Thursday, August 19, 2010

No angel sits at the right hand of God.

Heb 1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?


None. He said this to NONE of the angels. So while angels have their place in the grand scheme of things, a great place, they cannot compare to the Son of God.


Heb 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?


Angels sent forth to minister to ME! Angels sent forth to minister to YOU! We would be heirs of salvation and we have angels to help us. Even in our darkest hour angels are surrounding us- protecting our salvation. Would we have it any other way? Sometimes we want help right now for our temporal life and that's not such a bad thing, but more importantly we need help for our eternal life and suffering here and now is nothing as long as we holdfast to the prize of salvation. Life weebles and wobbles all the time. One day it's wonderful the next day it's filled with horror. Everything in our life can be taken from us. All our money can be stolen, lost, spent. Our health can go from perfect to deadly in a blink of an eye. There is NOTHING in this world that can't be stripped from us, nothing! I've heard these words in a song, but they are from the Bible--


Php 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Php 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,


Everything is counted as loss. Anything we have, everything we've gained whether it's mental gain, emotional gain, physical gain… it's all counted as loss… if we have Christ!


There isn't ONE thing you can possess in any fashion that is worth more than the possession of salvation through our Lord and Savior.


Heb 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?


We ARE ministered to. We might not realize it, but we are and in the ONLY way that matters, in a way we cannot fathom, in the way of the invisible. We can't see the angels that surround us as we engage in this unseen war that most people don't even WANT to realize exists. The unseen war is fiction and fairy tale, the stuff of fantasy to the majority of people. The unseen war isn't real- ask most people you meet if they believe in the unseen war, the battle of principalities and powers and they'll give you a look that tells you that you belong in a loony bin.


Keep it real. You've heard that before, right? Keep it real. This is as real as it gets. Eternal life real. I refuse to believe that this screwed up life right now is the only life we are supposed to ever have. Call me crazy if you want, but I'd rather be considered living in a dream world than having my feet firm in reality if it means giving up my belief in eternal life, my belief in the unseen world beyond this one.


Angels sent forth to minister to us- heirs of salvation. Are you an heir of salvation? By the grace of our Lord, through His love, mercy, His forgiveness and His righteousness we can be heirs of salvation. And being heirs of salvation we can be assured that behind the veil that separates our sight from the unseen world angels are there to keep us in our path of salvation, protecting us, ministering to us in the way of the eternal all because of our Savior's love! All because our Lord sit's at the Father's right hand.


Heb 1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?


No angels sits at the right hand of God, our Savior sits there and the angels are sent forth by Him to help us. Praise God!


In His Love now and forever!


Amen.

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