word and an act of revelation himself lends his authority and stamp of approval to this whole process which I have just described. To subscribe to Reformed Perspectives Magazine, please select this link. In the space of just a few verses, the writer of Hebrews gives us a description of Jesus that is un-paralleled by any other being, human or otherwise, and which demonstrates why he is uniquely qualified to be the supreme revealer of God. However, a simpler and shorter answer is to say that the relationship between Jesus and the New Testament is the same as the relationship between the prophets and the Old Testament. No one else even comes close. As we noted last week, Hebrews is something of a cross between a letter and a theological essay and is fairly unique as New Testament letters go. We think about how this was so — calling to mind such figures as Moses, and Elijah, and Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. This is the first part of David Guzik's teaching on the book of Hebrews. Will be home for Christmas." Moreover, if it was a perfect word, then it was a sufficient word. Seventy-two words in the Greek text comprise a single sentence and each word is pregnant with meaning and pulsates with deity. JESUS IS HEIR OF ALL THINGS - "... whom he hath appointed heir of all things..." JESUS IS CREATOR OF THE WORLD - "... by whom also he made the worlds;" JESUS IS GOD HIMSELF - " Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person..." JESUS IS UPHOLDER OF ALL THINGS - "and … Attach an asterisk (*) to the end of a word as a wildcard. The unapproachable has become accessible. Ignoring such a thing would be crazy and would invoke a justly deserved condemnation. Hebrews 1:1-4. John Piper Apr 4, 1996 42 Shares Sermon. https://hbcnr-sermons.s3.amazonaws.com/Hold+Fast/SermonTemplate+-+9%3A20%3A20%2C+1.55+PM.mp3 . This, of course, is exactly what was modeled by Jesus himself, in Luke 24, and is modeled by Paul in many places, and what will be modeled in the Letter of Hebrews itself on numerous occasions. 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