Christ Is Better

By Ted Mock

December 3, 2025

Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

On our last trip to North Carolina, we stopped off on the way home to meet the new pastor of People’s Baptist Church, Alton Mickle.  I have preached for Robert Guynn, the former pastor at the church, and he encouraged me to reach out to Pastor Mickle.  We were planning on a short stop on the way back, but it turned into a long lunch with a new-found friend. One phrase that he kept using that day was drawing me closer in spirit to a man I had just met.  Time after time, when describing his upbringing, conversion, and call to ministry, he worked in the phrase, “Jesus is better.” 

My recent daily Bible reading was in Hebrews, and I could not help but recognize the significance of that simple phrase that encapsulated the foundational doctrinal truth of the preeminence of Christ.

In chapter one, we find Christ is better, much better, than the angels.  He was the Creator, and only the Creator could be the Saviour.

Moses, who is revered by the Jewish people as the greatest of their race, is not the greatest. Christ is better.  All in chapter three.

Chapter five portrays Christ as better than Aaron, the High Priest of the nation.  Christ is our Great High Priest, Who ever intercedes on our behalf.

But to me, the best thing is that starting in chapter seven and on through chapter ten, Christ is shown to be the Mediator of a better covenant.  

Pastor Mickel is right—Jesus is better, and everything He does is better.  Christ has prepared a better country (11:16), Christ is our better resurrection (11:35), and Christ provides better things for us (11:40).

I have been thinking that I might start using that phrase, “Jesus is better.” I might just add, “But the best is yet to come!”

Reflection—Angels are made. Jesus is the Maker.