WEBVTT - Jeff Schreve - Oct 29 - 8:30 am 0:00:00.630 --> 0:00:04.210 The following message is from Jeff Shreve, pastor of First 0:00:04.250 --> 0:00:08.430 Baptist Church, Texarkana, Texas, and From His Heart Ministries. 0:00:11.670 --> 0:00:17.180 How many in here have ever seen the Christmas classic, 0:00:17.739 --> 0:00:21.160 It's a Wonderful Life? All right. Who would say that's 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.960 one of your favorite Christmas movies? Anybody? I love It's 0:00:24.980 --> 0:00:27.880 a Wonderful Life. My wife doesn't like It's a Wonderful Life. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.080 She'll never watch it with me. Oh, I hate that movie. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.840 It's like, there's something wrong with you. We need to 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:37.040 go to counseling. It's a wonderful life. It's a great movie. 0:00:37.060 --> 0:00:39.140 If you know the story, it's the story of George 0:00:39.220 --> 0:00:41.950 Bailey and he gets in trouble and the savings and 0:00:42.020 --> 0:00:44.770 loan is going to go down and mean Mr. Potter 0:00:44.810 --> 0:00:47.530 is the one that took his money and he doesn't 0:00:47.550 --> 0:00:50.550 know what to do. It's Christmas Eve and he thinks 0:00:50.590 --> 0:00:54.450 he's facing going to prison for fraud and all these things. 0:00:54.530 --> 0:00:58.030 And so he contemplates killing himself. He thinks that's the 0:00:58.070 --> 0:01:01.370 best way to to deal with a problem. He's better 0:01:01.450 --> 0:01:06.340 off dead than alive in terms of helping the situation 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.039 because of his life insurance policy. And as he's getting 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.870 ready to jump into the water, what happens? Somebody else 0:01:12.930 --> 0:01:16.720 jumps in before him and it's Clarence. Clarence, the second 0:01:16.780 --> 0:01:20.620 class angel that's trying to earn his wings. Really bad 0:01:21.100 --> 0:01:24.979 angelology and theology and it's a wonderful life. Let's face it, 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.680 it doesn't work like that. But this guy falls in 0:01:28.180 --> 0:01:32.210 and he's an angel and his name is Clarence Oddbody. 0:01:32.510 --> 0:01:35.050 I never knew that. I looked it up today. That's 0:01:35.090 --> 0:01:39.050 his last name, really bad last name. Anyway, he's an 0:01:39.310 --> 0:01:47.530 angel and he is George's guardian angel. And he's a weak, old, bumbling, stumbling, 0:01:48.610 --> 0:01:52.510 just guy trying to make it kind of person or 0:01:53.030 --> 0:01:57.130 this being trying to get his wings. And that's what 0:01:57.170 --> 0:02:03.680 we're supposed to believe is our guardian angel. God has 0:02:03.740 --> 0:02:07.600 guardian angels. They're not like that. And the Jews in 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.160 the first century, if you would have presented to them 0:02:11.220 --> 0:02:16.940 an angel who is weak, and inept, and bumbling, and stumbling, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.959 and just can't seem to get it right, they would 0:02:20.060 --> 0:02:24.650 have said, that's not an angel from scripture. Now, we're 0:02:24.669 --> 0:02:28.010 in the book of Hebrews, and we have entitled this series, 0:02:28.090 --> 0:02:31.250 Jesus Above All. And the book of Hebrews shows that 0:02:31.290 --> 0:02:36.340 Jesus is greater. He's greater than all the prophets. He's 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:42.220 greater than Moses. He's greater than Joshua. He's greater than Aaron. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:47.240 He's greater than the Aaronic priesthood. He's greater than the angels. 0:02:48.940 --> 0:02:50.980 And now the Jews might say, well, you know, it's 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.880 really something to say you're better than the prophets, better, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.090 better than, than Josh, better than Moses. I mean, Moses, man, 0:02:58.100 --> 0:03:02.490 he's top shelf, but to say you're greater than the angels, 0:03:02.550 --> 0:03:05.810 that would be like, Oh, timeout because they knew that 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.760 as the scripture says in 2 Peter 2, angels are 0:03:10.810 --> 0:03:14.230 greater in might and power than a man. Angels are, 0:03:14.570 --> 0:03:18.330 they're not flesh and blood like we are. You know, 0:03:18.370 --> 0:03:21.470 in the Old Testament, one angel, in the book of Isaiah, 0:03:22.130 --> 0:03:26.220 we're told that one angel, one night, the angel of 0:03:26.260 --> 0:03:32.440 the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrians who were camped to destroy 0:03:32.820 --> 0:03:35.540 the people of God the next day. One angel did that. 0:03:36.420 --> 0:03:39.560 So they knew that angels were so powerful and they 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:44.620 knew that angels were messengers of God. They're connected to God. 0:03:45.660 --> 0:03:49.140 Who was it who talked to Moses from the burning bush? 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.400 The angel of the Lord. Now what they didn't understand 0:03:53.500 --> 0:03:56.560 was when you read in the Old Testament about the 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:01.790 angel of the Lord, that is not any old angel. 0:04:02.690 --> 0:04:07.490 That is a pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ 0:04:07.570 --> 0:04:10.660 they didn't see it that way and Jews by and 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.680 large rejected Christ and so the writer of Hebrews is 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.320 writing to those who had received Christ but they were 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.760 still they're struggling and there's persecution coming to the Christians 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.470 the persecution is not hitting the Jewish community because the 0:04:27.510 --> 0:04:32.750 Jewish community was was okay with Rome But during the 0:04:32.830 --> 0:04:37.110 persecution of Nero in the 60s, he's the one that 0:04:37.730 --> 0:04:41.010 burned a portion of Rome and blamed it on the Christians. 0:04:41.670 --> 0:04:43.690 And so they were going after the Christians. They were 0:04:43.740 --> 0:04:48.620 torturing the Christians. Paul is going to be beheaded during 0:04:48.660 --> 0:04:51.320 the persecution of Nero. Peter is going to be crucified 0:04:51.380 --> 0:04:55.159 upside down during the persecution of Nero. It's tough to 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.230 be a Christian. And so if you're a Jewish believer, 0:04:58.310 --> 0:05:01.920 a Jewish Christian... There is a tendency and a temptation 0:05:01.980 --> 0:05:04.370 to say, I can get out of all of this 0:05:04.450 --> 0:05:08.990 by just going back to Judaism. Because Judaism is not 0:05:09.110 --> 0:05:14.930 being persecuted. And the Jews, they were persecuting Christianity. They 0:05:14.970 --> 0:05:20.430 didn't like Christianity. religious elites had all said Jesus was 0:05:21.130 --> 0:05:24.830 he's not the Messiah he was crucified well he God 0:05:24.870 --> 0:05:27.270 raised him from the dead no the disciples stole the 0:05:27.310 --> 0:05:29.910 body away that was the lie that they told everybody 0:05:29.950 --> 0:05:33.859 and people believed it many people will believe a lie 0:05:34.380 --> 0:05:36.820 and they believe that lie and so there was a 0:05:36.860 --> 0:05:41.820 great temptation to go back to Judaism And the writer 0:05:41.860 --> 0:05:45.280 of Hebrews is saying, listen, God, as we talked last week, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.760 God has spoken in these last days through his son. 0:05:50.230 --> 0:05:53.929 Jesus is God's full word and he's God's final word. 0:05:54.410 --> 0:05:58.470 And he's greater than the prophets. And he is the 0:05:58.670 --> 0:06:01.770 one who made it all. Verse three, he's the radiance 0:06:01.810 --> 0:06:04.620 of his glory and the exact representation of his nature. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.640 And he upholds all things by the word of his power. 0:06:08.190 --> 0:06:11.169 When he had made purification of sins, he did that. 0:06:11.770 --> 0:06:13.350 As he died on the cross for us, he sat 0:06:13.390 --> 0:06:15.710 down at the right hand of the majesty on high, 0:06:16.130 --> 0:06:21.880 having become as much better than the angels as he 0:06:21.980 --> 0:06:26.820 has inherited a more excellent name than they. For to 0:06:26.860 --> 0:06:29.860 which of the angels did he, God, ever say, you 0:06:30.380 --> 0:06:35.760 are my son, today I have begotten you. So he's 0:06:35.779 --> 0:06:38.020 going to make the case in the rest of Hebrews 0:06:38.060 --> 0:06:43.860 chapter 1 that Jesus Christ, he's greater than the angels. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.240 That's a huge thing to say because the Jews had 0:06:47.300 --> 0:06:50.640 the angels way up here. I mean, they knew that 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:55.150 the angels weren't God, but they're the closest thing to God. 0:06:55.770 --> 0:07:00.089 And they serve God. And they are there with God. 0:07:00.130 --> 0:07:03.719 They're before the throne of God. And they're not like us. 0:07:05.029 --> 0:07:08.490 But Jesus is greater than they are. And he makes 0:07:08.630 --> 0:07:12.530 four convincing proofs. So you have the question. Well, okay. 0:07:13.170 --> 0:07:16.180 You make the claim that Jesus is greater than the angels, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.600 than the holy angel. How is that so? Prove it. 0:07:19.660 --> 0:07:22.780 How is Jesus greater than the angels? And he does 0:07:23.420 --> 0:07:27.690 by quoting from the Old Testament by Jesus. And he 0:07:27.830 --> 0:07:32.890 uses the Septuagint. The Septuagint is the Greek translation of 0:07:32.950 --> 0:07:40.190 the Hebrew Old Testament. It's called the LXX, which is 0:07:40.690 --> 0:07:43.520 Roman numerals for 70, because it was said that there 0:07:43.540 --> 0:07:48.880 were 70 Jewish scholars who took the Hebrew scriptures of 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.500 the Old Testament and translated those Hebrew scriptures into Greek 0:07:53.900 --> 0:07:57.210 so that the people understood. could read it more easily, 0:07:57.270 --> 0:08:02.530 more readily. And so all the quotations that the writer 0:08:02.550 --> 0:08:06.430 of Hebrews uses in Hebrews chapter one, they come out 0:08:06.470 --> 0:08:10.130 of the Septuagint. And he's making the case that, hey, 0:08:10.550 --> 0:08:14.350 you can take it to the bank. Jesus Christ is greater. 0:08:14.650 --> 0:08:17.190 And that's really kind of the whole theme of the book. 0:08:17.620 --> 0:08:22.060 Jesus Christ is greater. So here's the argument. Since Jesus 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.890 Christ is the apex of it all, Why would you 0:08:26.170 --> 0:08:30.930 defect from him? That doesn't make any sense at all. 0:08:31.230 --> 0:08:34.760 He's what everything leads to. And so when you come 0:08:34.820 --> 0:08:37.459 to what everything leads to, to say, yeah, but I 0:08:37.500 --> 0:08:39.459 think I'm going to go back to what I've been 0:08:39.540 --> 0:08:42.780 doing for the last 20, 30 years in Judaism. That 0:08:42.820 --> 0:08:46.260 doesn't make sense. No, Judaism is pushing you to this. 0:08:47.170 --> 0:08:49.770 As it says in Galatians 3, what's the purpose of 0:08:49.809 --> 0:08:52.050 the law? The purpose of the law, the law has 0:08:52.110 --> 0:08:56.030 become our tutor to lead us to Christ. They were 0:08:56.170 --> 0:08:59.420 so hung up in the law, the Old Testament Jews 0:08:59.500 --> 0:09:02.660 and the New Testament Jews. And we've got to keep 0:09:02.700 --> 0:09:04.020 the law. We've got to keep the law. We've got 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.579 to keep the law. They didn't understand. The law wasn't 0:09:06.700 --> 0:09:09.319 given so that you would try and be saved by 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.420 the law. The law was given to show you that 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.760 you're a sinner. And you can't be saved by the law. 0:09:15.630 --> 0:09:18.710 So the law shows you you need a Savior. And 0:09:18.770 --> 0:09:23.560 that Savior is God. So four convincing proofs to show 0:09:23.620 --> 0:09:28.050 us that Jesus truly is greater than the holy angels. 0:09:28.250 --> 0:09:32.330 As great as they are, Jesus is greater, far greater. 0:09:33.190 --> 0:09:36.329 And the first convincing proof has to do with his name. 0:09:37.210 --> 0:09:42.579 Jesus is the son of God. He has inherited a name, 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:47.400 verse four, much better than the angels, a more excellent 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.200 name than they. For to which of the angels did 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:56.330 he ever say, you are my son. Today I have 0:09:56.429 --> 0:09:50.410 begotten you. Today I have become your son. Now, angelic 0:09:50.429 --> 0:09:52.650 beings are very important in the Bible. We read about 0:09:52.670 --> 0:09:55.729 them 273 times in 34 books of the Bible. But 0:09:55.790 --> 0:09:58.320 when it comes to names of angelic beings, we're not 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:20.380 given a lot of names. You know, we know the 0:10:20.450 --> 0:10:25.430 names of the archangels. There's Michael. His name is first 0:10:25.470 --> 0:10:29.430 given to us in the book of Daniel. There's Gabriel. 0:10:29.670 --> 0:10:31.530 His name is also given to us in the book 0:10:31.590 --> 0:10:36.480 of Daniel. And then there's one other name in the 0:10:36.500 --> 0:10:41.439 book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 14. His name is Lucifer. Lucifer, 0:10:41.580 --> 0:10:46.059 whose name means light bearer. Lucifer, Ezekiel 28, was the 0:10:46.100 --> 0:10:53.350 guardian angel. angel of God. He was the one that 0:10:53.390 --> 0:10:56.410 was so close. He was the worship leader in heaven. 0:10:57.550 --> 0:11:01.570 And he was the one, Lucifer, the star of the morning, 0:11:02.550 --> 0:11:05.730 became Satan, the father of the night, because Lucifer is 0:11:05.770 --> 0:11:09.559 the one who rebelled against the Lord. And he led 0:11:09.620 --> 0:11:14.400 a third of the angels in his rebellion to go 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.540 up against the Lord. The Lord kicked him out of heaven. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.810 And Lucifer, the So the morning became Satan, the father 0:11:20.850 --> 0:11:23.429 of the night, and all those angels that followed with 0:11:23.490 --> 0:11:26.830 him in that rebellion, they became filthy, hairy demons. Well, 0:11:26.860 --> 0:11:31.080 we're not really talking about the fallen angels in this passage. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.160 We're talking about the holy angels, but the same could 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.180 be said of the fallen angels. Jesus is far greater 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:43.810 than any created angel because no angel has the title, 0:11:44.250 --> 0:11:47.530 the son of God. Now, when it says in verse four, 0:11:48.650 --> 0:11:52.179 that he has inherited a more excellent name than they, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.960 you ask yourself the question, well, what name has he inherited? 0:11:57.020 --> 0:12:00.600 What name does he have? You know, Revelation chapter 19 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.660 says when the Lord comes back at the battle of Armageddon, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.460 he has a name written that no one knows except himself. 0:12:07.540 --> 0:12:10.800 And some said, well, maybe that's the name he inherited. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.020 That's what the Lord God is talking about here, this 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.330 name that he inherited. But it's not that name. And 0:12:17.370 --> 0:12:19.890 it's not the name Jesus. And it's not the name Lord. 0:12:20.929 --> 0:12:27.290 It's the name son of God. He inherited that name. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.620 And he quotes from Psalm 2. When he says, you 0:12:31.700 --> 0:12:35.040 are my son. Today I have begotten you. Today I 0:12:35.260 --> 0:12:39.780 have become your father. That brings another question. It's like, well, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:44.750 when did that happen? When did Jesus... Get that name. 0:12:44.850 --> 0:12:48.630 When did the Lord say, the father say to Jesus, 0:12:48.890 --> 0:12:54.100 today you are my son. See, we struggle with that 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.700 in our minds when we try and put it in 0:12:56.740 --> 0:13:00.880 a chronology. Because Jesus has always been the eternal son 0:13:00.900 --> 0:13:03.240 of God. So it's like, well, how does that work? 0:13:03.380 --> 0:13:07.850 Today you have become my son. If he's always been 0:13:07.910 --> 0:13:11.920 the son of God. You know, from everlasting to everlasting, 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.220 you are God. So, you know, there was never a time. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:20.809 Arius was a heretic in the 300s A.D. And he 0:13:20.850 --> 0:13:23.270 had a mantra that said there was a time when 0:13:23.309 --> 0:13:26.130 he was not. And he denied the deity of Christ. 0:13:26.970 --> 0:13:29.730 And Athanasius was one of the ones leading the charge 0:13:29.770 --> 0:13:33.780 against Arius, this heretic. And they had the Nicene Council there. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.579 and the Nicene Creed that showed that, hey, Jesus is, 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.580 he is God. He didn't have a start. He has 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.970 always been God. He's very God of very God. He's 0:13:46.030 --> 0:13:50.030 the God man. So Jesus has always been the eternal 0:13:50.070 --> 0:13:52.630 son of God, but there came a point in time 0:13:53.130 --> 0:13:56.390 when Psalm 2, 7, you are my son today, I 0:13:56.450 --> 0:14:01.740 have begotten you, when that took place. And Warren Wiersbe 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.350 brings out the pretty well. He said, you know, Jesus, 0:14:05.450 --> 0:14:08.530 he's the eternal son of God. God exists in Trinity. 0:14:09.150 --> 0:14:12.370 Genesis 1.26, let us make man in our image according 0:14:12.429 --> 0:14:17.589 to our likeness. God, who is God talking to? It's us. Well, 0:14:17.610 --> 0:14:20.230 God exists in Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, 0:14:20.270 --> 0:14:23.230 God the Holy Spirit. And the Trinity of God, the 0:14:23.290 --> 0:14:30.600 Godhead made man. And so you say, okay, well, how 0:14:30.620 --> 0:14:35.150 does all this work? Philippians 2 puts it this way. 0:14:35.870 --> 0:14:39.320 Have this attitude in yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus, who, 0:14:39.390 --> 0:14:42.920 although he existed in the form of God, did not 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.800 regard equality with God a thing to be grasped. He 0:14:45.820 --> 0:14:48.580 didn't hold on to those things that were innately his 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.280 as God, but he emptied himself. He let go of 0:14:52.340 --> 0:14:55.480 those things that were innately his as God, taking the 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.600 form of a bondservant, a doulos, a slave, and being 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:04.330 made in the likeness of men. And being found in 0:15:04.390 --> 0:15:09.130 appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient 0:15:09.830 --> 0:15:11.750 to the point of death, even death on a cross. 0:15:12.710 --> 0:15:16.120 Therefore also God highly exalted him and bestowed on him 0:15:16.150 --> 0:15:18.600 the name which is above every name, that at the 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.060 name of Jesus every knee should bow, those who are 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.040 in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.400 every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.620 the glory of God the Father. So you have this 0:15:30.180 --> 0:15:34.940 incarnation where the eternal son of God Puts on human flesh. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.200 He partakes of flesh. Just like you and I have. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.640 And then you have his humiliation. He goes to the cross. 0:15:42.420 --> 0:15:47.300 And then you have his exaltation. He rises from the dead. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.119 And the Bible seems to make it clear. Today I 0:15:51.180 --> 0:15:55.160 have begotten you. That was at his exaltation. That was 0:15:55.280 --> 0:16:00.410 when he was risen from the dead. And so he 0:16:00.450 --> 0:16:04.880 was declared the son of God. by the resurrection. And 0:16:04.900 --> 0:16:10.480 that was the power that came upon his story, his 0:16:10.780 --> 0:16:15.420 testimony to the world that this truly is the son 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.640 of God. How do we know he's the son of God? 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:23.760 Because he died and rose again. And no one has 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.820 ever done that. Romans chapter one says this concerning his son, 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.500 who was born of the descendant of David according to 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.960 the flesh, who was declared the son of God with 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.440 power by the resurrection from the dead according to the 0:16:39.500 --> 0:16:44.280 spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord. The resurrection from 0:16:44.350 --> 0:16:48.690 the dead was God's stamp of approval. That's my son. 0:16:49.830 --> 0:16:54.810 And I'm his father and he is mine. And everything 0:16:54.890 --> 0:16:58.860 he said and everything he taught, I'm putting my stamp, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.820 my exclamation point upon him. You know, if Jesus had 0:17:02.860 --> 0:17:05.020 died on the cross and stayed dead, well, he can't 0:17:05.060 --> 0:17:08.170 save anybody. He's nobody's savior. And that's why Paul says 0:17:08.230 --> 0:17:11.470 in 1 Corinthians 15, hey, if the dead are not raised, 0:17:11.510 --> 0:17:14.580 then Jesus wasn't raised. And if Jesus wasn't raised, then 0:17:14.630 --> 0:17:17.479 guess what? You're still in your sins. And if we 0:17:17.500 --> 0:17:20.040 have put our hope in Jesus alone in this life only, 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.100 we are all men most to be pitied because we 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.619 put our faith and trust in the dead Savior. But 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.990 then he goes on to say, but Christ has been raised. 0:17:28.930 --> 0:17:33.550 And so he's the firstfruits. And so we have a 0:17:33.670 --> 0:17:39.000 faith that saves because our savior is alive. He is 0:17:39.100 --> 0:17:43.320 the son of God. He has that name. Angels in 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.870 the Bible, in the book of Job, Job is considered 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:50.830 the oldest book in the Bible. And in Job you read, 0:17:50.910 --> 0:17:53.169 and there was a day when the sons of God 0:17:54.180 --> 0:17:58.870 came before the Lord and Satan also came with them. 0:17:59.250 --> 0:18:03.750 The sons of God, most people agree, is a term 0:18:03.790 --> 0:18:07.350 that's used to describe angels. Now angels will be called 0:18:07.470 --> 0:18:11.440 collectively the sons of God. There's never been an angel 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.740 who has been called the son of God. There's only 0:18:14.900 --> 0:18:18.980 one that has that moniker and that is the Lord 0:18:19.340 --> 0:18:25.960 Jesus Christ. And he received that moniker Psalm 2 verse 7, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.109 when he was exalted, when he rose from the dead. 0:18:29.850 --> 0:18:33.150 And so that's the first proof. Hey, who else has 0:18:33.170 --> 0:18:35.750 that name? Jesus is the only one who has that name. 0:18:35.830 --> 0:18:38.770 No angel has that name. Jesus is the son of God. 0:18:38.810 --> 0:18:44.810 Second proof, Jesus is worshiped by the holy angels. Worshiped 0:18:45.010 --> 0:18:49.490 by the holy angels. Verse 6, and when he again 0:18:49.790 --> 0:18:53.310 brings the firstborn into the world, he says... And let 0:18:53.650 --> 0:19:01.950 all the angels of God worship him. That's a quote 0:19:02.010 --> 0:19:08.290 from the Septuagint. From Deuteronomy 32 verse 43. There's also 0:19:08.350 --> 0:19:12.170 a reference in Psalm 97 verse 7. Similar reference to that. 0:19:12.770 --> 0:19:16.430 But the angels worship him. And now they were commanded 0:19:16.450 --> 0:19:20.580 to do that. The sovereign God commands the angels. You 0:19:20.660 --> 0:19:32.410 worship him. Holy angels don't worship created beings. Holy angels 0:19:32.470 --> 0:19:37.090 are not useful idiots. Holy angels are greater in might 0:19:37.250 --> 0:19:40.430 and power than a man. They have more knowledge than 0:19:40.450 --> 0:19:43.469 you and I do. They have more ability than you 0:19:43.530 --> 0:19:45.930 and I do. You and I are no match for 0:19:46.150 --> 0:19:49.330 an angel, a holy angel or a fallen angel. No 0:19:49.369 --> 0:19:52.180 match for them. That's why it talks about false teachers 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.820 in 2 Peter 2. Daring self-willed, they do not tremble 0:19:56.100 --> 0:20:00.820 when they revile angelic majesties. Whereas angels who are greater 0:20:00.859 --> 0:20:03.600 in might and power do not dare bring a reviling 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:10.310 accusation against them before the Lord. Angels have sense. men 0:20:10.369 --> 0:20:15.470 have no sense, especially false teachers. But holy angels know 0:20:15.550 --> 0:20:21.859 that you don't worship created beings. But the writer of 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:27.080 Hebrews says, hey, the sovereign God commanded them to worship him. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.300 Jesus is worshiped by the holy angels. And just to 0:20:31.340 --> 0:20:33.570 give you an example of that, how the angels know, 0:20:34.450 --> 0:20:39.199 Revelation chapter 19 says, You know, Revelation is the revelation 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:41.920 of Jesus Christ to John, who is on the island 0:20:41.940 --> 0:20:46.220 of Patmos. And in Revelation 19, the Lord gives John 0:20:46.260 --> 0:20:50.560 a vision of the marriage supper of the Lamb. Blessed 0:20:50.619 --> 0:20:52.699 and holy is the person who is invited to the 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.510 marriage supper of the Lamb, the scripture says. And he 0:20:55.619 --> 0:21:00.510 sees what's going to take place in the future, in heaven. 0:21:00.770 --> 0:21:05.140 And he is blown away. And it says in Revelation 0:21:05.140 --> 0:21:08.379 19 verse 10, when he saw this, then I fell 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.630 at his feet to worship him, the angel who showed 0:21:11.650 --> 0:21:14.570 him these things. But the angel said to him, do 0:21:14.650 --> 0:21:18.690 not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours 0:21:18.890 --> 0:21:21.930 and your brethren who hold to the testimony of Jesus. 0:21:22.410 --> 0:21:27.880 Worship God. The angel wouldn't let John worship him. John 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.830 was wrong to do that. And the angel would have 0:21:30.850 --> 0:21:33.650 been wrong if the angel had received the worship from 0:21:33.869 --> 0:21:36.650 John to himself. The angel knows, hey, you don't worship me. 0:21:36.730 --> 0:21:39.750 I'm a fellow servant. You worship God. And so they 0:21:39.830 --> 0:21:44.530 know you don't worship created beings. No one should worship 0:21:44.609 --> 0:21:48.820 an angel and no angel should worship a man. But 0:21:48.900 --> 0:21:54.139 angels worship Jesus because Jesus is God. And I was 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:56.359 thinking about this today. It's kind of an interesting thought. 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.669 You know, when Lucifer... So you have the three angels 0:22:00.990 --> 0:22:06.450 named angels in the Old Testament, Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer. 0:22:07.450 --> 0:22:12.100 And they're all the three for the Trinity, the guardian 0:22:12.220 --> 0:22:17.980 angels of God. When Lucifer fell, you know, there's some 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.109 kind of, you can read Ezekiel chapter 28. It tells 0:22:21.150 --> 0:22:24.010 us that there's a musical quality about this creature that 0:22:24.050 --> 0:22:28.350 God made called Lucifer. And he would lead in the worship. 0:22:29.130 --> 0:22:31.350 And he was the worship leader. And so the angels 0:22:31.390 --> 0:22:34.170 would gather. The sons of God would gather to worship God. 0:22:34.490 --> 0:22:38.270 And the worship would come through Lucifer, through this musical 0:22:38.350 --> 0:22:41.790 quality that God gave him in his person, in the 0:22:41.830 --> 0:22:44.129 way he was made. And it would go up to 0:22:44.170 --> 0:22:46.560 the Lord. And it would be a sweet sound in 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:51.060 his ear. And Lucifer said, well, I'm so beautiful. I'm 0:22:51.140 --> 0:22:56.260 so wonderful. This worship that's coming to me, or coming 0:22:56.300 --> 0:23:00.389 through me, should come to me. And in Isaiah chapter 14, 0:23:00.380 --> 0:23:03.560 he says five times, I will, I will, I will, 0:23:03.700 --> 0:23:06.699 I will, I will. I will make myself like the 0:23:06.780 --> 0:23:11.109 most high God. I'm going to usurp God. I'm going 0:23:11.230 --> 0:23:14.390 to put my place, myself in the place of God. 0:23:14.830 --> 0:23:17.030 And he was so persuasive, he got a third of 0:23:17.090 --> 0:23:20.830 the angels to go with him in his rebellion. Now, 0:23:20.890 --> 0:23:24.930 I was thinking about this today. Because the angels worship. 0:23:25.070 --> 0:23:28.429 They know not to worship a created being. Lucifer is 0:23:28.470 --> 0:23:32.689 a created being. So is Gabriel. So is Michael. And 0:23:32.710 --> 0:23:36.490 the question comes into being. And I texted my seminary 0:23:36.940 --> 0:23:42.859 professor friend. I said, did the fallen angels worship Satan? 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:48.880 And do they worship Satan? And he said, they follow Satan. 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:55.450 They serve Satan. They don't worship Satan. They know not 0:23:55.490 --> 0:24:00.609 to do that. And so what was the sales pitch 0:24:01.010 --> 0:24:04.669 that Lucifer gave the third of the angels? We don't 0:24:04.710 --> 0:24:07.690 know how many angels there are. The Bible just says 0:24:07.730 --> 0:24:11.580 there are lots of them, myriads upon myriads of angels. 0:24:11.820 --> 0:24:14.159 We do know that there are two thirds, good angels, 0:24:14.580 --> 0:24:18.040 one third, bad angels. So we're up two thirds to 0:24:18.140 --> 0:24:22.000 one third. That's a good thing. Um, But there's lots 0:24:22.100 --> 0:24:26.550 of them. And he had to give them some kind 0:24:26.609 --> 0:24:31.110 of sales pitch for them to come on his team. Now, 0:24:31.730 --> 0:24:36.850 the sales pitch, hey, you guys have been worshiping Jehovah God, 0:24:36.910 --> 0:24:41.990 Yahweh God. Come on my team. You can worship me. Well, 0:24:42.020 --> 0:24:45.139 I get out of that. I'm worshiping God. Why I 0:24:45.180 --> 0:24:47.420 go worship you? I mean, there's not a lot of 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:51.889 incentive there. I think the incentive was come with me 0:24:52.390 --> 0:24:58.750 and we will overthrow God. So it wasn't about worshiping Satan. 0:24:58.930 --> 0:25:02.350 It was about following Satan in the rebellion against God, 0:25:02.490 --> 0:25:06.200 in overthrowing God, in taking over heaven, in taking over 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:08.660 the universe. That makes more sense. And so I think 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:14.180 the fallen angels worship themselves. You know, it's just like 0:25:14.260 --> 0:25:17.919 in a human being. You know, it was Bob Dylan 0:25:17.940 --> 0:25:20.070 that wrote the song, you're gonna have to serve somebody. 0:25:20.109 --> 0:25:21.770 It may be the devil or it may be the Lord, 0:25:21.790 --> 0:25:24.590 but you're gonna have to serve somebody. God made us 0:25:24.750 --> 0:25:29.710 with this desire to worship and serve. And if it's 0:25:29.810 --> 0:25:33.409 not the true God, then it's gonna be a false God. 0:25:33.710 --> 0:25:35.930 And if it's not some false God that you can 0:25:35.990 --> 0:25:37.950 point your finger to, it's gonna be the false God 0:25:37.990 --> 0:25:41.510 of self. And I think that's what the fallen angels do. 0:25:41.570 --> 0:25:47.410 They worship themselves and they serve the devil And they 0:25:47.530 --> 0:25:52.060 still are deceived in thinking that one day they're going 0:25:52.100 --> 0:25:55.740 to overthrow God. They know what the scripture says. They've 0:25:55.780 --> 0:25:58.220 read the book of the revelation. They know it says 0:25:58.260 --> 0:26:01.800 they end up in the lake of fire. They're not stupid. 0:26:02.820 --> 0:26:06.340 But they just believe that they can overthrow the word 0:26:06.520 --> 0:26:11.920 of God. You know, when you think about the worship 0:26:12.140 --> 0:26:18.310 of the holy angels, that speaks volumes. So strongly that 0:26:18.369 --> 0:26:27.010 Jesus is greater because the lesser worships and serves the greater. 0:26:27.650 --> 0:26:30.389 Proof number three, not only is Jesus worshiped by the 0:26:30.430 --> 0:26:35.440 holy angels, he's served by the holy angels. It says 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:40.640 in verse seven, and of the angels, he says, who 0:26:40.700 --> 0:26:45.750 makes his angels wins. Pneuma is the word, spirits. and 0:26:45.830 --> 0:26:50.350 his ministers a flame of fire. And then it says 0:26:50.430 --> 0:26:55.240 in verse 14, are they not all ministering spirits sent 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:58.280 out to render service for the sake of those who 0:26:58.300 --> 0:27:04.560 will inherit salvation? Jesus is served by the holy angels. 0:27:05.180 --> 0:27:10.150