That's all I know, folks, about this text that we are called upon to see Jesus, to listen to Jesus,

to consider Jesus, to fix our eyes on Jesus, and therein lies the key to the Christian life,

not hard work for Jesus, not labor for Jesus, but look at Jesus.

Why is it so important for us to look at Jesus and how might answering this question be the

key to the Christian life? This is what John Piper considers in this episode of Light and Truth.

The sermon was originally preached on April 28th, 1996, at Bethlehem Baptist Church.

It's a remarkable thing to me that in chapter one of Hebrews, there's no command to us.

Yes, we are not told to do anything in chapter one.

Chapter one is all celebration, all declaration to this effect. In former times God spoke in a lot

of different ways through the prophets. Now, in these latter days, He has spoken to us by a sun.

And then the rest of the chapter is to describe the sun. He's the air of all things.

He upholds the universe with the word of His power. He created all things. He's the radiance of God's

glory. He's the exact representation of the Father's nature. He made purifications for sin. He sat

down at the right hand of the majesty. He is over all angels dispatching them to do His bidding

among the saints. He is worshiped by everything in the universe except His Father.

He is God. That's chapter one. No commandments, no duties, just truth, just glorious,

Christ exalting revelation of God's final decisive word, Jesus Christ. You remember a couple of

weeks ago when I called it the final decisive word because it says in these last days, He has

spoken to us by a sun. And that the reason it's the last days is because there's no third chapter

of revelation. You've got an Old Testament period of revelation. Then you've got Christ

in the last days and then eternity in glory. There's no third era by which God does a new thing

besides Jesus in speaking to the world. It does not mean that subsequent to Jesus God can't

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