I have a question for these two young people up here tonight. First of all, Steven, do you know me? Yes. Do you know me? Come up closer so they can hear you. Make sure. Do you do know me? Yes. Okay. We’ve known each other for a long time. You’re just a little way back. Way back. Yeah. So do you know me fully? No. Do you know me truly? I would like to think so, in some ways. In some ways, but in every way? No. Do you fully know me? No. Well, then get out of here. Go sit down. I feel so loved.

I do love you. If you knew me, you’d know that. Okay, Eileen, I’ve known you for at least, what, 29 years? Is that the year we’re gonna go with now? 32. 32, okay, wow. She’s gotten older since the last time. Okay, for 32 years, no, for your whole life. And so, do you know me? Yes. You know me pretty well. I do. Do you know me fully? No. Do you know me really truly? No, not really, really truly. Okay, well then fine, you can go sit down.

But we’re engaged to know God. And we can know him, but can we know God? In a sense, truly. Can we know God fully? Tonight, what I want to do is is to begin a sense of a series of messages, although next week we’re going to be in Tennessee and I can’t do that. But in the upcoming weeks, and we’ve got some invitations of missionaries that are coming in, but for a couple of Sunday nights in the future here and tonight by way of introduction to talk about. Standing on the edge. Of mystery.

Now, it was one author who said this is not mystery, as per what sometimes maybe the Roman Catholic Church, how they would define it. But this has the idea of biblically speaking, mystery is something that is not fully revealed. And tonight what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna begin to look at the invitation of Christ in the high priesthood that they may know us as we know each other and so forth, that we are to know God. But can we know him fully? This addresses that issue of the incomprehensibility of God. Can we know God in that particular way? Yet we are told that we’re supposed to. Norman Geisler wrote that the number one problem in the evangelical church is they have a low view of God. R.C. Sproul said that the problem of the evangelical church, they’re thinking that in a broad sense, but in the evangelical church, that the real problem is the eclipse. of God.

Now, you know, when you have an eclipse, you’ve got the sun and then the moon gets in the way. It keeps coming up in my Facebook that even tonight, I think we’re supposed to have a blood moon. And they keep talking about this upcoming eclipse. And I don’t know about that, but you know what an eclipse is, when the moon basically gets in the way of the sun, does that diminish the grand glory of the sun? Not in the least. But do we have a problem in seeing it? Does it obscure it? Yes, much in every way. And the problem is, is that the church today that evangelicals and let’s just bring it down that Christians that truly are born again allow other things to get in the way, whether it be their own life’s ambitions. It might be secularism or it could be materialism, but it allows other things to get in the way. And the glory of God is diminished. And so that we don’t get it. In fact, later on, or this evening, Lord willing, we’re gonna see the fact that that is my personal problem with the whole doctrine of evolution. That in evolution, what that does is it robs God of glory. To dare say that something that only God can do, and to say that that can happen by chance, is to do nothing but to reduce the glory of Almighty God, and yet that is what is commonly believed worldwide. And so can this world know God?

Well, they can, but do they obscure it? Is it like that eclipse? Yes, very much. A.W. Tozer said this. A low view of God is the cause of hundreds of lesser evils among us. We have lost the sense of majesty and religious awe. That we tend to forget The majestic. We tend to forget the awesomeness of our God. He speaks, things come into being. And what I want us to do is, is to spend some time in looking at the doctrine of God, beginning with incomprehensibility to say, can we comprehend fully God? No. But neither could those two people comprehend all of me. But yet does that deny me? Does that deny my existence? Does that deny that Stephen does know me or that my oldest daughter knows me and that they know me well? No, it doesn’t deny that at all.

So just because God is incomprehensible does not know or does not mean that God is not knowable. And we can know God. And God reveals himself in the word of God. In fact, that’s the only place that we have inerrant, the inerrancy or through special revelation, the inerrant word of God. And it tells us God authoritatively who he is. But yet even there, professing believers tend to kick against the scriptures. How is it that people can say that God is sovereign, but they don’t believe in the sovereignty of God? I mean, that’s a big chunk. How is it that evangelicals today, 60% say that the Holy Spirit is just a force? That comes in as a brand new statistic. from Ligonier Ministries in a poll that they put out. Do they know God? No. You don’t know that the third person of the almighty Godhead exists and that he’s not a power, he’s a person? How can we know God if we don’t even look at the scriptures? You can’t lie to a force, but yet there were those in the scriptures that would lie to the Holy Spirit. And on and on it goes. A.W. Tozer again offered up a prayer as he wrote a chapter in a book on the Godhead. And this is what he said.

So I want A.W. Tozer to introduce us so that we can begin to have right thoughts about God. And we begin as we begin this series. Notice what he says, Lord, How great is our dilemma? In thy presence, silence becomes us. But love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak. We were to hold our peace, if we were to hold our peace, the stones would cry out. Yet, if we speak, what shall we say? Teach us to know that we cannot know For the things of God knoweth no man but by the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails. And we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe. In Jesus’ name, amen. And that prayer, brief but profound, one of the things that caught my eye in all of that is is that we’ve gotta speak, but we can’t say enough.

We can only speak authoritatively, but only what the scripture says. We can know truth, but that doesn’t mean we know all the truth. I think it was Martin Luther who said, speak when the scripture speaks and remain silent when it is silent. But we sometimes just want to get it all together in our own little theology. And we wanna fit God in our likeness, in our box. You cannot do that. That is the reason why, I’ll jump in there and just say this, that when I’ve had people say, I don’t believe in election. And I just said, well, you know, I’m sorry, you just don’t believe the Bible. And you show them verses and that’s a verse in the Bible. Well, that’s, I don’t like that. Well, you can’t know truth by just what you like and don’t like, because guess what? You’re not the judge. It says, well, I can’t understand it.

Well, now there we can got something that we can chew on for a little bit. There are things about God, surprise, surprise, surprise, that you are never gonna get. Because as soon as you get it, then you become bigger than God, or you’ve come to the outer perimeter of the existence of God, and will that ever happen by any God image bearer who has been created? No, because he is the creator. So tonight, what I want us to do is to consider these things, and we know them, And when our minds fail us, faith must kicked in. Our God, whether I can explain it or not, has chosen the elect before the foundation of the world, for example. I don’t know about that eternal decree. I don’t know. But I know a couple of things. He didn’t do it because man did something first, because that happened in eternity past from our perspective. I’m not even sure that God’s concept of time is like ours. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s not. And so when we consider God, and you consider things like, for example, and let me say it’s like this.

Have you ever been on a mountaintop or gone to a very, very high place? I’ve been to Clingman’s Dome. We may go there again when we’re up that way here next week. But you get up into a high place. Or in my mind, the greatest experience that I have ever seen was when we were on safari in Africa. And it was a nighttime safari. And we were out there, and the trip was almost over. And that was such an awesome trip. And we were there. It’s a beautiful sunset. The savanna is out there. And we’re kind of on a, that was a hill. It wasn’t a mountain. But we just look out there, and I remember taking a deep breath, because I wanted to remember the smell of Africa. I wanted to remember the beautiful sky, and it was big. And I felt I am on the edge of an expanse that goes far beyond, and I don’t even know what’s out there. That’s what we’re doing when we study our Bible, when we study the doctrine of God. We’re on the edge of mystery, an expanse and to find out things that are way beyond our comprehension.

Now, the Bible has several passages scriptures that we could go to. In fact, that’s been part of my anxiety is to say, OK, I want a passage, but they are everywhere. And in fact, if you just think about it, for example, I’m gonna do, just off the top of my memory, an expanse of verses to catch this glimpse of standing on the edge of mystery. Genesis 1-1. In the beginning, God. Can you understand that? We wanna say, what was God standing on before there was anything to stand on? God doesn’t have to stand. God is. He’s the essence of is-ness. Now that sounded like a highfalutin theologian, didn’t it? But you see, that’s the point. We don’t even get but four or five words into the whole text and look at it. In the beginning, God, who’s already in the beginning, is now gonna say something with what, vocal cords? Does God have vocal cords? Where was he? What existed? Was there a heaven before that?

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. New Testament commentary, and all that in them is. Now you can explain that. How does nothing come from something? Totally illogical. totally against our minds. And when the mind stops, faith begins. There was nothing but God. God speaks, and then there’s everything. And I took a process, I believe, in six literal 24-hour days and rested the seventh and so forth. I not only believe that because I have a very conservative hermeneutic. I also believe that because that’s what Moses, the man who wrote that down and got it from God, that’s what he said in the Ten Commandments. Six days shalt thou labor, do all thy work just like God did. But I’m just saying, you see. We weren’t there. We don’t know how he did it. I believe it firmly and I am to live my life in light of that truth by faith. And a person who does that, you know what that is? That’s a person who knows God, at least a little bit. You don’t know him fully. I can know that truthfully, that is truly, that that is true. But that’s, I can’t understand how he creates stuff out of nothing.

And so, What are some passages? A couple that I love. This one I think is like major cool. Job 26 verse 14. Job, you know, has gone through these terrible things of family and possessions. Then his his friends come and they have this dialogue back and forth. And in Job chapter 26 and verse 14, he’s talking about God. He’s talking about God and creation. That’s interesting. God, oftentimes scripture goes to creation to show the awesomeness of God. And we’re going to see that in some of the verses that I’m going to read here. But he goes to creation, the awesomeness, the grandeur, the expanse of God. But this is what I love. And he and he has verses previous to this verse, Job 26, verse 14. But then he says this. Indeed, these are after he talks about creation and doing all that. And indeed, these are the mere edges of his ways and how small a whisper we hear of him. But the thunder of his power, who can understand? I love that foot in poetic form, but that is just awesome.

Job 11, earlier in the same book, he says this. Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? They are higher than heaven. And what can you do? Deeper than Sheol, what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. By the way, without the scriptures, how would you know about hell? How would you know about the wrath of God? How would you know about eternal life? What would you know about Jesus if it wasn’t for the Scriptures? You see how much we are dependent upon the revealed Word of God, which is inerrant. And back in the early 1900s, and with the whole inerrancy debate and all of that, They had not only a secular view of God, but a low view of scripture. And that’s why they went along so well. And praise be unto God for those people who fought for the faith of inerrancy and the biblical use of understanding what the word of God is.

Exodus chapter 15 and verse 11 one. Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you? Glorious in holiness, fearful in praises and doing wonders. We’re going to find out that in the scriptures and theologians, who I’m going to quote here in just a little bit, but that the scriptures clearly tell us. If you don’t know who God is. You can’t worship him. Aren’t we supposed to be worship? What is it? What is the confession say? What is the whole purpose of man to glorify God and to enjoy his presence forever? We were created to worship. And we can’t do that if we don’t even know who it is that we are worshiping.

Isaiah chapter 40 verses 15 through 23. Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket. I mean, we get all upset and talk about and the world’s all about if we bombed some drug dealers bringing in a boat to our country or if we bombed a nuclear place over on the other side of the world or or or who were selling oil with. That’s a drop in a bucket to God that doesn’t. And they are counted, the nations are counted as small dust on the scales. Look, he lifts up the aisles as a very little thing. Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its beasts sufficient for burnt offering. All nations before him are as nothing. They are counted by him as less than nothing and worthless. To whom then will you liken God?

The theologians will tell us, you know, when we talk about the attributes of God and we’re going to, but even those that are revealed in the word of God, when it says there, who will you liken unto God? To compare God to something is even in itself a bit short, because the thing you compare him to is not him, because he’s far more than that. Let me give you an illustration. God knows everything, right? We’ll just say God is omniscient. We all learn that, you know, God is omniscient. God knows everything. You think that is all of the knowledge of God that God has now in just that we can’t know everything and God, but God knows everything.

So that makes him you do realize God knows more than everything. God not only knows the things that are knowable, He knows all the combinations of anything that ever might have happened in any other sequence of anything else positive. Proof. If the works that I do here would have been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented. But he didn’t do them there, and they didn’t repent. But if he would have been there, and he would have done them, that’s what they would have done. That’s called potentiality in the time-space continuum of reality, of an alternate reality. A lot of metaphysics there going on, but that’s all true. He said the same thing about Sodom and Gomorrah. If I would have been there, this is what would have happened. Now the question comes, so why didn’t he do it? Why wasn’t he there? Because God works all things after the counsel of his own will. Now how do I know what the counsels of his own will is? I don’t. Does God have a will? Yes. Can I know it? Yes. But can I fully understand that? No.

See, God’s incomprehensible, but he’s knowable. And when The brain kicks out and can know no more. That’s when faith comes in. Don’t try to explain everything away from God. Well, it goes on in this passage, or of what likeness will you liken unto God? The workman molds an image, the goldsmith spreads it with gold, and the silversmith casts silver chains. Whoever is too impoverished for such a contribution chooses a tree, and well, not right, well, okay, I’m gonna skip down here. Have you not known, have you not heard that it was been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth and its inhabitants are like, well, hopefully this doesn’t cause you to need some quiet time. We are nothing more to God than grasshoppers in comparison. Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and he spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. He brings the princes to nothing. He makes the judges of the earth useless.

Isaiah 55. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him when he is near. You see this God who is knowable but is incomprehensible, desires to have fellowship with us. Now, partly that is part of the importance of why we bear the image of God. And when we downplay the image of God and make man only animals, Well, according to Romans chapter one that we’ll read here in a minute, that is basically spitting in God’s face. Let the wicked forsake his way, the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord and he will have mercy on him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon. This God is a kind God. He also has the winepress of the fierceness of his anger. My thoughts, and you knew I would get to this, are not your thoughts. Nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. As for the rain, it comes down, the snow from heaven, and it does not return there, but it waters the earth and makes it bring forth and bud. It may give its seed to the sower and its bread to the eater, so shall my word. that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I send it.

Are there mistakes with God? No. Is there chance with God? No. Is God in control? Is God doing all things after his own will? Is there the pleasure of his will? Does God care for us? All the promises that are giving it to how well do we really know God? Matthew, Chapter 11, verse 27, says all things have been given, have been delivered to me by my father, Jesus says, and no one knows the son. Now, if that was a period, we’d be in big trouble. No one knows the son except the father. Nor does anyone know the father except the son. Again, OK, God knows God, we get it. We would still be left in a big bad way and the one to whom the son wills to reveal him. God desires to be known. But he’s known. In one place. And that’s through the revelation of God.

God is incomprehensible. God is unknowable to the degree inherently, unless God chooses to reveal himself. And he has revealed himself in several different places. Now, theologians always talk about general revelation and special revelation, general revelation. is, for example, nature. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork. And so we have the revelation of God, but it’s insufficient. It is knowable. It’s like Stephen knows me, but he doesn’t know me as well as Eileen. They’re still short in the way that I’m really because can I even know myself? The hardest man is deceitful, above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it, including me? I know how much more wicked I am than what those two know, but even I don’t get it all. God does. And so. God reveals himself in nature and creation.

However, there is that Romans chapter one, what does it say? For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. We’re not neutral. We’re antagonistic to truth and the revelation of God. Because what it may be known of God is manifest in them. For God has shown it to them. God has shown himself in nature. Praise God, I love science. God has shown himself in science. What does science say? You know, we keep hearing that as if they really want to know what science says.

For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen. God isn’t hiding it. They are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. I got to pause here. Yeah, so many verses. For in him, that is in Christ, for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. What creation itself cannot do. It is complete in the sun to the degree that we can comprehend and know God. Although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but were futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were dark and professing themselves to be wise. They became fools and they changed the glory of God into incorruptible things like image, like the corruptible man, birds, forefooting animals and creeping things. Therefore, God gave them up to uncleanness and the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for a lie. And they worship and serve the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen.

Now there he just goes on and says the mankind corrupts natural revelation because they don’t want it and they can’t even worship correctly because of that. And then he says basically it’s a doxology rather than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen. There are times. When authors Paul and others had just simply come, and as they relate truth in the scriptures, and they say it, and basically I think Paul just threw the pen down, and he became maybe a pre-Pentecostal, I don’t know, I just say that jokingly, but he just came. Truth caused his heart to be overwhelmed in worship.

Romans, chapters 9, 10, 11. He’s going through the whole eschatological thing of what’s going on after all of the theology of the first eight chapters. Then he goes on and he talks about sovereignty of God. Jacob, if I loved, he saw I hated. He hardened Pharaoh’s heart. And then he talks about, you know, those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And then he says Israel was cut off, that the church was grafted in and he’s going to graft Israel back in. And he comes to all of this and he’s just building it up. God’s telling us what he’s going to do in time on earth for all these times. And this was back in the first century. And it’s exciting. And Paul just as it were comes at the end. And when he says here. Let’s see. Where is he going to go? Concerning the gospel that they were enemies for your sake, but concerning election, they were beloved for the sake of the fathers, for the gift and the calling of God are irrevocable. And he’s just talking about doctrine and he’s caught and he’s caught up. And then he just, as it were, says this. Oh. The depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God.

Now, can we know that? No, it’s way too deep. That’s what Job said. It’s too broad. But he says, oh, look, we have glimpses of who this God is. If you just let God be God. Oh, the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God. How unsearchable. But it’s good to search. But how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out? For who has known the mind of the Lord, and who has become his counselor? Or who has first given to him that it should be repaid to him? From of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever and ever. And God’s people say, amen. That’s our great God. And we can’t understand better.

We’re at the edge of mystery on the cliff of the expanse. I don’t know what word to use there. The expanse of reality, a realness of God. But brethren, that’s who we are going to spend eternity with. And the only reason is because he does love us, he seeks relationship with us, and he redeemed us so it could happen. He has the right to determine who that is for. You wanna call that limited atonement? Well, I don’t care, it’s just God doing his God thing. And if I have a problem with it or I can’t understand it, then let it go.

Remember, what your brain can’t handle, put it in the realms of just faith and God always does right. Well, there’s just so many other things that we could say. But on a topic like the incomprehensibility of God, what are some of the things that other men who have studied these things far deeply? This is one thing that I’ve done a lot on my unique position. I have a lot of time to read and read stuff that I haven’t read or have always wanted to read. But Bavinck said this, the knowledge of God is central Core doctrine, the exclusive content of theology. From the start of its labors, dogmatic theology is shrouded in mystery. It stands before God, the incomprehensible one. This knowledge leads to adoration and worship.

To know God is to live. Knowing God is possible for us because God is personal. exalted above the earth, and yet in fellowship with human beings on the earth. Now that will not, in the heart of a believer, make you proud. It will humble you. God wants fellowship with me. Christian theology, he continues, agrees that the human knowledge of God is not exhaustive. We cannot know God in his essence. Since no description or naming of God can be adequate, human language struggles even to say what God is not, let alone what God is. Can you imagine that? These are some of those that God has just really blessed in time to think. He continues, Herman Bavink. Now, Christian theology has always acknowledged the tension between our view of God as personal and absolute. We are limited to the knowledge obtained by a sense of perception. We affirm the unsearchable majesty and sovereign highness of God. But though God is thus beyond our full comprehension and description, we do confess to have the knowledge of God.

You see, do you know God? I trust you do through his son, Jesus Christ. Do you know God? Yes. Do you know God fully, completely? This knowledge is analogical, the gift of revelation. We know God through his works, creation, and his relationship to us, his creatures. This truth is beyond our comprehension. It is a mystery. He continues, the knowledge of God consists in the perception of his incomprehensibility. In other words, you want to know God, you need to first of all, understand you can’t. You can know some things, but he’s incomprehensible. God is noble. What’s interesting is, is that John Calvin and the institutes of the Christian religion A lot of people think he was this hard hearted, cold, frozen chosen kind of a dude. And it’s just not true. And the institutes are not that at all. The institutes are sometimes hard to read, but they’re not all those things that people want to say about it. But this is what John Calvin said. Our wisdom, insofar as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of just two things. The knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves. You’ve got to simply know both.

He goes on, for in the first place, no man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts to himself, understanding himself, but turning his thoughts towards God in whom he lives and moves because it is perfectly obvious that the endowments of which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves. In other words, We must understand ourselves. We are sinners. We deserve his wrath. We deserve help. We don’t have any claims on God. We are the heart of man is deceitful above all things, desperately wicked. Who can know it? Our righteousness is as filthy rags. And God is all is all righteousness. To properly understand who God is, to properly understand if you don’t get yourself in God, right, you’re going to miss it. He continued on in the Institute. It is evident that man never attains to the true self-knowledge of himself until he has previously contemplated. And John Calvin, I just marvel at his word here. Until he has previously contemplated the face of God. Think about that. Now, does God have a face? No. But contemplate the person of God. and in that contemplation to look into himself and it will destroy your inherent pride. You will be convinced of your sinfulness by clear evidence of your standing in justice, folly, impurity, and so forth. Understand yourself.

It was the great theologian Berkhof, which is one that I love to read about He said the Christian church confesses that the one hand that God is incomprehensible, but also on the other hand, that he can be known is the knowledge of him. It is an absolute requisite unto salvation. You need to know yourself and you need to know who God is. Can you, by searching, find out God? And we read these particular verses. The early church fathers spoke of the invisible God as the unbegotten, nameless, eternal. incomprehensible, unchangeable being. Luther referred to it as the God Deus absconded to or the hidden God in distinction from him as the Deus revelatus. Now, I had to throw in some lat just so that you’d think that, you know, I’m not wasting my time in some of my reading and to kind of claim that. But. It really boils down to this. God is not absent. God is. He is true reality. He is not absent. He is relevatory. And that brings us to the real point of my text of tonight, which obviously, because I wanna stay on your good side, we’re not gonna fully expound. Take your Bible and turn with me to Hebrews chapter one. Hebrews chapter one. There is a God. And God is knowable, but he’s incomprehensible. God exists, that’s a presupposition. I believe because of God image that there is the innate.

John Calvin talked about it, the innate knowledge of God. Every human being knows there is a God. They can try and deny it, but there’s no true atheist. They can blind themselves. They can harden their hearts. They can do whatever. But there is the innate knowledge. But it’s going to be corrupt because it’s the knowledge of a sinner, what he thinks God is. Then there is the revelation of God in nature. Heavens declare the glory of God from its natural, excuse me, your natural revelation. But we’ve already seen that’s only enough to condemn them. God has given them over. They will deny what truth is there. They’re not even thankful for God, and God will give them over to a reprobate mind to do that which is unseemly in the rest of Romans chapter one. Well, then, what is the answer? Because God, who is. Has chosen. Because of his greatness, his mercy, his awesomeness and all these, he’s chosen to reveal himself to, as it were, open up his heart to a degree.

Remember Moses in the Old Testament and most said, I want to see you. And he said, not you can’t see me, but I’ll stick in the cleft of the rock and you can see my backward parts. Did he see God yet? He see all of God? No. Well, we can see God, but it’s in a certain place. And Hebrews chapter one. Here, the word. Of an incomprehensible God who has chosen to let us know about him. To some degree. God. Who at various times and in various ways spoke. in times past to the fathers by the prophets called the Old Testament. Has in these last days spoken to us by his son. Whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom he also has made the world.

See, it always goes back to that creation thing. That’s why we got to remain firm on creation. Who being the brightness of his glory. That’s God’s glory. Jesus is the brightness of his glory. And the express image of his person. That’s like that cylinder seal that they put over the clay. That it’s the express, it’s the exact same. The express image of his person. And upholding all things by the word of his power. That Jesus upholds life together. When he had by himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than that.

What is the theme of the book of Hebrews? Jesus Christ is better than. He’s better than the angels. He’s better than the Aaronic priesthood. He’s better that he’s better than. Why? For in him, in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. You want to know God. You want to be part of the answer, the prayer of Jesus, that they would know us. Study. The inerrant word of God in what it tells us about the son of God. Sunday morning, we are looking at here fellowship that Jesus Christ, the son of God. and they are gonna compound and it’s gonna become more and more and more intense until we get to that last chapter. These things are written. What things?

The book of John, the gospel of John, but it ultimately refers to the application-wise to the whole of scriptures. These things are written that you may know what is incomprehensible, but it’s knowable. And praise be unto God, it is wrapped up. in a person. It is wrapped up in Jesus Christ, the son of God, our Savior, a brother who sticks closer than a brother, one who died in my place and took the wrath of all my. How would we know any of that? We wouldn’t. Except he told us he revealed it to us. And may we hold these truths with all of our being. Brethren. We have a great God. Would you stand with me tonight as we close?

Let’s pray. Our father in heaven. How we praise you. And thank you. That you have not let us alone and our ignorance and our lostness, but that you in love, which we cannot fully understand, but we do at least partially, a communicable attribute, yes, but not one that we understand the depths of it all. Father, may we praise you for so great salvation, the mystery of a God who has the wrath that consumes but a love that protects and endures for all eternity. Father, tonight, we humbly bow and thank you and worship you tonight for what little glimpse we have of you. And when sight and sound and understanding come to an end. May faith abound because you are worthy. We trust you, Father. Work in and through us and cause us to have every thought captive to the mystery of the awesomeness of our great God. And Father, may we think on these things throughout this week for your glory as we praise you in Jesus name, amen.