Listen up, little ones
Listen for the word Son.
Reading
Hebrews 1:4-6—Christ the Son
Optional Reading
Psalm 2:1-12
Keys for kids
- Jesus has the most excellent name.
- That name is Son.
- As Son, Jesus is far greater than angels.
Questions
- What name is more excellent than the angels' name? Why?
- What is significant that Jesus is the Son of God?
- How can we become a son of God?
Notes
(See Saturday for authors.)
Jesus is presented in His excellence in Hebrews. This excellence, we are told here, is tied to His name. And what is that name? We might consider that the author has in mind His name Jesus, so named because He would save His people from their sins. (Mt 1:21)
Or the name Christ, which is actually more His title—Messiah—than a name. As the Christ, He is the Anointed King—the one prom-ised to come from God to redeem His people.
But instead of these names, the name the author of Hebrews has in mind is the name Son. In our day, it is our surname that indicates our inherited name. For Jesus, the name Son indicates that He is eternally God the Son. Hughes notes that Jesus had the name “Son” from all eternity, and it is the name he will always keep, as the perfect tense of the phrase “the name he has inherited” indicates.
Although the angels are sometimes collectively called sons of God, and God’s people are called collectively sons of God, God the Father has only one begotten Son. As the Begotten Son, Andrews points out, Jesus is 1) Christ the eternal son, being of the same essence or substance as the Father; 2) Christ the incarnate Son, the ‘first-born’ brought in to the world; and 3) Christ the first-born from the dead, referring to His resurrection.
This Son is worthy of worship—by all the angels and by you and me.
Swedish Method questions
Praise
Psalm 2a, 65d
Prayer
- Worship Jesus, the eternal Son of God.
- Give thanks for something from last Lord’s Day’s sermons.
- Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.