Hebrews 1:5-14

v5-6: Christ’s superiority to the angels was seen as they worship and adore Him at His birth, at His ascension, and will be seen when He returns to judge.

v7: When we compare “what God says about the angels with what he says to Christ, we clearly see the vast inferiority of the angels to Christ.” Angels are God’s servants, who He has given “light and zeal, activity and ability, readiness and resolution,” in order “to carry out God’s will and pleasure.”

v8: God has declared Christ to be God. “If God the Father declares him to be so, he must be really and truly so, for God calls persons and things as they truly are.” Let us be those who “honour him as God.”

v9: Christ was anointed with the oil of gladness. This “shows both the gladness and cheerfulness with which Christ undertook and completed” His work of saving us.

v10-12: “Sin has made a great change in the world for the worse, and Christ will make a great change in it for the better.” May remembering this “wean us away from the things of this present world and make us watchful and diligent, seeking that better world.”

v13: Christ’s enemies will either put “themselves at his feet in humble, complete submission to his will, or by total destruction.” Which will it be for you?

v14: Angels served God’s people in the past by “attending and acting at the giving of the Law, in fighting the battles of the saints, in destroying their enemies. They continue to minister for them by opposing the hatred and power of evil spirits, protecting and keeping... instructing, encouraging, and strengthening their souls.” We can “take encouragement” from this work they do on our behalf.

Hebrews 2:1-4

v1: “Our minds and memories are like a leaky vessel.” If you do not listen well to the Word of God, you will “soon forget what [you] have heard.”

v2-3: Our salvation is “a great salvation, so great a salvation that no other salvation can compare with it, so great that no one can fully express, nor even conceive, how great it is. It is a great salvation that the Gospel reveals, for it reveals a great Saviour,” and “it shows how we may be saved from such great sin and such great misery,” and “how we may be restored to such great holiness and such great happiness.”

v4: The truth of the gospel was “confirmed by those who heard Christ, by the evangelists and apostles, who were eyewitnesses and ear-witnesses of what Jesus” did and taught. Therefore, we have “a firm footing for our faith and a strong foundation for our hope in receiving the Gospel.”