Magnificent Ministers and a Marvelous Master

Bibles. Uh we are going to be in Hebrews chapter 1. Uh so far we've been looking at again the first three verses that have honestly for us established a great deal of christologology. Just a fancy word that we use in the idea of the study of Christ and who Jesus is. Not only is he the perfect prophet, not only is he the perfect priest and king, but Jesus is fully and eternally God. And that's what really the first three verses are talking about and covering.

We we've established that in specifically his person. And now what the author does in verses 4-14 is he kind of shifts a bit to the topic and category of angels. The topic and category of angels. And he stays within the point of proving the divine nature of Jesus. All right? And so even though he shifts it and makes in some ways it almost feels like a hard shift where it's like we're talking about the radiance of God's glory that's in that's in Jesus.

We're talking about him being the exact imprint of the nature of God. And then all of a sudden it's like all right let's talk about angels now. And you're like okay well that's a that's a weird move there. But what he's actually doing is he's not moving on from Jesus. He's still proving who Jesus is. And so um it's important for us to be able to understand that.

And the question the original audience would be asking is, "All right, Jesus sounds pretty amazing, but how does he measure up to the angels?" That's what the original audience would be thinking. He sounds awesome, but how does he measure up with this angelic world, the angelic beings? And here's the big idea for us. What we don't want to do, the mistake isn't thinking too highly of angels. That's actually not the mistake.

The mistake is just simply thinking too lowly of Jesus. That's the mistake. And so that's why the author is going to be doing this shift here is to be able to see no no keep your category of angels high and then realize that Jesus is better. Jesus is greater. Jesus is higher. Because again the early church culture they themselves had a high view of angels.

They had a high view of angels. Our culture on the other hand, we've domesticated angels. All right? That's what we've done. We we've turned them into babies with wings basically. We we've created them as just decorations, artwork on the walls.

We even have gotten to a point, I'm ne necessarily saying Christians have done this, but culture, society, you know, whenever a loved one dies, well, they got their angel wings. And it's like, what are we talking about at this point? And so what the Bible's doing is the Bible gives us something altogether different. And honestly, it would be good for us to elevate our view of what angels actually are because to elevate them is also going to help us elevate Christ. Elevate Christ. And so again, just to kind of let you know a little bit of what we just call angelology.

Don't ask me to spell that, but angelology. These are powerful heavenly beings that honestly they appear throughout all of redemptive history. Okay? So, it's not something that just like when when Mary found herself pregnant, an angel showed up and was like, "Hey, you're pregnant with you." That's not the first time an angel showed up. Okay?

Angels are all throughout the history of God's people. They're powerful. They deliver God's message. They execute God's judgment. They protect God's people. They surround God's throne.

And they're involved even in the giving of God's law. When when Stephen is preaching a message in Acts 7:53, he says, um, Israel received the law as as was delivered to them by the angels. So, so they've had an incredible role as these these these viceroys, these vice regions, these ministers and servants of God all throughout the scriptures. All throughout the scriptures. Which is why it's actually insane for us in our modern day to now belittle them to the point of being these little baby cherubs playing little harps flying around in the air. The author does not make that mistake.

He shows us simply how magnificent these creatures are and then shows us what these magnificent creatures do when they encounter the sun. That's important for us. So, I want to read our passage for us. I'm going to back it up a little bit just to keep it all in context looking at verse four, but primarily we're going to be covering verses six and seven today. So, looking back at verse four, here's what he says. having become, again referring to Jesus, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, you are my son today I have begotten you. Or again, I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son. And if you're reading those or hearing those and you're like, all right, what does all that mean? Go back and listen to last week's sermon. That's what that was about. Verse six.

And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him." Worship him. Of the angels, he says, "He makes his angels winds and his ministers a flame of fire." Now, I want to provide a little bit of a preface for us before I get into the first point here. And the preface is going to be in the idea of what he means by the the firstborn language here. Okay?

When Hebrews calls Jesus the firstborn, it does not mean that Jesus was the first thing God created. That's not what it means. All right? Other religions like to take passages like this and see, hey, see, gotcha. He's not eternally God. He was created.

He's the firstborn. That's not the language that's actually being used here, or at least the definition of this. It doesn't mean Jesus was the first thing God created. It means rather and the way that this term has been used in their culture and especially in Jewish culture, it means first in rank. It means first in authority. It means the supreme heir over everything that God has made.

That's what he means by firstborn. So, not first created, but first in rank, first in authority, firstborn, the supreme heir over everything God has made. And we actually pull this from Psalm 89 because Psalm 89 calls David the firstborn. And if you know anything about David, he's not. I think he's the youngest of I think it's eight brothers that he has. He's the youngest of them.

So, if you were trying to find a contradiction in scripture, you could be like, "Well, hold up a second. How can you call David firstborn when he's the eighth in line or ninth, whatever it is?" And so, here it's got to mean something else. And it has to mean that even though he was the last, he's actually the first when it comes to rank. Even though he would in his family would be considered the least, he actually possesses the most authority because of the anointing that God gives him. And so he is essentially considered here firstborn because firstborn is about position not birth order position.

So Jesus isn't standing at the front of the line of the created beings. Jesus owns the line. That's what we're actually talking about here. And that's why the very next command is let all God's angels worship him because he is first in rank. He is first in authority. He is supreme over everything else that is created.

But I'm going to come back to that one. So I'm actually going to look at these in in uh reverse order. We're going to go with verse seven first and then come back to verse six. So, let's take some time and let's look at these angelic beings a little bit more to be able to see why it's so important that they are the ones who actually worship the sun. The first thing I want you to see from this passage in verse 7 is that angels are magnificent ministers. Angels are magnificent ministers.

Look at what the author says in Hebrews 1:7. of the angels. He says he makes his angels winds and his ministers a flame of fire. Now, if you were paying attention, you might say, "Well, didn't you already say that earlier?" Yeah, I did when I read it in the call to worship at the beginning, but I didn't read Hebrews 17. I actually read from Psalm 104 because that's where the author pulls this from.

So, he's actually taking scripture and he's executing scripture. He's pulling out what are we actually talking about? What is that scripture actually mean? Who is it pointing to? And he starts pulling that in. And he says in Psalm 104, you got to understand the context in order to understand the meaning here.

Because the writer isn't just making up Hebrews 1:7. He's not just trying to create some kind of new poetry thing and say, you know what sounds kind of cool is um the angels are like winds. And when I say winds, like it's winds with a D, not like winds like, you know, winning a game or it's winds with a D. And as ministers, a flame of fire. Like that's just cool imagery, but he's actually pulling that from a context of Psalm 104. And the context of Psalm matters here.

Psalm 104 is a celebration of the absolute sovereignty of what the Old Testament refers to God as Yahweh. Yahweh meaning God is God over everything that he has made. And just so that you know if you if you've never really heard that term Yahweh before. Yahweh is the Old Testament name for God. And what's fascinating is that the Greek translation of the Old Testament Hebrew. So the Greek translation, we call this the Septuagent where they took the Old Testament, they translated it into the language of the ordinary people, which was Greek at the time.

And the Greek word translated for Yahweh in the Old Testament is curios. And that same term for curios is ascribed to Jesus. And so every single time it's referred to Jesus as Lord, curios, it's actually pulling off of the same term used for God in the Old Testament. Which means Jesus is not just a New Testament figure. Rather, he's all throughout our scriptures. All throughout our scriptures.

The context of that matters because Psalm 104 is referencing Yahweh. It's referencing Jesus in the Old Testament. The psalmist looks at creation, the creation of this Yahweh, the creation of God, the creation that we spent the first three verses studying and realizing that it all came into being through Jesus by his word spoken into existence. The psalmist looks at the creation and he says, "You want to know how big our God is? Simply look around. Look around."

He stretches out the heavens like a tent. That's amazing. Like we build, you know, I build forts for the kids at in our house and we're taking blankets and stretching them out and like that's how God just stretched out the heavens. He makes the clouds his chariot. I don't even know what that means, but it sounds awesome. He rides on the wings of the wind.

He tells the waters where they can go and where they have to stop. The whole created order is at his command. That's the context of Psalm 104. That's what it's declaring for us. And then in verse four, he says this. He makes his messengers winds, his ministers of flaming fire.

That's where the author of Hebrews pulls this verse out. It's straight out of Psalm 104. Now, don't read that and think the point is that the angels are not impressive. Like, you know, well, I see wind every day. What's the big deal? I can make fire.

That's not a big deal. That's not the point at all. Angels are actually unbelievably impressive. The Bible presents them as powerful, presents them as supernatural, presents them as heavenly beings. And when it comes to wind and fire, you should take those things seriously. If you own a house in here, check your homeowner's insurance.

And the two things at the top are going to be wind and fire because those are the things that can wipe it out. We lived in u Miami and there was something that we had to purchase in addition to our homeowners insurance, which was hurricane insurance because you should take wind seriously. And that's exactly what's happening here. The Bible presents them as these powerful winds and fire, supernatural heavenly beings. But the point of it is, however powerful they are, their power is at God's disposal. It's delegated to them.

In fact, if you want to understand Psalm 104, just back up one Psalm to Psalm 103:es 20 and 21, and you'll see the order here. He says, "Bless the Lord, oh you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word. Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers who do his will." Now, did you catch that? like they're mighty ones for sure. So don't make them weak.

But what do these mighty ones do? They do whatever Jesus says. They obey his word and they do his will. That's why again it always comes back to the the the the wedding at Kaa when they're asking Mary, what do we do? Whatever he says. Whatever he says.

The angels, if they were to ever ask a question, hey, we're created beings. You look awesome. You look awesome. You're like winds and you're like fire. What do we do? If they were to have that conversation in heaven, there would be a smarter angel in the room who would say, "We do whatever he says.

We do whatever he says. We do his will." That's biblical angelology in summary. All right? Now, there's a lot more that comes with it that we'll unpack as the days go on, but that's the main thing you need to understand is that angels possess extraordinary power. Extraordinary power, more power than you have.

All right? At the same time, they possess delegated power. So, it's not intrinsic power that they have. It's inherited. It's delegated. They don't decide where to go.

They're sent. They They don't determine what needs to be done. They obey someone who tells them what to do. They don't establish the mission. They carry it out on behalf of someone else. They're mighty, but they're ministers.

They're ministers. And when scripture occasionally pulls back the curtain on this invisible realm because that's what they are every once in a while. I mean there's some there's some unique passages um where like in James for example there's a passage that says like don't ever uh neglect to entertain or show hospitality to someone in need because you might be entertaining an angel. It's like okay what in the world's going on there? some way or another, they are able to manifest themselves into looking like a human being that you are ministering to as a test to see whether or not you're faithful to Jesus. That's amazing.

All right. Uh don't know if that's ever happened. I you know, again, this is one of those bonfire chats. Ask me sometime, have you ever ministered to an angel before? Not sure if he was, but I can tell you this. He didn't seem very human.

All right? He was a very out there kind of person. And so in my mind, there's only one way to kind of understand the situation going on there. But bonfire chat, what's going on here is that they're mighty, but they're ministers. And every once in a while, as you read through the Old Testament, even in the New Testament, the scriptures will pull back the curtain and allow us to see in to these magnificent ministers. And it should produce something in us that is way better than the babies with wings.

and the decoration on the walls way better. For example, in 2 Kings chapter 6, I love this story. Elisha and his servant are surrounded by the Syrian army and his servant wakes up and he sees the enemy soldiers literally everywhere around them. They're surrounded. It's just Elisha and his servant. And the servant immediately starts panicking.

What are we going to do? How are we going to get out of this situation? We are surrounded. And I love what Elisha says to him. Because Elisha in the story is not panicking. Elisha says to the servant, "Do not be afraid for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."

Now, if I'm the servant of Elisha in this moment, I'm thinking, "Have you lost your ever loving mind?" Because we're surrounded. I don't see anything else. So, what are you talking about? If you know something I don't, let me in on the secret here. Please.

And then Elisha prays this prayer. Oh Lord, please open his eyes that he may see. And God opens the servant's eyes and suddenly he sees what had been there the whole time. It says the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. Now, can you just imagine that for a moment? One moment you think you're surrounded and that's it.

It's over. And then the next moment, God lets you see the invisible reality and you realize the army surrounding you is itself surrounded. That's amazing. That's that's magnificent. That's magnificent. It actually reminds me, we were watching um Avengers Endgame this weekend and there's a moment in the movie where Captain America, he's fighting against Thanos and um doesn't matter why.

They're just they're fighting. All right, one wants to kill half the universe and Captain America's like, "Not on my watch." And so they're fighting with each other. But in this moment, it looks like Captain America and the portion of his kind of soldiers that are helping him, it looks like this is it. Like they're going to lose. And then all the sudden these portals open up and then like the rest of the Avengers assemble and they come.

And so what appeared like they were going to eventually lose at this moment now in reality, Thanos is 100% surrounded and they're going to end up being defeated. And it just reminds me like that's how God is operating in this moment is he's like, "Hey, yeah, in this moment you look like Elisha and your servant, you're you're about to you're about to be wiped out, but just know that I'm working out all things and I've got you covered. You're surrounded by my magnificent ministers who are like winds and chariots of fire in this context. Again, the Bible just gives us these little glimpses into a spiritual realm that is far more powerful and far more magnificent than most of us ordinarily imagine. And if you still picture angels as these little chubby babies with wings, I think even Jude nine should fix that. Here's another example.

Jude tells us that Michael the Archangel contended with Satan over the body of Moses. I just think this like if there's ever I if we actually get to the point where we're like just putting all the Bible stories into little sitcoms and like actually things you could watch. This is one of those ones I'd love to watch. Like if there was like an episode of The Office, but it was Michael contending with Satan over the body of Moses. Like I want to see that scene because I just think that would be absolutely amazing. We're not told exactly why.

I think I think one of the only things that we know in the Old Testament when they buried the body of Moses, there's a line in there that says, "No one knows where the body is hidden to this day." And I just have to believe in this moment that Satan's wanting to find the body of Moses. And Michael's saying, "Not on my watch. Not going to happen." And I think I don't know, maybe Satan was just wanting to, you know, create his own little weekend at Bernie's, find the body, dig it up, walk it around, show it off to people, and basically pull people away from Jesus. And Michael's saying, "No."

What I love about this story though is most of the time people want to pit Satan against Jesus as if those are equals. They want to put them in the boxing ring and then have everybody bet on who's going to win. And because Jesus is so much more powerful and so much more elevated above the angelic realm that even when Satan is coming to contend, Jesus basically says, "I'm not even going to move. Michael, go deal with it. Go deal with it." And it's dealt with.

It doesn't say Michael loses. still don't know where the body of Moses is. Again, what I love about that is Michael understands his authority is delegated to him. Here's the cool thing, too. Even in that moment in Jude 9 or in Jude verse 9, what you see here, he doesn't he doesn't say to Satan, I rebuke you. He comes to him and he says, the Lord rebuke you.

So, he's a he's a magnificent angel. He's a magnificent minister. But when he steps up on the scene to Satan, and you got to remember, too, Satan was an angel. So, he would be on level playing field with Michael. But also have to believe, too, sin makes you dumb and sin weakens you. And so in this moment, Michael, even though I would probably believe that he's still a little bit healthier because he's not sinful, could probably just take Satan, but he doesn't exercise that.

What he exercises what he knows solves every single problem. The Lord rebuke you. The Lord rebuke you. However great the angel's powers are, it's delegated power. However great their authority, it's delegated authority. They move when God says move.

They speak when God says speak. They accomplish what God sends them to accomplish. And that is what makes this previous verse, verse six, absolutely staggering because Hebrews doesn't diminish the angels in order to exalt Jesus. That's not what he's doing. It lets you see how magnificent the angels are and then allows us to then see how much more marvelous Jesus is. That's the point that we're talking about.

And verse six tells you what every one of these magnificent creatures does in the presence of the son. They worship him. They worship him. That's the second point I want you to see. Magnificent ministers worship the marvelous master. Again, we just spent all this time talking about how magnificent they are.

They're called mighty ones. They're associated with winds and flaming fire. They operate in a spiritual realm that we can't see most of the time when they show up in scripture. People are literally terrified. Terrified. That's why again the pictures and images that we have today aren't what angels look like because we look at them and we're like, "Oh, how cute."

No, no, no. There's not one person in scripture that when an angel showed up thought, "Uh-huh, how cute." No, they were terrified. And the angels have to immediately say, "Do not fear. I know I look terrified. Do not fear.

Do not fear." And God says to every one of these terrifying creatures, worship the sun. The Greek word for worship here is proaneo and it means to bow down. To bow down. I mean these are creatures that when we see we immediately want to bow down to. And yet their posture is bowing down to Jesus.

bowing down to Jesus, rendering worship to him, prostrating themselves before him. Again, Jesus doesn't bow before angels. Angels bow before him. And one of the clearest pictures and places to see the significance of that is the very last chapter of that book in your hands. Revelation 22. I want you to see this.

Everyone turn there with me. Revelation 22. John has just received this overwhelming vision of of heaven and and everything that is to come. And John's so overwhelmed that he falls down at the feet of the angel who's been showing him all of these things. And so I want you to see this. I'm going to turn there with you as well and I'm going to read it.

Revelation 22 starting in verse one. We'll read down to verse 9. Again, these are all the things that this angel was revealing to John in order for him to record and see. Again, pulling the curtain back. And here's what he said. Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city.

Also on either side of the river, there was the tree of life with its 12 kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They'll worship him. Lost my place. There it is.

They will see his face and his name will be on their foreheads and night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun for the Lord God will be their light and they will reign forever and ever. Remember Jesus being the radiance of God's glory. This is what it's talking about here. Verse six. And he said to me, again, this angel speaking to John.

He said to me, these words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his son, or has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place. And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. And what was John's response to this? I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things.

And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me. But he said to me, "You must not do that. I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers, the prophets, and also with those who keep the words of this book." Worship God. Worship God. Again, I love this because this is the point.

This angel knows exactly what category he belongs in. There is creator and there is creatures in creation. And somewhere along the lines, we blurred the map between creator and creation and we threw angels up into his category. And what the author is telling us here and he's telling to these original audience who have a high elevated view, hey, don't blur the lines between creator and creature. They're in the same category as creation. So, you're saying, "Well, where did they come from?"

Genesis 1:1. When God said, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." In the heavens, he created the host of the heavenly beings, which includes every angel that has ever existed. They're not eternal. They had a start date. They had a point and moment where they came into existence by the word of his power and continue to be in existence upheld by the word of his power.

We saw that in the first three verses. And so he's helping them understand that creator is only only allowed for one and that is the god we serve, the god we worship. magnificent ministers are still in this place of creature and creation. And so as John's receiving this message from one of these created beings, this angel, and he bows down and starts worshiping him, literally the angel's saying, "What are you doing? Get up. You got the wrong guy.

Don't worship me. Worship God. Worship the son. Worship Jesus. Worship Jesus. That's the point.

That's the point. A good angel, and I'm saying that specifically, a good angel refuses worship because they know they are creatures. And if you're like, "Well, what's a bad angel?" Look it up this week. Satan does not refuse worship. Instead, he demands it.

He wants the throne. It's the reason why he got thrown out. Where our great Savior descended, Satan, one of the beautiful, most beautiful angels that were created by God, wanted to ascend up. He said, 'I don't like being down here in this creature position. I want creator position. I want equality.

A good angel refuses that and bows down to the one who created him. Jesus receives their worship because he is that creator. And Hebrews is only getting started. It's only getting started here in the verses ahead. The father is going to call the son God. He's he's going to apply the passages of Yahweh in the Old Testament to Jesus in the New Testament.

He's going to tell us the son laid the foundations of the earth and that his years will never end. The Hebrew, the author of Hebrews is just going to continue building the case that Jesus is better and greater than anything and everything that we can see and perceive, even in the things we cannot see and cannot perceive. But right here, the author wants us to see the heavenly response to Jesus. The heavenly hosts response. When they see Jesus, they worship him. And so, what do you believe?

What do you believe? This is where I think we can misunderstand the point of the passage. The the mistake is not to think too highly of angels. No, no. Keep them up there. Keep them up there.

Think highly of them. The mistake is thinking too lowly of Jesus. Just how we've put little, you know, chubby babies with wings on them, we've also created Jesus as this little feathered nice guy who walks around and never disrupts anything as though he's some kind of passive guy promoting peace. We've belittled him as well. And so what we're saying is elevate everything. have a better view of your angelology.

Get the things that we have in our first century or in our first in our current culture. Get those out of your mind and be able to see these magnificent creatures for what they actually are. Magnificent ministers, servants on behalf of God. And then as you elevate them, be reminded that Christ is better. Christ is greater. Christ is above them.

And so what's the response to that? It's the same response the angels have. Worship the one who created them. I mean that's the beauty of it is when we look at the angels and we are terrified of them the natural question is what made them what created them and then respond correctly respond correctly. Worship is bigger than just singing songs on Sunday morning. It's way bigger than that.

Worship means recognizing his worth and then ordering your life accordingly. Ordering your life accordingly. If Jesus is worthy, he gets more than a song on Sunday. He gets your allegiance. He gets your obedience. He gets your priorities.

He gets your money. He gets your time. He gets your marriage. He gets your career. He gets your plans. He gets you.

He gets He gets every ounce of what you are because again, he is the one by whom all things came into existence and the one to whom all things are going. And so if we're in the middle of that, then the only proper way to respond to who Jesus is is to do as the angels have done in which we prostrate ourselves and we bend our knees to Jesus. We bow down before him. We surrender ourselves to him and we say, "You who have created these magnificent beings and right now we are placed underneath them. If you can do that, what can you do in my life? What can you accomplish in my marriage or with our money?

It's all his. We're just stewards of it. This whole life, we're just stewards of it. Just as much as the angels receive delegated authority, authority and power. Well, guess what? Do we have anything greater than that?

Everything we have is delegated. The breath you take right now given to you by Jesus. Take a deep breath and then thank Jesus for it. But you can take that and apply it to every aspect of your life. This is why worship is more than a song. Worship is more than just what you do when you come in here.

You can go to lunch after this and you can take a bite of something and you can worship Jesus because guess who thought about that flavor and put it into existence for you to enjoy. But it was never meant for you to enjoy and worship it. It was meant to roll past it so that you can thank God for what he did what he did in that every aspect of our lives. When you see someone who does something that is incredible, we don't worship the person. We look at them and we say immo day. The image of God is being put on display.

Look at how amazing God is that he created you and you operate this way. You think this way, you serve this way. You love this way. You help this way. All of those things are being pointed back to Jesus so that literally every moment of your life becomes an act of worship. That's why Romans 12 says what it is.

Be a living sacrifice. So your life is an act of worship to him because we see who Jesus rightly is and we see ourselves as well in regards to that. It's us simply saying and responding to him, you're worthy of everything that I am. I will bend my knee. I will bow down to you and I will worship you. And here's the wonder of the gospel.

The son who is worshiped by angels eventually lowered himself below them. Something I said this last week, something Satan will never do. Something the enemy will never do. They're not going to lower themselves. They're trying to elevate themselves. But the God we serve, Jesus Christ, though he is in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but humbled himself and took the form of a servant.

The master became a minister in order to serve us, to redeem us, and bring us home to God. The son they worship became one of us to save us. And the a cool little side note for you guys in regards to the difference between us and angels. The angels can worship the savior, but they don't know what it's like to be saved by him. We are the only ones who get to sing the song of the redeemed. We're the only ones.

And that's why one of the reasons that's that's beautiful in the order of heaven when we arrive and we get there is we also get elevated above. We get elevated above to where the things we're terrified of right now will be lower than us when we get there because of everything we get to experience in our relationship with the sun. what he brings us into, what he glorifies us to. I think it was C. Lewis, I can't remember. I might butcher it.

But that glorified state that we will receive. Angels will be tempted to worship, but they'll know the right one to worship. And it's always going to be Jesus. It's always going to be Jesus. So when we take this bread and we drink of this juice, we remember the body that the eternal son took on for us in his lowering and we see the blood that he shed for us in order for our payment for our sins to be paid in full. And that is a savior worth worshiping.

Fall down at his feet, but fall down at the right feet. John first fell down at the wrong feet. And that angel said, "No, no, no, no, no. Fall down at his feet. Look to Jesus and worship accordingly." Romans 10:9-13.

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame, for there's no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." And so I just simply ask if you've called on the name of the Lord. Have you heard who Jesus is?

And by faith, do you believe it to be true? That Jesus is the son of God, eternal, and he stepped out of humanity. He stepped out of eternity and he stepped into our humanity and for a moment became lower than the angels in order to become a man because a human has to die for a human. The animals were never going to be enough. And that's why this morning we're not sacrificing an animal before we partake of the Lord's supper. the perfect sacrifice had already come and his name is Jesus and he broke his body and he shed his blood.

And if you believe that that that sacrifice counted for you, then we simply call on the name of him and we bend our knee to him and we bow down to him and we worship him. We worship him and in that we receive salvation. If you have called on the name of the Lord, you will be saved.