Loading...
Session Description
As the eternal Son of God, our Lord has from before time been offering himself to his Father in perfect love. We might say he has ever been completely obedient, though the human implication of a hierarchy involved in obedience obscures the reality. The three co-equal persons of the Trinity give themselves to each other so absolutely that the most abject human obedience to another is pitifully shallow in comparison to the depths of such offering of one divine person to the other, and yet all of this is done not in servility but in total freedom. The very nature of the relationship between the eternal Son and the Father involves everlasting offering of one to the other.
Conference Title
2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-25-2008
Event Type
Workshop/Seminar
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Subject Area
Worship
Topic
Worship Planning
Keywords:
Hebrews 2:10-13, Hebrews 8:2, Revelation 1:6, John 17:19, Jesus Ascended
Recommended Citation
Dawson, Gerrit Scott, "Christ's Priesthood and Our Praises" (2008). Symposium on Worship Archive. 26.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2008/allitems/26
Christ's Priesthood and Our Praises
As the eternal Son of God, our Lord has from before time been offering himself to his Father in perfect love. We might say he has ever been completely obedient, though the human implication of a hierarchy involved in obedience obscures the reality. The three co-equal persons of the Trinity give themselves to each other so absolutely that the most abject human obedience to another is pitifully shallow in comparison to the depths of such offering of one divine person to the other, and yet all of this is done not in servility but in total freedom. The very nature of the relationship between the eternal Son and the Father involves everlasting offering of one to the other.