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Verse 1"IN MANY WAYS AND IN MANY PORTIONS,"God communicated, first of all, in "MANY WAYS."How has God spoken in the past, “in former times”?He spoke through:That is, by:VISIONS,the LAW,the TYPES,the PROPHECIES.10Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.We’re going to see the superiority of Christto the prophets,and we’re going to see the superiority of Christto the angels.v. 1 In many ways and in many portions, God, in formertimes having spoken to the fathers by means of theprophets,

Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.Sometimes He spoke in the earthquake.Sometimes He spoke in the wind.But many times, what?It was the still small voice.It was in the gentle whispering that God spoke.So, in many ways He spoke.What’s the next phrase?"IN MANY WAYS AND IN MANY PORTIONS, GOD, INFORMER TIMES HAVING SPOKEN TO THE FATHERSBY MEANS OF THE PROPHETS,"What does that mean?Well, we have 39 portions in the Old Testament. Whichare records of God speaking to menthrough inspired writers, your Old Testament."IN MANY WAYS AND IN MANY PORTIONS, GOD,[When?] IN FORMER TIMES HAVING SPOKEN TOTHE FATHERS BY MEANS OF THE PROPHETS,"Notice God isn’t speaking this way today.It’s in “former times.”If God is going to communicate a message to you, guesswhat.He’s going to communicate a message to you throughthe written word and by the powerof the Spirit, as you are still before God.11

Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.He’s going to get the information to you directly, thatHe wants you to have.“IN FORMER TIMES” He spoke this way “IN MANYWAYS AND IN MANY PORTIONS.”"HAVING SPOKEN TO THE FATHERS[how did He do it?] BY MEANS OF THE[instrument of the] PROPHETS."He used a man, a prophet.2 Peter 1:21For no prophecy was ever made by an act of humanwill, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke fromGod.When you say prophet, who do you think of?We think of Moses as a prophet.You think of Elijah as a prophet.You think of Elisha.You think of Isaiah,Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Danieland then all twelve of those guysthat you can’t even pronounce their names, there at theend of the Old Testament.All of them, prophets, men, through whom God wasspeaking to his people.12

Now, that’s in “former times.”Now play verse 2 against verse 1.v. 2 in the last of these days spoke to us in His Son,whom He appointed heir of all things, throughwhom also He made the worlds (ages),In other words, God sent one more message.After He got done with the prophets,He had one more message to giveand that message involved His Son,a person, not a written message. Look at it.In verse 1 the KEY PHRASE is:"in former times He spoke by meansof the prophets."Now in verse 2:"IN THE LAST OF THESE DAYS HE SPOKETO US IN HIS SON."That’s His favorite title for His Son, “His Son.”13Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.And they spoke the message.

It is the last message to be communicated.It is communicated through “His Son.”Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.He had a message “in the former times”through the prophets “in many ways and in manyportions” but now He is speaking through His Son inthe last.All the messages of the prophets were fragmentary andpiecemeal, but the message of the Sonis a complete, divine revelation.I have never seen more theology in a verseand a half than I have seen in the last halfof verse 2 and verse 3.It is one of the most loaded portionsin the whole of the New Testament.You are going to see seven tiny little phrasesthat describe the superiority of the Sonover everybody else.God Himself coming in human flesh.God has changed His method of communication.Let’s look at these 7 GREAT STATEMENTSthat are made about the Lord Jesus Christ.14

STATEMENT #1 is seen in the phrase:Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin."IN THE LAST OF THESE DAYS SPOKE TO USIN HIS SON, WHOM HE APPOINTEDHEIR OF ALL THINGS.""WHOM HE APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS."He is the heir of everything because Hecreated it all.Because He is the Creator, it qualifies Himto be the heir. He is the designated heirof all things, and it should be so.STATEMENT #1:HIS APPOINTMENT AS HEIR.Here’s the Good news!Romans 8:16, 17The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spiritthat we are children of God, and if children, heirsalso, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, ifindeed we suffer with Him in order that we mayalso be glorified with Him.All that is His is ours now, too.We too become joint heirs with Him.15

STATEMENT #2:HE IS THE CREATOR.We know that Christ is the Creator.In John 1 it says, “all things were made by Him,and without Him, was not anything madethat was made.”Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin."THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS(AGES)."Colossians 1 agrees with that.We believe that Christ was there in the beginning andHe was there as the Creator.He is Creator in a greater degree.He didn’t just make all the planetsand all the galaxies, but He also plannedthe whole program.The Word is “ages.”He planned all of time from its beginningto its termination.And guess what?He planned in that programHis own physical death for you and meand for our eternal salvation.He is the Master Planner.16

When he comes to this, he describesthe magnitude of Christ as the Creatoras saying these words:Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.Now to get an idea of the magnitude of that,Kent Hughes wrote a two volume commentaryon the Book of Hebrews.Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking,who has been called "the most brilliant theoreticalphysicist since Einstein," says in his best-sellingA Brief History of Time that our galaxy is anaverage-sized spiral galaxy that looks to other galaxieslike a swirl in a pastry roll and that it is over 100,000light years across--about six hundred trillion miles.He says, "We now know that our galaxy is only one ofsome hundred thousand million that can be seen usingmodern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing somehundred thousand million stars." It is commonly heldthat the average distance between these hundredthousand million galaxies (each six hundred trillionmiles across and containing one hundred thousandmillion stars) is three million light-years!On top of that, the work of Edwin Hubble, based on theDoppler effect, has shown that all red-spectrumedgalaxies are moving away from us--and that nearly allare red. Thus, the universe is constantly expanding.Some estimates say that the most distant galaxy iseight billion light-years away--and racing away at twohundred million miles an hour.p. 2717

1.“HEIR OF ALL THINGS” and2.He is the Creator of “THE AGES.”He’s given His message through His Son,“whom He has APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS.”Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.Incredible when you realize the magnitude,of what the Creator was involved in.v. 3 who being the radiance of His glory and the exactrepresentation of His nature (real being), and whois bearing up all things by the word of His power.When He had made purification of sins, He satdown at the right hand of the Majesty on high;“WHO BEING THE RADIANCE OF HIS GLORY.”What does that mean?You can do one or two things with light can’t you?You can either radiate it because it’s internalor you can reflect it.We say the moon reflects the light of the sun.Christ does not reflect the light of the Father.He is the Light.18

In John 17 in the Garden of Gethsemenewhat does He pray?“Father, return My glory now that my work hereis finished.”He literally radiates the glory.Now, what do you and I do, when wespend time in His presence?We reflect that glory, don’t we?We become more and more like Himfor we see Him as He is.Jesus Christ is a sun not the moon.He radiates the glory of God.In STATEMENT #4 we will focus on His NATURE.Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.And when He is transfiguredon the Mount of Transfiguration,the curtain drops and the men see His glory."WHO [not only] BEING THE RADIANCE OF HISGLORY AND THE EXACT REPRESENTATION OFHIS NATURE (REAL BEING)"He is God!STATEMENT #4:"THE EXACT REPRESENTATION OF HIS NATURE(REAL BEING)"19

Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.Remember John 14:9, just as he wasanswering the questions of those guys,just a few hours before the Garden of Gethsemane andbefore the cross, that last night on earth, rememberwhat they said?Philip finally mustered up enough courageto ask a question, he said: “Show us the Fatherand it will satisfy us.”What did Jesus say? He asked another question: “HaveI been so long a time with you Philipand you have not known Me?I and the Father are one. We are one!”"WHO BEING THE RADIANCE OF HIS GLORY ANDTHE EXACT REPRESENTATION OF HIS NATURE(REAL BEING), AND WHO IS BEARING UP ALLTHINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER."We see:His GLORY [in #3],His NATURE [in #4], andand now we are going to look at:His POWER [in #5].20

STATEMENT #5:"WHO IS BEARING UP ALL THINGS BY THEWORD OF HIS POWER."Colossians 1:17And He is before all things, and in Himall things hold together.And it runs like clockwork.We send our space men into spacebecause of the rules that are involved.The seasons are here.We know what’s coming because we believein a reliable God.Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.Can you imagine the power that is involvedin keeping all of this functioning in a coherent,consistent fashion without all kinds ofdevastating mistakes and happenings?He has set it in motion.* Why are you so upset, by what God is allowingto go on in your life right now, if He has the power torun the universe and it runsso consistently and so coherently?21

* And would you be willing to believethat He is doing it today?* And the circumstances that surround youare for your own personal spiritual developmentand growth in Christlikeness.* You see a glaring inconsistency when you gripeand complain about what God allowsas the curriculum, in our individual livesat that point.And the Hebrew Christians need to realize that.They’re having a hard time.Do they think God turned His back on themjust because they’re getting persecuted and having ahard time? No.God is developing Christlike characterand they can’t stand the heat, so they’regetting out of the kitchen.They want to go back to a more comfortablekind of a lifestyle, which is opposed, to what Godhas in mind for them.22Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.* Can’t you go from the greater to the lesserand realize, that He is running your lifeand He is qualified to do it in the best way possible.

His NATURE,2.His GLORY,3.and His POWER.And now, two things have to do with His work.STATEMENT #6:How did He do that?The only way He could do that, was the sheddingof His blood.1 Peter 1:18, 1923Copyright 2017 by Bible Teaching Resources by Don Anderson Ministries. The author's teacher notes incorporate quoted,paraphrased and summarized material from a variety of sources, all of which have been appropriately credited to the best of our ability.Quotations particularly reside within the realm of fair use. It is the nature of teacher notes to contain references that may prove difficult to accuratelyattribute. Any use of material without proper citation is unintentional. Teacher notes have been compiled by Ronnie Marroquin.1.Those first five things all have to do with His Person."WHEN HE HAD MADE PURIFICATION OF SINS"Knowing that you were not redeemed withperishable things like silver or gold from yourfutile way of life inherited from your forefathers,but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemishedand spotless, the blood of Christ.

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The Book of Hebrews. is a lot like . the Book of Romans. It is one of those great theological treatises . in the New Testament of which Romans. is one, and Hebrews. is the other. People shy away from Hebrews. simply because . it has so many Old Testament references in it. A lot of time