The Brightness of Christ

Last week, I began teaching the men of SafeHaven of North Mississippi through the book of Hebrews. Going into the study, I wanted to kick myself after reading this glorious book over and over again. My thought was, "What in the world am I thinking teaching this?" If you have ever read Hebrews, it has a lot of difficulties but it exalts Christ higher than Moses, higher than the angels, and higher than any sacrificial system. God really blessed in a neat way. Last night, I finished chapter one and we talked about the brightness of God's glory...Jesus Christ!
Hebrews 1:3 tells us, "And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power..." Christ is coequal with the Father. They share the same attributes...like holiness, omnipotence(all-powerful), good, loving, just...just to name a few. Christ fulfilled all the Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament that is revealed in Hebrews 1 and the rest of the book. Another gleaning we got last night is that God is sovereign and all-powerful. I talked about how those attributes go hand-in-hand and what that means for our salvation...past, present, and future. We can know God and He keeps us by the word of His power. John 10 tells us that no one can pluck us from His hand. Our salvation is secure because "He had made purification for our sins" and "sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty on high"(Hebrews 1:3b). Today, remember who God is and who Jesus is and that The Trinity is awesome.