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.

Knowing…

With the excitement of the new movie Knowing with well known actors, I must say that I was dissapointed in the movie itself.  While the graphics of the movie were great and up to the last three minutes you sit there wondering if the movie is going to point everything to God, instead it gives a worldly explination to everything.  But this concept of knowing, knowing future events before they happen has always been a facinating thing.  There is one who knows all things, He can see into our hearts, predict the future, knows the motives of man,  he is God Almighty.  He is a living God who loves us and He hates our sin at the same time.  God Almighty sent His one and only Son to earth to redeem mankind.  His name is Jesus Christ.  He is our savior who can see past the false questions, He is the one who can look past the fake motives, and He is the one who died for our sins.  Overall I give the movie a 5 out of 10.

PAY YOUR VOWS….

Without warning life brings and has difficult times.  Situations arise and all that one can due is throw their hands into the air and proclaim that he or she is not in control.  In Psalm 61:8 it states “So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may pay my vows day by day.”  Our job, responsibility, and priveldge is to sing praise to God.  In the hard times sing praise, and in the times when blessings are flowing sing praise.  God is worthly of praise even when it seems as though it is not working out for us.  In times of financial struggle the believer must praise God!  In times of uncertainty the believer must praise God.  Our vows must start with praising God and acknowledging that God is in control of all things.  Start any vow, anygiving, any request with the praising God.

talked Jesus???

“Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, …” Acts 3:19  Who stated such a statement?  Peter, one of the followers of Jesus, who abondond Christ in the heat of the moment.  Peter, the one who was asked three times by Christ if he loved Him.  Peter understood repentence.  His life was changed by the very fact that Christ rose again.  May of us, including me, have be changed by the real and living Jesus Christ but we are mute when it comes to speaking about Him.  We have reduced our converstations about Him to believers, Bible Studies, Youth Group, Sunday School, or something affiliated with church.  The convicting truth of the matter is those who do not believe need to repent.  They need Jesus Christ more then anything.  They need Him more then our friendship, more then a meal, and even more then a job.  But we have  concluded that we must befriend them, love them, feed them, provide for them then they will be more likely to hear about Christ, the througth of the matter is that we should be talking about Christ all of the time.  How often is our Risen Lord, apart of your daily converstations with the lost?