Fascinated With The Messenger

You hear a truck pull up in front of your house, you look out, it's a UPS truck. Most folks are interested to find out what is coming with this special attention and then who sent it. What most folks don't do is go to the door and gush all over the delivery person - "Oh! I'm so glad you came, please, come in for some lunch, sit down, tell me all about yourself." I'll bet you've never done that. In fact, it isn't the messenger that's the big deal, it's what's being delivered and who it's from.

Well I'm RON HUTCHCRAFT and I want to have A WORD WITH YOU today about FASCINATED WITH THE MESSENGER.

In today's climate of curiosity about spiritual things we've become fascinated with the messengers, they're called angels. Suddenly, there are all kinds of books about angels, and TV. programs, and pictures, and decorations, and toys. Something has happened to us `90's folks. We've started to look beyond earth stuff for some answers - for some hope. For many, this spiritual quest has taken them to the realm of the angels.

Well here is a Word from their Boss. God tells us honestly where His angels fit in the whole scheme of things and I'm glad because everybody else's opinion about angels are guess work, God's knows.

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Hebrews 1:5, "For to which of the angels did God ever say, 'You are my Son, today I have become your Father.' In verse 6 it says "And again, when God brings His first born into the world He says, 'Let all God's angels worship Him.'" In other words, God's saying angels may be interesting, but, they are nothing compared to my Son. What's their job? Chapter 1, verse 14: "Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?" They are ministering spirits sent to serve. Other places in the Bible show that they're God's delivery people - messengers, like our express mail deliverer. If we fuss over them, we miss the point. What's important is who sent them. He's the One to pursue. He's the One to study. He's the One to be fascinated with.

In this angel bulletin from God, we learned something incredible about the One angels came to the earth to announce, God's one and only Son Jesus. Chapter 2, verse 9 of Hebrews says, "But we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone."

Beyond the angelic messengers, is a life or death message. Jesus left the glory of Heaven to "suffer death." The one person in history who could not have His life taken from Him, the Son of God, He had to give His life and He did - on a cross outside of Jerusalem - tasting "death for everyone."

The bad news from the Bible is that you and I are under an Eternal Death penalty for our sin -for running our own lives instead of letting God run them. But, Jesus loved you and me so much He did what only He could do, He died the death penalty we deserve to give us the Eternal Life we don't deserve.

While maybe you've been looking many places for spiritual peace and spiritual reality, it's been waiting for you all along, in Jesus. It becomes yours when you commit yourself to this awesome Savior. No angel, no prophet, no religion could die for your sins, only God's Son could do that, and He did. Your search could be over today. It ends at the nail-pierced feet of Jesus.

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