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00:11Let us pray
00:14Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
00:17Who, when standing before Pilate
00:19Kept silent at all the unjust accusations
00:23And slanders of the Jews
00:24And as a gentle lamb that did not open its mouth
00:28Did not contradict them
00:30When they brought forward their charges against you
00:34Give me grace never to be disturbed
00:37By the false accusations of others
00:39But may I overcome every injury
00:41By silence and meekness
00:44Give me the grace of perfect humility
00:46So that I may never desire praise
00:48Nor refuse any measure of contempt
00:53Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
00:56You, lamb without spot
00:58Against whom the pious Pharisees and scribes
01:02Raged with obstinate hatred
01:05For a low Pilate testified
01:07That he found no cause of death in you
01:10Yet they would not be satisfied with anything
01:13Except your death
01:16Grant me grace to imitate your innocence and patience
01:20That I may both lead a godly life
01:22And for so doing
01:24If I am spoken of evenly
01:27That I may remain at rest in you
01:30Giving way to no indignation
01:33But giving thanks to you in all adversity
01:38Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
01:42Who will lead the greatest of indignity
01:47In the manner of a wicked criminal
01:49Through the middle of the city
01:50From one judgment seat to another
01:52And from Pilate to Herod and back again
01:56Amidst the noise and shouts of the people
01:59Give me grace never to be overcome
02:01By the injuries of my enemies
02:03Nor to be exasperated by slander
02:07May I never feel any false shame
02:09At being despised
02:10But may I receive everything in meekness
02:14And endure all things in silence for your honour
02:17That, by the assistance of your grace
02:20I may in patience possess my soul
02:25Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
02:28Who when Herod asked you many vain and foolish questions
02:31And when you were falsely wounded in different ways
02:35By priest and scribe
02:38Humbly kept a meet and becoming silence
02:41Give me grace to restrain my tongue
02:44In a manner well-pleasing to you
02:47Do not permit me to utter hurtful words
02:49Do not permit me to be taken up with fruitless stories
02:53But give me grace to say what is right
02:55Profitable and honest
02:57According to your will
03:01May I behold the sin of evil speaking
03:05And be always glad
03:07To think and speak well
03:08Of any man
03:11Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
03:14Who condemned by your silence
03:16The foolish curiosity of Herod
03:18And who would not
03:21Gratify his curious eyes
03:23By the performance of any miracle
03:26Because he did not have his own salvation at heart
03:29And did there in this way
03:32Teach us to avoid all ostentation
03:34Before the great ones of this world
03:37Pour into my heart
03:39A spirit of deep humility
03:42Mortify and quench within me
03:43Any desire for vain glory
03:46Grant
03:47That I may never do anything
03:49In order to gain praise of man
03:50But may always act
03:52With a single eye
03:53Upon the glory of your most holy name
03:56And may come before you
03:58Day by day
03:59In a true spirit
04:00Of humility and meekness
04:06Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
04:08Who didn't refuse to be sent to nothing
04:11By Herod and his men of war
04:13Nor to be clothed in a white garment
04:16And to be mocked and laughed at
04:17As though a fool and a madman
04:20Give me grace, O Lord
04:22To choose rather to be an outcast with you
04:25Than to be glorious in the world
04:28May I think it better and more honourable
04:30To suffer reproach for your name
04:32Than to prosper in the vain honours of the world
04:37Give me grace
04:38That truly acknowledging my own sins
04:41And my own unworthiness
04:42I may be as nothing in my own sight
04:45But may always despise and accuse myself
04:49Undaily lament over my own weakness and wretchedness
04:54Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
04:57Who was sent back with shame
04:59Clothed in a false garment
05:00From Herod the Pilate
05:02And in all things
05:03Obeyed your enemies going backwards and forwards
05:06According to their pleasure
05:09Grant that I may not shrink from being despised
05:12Nor refuse obedience
05:14Nor refuse obedience even to those
05:15Who wish nothing but bad for me
05:19Give me grace
05:20To have no feelings for the things of this world
05:23But to think of and care for and love you alone
05:27May you alone be my honour
05:29My delight, my love, my glory
05:32And my joy
05:34Amen
05:38O Lord, open our lips
05:40And our mouths will sing your praise
05:50O be joyful in the Lord
05:54Holy land
05:57Turn the Lord with gladness
06:00And come in light
06:03Where the heavens will be the top
06:07He is born at the Lord
06:10He is God
06:13It is He that can bring us
06:16That must be ourselves
06:18We are His people
06:22And the sheep of His master
06:26To do your way
06:28Into His case with Christ's sin
06:31And into His God's great place
06:37Be thankful unto Him
06:41And speak full of His name
06:45For the Lord is gracious
06:49His mercy is everlasting
06:54And His truth and glory
06:58From generation to generation
07:08Glory be to the Father
07:12And to the Son
07:15And to the Holy Ghost
07:20As it was in the beginning
07:23His love and ever shall be
07:29World without end
07:37Amen
07:47In Thee, O Lord, that I put my trust
07:52Let me never be forced to confusion
07:57Lord, make me not be near
08:01For me in the rightest rest
08:05Bring thy, my dear, all to me and say
08:12Be thou my stronghold
08:15Where unto I may always result
08:21Power and promise to help her
08:26Father, O Lord, that I have some defense
08:30And my God
08:33Give thy, O Lord, my God
08:37Out of the hand of the unworthy
08:41Out of the hand of the unrighteous
08:45And cruel man
08:49Father, O Lord, you are not the thing
08:53Father, O Lord, that I know
08:54Lord, thou art my hope
08:58Even from thy rules
09:02Through thee have I been ordered
09:06Of ever since I was born
09:09Lord, may that took me out
09:13Of my mother's womb
09:15My friend shall be always of thee
09:22I am become as it were a monster
09:26And unto men
09:30That my soul trust is in thee
09:35O let my love be filled with thy praise
09:41That I may sing of thy glory and honor
09:46Of oxen on her day again
09:51O let me not await in that time of age
09:56O let me not when I stand
10:02Hail thee
10:04O my enemies, speak against thee
10:10And they that they wait for my soul
10:15Take their counsel to be the same
10:20God hath forsaken him
10:23As the purity hath taken
10:28For heaven is come to be made by him
10:33Glory at all from me, O God
10:38My God, there is things to help him
10:44Let them be the father of marriage
10:49That one against my soul
10:52Let them be the father of shame
10:56And his father of mercy to you
11:03As for me I will patiently arrive
11:10And will praise thee more and more
11:15My heart shall daily seat
11:19All my righteousness I'm surveying
11:23For I don't know when they're gone
11:30I will not fall in the strength of the Lord
11:35I will not fall in the strength of the Lord
11:35I will not fall in the strength of the Lord
12:00For save me not, O God, in thy whole age
12:04When I am ready
12:08Until I outstune thy strength unto this generation
12:15And thy power to all them that are yet for to come
12:23Thy lightest bless, O God, is very high
12:30And great things are they that thou hast done
12:34O God, all his life unto thee
12:40O God, all his life unto you
12:48And yet it's utter and refreshing
12:53They am rodent me from the deep of the upper death
13:02Thou hast brought me to pray, O God
13:07And comforted me on every side
13:14Therefore will I praise thee, and I pray to bless O God
13:21May he come on an instrument of music
13:27Unto thee will I sing upon the heart
13:31O the holy one of Israel
13:37My lips will be faint when I sing unto thee
13:44And so will my Son, O God, hast to live
13:51My child, O God, hast to search all
13:54O thy righteous best for the Lord
13:59O may of the blood and the blood
14:03Of good strength and sea to rule me
14:12Glory be to the Father
14:15And to the Son, O God, and to the Holy Ghost
14:22As he's brought in the beginning
14:26Is now and ever shall be
14:31Born without death, Amen
14:46Give that deep thy judgment, O God
14:52And thy righteousness best unto the King's Son
14:59Then shall he judge thy people
15:04According unto Christ
15:09And repent of God
15:14The mountains of the Lord
15:17The mountains of the Lord shall bring peace
15:21And the need will give righteousness
15:25And to the people
15:30We shall keep the simple thought by their right
15:38Defend the children of the poor
15:42And punish them of the Lord
15:47They shall be, as long as the son of my good
15:54And children, from one generation's joy
16:04We shall come down like the rain
16:09Into earth is broken
16:14In earth has the drops that water the earth
16:22In this time shall the righteous flourish
16:30Than note the houseera God
16:34Or smoke into the earth
16:49At death дada
16:53To the ardent
16:56Oh, that amen
16:57Thank you
16:57Thank you
16:57God
16:57O God
16:57Of
16:58Let us dwell in the wilderness, and we'll be thrown in.
17:06We will sail on each side of the dust.
17:13A kingdom of dust inside of the ice shall be present.
17:20A kingdom of earth shall be present.
17:30A kingdom of dust inside of the ice shall be present.
17:43A kingdom of dust inside of the ice shall be present.
17:51A kingdom of dust inside of the ice shall be present.
18:03to the sickle and leading,
18:09and shall praise the first ones of the throne.
18:18He shall deliver their souls from falsehood and love,
18:26and he shall their blood be in his sight,
18:34and he shall live, and not for him shall be given
18:41from the God of Arabia.
18:47Where shall he be made ever unto him,
18:53and today shall he be praised?
18:59Where shall he and he will call in the earth,
19:05high upon thy hands?
19:09His throne shall shame my grave,
19:15and shall he be in the city,
19:19like the cross upon the earth.
19:25His name shall endure forever.
19:30His name shall remain under the sun,
19:35among the posernities which shall be blessed for him.
19:42and all the people shall praise him.
19:50Blessed be the Lord God,
19:53even the God of his well,
19:59which only do and want to say,
20:04and bless him.
20:06And blessed be the name of his majesty for heaven,
20:13and for the earth shall be filled with his majesty.
20:20Amen.
20:22Amen.
20:51Amen.
21:05The Epistle to the Hebrews, Chapter 1
21:11After God spoke long ago in various portions, and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,
21:18in these last days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and
21:27through whom he created the world.
21:31The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence.
21:37He sustains all things by his powerful word.
21:40So when he had accomplished cleansing for sin, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
21:50Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs.
22:00For to which of the angels did God ever say,
22:03You are my son, today have I fathered you.
22:08And in another place he says,
22:11I will be his father and he will be my son.
22:15But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says,
22:21Let all the angels of God worship him.
22:25And he says of the angels,
22:28He makes his angels winds and his ministers a flame of fire.
22:34But of the sun, he says,
22:37Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever.
22:40A righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.
22:44You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.
22:48So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions with the oil of rejoicing.
22:56You have founded the earth in the beginning, Lord,
22:59and the heavens are the works of your hands.
23:03They will perish, but you continue.
23:06They will grow old like a garment,
23:09and like a robe you will fold them up,
23:11and like a garment they will be changed.
23:14But you are the same, and your years will never run out.
23:21To which of the angels has he ever said,
23:25Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?
23:31Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation?
23:40This is the word of the Lord.
23:44Thanks be to God.
23:50God has spoken.
23:53The eternal silence broken.
23:56We have a revelation.
23:59That God has spoken to men is the ground of all religion.
24:05Theologians often distinguish between natural religion and revealed,
24:09and we may fairly question if all worship is not to be based on some revelation of God.
24:17Prayer is the echo in a man's spirit of God's own voice.
24:22Men learn to speak to the Father who is in heaven as children come to utter the words
24:27by hearing their parents speak.
24:32It is the deaf who are also dumb.
24:36God speaks first and prayer answers as well as asks.
24:41Men reveal themselves to the God who has revealed himself to them.
24:49But the Apostle is, however, silent about the revelations of God in nature and in conscience.
24:55He passes them by because we sinful men have lost the key to the language of creation
25:01and of our own moral nature.
25:04We know that he speaks through them, but we do not know what he says.
25:10Were we holy, it would be otherwise.
25:13All nature would be vocal like some sweet, beguiling melody.
25:19But to us, the universe is a hieroglyphic which we cannot decipher
25:23until we will discover in the future in another revelation
25:28the key that will make all plain.
25:33Stranger than this is the Apostle's omission to speak of the Mosaic dispensation
25:38as a revelation of God.
25:45We might have expected the verse to run on in this way.
25:49God, having spoken to the fathers in the sacrifices and in the prophets,
25:54institutions and inspired words, etc.
25:58But the author says nothing about rights, institutions, dispensations, or even the law.
26:05The reason, apparently, is that he wishes to compare the revelation in Christ,
26:10the highest, purest and fullest revelation.
26:14The most complete revelation vouchsafed to men.
26:17Before the Son came to declare the Father, is to be found not in sacrifices, but in the words of
26:24promise.
26:25Not in the institutions, but in the holy men who were sent, time after time,
26:31to quicken the institutions to new life or to preach new truths.
26:37The prophets were seers and poets.
26:40Nature's highest gift is imagination, whether it makes a world that transcends nature
26:46or sees what in nature is hidden from the eyes of ordinary men.
26:51This faculty of the true poet, elevated, purified, taken possession of by God's Holy Spirit,
26:59became the best instrument of revelation,
27:02until the word of prophecy was made more sure through the still better gift of the Son.
27:10But it would appear, from the apostles' language,
27:13that even the lamp of prophecy, shining in a dark place,
27:17was in two respects defective.
27:21God spoke by the prophets, by diverse portions and in diverse manners.
27:28He spoke in diverse portions, that is, the revelation was broken,
27:32as the light was scattered before it was gathered into one source.
27:37He spoke in diverse ways.
27:41Not only the revelation was fragmentary,
27:44but the separate portions were not of the same kind.
27:49These two defects were that the revelation lacked unity
27:52and was not entirely homogenous.
27:57In contrast, the apostle speaks of the Son in the second verse as the centre of unity.
28:03He is the heir and the creator of all things.
28:08With the heterogeneous revolution in the prophets,
28:13he contrasts in the third verse the revelation that takes its form from the peculiar nature of Christ's sonship.
28:22He is the effulgence of God's glory,
28:26the very image of his substance.
28:29He upholds all things by the word of his power,
28:32and having made purification of sin,
28:35he took his seat at the right hand of the majesty of high.
28:42So let's just examine a little more closely this double comparison
28:45made by the apostle between the revelation given to the fathers
28:49and that to which we have been receiving.
28:54First of all, the previous revelation was in portions.
28:59The Old Testament has no centre,
29:01from which all its wonderful and varied lights radiate.
29:05But we find its unity in the New Testament
29:08and read Jesus Christ into it.
29:12God scattered the revelations over many centuries,
29:15line upon line, precept after precept,
29:18a little here and a little there.
29:21He spread the knowledge of himself over the pages of a nation's history
29:26and made the development of one people,
29:28the medium whereby to communicate truth.
29:32This in itself is nothing more than has been told to us
29:35and is a magnificent concept.
29:39A nation's early struggles, bitter failures, ultimate triumph,
29:43the appearance within it of warriors, prophets, poets and saints
29:48used by the Spirit of God to reveal the invisible.
29:53Sometimes revelation would make but one advance in an age.
29:58We might almost so imagine
30:01that God's truth from the lips of his prophets
30:04was found perhaps a little too overpowering.
30:07It might crush frail humanity.
30:11The revealer must withdraw into silence behind the veil
30:15to give humans time to breathe and recover their self-possession.
30:22The occasional message of prophecy
30:24resembles the suddenness of Elijah's appearances and departures
30:29and forms a strange contrast to the ceaseless stream of preaching
30:34in the Christian Church today.
30:38Yet still more strikingly
30:40does it contrast with the New Testament,
30:42the greater book,
30:44yet indeed the greatest of all books.
30:48Only two classes of men deny its supremacy.
30:52Those who first of all do not know who or what real greatness is.
30:58And secondly, those who disparate it as a literature
31:01that they may be the better able to seduce foolish and shallow youths
31:06to reject it as a revelation.
31:09But serious, profound thinkers,
31:12even when they do not wish to admit that it is the word of God,
31:16acknowledge it to be the greatest book ever written.
31:21And yet the New Testament was produced,
31:25if we are forbidden to say given,
31:27in one age, not over fifteen centuries.
31:31Neither was this one of the great ages of history
31:34when genius seems to be almost contagious.
31:38Even Greece had, at this time,
31:40no original thinkers.
31:43Two centuries of intellectual supremacy
31:46had passed away.
31:49This was an age of literary imitations
31:52and counterfeits.
31:53And yet it is in this age
31:55that the book,
31:56which has most profoundly influenced
31:58the thought of subsequent time,
32:00made its appearance.
32:02How can we account for that?
32:05The explanation is not that
32:07its writers were great men.
32:09However insignificant the writers,
32:11the mysterious greatness of the book
32:13pervades it all,
32:15and their lips are touched,
32:16as with a live coal from the altar.
32:21Nothing will account for the New Testament
32:23but the other fact
32:24that Jesus of Nazareth had appeared among men,
32:27that he was so great,
32:29so universal,
32:29so human,
32:30so divine,
32:32that he contained his own person
32:35in all truth
32:36that will ever be discovered
32:38in this book.
32:40Deny the incarnation
32:42of the Son of God
32:43and you make the New Testament
32:44an insoluble puzzle.
32:46Admit that Jesus is the Word
32:48and that the Word is God.
32:50The book becomes nothing more,
32:53nothing less,
32:54than the natural and befitting outcome
32:56of what he said,
32:57did and suffered.
32:59The mystery of the book
33:01is lost
33:01in the greater mystery
33:02of his person.
33:07And here the second verse kicks in
33:09to tell us of this great person,
33:11how he unites in himself
33:13the whole of God's revelation.
33:19He is appointed heir
33:21of all things.
33:23Through him
33:24God made the ages.
33:25He is the Alpha
33:27and the Omega,
33:28the first and the last.
33:29He which is
33:30and was
33:31and which is
33:32to come.
33:33The spring
33:34from which all the streams
33:36of time
33:36have risen
33:37and the sea
33:38into which
33:39they flow.
33:41But these are the two sides
33:43of all real knowledge.
33:45And revelation
33:46is nothing else
33:47than knowledge
33:48given by God.
33:50All the infinite variety
33:51of questions
33:52with which men
33:53interrogate nature
33:54may be reduced to two.
33:57From whence
33:58and to whither.
34:01As to the latter question,
34:02the investigation
34:03has not been in vain.
34:05We do know that
34:07whatever the end may be,
34:09the whole universe
34:09rises from lower
34:10to higher forms.
34:12If one life perishes,
34:14it reappears
34:15in a higher life.
34:17It is the ultimate
34:18purpose of all
34:19which still remains
34:21unknown.
34:23But the apostles
34:24declare
34:25that this interrogation
34:26is answered
34:27in Jesus Christ.
34:29Only that they speak
34:30not of ultimate purpose
34:31but of the appointed heir.
34:34He is more
34:35than the goal
34:36of a development.
34:37He is the son
34:38of the living God
34:39and therefore
34:39the heir
34:40of all the works
34:41and purposes
34:41of his father.
34:44He holds his position
34:45by right of sonship
34:46and has it confirmed
34:48to him
34:49as the reward
34:50of filial service.
34:53The word heir
34:54is an allusion
34:56to the promise
34:56made to Abraham.
34:59The reference
35:00therefore is not
35:01to the eternal
35:02relation between
35:03son and God
35:04nor to any lordship
35:05that the son acquires
35:06apart from his
35:07assumption of humanity
35:09and atoning death.
35:11The idea
35:12conveyed by the word
35:13heir
35:13will come again
35:14to the surface
35:15more than once
35:16in this epistle.
35:17but everywhere
35:19the reference
35:19is to the son's
35:20final glory
35:21as redeemer.
35:23At the same time
35:24the act of
35:25appointing him
35:26heir
35:26may have taken
35:28place before
35:28the world was
35:30and we must
35:31accordingly
35:32understand
35:33the revelation
35:34spoken of here
35:35to mean more
35:36especially
35:36the demonstration
35:37of God
35:38in the work
35:39of redemption.
35:41Of this work
35:42also Christ
35:43is the ultimate
35:43purpose.
35:45He is the heir
35:46to whom the
35:47promised inheritance
35:48originally and
35:49ultimately belongs.
35:51It is this
35:52that befits him
35:53to become the
35:54full and complete
35:55revealer of God.
35:57He is the answer
35:58to the question
35:59whither
36:00in reference
36:01to the entire
36:02range of
36:03redemptive thought
36:04and action.
36:10Again too
36:11he is the creator.
36:13Many seek
36:14to discover
36:14the origin
36:15of all things
36:16by analysis.
36:18They trace
36:18the more
36:19complex
36:19to the less
36:20complex
36:20the compound
36:21to its elements
36:22the higher
36:23developments
36:24of life
36:24to lower
36:25types.
36:27But to a
36:28theologian
36:29the real
36:29difficulties
36:30does not
36:31lie here.
36:32What matter
36:33whence
36:33if we are
36:34still the same?
36:35We know
36:36what we are.
36:37We are men.
36:38We are capable
36:39of thinking
36:40of sin
36:41of hate
36:41or of love.
36:43The problem
36:44is to account
36:45for these
36:46facts of our
36:47spirit.
36:48For what is
36:49the evolution
36:49of holiness?
36:51From whence
36:51came prayer,
36:52repentance
36:53and faith?
36:55But even
36:56these questions
36:57Christianity
36:58can answer.
36:59It answers
37:00by solving
37:01still harder
37:02problems
37:02than these.
37:04Do we ask
37:05who created
37:06the human
37:06spirit?
37:07The gospel
37:08tells us
37:09who can
37:09sanctify
37:10man's
37:10inmost
37:11being?
37:12Do we
37:13seek to
37:13know
37:13who made
37:14conscience?
37:15The New
37:16Testament
37:16proclaims
37:17one who
37:18can purify
37:18conscience
37:19and forgive
37:20sin?
37:22To create
37:23is only
37:23a small
37:24thing
37:24to him
37:25who can
37:25save.
37:27Jesus Christ
37:28is that
37:28Saviour.
37:29He is
37:30therefore
37:30the Creator.
37:32In being
37:33these things
37:34he is the
37:34complete
37:35and final
37:35revelation
37:36of God.
37:45Furthermore,
37:46previous
37:46revelations
37:47were given
37:48in different
37:48ways.
37:49God used
37:50many different
37:51means to
37:51reveal himself
37:52as if he
37:53found them
37:54one after
37:54another
37:55inadequate.
37:57And how
37:58can a
37:58visible
37:59material
37:59creation
38:00sufficiently
38:01reveal the
38:02spiritual?
38:04How can
38:05an institution
38:06or a system
38:06reveal the
38:07personal
38:07living God?
38:09How can
38:10human
38:10language
38:10even express
38:12spiritual
38:12ideas?
38:15Sometimes
38:16the means
38:16adopted
38:17appear
38:17totally
38:18incongruous.
38:19will the
38:20great
38:20spirit,
38:21the holy
38:21and good
38:22God,
38:22speak to
38:22a prophet
38:23in the
38:23dreams
38:24of the
38:24night?
38:25Shall we
38:26say that
38:26the man
38:27of God
38:27sees real
38:28visions
38:28when he
38:29dreams
38:29an unreal
38:30dream?
38:32Or will
38:32an apparition
38:33of the
38:33day be
38:34be more
38:34revealing of
38:36God?
38:37Has
38:38every
38:38substance
38:39been
38:39processed
38:39by the
38:40spirit
38:40of
38:40falsehood
38:41so that
38:42the
38:42being of
38:43beings
38:43can only
38:43reveal his
38:44presence
38:44in
38:46unsubstantial
38:47phantoms?
38:49Has the
38:50waking life
38:50of intellect
38:51come so
38:52entirely false
38:53to its
38:54glorious mission
38:55of discovering
38:56the truth
38:56that the
38:57God of
38:57truth cannot
38:58reveal himself
38:59to man
39:00except in
39:01dreams and
39:02spectres?
39:04And yet
39:04there was a
39:06time when
39:07it might be
39:07well for us
39:08to recall
39:08our dreams
39:09and wise
39:10to believe
39:11in spiritualism
39:13for a dream
39:14might bring
39:14a real
39:15message from
39:15God
39:16and ecstasy
39:17might be the
39:18birththrow
39:19of a new
39:19revelation.
39:22Some of the
39:23good words of
39:24scripture were
39:24at first a
39:25dream.
39:26In the midst
39:27of the confused
39:28fancies of
39:29the brain
39:29when reason
39:30is for a
39:31time knocked
39:32off its
39:32throne,
39:33a truth
39:34descends
39:34from heaven
39:35upon a
39:36prophet's
39:36spirit.
39:37This has
39:38been but
39:39will never
39:39again take
39:40place,
39:41for the
39:41oracles are
39:42dumb and
39:42we shall
39:43not regret
39:43them.
39:44We consult
39:45no interpreters
39:46of dreams.
39:47We do not
39:48seek the
39:49séances of
39:50the necromancers.
39:51Let the
39:52peaceful
39:53spirits of
39:53the dead
39:54rest in
39:54God.
39:55They have
39:56had their
39:57trials and
39:57sorrows on
39:58earth.
39:59Rest,
40:00hallowed
40:01souls.
40:01We do not
40:02ask you to
40:03break the
40:03deep silence
40:04of heaven,
40:05for God
40:06has spoken
40:07to us in
40:07his Son,
40:08who has
40:09been made
40:10higher than
40:10the heavens
40:11and is as
40:12great as
40:12God himself.
40:15Even the
40:16Son need
40:16not,
40:16indeed must
40:17not,
40:17come to
40:18earth a
40:18second time
40:19to reveal
40:20the Father
40:20in mighty
40:21deeds and a
40:22mightier
40:22self-sacrifice,
40:23us, for
40:25the revelation
40:25he has
40:26given is
40:26enough.
40:28We will
40:29not say in
40:30our hearts
40:30who shall
40:31ascend to
40:32heaven,
40:32that is,
40:34to bring
40:34Christ down,
40:35or who
40:36shall descend
40:37into the
40:37abyss,
40:38that is,
40:39to bring
40:39Christ up
40:40from the
40:40dead.
40:42The word
40:43is with
40:43us in
40:44our mouths
40:44and in
40:45our hearts,
40:45that is,
40:46the word
40:47of faith
40:47which we
40:48preach.
40:51The final
40:52form of
40:53God's
40:53revelation
40:54is of
40:55himself,
40:56therefore
40:56perfectly
40:57homogenous.
40:58The third
40:59verse explains
41:00that this
41:01is a
41:01revelation
41:02not only
41:03in a
41:03son,
41:03but in
41:04his
41:04sonship.
41:06We learn
41:06what kind
41:07of sonship
41:08is his,
41:09and how
41:09glorious
41:10attributes
41:10qualify him
41:11to be the
41:12perfect
41:12revealer of
41:13God.
41:15Never
41:16again will
41:16the message
41:17be sent
41:17to man
41:18except in
41:18Jesus
41:18Christ.
41:20God,
41:21who spoke
41:21to the
41:22fathers in
41:22many different
41:23ways,
41:23speaks to
41:24us in
41:24him,
41:25whose
41:25sonship
41:26constitutes
41:27him the
41:27effulgence of
41:28God's
41:29glory,
41:29the image
41:30of his
41:30substance,
41:31the upholder
41:32of the
41:33universe,
41:34and lastly
41:35the eternal
41:35redeemer
41:36and kin.
41:42Many
41:42preachers
41:43refer to
41:44another
41:44meaning of
41:45the effulgence
41:46of God's
41:46glory,
41:47the
41:48reflection
41:48of his
41:49glory.
41:50This
41:50might mean
41:51that God's
41:51self-manifestation,
41:53shining on an
41:54external substance,
41:55is reflected,
41:56as like from a
41:57mirror, and that
41:58this reflection is
41:59the Son of God.
42:01But such an
42:02expression does not
42:03convey a
42:04consistent idea.
42:06For the
42:07Son must be the
42:08substance from
42:09which the
42:09light is
42:10reflected.
42:12What truth
42:12there is in
42:13this rendering
42:13is more
42:14correctly expressed
42:15in the next
42:16cause, the
42:17image of
42:18his substance.
42:20It is
42:21therefore much
42:21better to
42:22accept the
42:23rendering of
42:24the effulgence
42:25of his
42:25glory.
42:26God's glory is
42:28the self-manifestation
42:29of his attributes,
42:29or in other
42:30words, the
42:31consciousness which
42:32God has of
42:33his own infinite
42:34perfection.
42:36This implies the
42:38triune personality
42:39of God, but it
42:41does not imply a
42:41revelation of
42:42God to his
42:43creatures.
42:45The Son
42:46participates in
42:47that consciousness
42:48of the divine
42:49perfection, but
42:51he also reveals
42:52God to men not
42:52merely in deeds
42:53and words, but
42:54through his very
42:55person.
42:56He is the
42:58revelation.
42:59To declare this
43:01seems to be the
43:02apostle's purpose in
43:03using the word
43:03effulgence.
43:05It expresses
43:06essentially the
43:07ministrative
43:08character of the
43:10person of the
43:10spirit.
43:12If a revelation
43:13will be given
43:14at all, his
43:15sonship points
43:16him out as the
43:17interpreter of
43:18God's nature and
43:19proposes, in as
43:21much as he is
43:21essentially because
43:23he is his son, the
43:25emanation or
43:26radiance of his
43:27glory.
43:30He is the
43:31image of his
43:32substance.
43:33A solar ray
43:34reveals the
43:35light, but not
43:36completely.
43:37Unless, indeed, it
43:39guides the eye back
43:40along its
43:40penciled line to
43:42the far-distant
43:43star.
43:48If the Son of
43:49God were only an
43:50effulgence, Christ
43:51could still say that
43:52he himself is the
43:54way to the
43:54Father.
43:55But he could not
43:56add, he that
43:58had seen me had
43:59seen the Father.
44:01That the
44:02revelation may be
44:03complete, the
44:04Son must be, in
44:05one sense, distinct
44:06from God, as well
44:08as one with him.
44:11Apparently, this is
44:12the notion conveyed
44:13in the metaphor of
44:14the image.
44:15Both truths are
44:16stated together in
44:17the words of
44:18Christ.
44:19As the Father has
44:20life in himself, so
44:22has he given to
44:23the Son to have
44:23life in himself.
44:27If the Son is
44:28more than an
44:28effulgence, if he
44:30is the very image
44:31of God's essence,
44:32nothing in God
44:33will remain
44:34unrevealed.
44:36Every feature of
44:38his moral nature
44:38will be defined
44:40in the Son.
44:41If the Son is
44:42the exact likeness
44:43of God and has
44:44a distinct mode
44:45of subsisting,
44:47he is capable of
44:48all the modifications
44:49in his form of
44:50subsisting which
44:52may be necessary
44:53in order to make
44:54a complete revelation
44:55of God intelligible
44:57to men.
44:58It is possible
44:59for him to become
45:00man himself.
45:02He is capable
45:04of obedience,
45:05even of learning
45:06obedience by
45:07suffering, and
45:08of acquiring power
45:09to succour by
45:10being tempted.
45:11He can taste
45:12death.
45:15We might add,
45:17if we were
45:17studying one of
45:18the other
45:18Pauline epistles,
45:20that this distinction
45:21from God involved
45:22in his very
45:24sonship, made him
45:25capable of emptying
45:26himself of the
45:27divine form of
45:28subsisting, and
45:29taking upon him
45:30instead the form
45:31of a servant.
45:33This power of
45:34meeting a man's
45:35actual condition
45:36confers upon the
45:37Son the prerogative
45:38of being the
45:39complete and final
45:40revelation of God.
45:45He upholds all
45:46things by the
45:47power of his
45:48word.
45:54This indeed must be
45:55closely connected
45:56with what we have
45:57just been considering.
45:58If the Son is the
46:00effulgence of God's
46:01glory and the
46:02express image of
46:03his essence, he is
46:04no mere creature
46:05but its creator.
46:07The Son is so
46:09from God that he
46:10is God, and so
46:12he emanates from
46:13him that he is a
46:14perfect and complete
46:15representation of
46:16his being.
46:18He is not in such
46:19a manner an
46:20effulgence as to be
46:21only a demonstration
46:23of God, nor in
46:25such a manner as to
46:26be an image, to be
46:27a creature of God.
46:30But in fellowship
46:31of nature, the
46:32essence of God is
46:33communicated to the
46:34Son in the
46:35distinctness of this
46:36mode of subsisting.
46:39The Apostles' words
46:40fully justify,
46:42perhaps they even
46:43suggested, the
46:45expression in the
46:46Nicene Creed,
46:48God of God,
46:49light of lights,
46:50very God of
46:51very God.
46:54If this is his
46:55revelation and
46:57relationship to
46:58God, it determines
47:00his relation to the
47:01universe and the
47:02relation of the
47:03universe to God.
47:06The Word has been
47:07described as an
47:08effulgence, speaking
47:09of him as distinct
47:11from God.
47:13But these statements
47:14are inconsistent, for
47:16the former means that
47:17the Word is an
47:17attribute of God, and
47:19the latter means that
47:20he is a creature.
47:22The writer of the
47:23epistle says that
47:24the Word is not
47:25only an attribute, but
47:27a perfect representation
47:28of God's essence.
47:31He says also that
47:32he is not a
47:33creature, but the
47:33sustainer of all
47:35things.
47:36These statements are
47:37consistent.
47:38The one, in fact,
47:39implies the other, and
47:41both express the same
47:42concept that we find in
47:44St. John's Gospel in
47:45its opening words.
47:47In the beginning was
47:48the Word, the Word
47:50was with God, and
47:51the Word was God.
47:53All things were
47:54made by him, and
47:55without him was not
47:56anything made that
47:57had not been made.
48:00And also, words of
48:03St. Paul, in him
48:05were all things
48:05created in the
48:07heavens and upon
48:08the earth.
48:09Visible and
48:10invisible were the
48:11thrones, dominions,
48:12principalities, or
48:13powers.
48:14All things have
48:16been created through
48:17him and unto him, and
48:19in him all things
48:21consist.
48:25But our Apostle has a
48:27further motive in
48:28referring to the Son as
48:29upholder of all things.
48:31As creator and
48:32sustainer, he reveals
48:34God.
48:35He upholds all things by
48:37the word of his power.
48:39The invisible things of
48:40God are perceived
48:41through the things
48:42which are made, even
48:44his everlasting power
48:46and divinity.
48:48There is a
48:49revelation of God
48:50prior even to that
48:52given in the
48:53prophets.
48:56And so, having
48:57purified sin, he took
48:59his seat on the
49:00right hand of
49:00majesty on high.
49:03We come now to the
49:04special revelation of
49:05God, which forms the
49:07subject of the
49:08entire epistle.
49:10And here, the
49:12writer states his
49:13central truth on its
49:14two sides.
49:16On the one side is
49:17Christ's priestly
49:18offering, and the
49:19other, his kingly
49:20exaltation.
49:22We shall see as we
49:24proceed that the
49:25entire structure of
49:26the epistle rests on
49:27this great concept.
49:29Son of God,
49:30eternal priest,
49:31and king.
49:34By introducing it
49:35at the very beginning,
49:36the author gives his
49:37reader the clue to
49:38what will soon prove
49:39to be a little
49:40labyrinth.
49:41And we must hold
49:43firmly to the
49:43thread if we wish
49:45not to be lost in
49:46the maze.
49:48The subject of the
49:50treatise is here
49:50given to us.
49:52The Son as priest
49:54and king, the
49:55revealer of God.
49:57The revelation is
49:59not in words alone,
50:00nor in acts
50:01alone, but in love,
50:03redemption, and in
50:04opening heaven to all
50:05believers.
50:07It is well termed a
50:09revelation, for the
50:10priest and king has
50:12rent the thick veil,
50:13and opened the way for
50:15men to enter into the
50:16true holiest of holies,
50:18that they may know God
50:20by prayer and intimate
50:22communion.
50:24glory be to the Father
50:26and to the Son and to the
50:27Holy Spirit, as it was
50:29in the beginning, is now
50:31and ever shall be,
50:32world without end.
50:34Amen.
50:53we praise you, O God,
50:57we allow you to be our Lord,
51:02God bless you, O God, all�
51:08for your Lord, in your glory,
51:14the power of power.
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