We’re headed into the heart of football bowl season. If you’re a football lover, In the next few days you will be able to watch some great football games.
The bowl season offers a chance to see all kinds of offenses and defenses. But, one thing you won’t see this bowl season is the middle linebacker for a team sitting down in the middle of the play with his helmet off while he chit chats with the free safety.
Can you imagine what a football coach would do, if he looked out during a play and saw his linebacker sitting down? There are no benches in the middle of football playing fields.
Linebackers don’t sit down in the middle of games, because their job is not yet done.
There is an analogy here with the work of the priests in the Old Testament. Nowhere in the tabernacle or the holy of the holies were there any benches. Old Testament priests didn’t sit down on the job because there job was never done. Sacrifices were offered repeatedly.
This is why it is so amazing in the book of Hebrews when the author stresses that Christ “sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” The author of Hebrews is arguing for the finality of what Jesus did on the Cross. He sat down because he once for all atoned for the sins of his people.
“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.(Heb 1:3-4).”
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. He has decisively paid the penalty for sin and is sitting at the right hand of the Father.
