How Awesome is Jesus

Hebrews 1:1–3 “1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3 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. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,” (NASB95)

All throughout history Father spoke to spoke. He gave insight to the prophets showing bits and pieces of His plan to reconcile us to Himself. In the Old Testament we can read about the things He had to say. Even with the New Testament to help us understand what He was talking about in the old, we may still find it challenging to see and grasp many things we read.

Father has not left us without help, however. To make His message clear, He has spoken to us in a new, different, and much more complete way. To be sure we would not miss His message, He spoke in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, is not just a prophet or a teacher, though He certainly does both of those things. Instead, He is the exact representation of the nature of the Father. He is a visual manifestation of the glory of God.

So powerful is Jesus, the Word of God, that the world was made through Him and He upholds everything in the universe. This is the Jesus who came to earth, laid down His life and rose from the dead. Jesus, this Message from God, did these things so that sin would be taken out of the way. It stood between us and God. Because of sin we could not have a relationship with God. We were incompatible with Him and unacceptable by Him.

Jesus agreed to give His life to pay the price of the sin that separated us from God. After He paid that price and taken away the sin of the world, He rose from the dead and sat down right next to God in heaven. When He did that, the message was clear. It is finished! Everything needed for life and godliness has been made available. It has become possible for us to become reborn children of God.

Jesus is the exact representation of the nature of God. When we believe God and trust what He said through Jesus Christ, we too carry the nature of God. Jesus comes to live in us by His Spirit. We are placed into Him so thoroughly that our lives are hidden in God.

This is the Jesus in whom our faith has been placed.
This is the Jesus who lives and loves in us.