God Has Spoken

Daily Bible Reading – Philemon 1 – Hebrews 3:19

“God has spoken!” This is the great message of Hebrews. “God has spoken”—so take heed how you respond to His Word. After all, the way we respond to the Word of God is the way we respond to the Son of God, for He is the Living Word. In this first chapter we see Christ’s superiority over the prophets and the angels.

We see his superiority first in His person. Christ is the Son of God; the prophets were merely men who were called to be servants. Christ made the worlds (or “framed the ages”), and it is He who upholds the worlds. His Word has power. He spoke the worlds into being, and now His Word controls and sustains our world. Christ is also the Heir of all things. “All things were made by Him and for Him” (Col. 1:16). He is God’s sacrifice for the sins of the world. He “purged our sins” by His death on the cross. Now He is seated in glory, as God’s King-Priest. His work on earth is completed; He has sat down.

Secondly, He is superior in His message. God’s revelations in old times were given “in many portions and in many ways.” No prophet received the complete revelation. God spoke through visions, dreams, symbols, and events, as well as through human lips. These revelations pointed to Christ, and He is the final revelation from God. Christ is God’s “last Word” to the world. All of OT revelation led up to Christ, God’s final and full revelation. Anyone today who boasts of having a “new revelation from God” is deceived. God is not giving revelations today; He is illuminating His once-for-all revelation in Christ.