Nature of Angels

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Herein is seen something special about the seed of Abraham is it not. I can almost hear you now, ‘why would he choose to come to that house with all it’s mess and distress.’ Yes, I know how Hagar was treated once, and so too does the Lord remember it well. Nor had the home quite been free of tragedy itself. Sarah suffered too in that her joy of life itself had been lost and Abraham had long lost out on all of his lordship-like luster. When it comes to his seed, the situation gets even worse. Were it not for the grace of God and the promise to make his seed as the sand and stars of the sea, man might have forever been lost. How good God is indeed to his children. Somebody shout ‘his grace still amazes me.’ See, there is something to be found here in the text. It is simply this. The Lord, being seen as One greater, has the tendency to take on the form of the less. What then you might wonder of the angels charged with all else. Were these not placed in care of the Master’s house until his return. But is it not comforting to know that at no time has the Master abandoned his house nor yet left it alone. Remember how too that these had been made a little lower than the former as seen in the text. How is it then that this Master as the latter appears. You know, you can speak of the latter rains upon the earth being greater than the glory of what had been before all you please. But how many know that when the Lord is in the house, nothing will be the same ever again. Look with me now at the situation, if you will. If you won’t that’s fine too. Just know that it is awfully hard to have whomsoever will may come and drink of the water of life freely without what comes next. For did I not tell you that the Lord had been made in nature like that of his children. Only, he is far greater, being possessors still of that Heavenly nature, even that of his righteous and holiness upon which his grone rests. Without these, then no man would see him but for the Lord. Then again are such things unto a coming before him purpose, to the exclusion of anything else. Here, like no other, is his place as captain of the salvation which he himself administers plainly seen. In plainer terms, he died once for all so that through him we live. 

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church

will I sing praise unto thee.

For in him do we breathe, live, move, and have our being. That is to say, our purpose, blessing, calling, and origination starts and ends with him. So too then, is it any wonder that he has made the situation into a blessing, despite being cut off in the midst of his days. See, is there not just something about being found in fashion as a man that calls out to you. How he fills his place well as a man, a Levite, and seed of Abraham. I can think of none better to fill his exalted position, being so found after the call. Notice too the coming together of all things in the Son. You see, before knowing him nothing made sense. But having tasted and seen what of the Father myself, I pray you too can say with Thomas “it suffices” us. 

Now have we come to that place where the lost and the found, the saint and the sinner, the prodigal and the chosen meet up in his house. As you might know, it comes in through the blood given upon the altar to atone for the sin. Yet the line between them here is already blurred. Herein is there to be found the defining of God. Has he not already borne our sins and our sorrows and so with it removed. It seems then that such sanctified are in need of some cleansing as seen in the text. Then too are there some ones to be sanctified still left in the house. It seems that our sins and our sorrows have come and met with the Lord. When they ran into him though, they ran out. Is he not the best kinsman redeemer that ever there was. Nor is it so strange to see the place where the sanctified and the sanctifieth come together. For is it not at the foot of the cross that we reason together. Where the sins be made scarlet, yet even still there remains the whiteness that comes with the snow. From there, all that remains is graciously accepting his gift. The gift of God remember was always as unto salvation then, not to anything else. See now how that when it comes to the table of the Lord, spread by the perfect, we are all on equal ground. Make no mistake though, for is he not the captain of such, with power even to save all that will call on his name. My, it takes borne our sins and taken our sorrows to a whole ‘nother level does it not. Then too are there many such of these sons to be found in his house.

Yet still though, what brings the sin. Behind it all is a fear of death as seen in the text. There are many such fears in this life, fear of displacement, fear of loss, fear of disease, fear of discomfort, fear of rejection, fear of loneliness, and fear of tomorrow. Are these not all forms of death if you will. For this cause do we praise him. All because he is holy, all because he is just. All because he is righteous. All because he is. But then some of us are over here saying as with the disciples on the sea of Lake Galilee ‘Lord, I’m dying.’ I can hear the Lord now ‘but are you really?’ For so can he be trusted with eternity and so to care for us all. That is why you can trust him because he is faithful. That is why the thief on the cross could curse him one minute and be home with the Father the next. That is how you can be in the grave one minute and reigning the next. With Christ seated in Heavenly places in all richness of his glory, is he not God of the turnaround indeed to have done so on the earth. Sure, the wages of sin have always Been death. Then too is the gift of God is eternal life well-spent with the Lord. 

But how many of you know that Jesus Christ came therewith to take it away. For here like no other do we see the fear of the Lord as the beginning of wisdom. See, it might look all nice and pretty right now. It might even move and sparkle and shimmer a bit. But how many of you know that the end thereof are the ways of death. So then if his fear is the beginning thereof, what then of wisdom into which the Lord has been made. See, he can not only bring you through it, he can also keep you in it. Faithful is he who has called who also will do it. See, it's not just sound doctrine of which I speak here. You know how you do. It sounds good, so you say it and sometimes the message is brought without the Lord behind it. Such is a fear, for the fear of death then were you taken. Just as Eve did, you saw the fruit knowing what life had in store and was afraid. Same old story line, different times, ain't nothing changed. Except perhaps for the Savior, that is what. 

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

What then is the wonder that such are called brethren of his even at all. Through him does this reconciliation come. It is a bringing of all things unto himself, this man by whom the worlds were made. Indeed, in him does all hold together, even that of your life and mine. There remains the certain curious account of the tempting of God. Such is seen in Genesis 22:1 where God tempted Abraham to give up his son to offer him back to the Lord. Then again, does not James say that God himself tempteth no man. Thus, does the oneness occur between the the One who sancifieth and those sanctified. Is he not the best relief and salvation that ever there was, better even than the pain and fear that death with it brings. So then is there a drawing away of the own lusts with enticement going on. Is it not wonderful that so our God leaves nothing out. How intimately he is known of his people. When our fears and our failures and past with it comes knocking, let us look to the cross to the One who has been there before. In all this life and the one yet to come, he had better be your relief. How some of us ought to trust him just that much more, my friends.