Hebrews Through New Eyes Quotes

“The reign of Christ has been established. The nations who object to this settlement trouble the decrees of God about as much as dogs barking at the moon trouble the moon.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“On the sabbath rest that remains for the people of God (4:9), which is to say, on the Lord’s Day. God created the heavens and earth in six days, and he hallowed the seventh day as one of holy rest. No sufficient reason for changing the day can be found—short of a new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. We have a new sabbath because we have a new creation; the old has passed away.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“Christ has been seated at God’s right hand. This seating indicates four things: He is waiting for his enemies to be made his footstool (vv. 12–13); he has sanctified a certain class of people forever (vv. 10, 14); he has established the New Covenant (vv. 16–17); and he has annihilated sin offerings (v. 18).”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“When we say New Covenant we should understand this as heavenly covenant. When we say Old Covenant we should understand heavenly shadow covenant.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“The fault with the older covenant was with the people, not with the covenant, but the heavenly covenant is founded on better promises—promises which take our sinfulness into account, promises which conquer our sinfulness. In this New Covenant we find the internalization of the law. The Old Covenant is on its last legs, and is about ready to vanish away.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“Those who minister under the New Covenant are to receive their living in the same way as the Levites did in the Old. What was that “way”? It was the tithe.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“This is also the central reason why Christians do not observe the seventh day as their day of rest. Given the “everlasting” language of the Old Testament with regard to the sabbath, nothing short of a new creation could have moved that day from the seventh to the first. The seventh day was imbedded in the created order, and it would stay that way until the created order was overhauled, redone, re-created—which it was in the resurrection of Jesus.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“saving faith always looks to Christ and his promises. Saving faith does not focus on the presence or absence of saving faith. We are supposed to be looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. We are not to be looking at ourselves, trying to determine if we are believing or not. “Myself believing” is not the proper object of my faith. Christ is the object of our faith.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“We are told here that Christ came in order to destroy the devil in his princedom over death. This conquering aspect of the cross is seen in the New Testament again and again. “Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself” (John 12:31–32). What will Jesus do in his death? He will cast out the ruler of this world. What will Jesus do in his death? He will draw all peoples to himself. Why do I believe that through the preaching of the gospel, the kingdom of Christ will grow and expand until it fills the earth with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea? Why do I think this? For two reasons. Because Jesus died and consequently, one, the ruler of this world has been cast out, and two, all peoples are being drawn to Jesus.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“Sit at my right hand . . .”: Christ is not sitting there to rest, or to recuperate, but to reign. What is the right hand of God but the place of all authority? And if Christ was the agent of creation, what will he do now as the agent of re-creation? “until I make . . .”: Christ is reigning now, and he will continue to reign until his will is fully accomplished. He did not leave in order that his will would not be done. He left and assumed the position of all rule and authority, over every nation and tribe, and he will continue to sit at the right hand of the Father until . . . In other words, while Christ is seated there, before his return, all his enemies (with death the only exception) will be subdued to him. This will be through the means that he ordained, which is the preaching of the gospel. Through the declaration of Christ’s mediatorial lordship, and the basis of it, which is his death and resurrection, everything will be put right. “your enemies . . .”: Christ is being spoken of here as king, and these enemies are any enemies of his kingdom. The fact that Christ is reigning does not mean that he has no enemies. It means he has those enemies well in hand. The devil’s capital city has fallen, and the proclamation of the gospel throughout the world is the mopping- up operation in the hinterlands. In these outlying areas, there are still enemies to Christ’s kingdom. There are still those who say, “We do not want this man to rule over us.” That’s too bad. “a footstool for your feet . . .”: Christ’s enemies, all of them, will be subdued and brought under his visible authority. They are under his authority now; this will be made manifest to all so that it is beyond dispute. Christ is Lord; the time is coming when every tongue will confess that he is Lord, and every knee will bow. But this is so important—we do not confess that he is Lord as the means of making him Lord. He is Lord, and over time his lordship will be manifested through the fact that the whole earth confesses it. We are preaching and announcing and declaring an accomplished fact.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“This is the throne of David, occupied by Christ. Christ is the king of the world because of the resurrection and not as a result of the second coming. Christ is king now, and not just later.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“Christ is begotten from the dead and so all the nations of men belong to him.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“Because of his victory over the grave, Christ is now seated at the right hand of his Father, not for rest, but for rule. He is to reign from there until his enemies are made his footstool. Heaven must receive him, must hold him, until all is subdued in his name through the preaching of the gospel. Only then will he return, and destroy the last remaining enemy, which is death.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“In Scripture, doctrine is practical and high doctrine is highly practical. Those who disparage doctrine for the sake of practice are impractical. Those who disparage practice for the sake of doctrine are unskilled in the word of righteousness. We are never to put apart what God has joined together.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“We see here that Christ was appointed by God to be the heir of all things. When Christ sent out his apostles to disciple the nations, it was based upon this inheritance, an inheritance already given and established. Christ owns it all already. Understanding this makes a great difference in our preaching—is the tone of our message one of begging or declaring? We are commissioned to declare to the world an accomplished fact. Christ is King. This is not a campaign to get everyone to vote for him so that he might become president at some future date. This is a word already spoken from heaven. All authority in heaven and on earth is in the palm of Jesus Christ. This means his inheritance includes Saudi Arabia, Israel, Canada, the United States, China, and Argentina. It all belongs to him already—he bought it with his blood. Why”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals

“The one who was never a sinner became (through God’s imputation) completely identified with sin, our sin. He was completely identified with an innumerable host of sins, took them all upon himself, closed his arms upon them in an obedient embrace, and died. That is why there is no condemnation.”
― Douglas Wilson, Hebrews Through New Eyes: Christ and His Rivals