His glory and the
expression of His substance (Heb. i:3). His yesterday is Eternity;
His goings forth are from old, from everlasting (Micah v:2). And in
that yesterday, in the bosom of the Father, the great plan of
redemption was blessedly known. Oh! what a love that knew all and
was ever ready to give all to carry out that wonderful scheme.
"Wherefore coming into the world, He says, sacrifice and offering
Thou willedst not; but Thou hast prepared me a body. Thou hadst no
pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Then I said, Lo,
I come, in the roll of the book it is written of me, to do, O God,
Thy will" (Heb. x:5-7). And then He came to manifest the eternal
love of God. He came in the form of a servant; He, whose yesterday
is eternity, was made a little lower than the angles (Heb. ii:9).
And while on earth He was the same as in eternity. He showed His
power as the Creator, over nature, disease and death. Though in
humiliation, the Son of God had Glory, yet it was hidden. How
blessed it is to trace His way while on earth and what love, mercy,
patience, meekness, humility, peace and much more we find here. And
then His great work of redemption. It behooved Him in all things to
be made like unto "His brethren, that He might be a merciful and
faithful high priest in things relating to God to make propitiation
for the sins of the people (Heb. ii:7). Who in the days of His flesh
having offered up both supplications and entreaties to Him, who was
able to save Him out of death; with strong crying and tears (having
been heard because of His piety); though He were Son yet learned
obedience from the things He suffered; and having been perfected,
became to all of them that obey Him, author of eternal salvation"
(v:7-10). In His yesterday He made purification of sins; He put away
sin by sacrificing Himself. He fulfilled the eternal will of God, by
which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all.

And this Epistle likewise speaks of His "today," the Present of
Himself. His "to-day" began with the opened tomb, that blessed,
glorious resurrection morn. He is the great shepherd of the sheep
brought again from the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ (xiii:20). He is
the appointed heir of all things, on the right hand of the majesty
on high, taking a place so much better than the angels, as He
inherits a name more excellent than they (Heb. i:3-5). He is
addressed by God as high priest