As I continue in my attempt to "blog through" the book of Hebrews, we will begin our week today by considering God's Son and His more excellent name. Our scripture will be Hebrews 1:4, where the author concludes the sentence he began in verse 3, and then also include verse 5. In verse 4, he writes of the Son as "having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they" and in verse 5 he continues by writing, "For to which of the angels did He ever say, 'Thou art my Son, today I have begotten Thee'? And again, 'I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be a Son to Me'?"
We must take notice that the Son has "become as much better than the angels". He is not simply better but is declared "much better". This is not to diminish or somehow lower the position of angels. It is to proclaim the exalted position of the Son! As lofty as you might consider angels, consider Jesus as much better than they. The writer declares He has a more excellent name than they. What is this name that exalts Him so? He inherited it from His Father.
The word of God gives us the answer by asking the rhetorical question of angels found in verse 5. "For to which of the angels did He ever say".... ? To none of the angels has He ever said, "Thou art My Son, Today I have begotten Thee" or "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be a Son to Me". So this more excellent name, the name that exalts Him as much better than the angels, is the name Son, "the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth". By grace we have come to know the exalted One, the One who is seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high; the Son. May we grow to know Him better.
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