God’s Final Word in His Son

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,

For to which of the angels did He ever say, “You are My Son, Today I have fathered You”? And again, “I will be a Father to Him And He will be a Son to Me”?

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for this reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

Where your fathers put Me to the test, And saw My works for forty years.

So too Christ did not glorify Himself in becoming a high priest, but it was He who said to Him, “You are My Son, Today I have fathered You”;

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care about them, says the Lord.

A Father’s Discipline

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?