We've Got Company

The angels are the dispensers and administers of the Divine beneficence toward us; they regard our safety, undertake out defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion I

Hebrews 1:13-2:1

Now to which of the angels has He ever said: Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation? (HCSB)

Robert Burton believed that quote, “Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.” There are some that crave attention. Well, how much more attention do you want? There are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic on lookers that see and know and appreciate our every thought and feeling.

Francis Bacon believed that men should know that a man’s life is a theater, with seats reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on. Millions of spiritual creations walk the earth unseen to be revealed only at times when God may have reason to intervene in our lives. Hebrews 13:2 says that we at times may entertain angels, in meeting strangers.

You see God has not forgotten you and turned you loose until your day of accounting but has shepherds, glittering ranks of angels that report on your state of being. You are not a wild dog set free in this world to roam, but you are His and He tends closely to see what you are up to…He keeps up with the hairs on your head. The angels contest daily for your life, give them a pleasant task…God’s Blessings

Pastor William

Angels Watching Over Us

You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.

Theodore L. Cuyler (1822-1909, American pastor, author)

Hebrews 1:13-2:1

Now to which of the angels has He ever said: Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation? (HCSB)

Paul, speaking under the authority of the Holy Spirit of God, leaves us in this verse some wonderful insights into our daily existence here on this earth. It is here that we learn of the personal attention that God is giving His children, and we find that we are not alone, but that we have angels in our midst. God has not left his children without protection.

Many in this world walk in ignorance of God and His wonderful provision for us. They feel as if they are, so to speak, “paving their own way. They think they stand alone on their own two feet and need no one’s help, but they are in ignorance to the presence of angels sent to secure those who are God’s inheritance, receiving eternal salvation.

Angels are watching over you and I right now, I wonder how many times angels have wept over my actions? Angels minister to you and I just as angels ministered to Christ in the wilderness of temptation. All who have received salvation, and will inherit eternal presence with God forever, have ministering angels around us…wow! There is a lot more to this life that we can see…God’s Blessings

Pastor William

Forgiveness has an End

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)

Hebrews 1:13-2:1

Now to which of the angels has He ever said: Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation? (HCSB)

In Joshua 10:24-25 we see the results of a day where God held the sun in its place until Israel caught their enemies. “When they had brought the kings to him, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the military commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks. Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Be strong and courageous, for the Lord will do this to all the enemies you fight.”

In Psalm 110:1 we hear the promise as God speaks to His Son. He promises Him that His enemies will be His Footstool, and Paul reminds us in Hebrews 10: 11 that Jesus still awaits the day that His enemies will be under His feet. To us this sounds a cruel and harsh punishment, but it is one that the enemies choose for themselves, not our Father.

This needs to be highlighted more in our communication with the lost world, for they still think that God will not be mean to them, or that He will pardon their sentence. It will not be so… for those that spurn the Son of God no sacrifice remains for their sin, they have rejected the Savior and will fall into the hands of an Angry God who will place their necks under the feet of His Son…God’s Blessings

Pastor William

The Cloak Maker

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-, British author)

Hebrews 1:8-12 but about the Son:

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; this is why God, Your God, has anointed You, rather than Your companions, with the oil of joy. And: In the beginning, Lord, You established the earth, and the heavens are the works of Your hands; they will perish, but You remain. They will all wear out like clothing; You will roll them up like a cloak, and they will be changed like a robe. But You are the same, and Your years will never end. (HCSB)

I’m kind of in a state of awe right now…hey! Maybe you can be here with me and feel what I am feeling right now. Our God who created all of this that we see; a righteous and loving God who hates lawlessness, collects the heavens in a roll and changes them as you and I would put on or take of a coat that needs washing.

Scientists play around the skirts of this coat trying to understand what God has created. In their attempts they look at what our God has made, they worship the cloak rather than the cloak maker. They will never grasp it all, and if they do come close, it will not be before God wraps up the old one and puts on the new…as if changing His cloak.

The one thing that I can take comfort in is that I know the Creator, even if I don’t know all about His creation. I think man still hasn’t found enough about who is, yet man is already looking at the creation explaining to all the nature of God’s Cloak. Now if you don’t know the cloak maker then you don’t know his craft. Take comfort in the fact that you know the cloak maker today, and you will watch him roll up the heavens forever…God’s Blessings

Pastor William