7/6/25
Rev. Clint Smith
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Although God is not bound by time, He knows and controls the future. On a specific day at a specific moment in history, Jesus, in His divine nature, brought deity to Earth, and approximately thirty-three years later, He took humanity back to Heaven. He is both the Son of God and the Son of Man. We place our trust in Jesus, who is superior to all things. In God, we trust!
A future time is coming when Jesus will reign over the entire inhabited Earth, marking the arrival of the messianic (millennial) kingdom. He will be the ruler, not angels. Angels have never ruled in the past, do not rule now, and will not rule in the future. They are ministering spirits, carrying out God’s purposes.
Psalm 8 speaks of humanity collectively, declaring that God made mankind a little lower than the angels, still in a position of great honor. The author of Hebrews applied Psalm 8 to Christ, who obediently represented and continues to represent all of humanity through His life, death, and resurrection. Psalm 8:3–9; Philippians 2:5–11
We see Jesus, for His brief time on Earth, made a little lower than the angels, referring to His incarnation and His role as the perfect man. Because of His suffering and death, He is now crowned with glory and honor. By the grace of God, Jesus experienced death for everyone, offering Himself as the sacrifice for sin. Through His resurrection, He has been exalted above the angels and now reigns supremely over all creation.
By God’s grace, we witness Jesus in full authority, seated at the right hand of the Father. He offered Himself once and for all as the perfect sacrifice for our sins. To be saved, we are called to repent of our sins and place our trust in Him and His finished work. We are instructed to believe in Christ, trusting Him as the One who offers forgiveness of sins and the One who provided the way to forgiveness and new life.
It was fitting for God, consistent with His divine nature, that the One for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should be made perfect through suffering. Through both His active and passive obedience, throughout His life and ultimately on the cross, Christ was made complete in His humanity, fully prepared to serve as our faithful Savior, Redeemer, High Priest and King.
Only Jesus, the One who sanctifies, and those who are being sanctified, that is, spiritually transformed, made holy, and set apart for God’s purposes, are all from one Father. For this reason, He is not ashamed to call us His brothers and sisters.