This is a person we're talking about here.

We're not talking about a set of ideas.

We're not talking about a religion.

We're not talking about practices.

We're not talking about tradition.

We are talking about a living, glorious,

reigning God person, Jesus Christ.

Who is this reigning son who sat down

at the right hand of God?

And why does who he is matter?

John Piper considers these questions

in this episode of light and truth.

This sermon was originally preached

at Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 7th, 1996.

Now, verse three is a powerful, rich, full verse.

We're the of about five sermons, I figure.

But we're gonna do it in one.

And you need to see something about verse three here,

though you can't see it in any of your English versions,

probably.

When the writer to Hebrews wrote verse three,

it was one clause.

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