While realizing that the "us" in the opening verse of the epistle to the Hebrews refers to the children of the Hebrew "fathers," none the less is it our blessedness to hear the message from the lips of the Son. And we have heard it in a fuller measure than they who were with Him whilst He was upon earth; for the Spirit of Christ within us reveals the meaning and depth of His utterances.

But, in what is now before us, we have a revelation of God which goes beyond that which "at the end of these days" was "spoken by the Son."

The message, unheeded and refused by those to whom it was first sent, is now in divine amplitude made known to its, who are not the children of those "fathers."

No more complete and perfect revelation of God is possible than the revelation of Himself as "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." These two titles of God form the center around which the whole revelation of His heart and of His mind revolves. "The God of our Lord Jesus Christ'' speaks of God as the object of faith to the eternal Sot, become man.

Consider that faith, I pray you. Faith untarnished and undimmed; faith unceasing in its constancy; faith in storm or in calm finding its blessed repose in the living God; and this faith characterized the humble and dependent Man-the outcast Son of God. Need we wonder that this faith, expressed in lowly dependence, compels the blessed Spirit of God so lovingly to dwell upon all His activities and
utterances? How worthy a task for the Spirit of holiness and of truth to dwell upon that life, to display it in its flawless loveliness and divine perfection. How easily and readily should we realize that no fuller revelation of God is possible than as "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." For such a faith and such a life must command the approbation of heaven; command, too, that the power of God be displayed on behalf of Him who lived that faith, and gave faith to that life.

As the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, He is "the Father of Glory," the source of divine perfection thus displayed. Sin having come into the world, how fitting it was that God should declare Himself as indebted to our Lord Jesus Christ for the title to display Himself thus to His creatures. How else could God manifest Himself in holiness, righteousness and love than through our Lord Jesus Christ, in a world where He had been so much dishonored through His creatures' sin? How could a just God make sinners the objects and display of His love and grace? How otherwise could He bless us with such a place as '' accepted in the Beloved," and associate us with Christ the Heir and Head of all creation? God glorified concerning sin; God, in perfect equity, finding His delight in blessing redeemed sinners; not other wise could this be than through our Lord Jesus Christ.

How the voices of the prophets move in earnest desire to bear testimony to our Lord Jesus Christ and to His God. When in view of His rejection by Israel He says, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught and in vain," 'how brightly in such dark circumstances does His faith appear:"Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." The answer of His God to such faith is:"It is alight thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel:I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest "be my salvation unto the end of the earth" (Isa. 49:4-6). Thus not only shall Israel be fully restored but the Gentiles also shall be blessed, when God shall have completed the fuller display of Himself in Christ and the Church.

In the 22nd Psalm we are given to hear the voice of our Lord Jesus Christ and the answer of His God. Having passed through the awful depths of "that hour," we see Him as impaled on the "horns of the unicorns" – He, the Mighty One, as the lamb for sacrifice; and they, His creatures, in passionate hatred clamoring for His blood. They have nailed Him to the cross; but His faith abides confidingly in His God. "Thou hast heard me," He says, "from the horns of the unicorns. I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee." In resurrection power and joy He makes known the name, the character, of His God, in all its perfections.

Again in psalm 102, we hear Him in humble, dependent faith, concluding His prayer, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days." The answer of His God is:"Thy years are throughout all generations. Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed, but Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end" (see also Heb. 1:10-12 where God is testifying of His Son, in the language of Psa. 102:24-27).

The crowning answer of His God to our Lord Jesus Christ, "Who in the days of his flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him out of death," is seen in "the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:and hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head of all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all." George MacKenzie
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