Higher then Angels…

“For to which of the angels did He ever say, ‘YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU’?” (Hebrews 1:5)  Catch what is being stated, Christ is above all angels.  Those who were being written to were struggling with the teaching as to wether or not Christ was on the same level as Angels.  The author of Hebrews makes the argument that their is not one angel that God the Father declared as begotten.  The statement that Christ is Begotten of God carries tremendous weight.  Our Lord and Savior was Begotten of God, means that God the Father brought about the incarnation of Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ is brings the most glory to God the Father.  Jesus is not another angel but rather he is much higher, there will be a day when all on earth will declare that Jesus Christ is Lord.  When Christ served here on earth the angels ministered to him.  Christ himself states that at his very word legions of angels would come to his rescue (Matt. 26:53)  Jesus Christ is far above the created beings called angels.  In Jude we learn that there are certain angels that have a condemnation awaiting for them that will come at the day of Judgement.  Elsewhere in scripture we learn that Christ will be the one judging.  Jesus Christ is not some exalted angel, He is our Lord and Savior.  He is the God who humbled himself to come into humanity to save us from our dead state due to sin.  He died in our place and rose from the dead to show forth that He is more powerful then death and that he conquered the grave on our behalf.  Jesus Christ deserves, demands, and declares that we worship Him not as an exalted angel but rather as Lord.