Long ago in many ways and at many times God's prophets spoke his message to our ancestors.

But now at last, God sent his Son to bring his message to us. God created the universe by his Son, and everything will someday belong to the Son.

God's Son has all the brightness of God's own glory and is like him in every way. By his own mighty word, he holds the universe together. After the Son had washed away our sins, he sat down at the right side of the glorious God in heaven.

God's Son Is Greater than Angels

God has never said to any of the angels, “You are my Son, because today I have become your Father!” Neither has God said to any of them, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son!”

When God brings his first-born Son into the world, he commands all of his angels to worship him.

And when God speaks about the angels, he says, “I change my angels into wind and my servants into flaming fire.”

But God says about his Son, “You are God, and you will rule as King forever! Your royal power brings about justice.

You loved justice and hated evil, and so I, your God, have chosen you. I appointed you and made you happier than any of your friends.”

The Scriptures also say, “In the beginning, Lord, you were the one who laid the foundation of the earth and created the heavens.

You will roll them up like a robe and change them like a garment. But you are always the same, and you will live forever.”

God never said to any of the angels, “Sit at my right side until I make your enemies into a footstool for you!”

Angels are merely spirits sent to serve people who are going to be saved.

This Great Way of Being Saved

We must give our full attention to what we were told, so we won't drift away.

The message spoken by angels proved to be true, and all who disobeyed or rejected it were punished as they deserved.

So if we refuse this great way of being saved, how can we hope to escape? The Lord himself was the first to tell about it, and people who heard the message proved to us that it was true.

God himself showed that his message was true by working all kinds of powerful miracles and wonders. He also gave his Holy Spirit to anyone he chose to.

The One Who Leads Us To Be Saved

We know that God did not put the future world under the power of angels.

Somewhere in the Scriptures someone says to God, “What makes you care about us humans? Why are you concerned for weaklings such as we?

And you have put everything under our power!” God has put everything under our power and has not left anything out of our power. But we still don't see it all under our control.

What we do see is Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels. Because of God's gift of undeserved grace, Jesus died for everyone. And now that Jesus has suffered and died, he is crowned with glory and honor!

Everything belongs to God, and all things were created by his power. So God did the right thing when he made Jesus perfect by suffering, as Jesus led many of God's children to be saved and to share in his glory.

Jesus and the people he makes holy all belong to the same family. This is why he isn't ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.

He even said to God, “I will tell them your name and sing your praises when they come together to worship.”

He also said, “I will trust God.” Then he said, “Here I am with the children God has given me.”

He had to be one of us, so he could serve God as our merciful and faithful high priest and sacrifice himself for the forgiveness of our sins.