Christ All Glorious Above All Angels
To the Hebrews, angels held a high place of reverence, and Christians should regard these holy beings with veneration, and their ministry with gratitude, but never should angels be exalted in the mind beyond the position assigned to them by God. “Worshipping of angels" (Col. 2:18) is a sign of dishonor done to Christ. Personally, Christ is the eternal Son of God, and as Man His position is the throne of God ; He called the angel hosts into being, but in due time He humbled Himself to a lower place than theirs, He became a man, and now He sits, as Man, upon the throne of God. When our faith sees Him thus, the system of angel homage, which prevails over so large a part of Christendom, by which the servants of the Son are elevated to honors which belong exclusively to the Son, is to us an impossibility. We should beware lest any man spoil us by sentiment, and reject, as unchristian, any appeal to angels to take us under their care and as a step towards the downward road of angel-worship. “Let all the angels of God worship Him." (Heb. 1:6.) Christ is all-glorious; let us hold Him before our hearts.
Christ is the Son of God, the Only Begotten—the object of the worship of all the holy angels (ver. 6).
Christ is God, His throne everlasting, and His scepter just (ver. 8).
Christ is Man, perfect in His ways on earth, and therefore by the divine will, the chiefest in joy of all the children of men (ver. 9).
Christ is Jehovah, the Creator, the Disposer of the earth and the heavens; amid a creation which grows old and serves its end in time, the Eternal, the Unchangeable (vers. 10-12).
Christ is the Man seated on God's right hand, waiting God's time, for His universal crown, waiting until God shall make godless men and fallen angels His footstool. (ver. 13).
As we consider Christ, as God the Holy Ghost thus presents Him to us, Christ supremely glorious, we become steadied in spirit in the midst of the many new voices of this present day which call to us to adopt religious views, which make little of Christ.