--------------------- The Son of God ---------------- Let us look now at this first great movement: the presentation of the Son. We have here at least eight things said about Him. Firstly, He is Gods Son. In our Christian doctrine and creed, of course we accept that without a thought. But everything that follows - all that is to be ours, all that is to be effected - simply comes out of the fact that the One Who has provided it is no less than Gods Own Son. As the opening words tell us: God has spoken in His Son. In times past, He used servants, and He used angels. They could not do it. They all stopped short; the thread was left loose. And God said: I will send My Son. Remember the Sons own parable. God sent servants, but the thing was not done. I will send My beloved Son (Luke 20:13). And, blessed be God, the Son (so this letter says, and so we believe) has done what all the servants put together were never able to do. We see the greatness of Sonship, as an inclusive and conclusive thing with God. --------------------- The Heir of All Things ---------------------- Whom He appointed heir of all things. The Son was appointed by God heir of all things; the inheritance of all that God ever made and intended was secured by God the Father irrevocably in His Son. In 1 Kings chapter 8, there is the account of the bringing of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Zion into the temple and you may have noticed that in verse 8 that there is an alternative translation of the little phrase about the staves. In one translation it is: the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen without (1 Kings 8:8). But there is another translation, which says: And they drew out the staves, so that the end of the staves were seen... - which means they took out the staves from the Ark, by which it had been carried all through the journey, and put them up in a corner and said: You are done with; we dont need you any more; the Ark has come to rest; there is no more journeying. This letter to the Hebrews (so called) sees Jesus, the Ark of the Covenant, finally at rest in the heavenly sanctuary and the staves are drawn out; we are come to the end. And God has come to His end; all things are secured. No more going on, no more questions of how will it end. The journey is at an end in Him. It is all secured in Him. That is what is said here. God has reached His end, come to His rest in His Son; because His Son is the sworn, covenanted Heir of all things, and He shall have all things. They are secured in Him. (by T. Austin-Sparks, Gods Purpose in All, Chapter 2 - The Son)
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