This morning as I was reading Hebrews, it was as if God poked me with a revelation that He had shown me while in Africa almost 2 years ago. The fun thing about it was that it was just as fresh this morning when it hit me as it was then. You would think that 2 years later this bread might be a little stale but it was as if it just came out of the oven, warm, soft and tasty.
There was a grocery store here in Canada called Dominion which had the slogan, "We're Fresh Obsessed". I can't forget the day when I drove by that grocery store, saw the slogan and heard my heavenly daddy speak that very slogan to me, "Son, I'm Fresh Obsessed". When we bake fresh bread here on earth it can only stay fresh for a short amount of time due to drying out. But the bread of heaven is God, He is the Word and it never dries out and the word He spoke thousands of years ago is just as fresh today as it was then.
Hebrews 1:4 says, 'Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they'. First off, if we go back a few verses we quickly learn that this verse is speaking of Jesus and telling us that He has by inheritance received a name that was more excellent than even the angels. But this is the thing, the author sets us up with this verse and we know that it is speaking of Jesus but when he reveals this name it is not the name Jesus, it is the name SON. Hebrews 1:5, 'For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?' Jesus was made so much better than the angels and He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than the angels which is the name SON. 1 Peter 1:12 tells us that the Gospel was so good that the angels desired to look into it, why? Because up until that moment God had no children (I think a 'selah' would be appropriate right about now). The angels will never know what it will be like to be Sons of our Heavenly Daddy but they saw how awesome it was that they could not help but look into salvation and the fruit of it, Sonship.
The next verse in Hebrews 1 is even more revealing, Hebrews 1:6, 'And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him'. The word that brings this all together is the word "firstbegotten" which literally means "the first born". Now if the word first born is used it doesn't take a biblical scholar to realize that that means there will be others that will follow. There will be a second born and a third born and so on. If we jump down a few verses we will see who those who follow the first born are. Hebrews 1:14, "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" HEIRS OF SALVATION. An heir is someone who will obtain something through inheritance. Jesus obtained the name of SON through inheritance, becoming the first born of many SONS who will receive this name through salvation by inheritance.
The name Son is not just a name it is a relational stance. It means that God is not just God but Father and that means I now relate to Him as a Father and He relates to me as a Son. This totally changes everything and how we used to relate to God through the law in the old testament. Think of the law as a father as well but one who keeps his children in line using rules and regulations without love or grace or mercy. Do you know what we would call that in real life, a disfunctional parent. The law was disfuntional, it was the very opposite of a Father Son relationship. The radical result of the happy, too good to be true gospel is this, we were slaves but now we are Son's.
This is a revelation that is immune to becoming stale, ever remaining fresh and leaving us eternally satisfied because we have by inheritance obtained a new name, SONS.
This is a revelation that is immune to becoming stale, ever remaining fresh and leaving us eternally satisfied because we have by inheritance obtained a new name, SONS.
