1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,120 that go to court and go to trial, 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,280 that statement goes something like this, 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,680 the man that is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,720 Have you ever heard that before? 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,820 The proverb is stated to have appeared in print 6 00:00:19,820 --> 00:00:22,440 in the book of Henry Kett, The Flowers of Wit, 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,240 which was first published in 1814. 8 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:26,420 And this is how it was said, 9 00:00:26,420 --> 00:00:29,400 it's a hesitate not to pronounce that every man who is his own 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,380 lawyer has a fool for a client. 11 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,760 However, Brian A. Gardner, a prominent legal writer, 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,920 states that his earliest use may have been traced to 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,320 1809 in Philadelphia, where he said something very similar. 14 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,520 Now I hope that you never need a lawyer this way, 15 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,040 but if you do, it's wise not to represent yourself. 16 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,120 You need legal expertise and a dispassionate person 17 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,880 to help you make the right decisions. 18 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,680 This is not just true as a legal matter though, 19 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,680 this is a common value in life. 20 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,680 So much of life is connected by relationships. 21 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:11,460 Have you noticed that? 22 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:14,080 Who notices that relationships are important? 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:15,480 Yeah. 24 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,080 So much of life is about relationships 25 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,800 and so much connection happens in life 26 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,480 because of relationships. 27 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,840 You'll have a better chance of making this sale 28 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,120 or getting the interview if you know somebody 29 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:28,920 in the company, right? 30 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:30,640 If you have some kind of an end, 31 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,400 you gotta have someone to represent you 32 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,280 or someone on your behalf looking out for you. 33 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,200 That's also true in terms of your relationship with God. 34 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,760 Jesus said this about himself in John chapter 14 verse six, 35 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,440 I am the way, the truth and the life, 36 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:54,440 no man comes to the father but by who? 37 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:55,880 Me, who's he talking about? 38 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,440 Jesus, right? 39 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,640 No man comes to the father but by me. 40 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,320 When it comes to our relationship with God, 41 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,880 on our own, our relationship with God is not good 42 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,960 because of this thing called sin. 43 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,840 Sin is the problem. 44 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:12,440 Sin is the problem. 45 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,760 There's so many problems in our culture, in our country. 46 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,360 There's problems probably potentially in your home. 47 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,960 There's problems in our church. 48 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,600 Anytime there's a problem, usually at its root, 49 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,160 there's some kind of sin issue. 50 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,320 Either sin that I've done, 51 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,240 sin that somebody else has done to me 52 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,160 or living in a sin-cursed world. 53 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,960 And so that means my relationship with God is broken 54 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,640 and God knew that and he sent Jesus to come 55 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,240 and to die on the cross for our sins. 56 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:39,840 And he died on the cross for our sins 57 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:40,840 and he rose from the dead. 58 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,840 How many of you guys heard that last week? 59 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,800 Yeah, he rose from the dead. 60 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,200 And now the Bible says he ever lives 61 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,680 to make intercession for us. 62 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,360 We need a mediator. 63 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,400 We need someone to go to God for us 64 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,800 and mediate between us and God. 65 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,640 And so now we're into, back to the book of Hebrews. 66 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:05,320 And in the book of Hebrews, 67 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,760 this is our 17th sermon in the book of Hebrews. 68 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,280 We find out, we took a little break to prepare for Easter 69 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,040 and to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. 70 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,920 And so in a sense though, 71 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:18,000 that our series didn't stop 72 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,280 because we named the series, Jesus is Greater. 73 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:23,760 Jesus is Greater. 74 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,160 He is better than anything and everything. 75 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,120 And I hope you believe that this morning. 76 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,520 He's greater than sin, death, hell and the grave. 77 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,280 He rose again and I'm so thankful for that. 78 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,760 But we did take a break from the book of Hebrews 79 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,240 which makes this case that Jesus is better, 80 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:41,760 Jesus is Greater. 81 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,680 We learned that he's a greater revelation 82 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,600 in Hebrews chapter one verse one. 83 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,960 I'll be up on the screen, you don't have to go there. 84 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,200 It says this, God who at sundry times 85 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,120 and in diverse manner spake in times past 86 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,240 unto the fathers by the prophets. 87 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,520 And so God in past times and the Old Testament, 88 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,800 he spoke unto the Jewish forefathers 89 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,560 through these prophets, people that spake, 90 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,400 that represented him spake to the people on God's behalf. 91 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,240 The prophets represented God to the people, right? 92 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,000 But it says, hath in these last days spoken unto us 93 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,160 by his son, that's Jesus Christ. 94 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,800 Whom he hath appointed, heir of all things 95 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,440 by whom also he made the worlds. 96 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,680 So Jesus is creator, he's sustainer. 97 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,880 Verse three, who being the brightness of his glory 98 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,720 and the expressed image of his person 99 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,120 and upholding all things by the word of his power, 100 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,400 when he had by himself purged our sins, 101 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,800 sat down at the right hand of the majesty and high, 102 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,200 being made so much better than the angels 103 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,960 as he hath by inheritance obtained 104 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,160 a more excellent name than they. 105 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,080 So right from the beginning, the writer of Hebrews 106 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,960 just kind of takes off and says, hey listen, 107 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,960 Jesus is this new thing that God, 108 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,120 the new way that God revealed in these last days. 109 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,720 He used to do it just by prophets, by men, 110 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:03,120 but now God has become man and he represents God to you. 111 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:04,280 Isn't that awesome? 112 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:07,080 This is how God revealed himself to the world. 113 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,520 So we learned that he had a greater name, 114 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,040 that he's greater than the angels that went on to say that, 115 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,120 that he's greater than Moses, that he's a better rest 116 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:16,840 and brings a better rest for his people, 117 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:19,360 and not only is he better in all of those ways, 118 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,400 but we learned that he is a better high priest. 119 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,920 He is the great high priest. 120 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,400 He mediates between us and God, that is, 121 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,200 so a prophet would come to men on behalf of God 122 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,280 and the saying of the prophet was this, 123 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,480 thus saith the Lord. 124 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,440 I've got a word for the Lord for you from God. 125 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,560 The priest though, he would come 126 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,680 and he would go to God on behalf of the people. 127 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,360 He would mediate on behalf of the people. 128 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,880 And so we learned, we learned in Hebrews chapter four, 129 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:56,160 I'll put this up on the screen, 130 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:57,720 Hebrews chapter four verse 14, 131 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,000 that Jesus is our high priest, okay? 132 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:04,600 It says in Hebrews 4, 14, this verse, 133 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,280 it says, seeing then that we have a great high priest 134 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:09,560 that has passed into the heavens, 135 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,360 Jesus the son of God, let us hold fast our profession, 136 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:14,880 for we have not a high priest 137 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,920 which cannot be touched by the feelings of our infirmities, 138 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,320 but in all points was tempted like as we are, 139 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,280 yet without sin. 140 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:25,520 Hey, Jesus came, he became one of us, 141 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,280 he lived a perfect life and he died on the cross, 142 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,320 and now he's back where God is, 143 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,760 he sits on the right hand of God the Father. 144 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:37,520 And now when I go to God, I go to God by Jesus. 145 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,440 And Jesus loves me and Jesus loves you 146 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:41,960 and he cares about you. 147 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,040 You guys are not with me this morning. 148 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,080 Is it hot in here? 149 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:49,640 Maybe I'm just hot because I'm nervous, 150 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,040 I don't know what's going on. 151 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:56,720 We have a great high priest and he's where Jesus is 152 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,600 and we get to talk to God through Jesus Christ. 153 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,800 And so the writer of Hebrews tells us in verse 16, 154 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,200 let's therefore come boldly into the throne of grace 155 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,600 that we may obtain mercy and find grace 156 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,480 to help in time of need. 157 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:16,200 Jesus is there, he's for us, God's for us, God's for Jesus. 158 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,040 Jesus knows exactly what we need, 159 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,360 he knows what we don't need. 160 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,920 And so when we go to God, 161 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:24,640 we don't have to go to God through Mary, 162 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,600 we don't have to go to God through any other person, 163 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:27,880 we don't have to go through God, 164 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,360 we don't have to go through God to anybody, 165 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,840 we can go to God through Jesus because he's a high priest. 166 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,600 But he's a different kind of high priest. 167 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,440 See, the book of Hebrews was written to Jewish people. 168 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,160 That's why it's called Hebrews. 169 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:43,600 The Jews had so many names, didn't they? 170 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,440 Children of Israel, the Jews, the Hebrews, 171 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,040 all different names for the same group of people. 172 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,840 Paul's writing to Jewish believers and he's telling them, 173 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,920 he's helping them understand the transition 174 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,960 between what it was like before Jesus came 175 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:01,000 to what it's like now. 176 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,240 And he's saying basically, all of those things 177 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,320 in the Old Testament are pointing to something better 178 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:06,520 in the new. 179 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,400 The Old Covenant was a picture 180 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,760 pointing us to the new covenant that we have in Jesus. 181 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,600 And so he says, talking about this idea of priesthood, 182 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,040 they understood priesthood 183 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,840 because so many of these Jews had gone to priests. 184 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,720 The priests would make sacrifices, 185 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,080 would help them make sacrifices. 186 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,480 He would literally, they would kill an animal, 187 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,400 a lamb without spotter blemish. 188 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,560 And what the New Testament teaches us is that lamb 189 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,320 is a picture of Jesus. 190 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:34,600 John looked at Jesus and said, 191 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,040 behold the lamb of God that takes away 192 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,440 the sin of the world. 193 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,400 He understood exactly what that meant. 194 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,760 So when we get to Hebrews chapter five, 195 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:45,720 the writer, and we already kind of covered this, 196 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,600 but I'm trying to catch you guys up, all right? 197 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,840 In Hebrews chapter five, he says that Jesus 198 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,400 is a different kind of priest. 199 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,120 He's not a priest like the old Aaronic priests, 200 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,160 the priests that had come down from this guy named Aaron, 201 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,160 who was Moses's brother and the first priest 202 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,360 and all those Levites from from the tribe of Levi 203 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,200 that came after him. 204 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:09,840 Hebrews five one says this, 205 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,240 for every high priest taken from among men 206 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,360 is ordained for men in things pertaining to God. 207 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:16,600 Isn't that what I just told you? 208 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,240 Priests go to God on behalf of men 209 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,440 that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins 210 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,120 who can have compassion on the ignorant. 211 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,600 These priests, they were like us. 212 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:29,960 They were just men. 213 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:31,440 So they can have compassion on us 214 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,040 because they know what we go through, right? 215 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,480 And of them that are out of the way 216 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,080 for that he himself also is compassed of infirmity. 217 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,320 And by reason here of he ought us for people, 218 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,320 so also for himself to offer sins. 219 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,040 What that's saying is this, 220 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,080 the priest had to offer a sacrifice for himself 221 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,360 and not just for the people that came 222 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:50,920 because they sinned too. 223 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:52,840 Do you get it? 224 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,480 I got my own sins to confess. 225 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,120 I can't confess sins for you. 226 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,520 Neither could these priests, are you with me? 227 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:04,560 And say it says verse four, 228 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,360 and no man taking this honor unto himself, 229 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,120 but he that has called God of God as was Aaron. 230 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,240 These priests didn't, 231 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,640 they weren't made priests by election, 232 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,560 vote for Ben for high priest, you know? 233 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:20,160 That's not how that worked. 234 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,200 They came from a particular tribe. 235 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,600 There was a priestly tribe, the Levite tribe, 236 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,240 they were of Aaron, right? 237 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,480 Verse five, so also Christ glorified not himself 238 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,360 to be made a high priest, 239 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,720 but he that said unto him, 240 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,840 now that he is God the Father, 241 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,120 in the book of Psalms, 242 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,080 which we're gonna see in just a few minutes, 243 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,520 where that God prophesied about Jesus when he comes, 244 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:46,720 he then say the word Jesus, 245 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,000 when he talks about his son. 246 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,760 God through the Psalmist said, 247 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,160 thou art my son. 248 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:56,600 Today I've I begotten thee, 249 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,600 and as he said in another place, 250 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,280 thou art a priest forever, 251 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,840 after the order of Melchizedek. 252 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,080 Now say Melchizedek. 253 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,880 You guys got it, that was awesome, right? 254 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,240 Okay, so there's this prophecy in Psalms, 255 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,040 written thousands of years before Jesus came 256 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,360 that says the son when he comes, 257 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,280 the Messiah when he comes, 258 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,480 is gonna be begotten of the Father. 259 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,280 He's gonna be of the same kind as the Father. 260 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,400 Jesus is God, right? 261 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,640 Jesus is God, right? 262 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:37,560 But that he's gonna be made a priest, 263 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:39,040 but that priesthood won't end, 264 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,920 like the, you know, the human priest died. 265 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,920 Their priestly office ended, 266 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,000 but he says you're gonna pre-apprice my son Jesus, 267 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,920 you're gonna be a priest forever, 268 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,520 and it's not gonna be after the order of Aaron, 269 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:58,440 it's gonna be after the order of Melchizedek. 270 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:02,320 This is repeated in verse, 271 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,000 in Hebrews chapter five, 272 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:07,720 verse eight, though he were a son, 273 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,720 he learned he obedience by the things which he suffered, 274 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,240 and being made perfect, 275 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,240 he became the author of eternal salvation 276 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:15,840 unto all that obey him, 277 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,360 called of God and high priest 278 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,080 after the order of Melchizedek. 279 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,440 You see it again in chapter six, verse 19, 280 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,360 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, 281 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:26,720 both sure and steadfast, 282 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,840 in which entereth in within that veil, 283 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,600 whether the forerunner is for us entered, 284 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,560 even Jesus, that's talking about Jesus as the Holy, 285 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:37,920 he's in the ultimate Holy of Holies in heaven, right? 286 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,480 Made for us a high priest forever, 287 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:46,480 after the order of, say the name, Melchizedek. 288 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:48,400 Now here's why you really should need 289 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:49,960 to pay attention to me today. 290 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:53,320 And to what we're studying, 291 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,320 I want you to walk away today, 292 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,120 understanding what this passage says 293 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,800 about this person named Melchizedek. 294 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,920 This is not an easy passage. 295 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:06,280 I'm in Hebrews chapter, what chapter are we in? 296 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,320 Seven, I'm in chapter seven, 297 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:13,320 because before I was in chapter six, we're just walking 298 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:18,280 through this and this is like kind of a heavy portion 299 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,880 of scripture, but it's here for us, right? 300 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,760 It's here for, do you need to know what this says? 301 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,520 God revealed it, so we better understand what it means. 302 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,400 Okay, I want you to walk away, 303 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,480 I was thrilled by this passage, unbelievable. 304 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,880 I hope you get thrilled by it too. 305 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,720 This passage says something incredible 306 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,920 about this person named Melchizedek, 307 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,640 but I want you to understand this. 308 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,640 Our God is a God who reveals. 309 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,680 He reveals, and part of how he revealed, 310 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:55,960 we know the ultimate of how he revealed is in his word, right? 311 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,040 But he also revealed through history, 312 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:02,920 history is his story, that's what it is. 313 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,160 And God made things happen, God is sovereign, 314 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,280 he is providential, he can do what he wants to do, 315 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,520 and he has orchestrated some events in such a way 316 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,240 so that then he could point to them in scripture 317 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,800 and so that he could teach us something. 318 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,240 And that's what we see happening 319 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,040 in this guy called Melchizedek. 320 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,200 I want you to walk away catching a glimpse 321 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,920 of all that God has done over time 322 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,320 to help us understand exactly who Jesus is, 323 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:34,040 because who Jesus is, and rightly identifying him, 324 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,080 is the most important thing in your life. 325 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:38,880 Whether you recognize it or not, 326 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,120 who Jesus is and how you identify him 327 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:42,840 and how you interact with him 328 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,560 and having a relation with God through him, 329 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,320 that is by far the most important thing. 330 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,200 And so if God's revealed something about him 331 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,160 and who he is, we need to know something about it. 332 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,720 We need to live in light of it. 333 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,040 So I want you to understand exactly who Jesus is, 334 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:58,840 what he's done to save us, 335 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,760 and now he now ministers on our behalf 336 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,200 as our great high priest. 337 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,120 The only shot you have at being right with God 338 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,400 is by having a mediator between you and him. 339 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:16,080 And that mediator can be none other than Jesus Christ, 340 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,800 a priest after the order of Melchizedek. 341 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,920 So we can have a better understanding 342 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,440 and respond to Jesus as our greater high priest 343 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,920 after answering these three questions. 344 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:32,400 Number one, here's the first question. 345 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,100 Who is Melchizedek? 346 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,080 Anybody wondering? 347 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,080 This guy's talking about this Melchizedek. 348 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,980 Four syllable, dude, who are you talking about? 349 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,000 Well, let's walk into the passage. 350 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,120 Here's where we are today. 351 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,000 Here's the passage that Brother Long read to us, 352 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,920 Hebrews chapter seven, verse one. 353 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:59,640 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, 354 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,840 priest of the most high God, 355 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,540 who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings 356 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:06,840 and blessed him. 357 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,680 To him also, Abraham gave a tenth of all, 358 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:14,000 tenth part of all, first being by interpretation, 359 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,520 king of righteousness. 360 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:20,480 And after that also, king of Salem, which is king of peace. 361 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,520 So there we are. 362 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:24,760 We have to talk about this 363 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,240 because this is the next set of verses 364 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,560 and I have to tell you what it means. 365 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,320 This text is a summary of what we learn 366 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:35,760 in Genesis chapter 14, verses 18 through 20, 367 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,360 about a man named Melchizedek. 368 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,820 It would be helpful for you to know 369 00:16:39,820 --> 00:16:41,440 the context of this interaction. 370 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:46,440 Abraham was chosen by God to begin the Hebrew nation. 371 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:49,880 That was hard. 372 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,640 I was like, porky pig there for a minute. 373 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,880 What was going on? 374 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,640 Okay, let me kick another step of that. 375 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,920 You guys know who Abraham is, right? 376 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:02,120 Father Abraham had many sons. 377 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:03,560 Many sons had Father Abraham. 378 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,120 Abraham was the beginning. 379 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:06,760 God chose Abraham and said to Abraham, 380 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,520 I'm gonna make of you a great nation 381 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:09,520 and I'm gonna bless thee 382 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:10,960 and I'm gonna make thy name great. 383 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,640 And in thee all the nations of the earth would be blessed. 384 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,640 So Abraham started a nation, started a couple actually. 385 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,880 One of them being the nation of Israel. 386 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,320 God gave him a promise. 387 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,640 He was a person that had a covenant. 388 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,080 He didn't have any children when God first made a covenant 389 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,920 promise to him but he said, hey, you're gonna have progeny. 390 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:35,920 You're gonna have kids that are gonna be like the sand 391 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,120 and the seashore, like the stars in the sky. 392 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:40,200 You're gonna have so many offspring 393 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,200 and Abraham and Sarah are like really old with no kids. 394 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,200 And so they had to by faith believe God 395 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,800 and because they believe God, God counted it down to them 396 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,840 as righteousness, that's what the Bible tells us. 397 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,040 Now Abraham was chosen by God but at this time 398 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,720 he only had a nephew that was named Lot. 399 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,120 So say with me, you got Abraham, you got Lot. 400 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:04,920 Lot went with Abraham when God sent Abraham away 401 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,320 from his family into a land that God was gonna show him. 402 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,120 One thing is when God came to Abraham, he says, 403 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:10,960 Abraham I want you to leave your father and mother 404 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,560 and I want you to go to a land that I'm gonna show you. 405 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,320 He didn't say I want you to go 100 miles this way 406 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,200 then 100 miles that way and then he didn't give them a map. 407 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,600 He just said go and I'll show you once you go. 408 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,560 Kind of an interesting way to go. 409 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,200 And Lot went with him and then God blessed Abraham 410 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,840 and subsequently he blessed Lot so that so much 411 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,440 that they had to separate from each other. 412 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:40,440 Lot has so much wealth and Abraham has so much wealth 413 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:41,920 and they have people working for them 414 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:43,320 and those people started getting mad at each other 415 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,520 because there's all these problems 416 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,520 and so they said, hey, we're gonna split up. 417 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,960 So when you get to Genesis chapter 13, it says this, 418 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,720 and Abraham said unto Lot, let there be no strife 419 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,800 I pray thee between me and thee and between my herdmen 420 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,200 and thy herdmen for we are brethren. 421 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,800 It is not the whole land before thee separate thyself 422 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,640 I pray thee from me. 423 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,240 If thou will take the left hand then I will go right 424 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,640 or if thou depart to the right hand I will go left. 425 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,080 And so Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain 426 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,880 of Jordan that it was well watered everywhere 427 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,720 before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah 428 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,480 even as the garden of the Lord like the land of Egypt 429 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,280 as thou comest unto Zohar. 430 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,760 So then Lot chose them all the plain of Jordan 431 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,520 and Lot journeyed east and they separated themselves 432 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:28,560 from one from the other. 433 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,000 So you have this split. 434 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,560 Abraham says to Lot, you choose that way, I'll go this way. 435 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,440 You choose this way, I'll go that way. 436 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,040 You choose, gotta work this thing out. 437 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,500 So that's what they do. 438 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:41,680 When we get to Genesis chapter 14, 439 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,240 we find that the people in and around Abraham and Lot 440 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,680 were governed like tribal groups with kings. 441 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,680 So different tribal groups that all had kings. 442 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,120 These kings and their people would battle 443 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,360 and then be subjected to each other. 444 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,520 One tribe and their king would then pay tribute 445 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,200 to another tribe and their king. 446 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,600 And in chapter 14 it comes to a head 447 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,000 when two different sides, one with four kings 448 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,000 and their tribes versus one with four kings 449 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,920 and their tribes versus one with five kings 450 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,800 and their tribes went to war with each other. 451 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,080 Abraham's nephew Lot was on the side 452 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,280 that had the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah. 453 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:20,960 Are you tracking with me? 454 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:21,800 Okay. 455 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,240 Lot's side with Sodom and Gomorrah was being beaten 456 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,360 and Lot was taken away by their enemies. 457 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,000 So they're in the middle of war. 458 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Lot gets kidnapped, taken, subjugated. 459 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:38,000 And so eventually some people get away from the battle 460 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,480 and get to Abram and they go to Abram for help. 461 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,480 So Abram took, and the Bible says this, 462 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:48,080 he took 318 of his own men and went to battle 463 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,120 against these tribes. 464 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:51,680 Doesn't this sound like it would make a great show? 465 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:52,560 It's like violence. 466 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:53,400 I love violence. 467 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:54,240 It's awesome, right? 468 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,480 Like, yeah, really cool. 469 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,000 So they're like fighting, somebody gets kidnapped. 470 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,920 They come to Abraham, Abraham's like, I'm getting my men 471 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,440 and we're getting a posse. 472 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,520 And we're gonna go and we're gonna go get my nephew 473 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,120 and get him there, right? 474 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,120 So then that's what happens. 475 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:13,800 That's where we are when we get to Genesis chapter 14. 476 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,320 Verse 14, and when Abraham, no Abram, 477 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,400 it wasn't even Abraham yet. 478 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,080 Abram, same guy, different name. 479 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,080 When Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, 480 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,440 he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, 318, 481 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,040 and pursued them unto Dan. 482 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,280 That's a place. 483 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,000 And he divided himself against them. 484 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,920 He and his servants by night and smote them 485 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,560 and pursued them unto hobah, 486 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,560 which is on the left hand of Damascus. 487 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,640 And he brought back all the goods 488 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,520 and also brought again his brother Lot and his goods 489 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,960 and then the women also and the people. 490 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,480 Abraham was a bad dude. 491 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,040 And he had these 318 people 492 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,480 and he goes and beats this other tribe 493 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,360 and brings back all the stuff. 494 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:05,240 He rescued his nephew and also says brother there, 495 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,600 the brother's idea of a kinsman, someone like that, 496 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,160 so it's still his nephew. 497 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,320 And he comes along with the kings that were with him 498 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,600 and that's where we get to verse 17. 499 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,480 When we get to 1417, it says this. 500 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,800 Then basically finally getting back together 501 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,240 with all the rest of these kings. 502 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,080 Verse 17. 503 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,040 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him 504 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,640 after his return from the slaughter of Chador Lo Amor. 505 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,920 That's one of the kings that was going against Lot. 506 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,640 And of the kings that were with him 507 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,320 in the valley of Sheva, which is the kings' dale. 508 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,120 So here he is, they're coming back. 509 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,440 He's bringing back all these people he rescued 510 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,600 and all of the money and resources from having beat him. 511 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,560 And this is where we find in the middle 512 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,520 of this random narrative in the Old Testament, 513 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,440 you're like why are you telling me this story? 514 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,240 Check out what happens, this is amazing. 515 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,080 Verse 18. 516 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,660 Verse 18. 517 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:39,160 So why don't I tell you that story? 518 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,900 Well to answer the question who is Melchizedek, 519 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:44,880 here it is. 520 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,360 Melchizedek was a king and a priest 521 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:51,000 who at a time before Abraham was called 522 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,800 a priest of the Most High God. 523 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,960 Sorry, before Abraham was even called 524 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,360 before Abraham had, before there were any such a thing 525 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,060 as Jews other than Abraham, 526 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,000 there was this priest of the Most High God. 527 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,240 Before there was any priest after Abraham, 528 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,400 there was this other priest, Melchizedek, 529 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,440 who was a priest, but he was also a king. 530 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,840 He had specific titles and he received tithes. 531 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,760 Tithes means 10th, it's an offering. 532 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,340 A 10th of all that was there, he received from Abraham. 533 00:24:23,340 --> 00:24:26,420 The whole point of his existence in terms of what we know 534 00:24:26,420 --> 00:24:29,220 about him is to point us to Jesus Christ 535 00:24:29,220 --> 00:24:31,620 and to give us a picture of the ministry of Jesus Christ 536 00:24:31,620 --> 00:24:34,420 as our royal great high priest. 537 00:24:34,420 --> 00:24:39,220 Here's what's crazy, he's not referred to again in Genesis. 538 00:24:39,220 --> 00:24:42,020 He's not referred to again in any of the books of the law. 539 00:24:42,020 --> 00:24:44,820 He's not referred to again in any of the prophets. 540 00:24:44,820 --> 00:24:48,300 He's only mentioned one more time in the book of Psalms 541 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:51,740 and then he's mentioned in this book of Hebrews. 542 00:24:51,740 --> 00:24:54,980 His name doesn't come up again until Psalms 543 00:24:54,980 --> 00:24:58,540 and then it doesn't come up again after that until Hebrews. 544 00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:00,180 So that leads me to question number two. 545 00:25:00,180 --> 00:25:03,420 If question number one is, Melchizedek is this priestly king 546 00:25:03,420 --> 00:25:06,060 who Abraham pays tithes to, had specific titles. 547 00:25:06,060 --> 00:25:09,460 Here's the next question, what is the significance 548 00:25:09,460 --> 00:25:11,460 of Melchizedek's titles? 549 00:25:12,460 --> 00:25:14,940 Because the writer of the book of Hebrews 550 00:25:14,940 --> 00:25:18,660 points to Melchizedek and says something about his titles. 551 00:25:18,660 --> 00:25:21,940 Look at verse two, chapter seven, verse two. 552 00:25:21,940 --> 00:25:23,100 Here's what it says. 553 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:26,340 Toom also Abraham gave a 10th part of all, 554 00:25:26,340 --> 00:25:30,380 first being by interpretation, king of righteousness. 555 00:25:30,380 --> 00:25:34,580 And after that also, king of Salem, which is king of peace. 556 00:25:34,580 --> 00:25:39,580 So here we're told about a couple of titles for Melchizedek 557 00:25:39,580 --> 00:25:41,460 and then I'm gonna point you to Jesus. 558 00:25:41,460 --> 00:25:44,660 His first title is king of righteousness. 559 00:25:44,660 --> 00:25:48,700 His first title is king of righteousness. 560 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:51,260 Melchizedek is two parts, Mel and Chizedek. 561 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:55,180 Mel means king of, Chizedek means righteousness. 562 00:25:55,180 --> 00:25:59,180 So his name literally means king of righteousness. 563 00:26:03,820 --> 00:26:05,620 He is a king of righteousness. 564 00:26:05,620 --> 00:26:08,060 Who's another king of righteousness? 565 00:26:08,060 --> 00:26:09,340 Jesus Christ. 566 00:26:10,780 --> 00:26:14,340 The second thing we're told, he is called king of Salem 567 00:26:14,340 --> 00:26:18,740 when my dad was in college, he was kind of a nerd. 568 00:26:18,740 --> 00:26:20,980 He's still a nerd today, but in Bible college, 569 00:26:20,980 --> 00:26:24,100 they learned that I'm online, he knows. 570 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:30,980 In college, they found out that the word shalom meant peace 571 00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:34,700 and it was a greeting for Jewish people to say to each other. 572 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:37,140 You say, hey shalom, peace. 573 00:26:37,140 --> 00:26:42,140 Shalom and Salem come from the same root word 574 00:26:42,140 --> 00:26:46,500 and shalom means peace, Jerusalem is a city of peace. 575 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:49,780 He's the king of Salem, I believe that was a forerunner 576 00:26:49,780 --> 00:26:52,300 or a prototype or kind of an early form 577 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:54,500 of what we call now Jerusalem. 578 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:58,300 So here's a guy who was the king of righteousness, 579 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:03,300 the king of the city of peace, Salem. 580 00:27:04,660 --> 00:27:06,060 Now we call it Jerusalem. 581 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:08,620 That's pretty interesting in it. 582 00:27:08,620 --> 00:27:13,620 We learn also that he was a priest of the most high God. 583 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:21,700 Now, the way that God did priesthood before 584 00:27:22,740 --> 00:27:25,740 was that a priest would never be a king. 585 00:27:25,740 --> 00:27:29,700 In fact, there were times where kings in the Old Testament 586 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,900 tried to go out of their kind of lane as being kings 587 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:34,500 and tried to do priestly things 588 00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:37,020 and God punished them for doing that 589 00:27:37,020 --> 00:27:39,140 because he didn't want the kings and the priests 590 00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:41,460 to be the same because that's not what God wanted 591 00:27:41,460 --> 00:27:42,420 to have happen. 592 00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:46,340 But here we have a Melchizedek who before there 593 00:27:46,340 --> 00:27:50,140 were any other priests was a priest of the most high God 594 00:27:50,140 --> 00:27:52,060 and a king at the same time. 595 00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:55,900 Jesus Christ is the king of righteousness. 596 00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:58,420 He is without sin forever. 597 00:27:58,420 --> 00:28:00,420 Did Jesus sin? 598 00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:03,740 Did Jesus do absolutely everything right? 599 00:28:03,740 --> 00:28:05,380 Did Jesus do absolutely everything right 600 00:28:05,380 --> 00:28:07,060 for the right reasons? 601 00:28:07,060 --> 00:28:09,020 Is he coming back to rule and to reign? 602 00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:11,460 He is the king of righteousness. 603 00:28:13,780 --> 00:28:15,920 Is Jesus Christ the king of peace? 604 00:28:16,980 --> 00:28:21,340 He became a propitiation, a wrath-bearing sacrifice 605 00:28:21,340 --> 00:28:23,540 for our sins and not for our sins only, 606 00:28:23,540 --> 00:28:25,580 but the sins of the whole world. 607 00:28:25,580 --> 00:28:28,660 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 608 00:28:28,660 --> 00:28:30,460 You know why Eve was forsaken? 609 00:28:31,340 --> 00:28:33,820 So that we could be forgiven. 610 00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:35,740 So that we could be accepted. 611 00:28:35,740 --> 00:28:37,220 And he has brought peace. 612 00:28:37,220 --> 00:28:38,900 Go to, real quick, this is in the notes. 613 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:40,020 Go to Romans real quick. 614 00:28:40,020 --> 00:28:40,860 Romans. 615 00:28:50,660 --> 00:28:52,700 Chapter number five, Romans five. 616 00:29:00,820 --> 00:29:02,940 Therefore being justified, this is verse one. 617 00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:04,820 Therefore being justified by faith. 618 00:29:04,820 --> 00:29:08,300 We have peace with God. 619 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:10,180 Why do we need peace with God? 620 00:29:10,180 --> 00:29:12,820 Because in our sin we deserve the wrath of God. 621 00:29:14,060 --> 00:29:16,660 We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ 622 00:29:16,660 --> 00:29:20,700 by whom also we have access by faith 623 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:22,100 into this grace wherein we sin. 624 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:23,500 Not only did God take away my sin, 625 00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:26,500 now God gives me the chance to get to, 626 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:29,420 now Jesus gives me the chance to get to God. 627 00:29:29,420 --> 00:29:33,300 Romans five, eight, but God committed his love towards us 628 00:29:33,300 --> 00:29:34,940 in that while we were yet sinners, 629 00:29:34,940 --> 00:29:38,020 Christ died for us much more than being now justified 630 00:29:38,020 --> 00:29:39,140 by his blood. 631 00:29:39,140 --> 00:29:41,620 We shall be saved from wrath. 632 00:29:41,620 --> 00:29:42,460 Whose wrath? 633 00:29:42,460 --> 00:29:45,300 God's wrath through him, through Jesus. 634 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:46,980 For if when we were enemies, 635 00:29:46,980 --> 00:29:50,140 we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, 636 00:29:50,140 --> 00:29:53,180 much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 637 00:29:53,180 --> 00:29:56,460 And not only so, but we also joy in God 638 00:29:56,460 --> 00:29:59,380 through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received 639 00:29:59,380 --> 00:30:00,700 the atonement. 640 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:03,580 We are made at peace with God 641 00:30:03,580 --> 00:30:08,020 because of the king of peace, Jesus Christ. 642 00:30:08,020 --> 00:30:11,420 Melchizedek just points us to who that is. 643 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,860 Look at verse three talking about this Melchizedek. 644 00:30:15,860 --> 00:30:19,580 It says, without father, without mother, without descent, 645 00:30:19,580 --> 00:30:22,460 having neither beginning of days nor end of life, 646 00:30:22,460 --> 00:30:25,340 but made like unto the son of God, 647 00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:27,060 abideth, talking about Melchizedek, 648 00:30:27,060 --> 00:30:31,140 he abideth a priest continually. 649 00:30:31,140 --> 00:30:34,260 Now back in Hebrews 5.6, the Psalms is quoted, 650 00:30:34,260 --> 00:30:36,500 the Psalms quoted that says Christ is predicted 651 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:40,340 to be a priest after the order of Melchizedek. 652 00:30:40,340 --> 00:30:42,740 There is an Aaronic order of priesthood 653 00:30:42,740 --> 00:30:44,380 which was based on genealogy. 654 00:30:44,380 --> 00:30:46,700 Those who were priests in the Old Testament 655 00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:49,340 were of the Levitical line or of Aaron's line. 656 00:30:49,340 --> 00:30:51,180 Aaron was a part of the tribe of Levi. 657 00:30:51,180 --> 00:30:53,540 So these priests were of the tribe of Levi. 658 00:30:53,540 --> 00:30:57,380 In verse three of chapter seven, it's pointed out, 659 00:30:57,380 --> 00:31:00,460 what we just read, that Melchizedek's family line 660 00:31:00,460 --> 00:31:02,060 isn't even recorded. 661 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:05,540 So in the Aaronic line, that's how you became a priest 662 00:31:05,540 --> 00:31:07,420 is you had to be of the right family. 663 00:31:07,420 --> 00:31:11,100 Melchizedek, we don't even have any idea who his parents were. 664 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:13,740 We don't have any idea who his descendants were. 665 00:31:14,740 --> 00:31:19,740 God just has this guy show up, receive tithes from Abraham, 666 00:31:20,860 --> 00:31:22,820 bless Abraham, and then he's gone 667 00:31:22,820 --> 00:31:24,340 like a shadowy figure in the night 668 00:31:24,340 --> 00:31:26,740 and we have no idea what just happened. 669 00:31:26,740 --> 00:31:27,580 Are you with me? 670 00:31:29,380 --> 00:31:31,580 There are some that think that this means Melchizedek 671 00:31:31,580 --> 00:31:33,860 was literally out of nowhere. 672 00:31:33,860 --> 00:31:35,940 They think this text is saying that he literally was 673 00:31:35,940 --> 00:31:38,500 without father and without mother, birth or death. 674 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:39,780 Others say that it doesn't mean 675 00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:41,580 that he literally did not have those things 676 00:31:41,580 --> 00:31:44,620 but that those things are not recorded about him in scripture. 677 00:31:44,620 --> 00:31:47,260 The truth is this, the silence of God on the matter 678 00:31:47,260 --> 00:31:52,260 is the argument that the author of Hebrews is trying to make. 679 00:31:52,260 --> 00:31:55,460 He's saying that in the Aaronic order of priesthood, 680 00:31:55,460 --> 00:31:56,820 we have all kinds of information 681 00:31:56,820 --> 00:31:58,860 about genealogy, birth and death. 682 00:31:58,860 --> 00:32:01,260 But in the case of Melchizedek, 683 00:32:01,260 --> 00:32:05,020 the Bible is conspicuously silent on these matters. 684 00:32:05,020 --> 00:32:07,900 The author of Hebrews is saying that this is by design. 685 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:10,500 What evidence is there that this is the argument of the verse? 686 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:11,980 We'll look at the next phrase. 687 00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:14,660 He says, without father, without mother, without descent, 688 00:32:14,660 --> 00:32:16,580 having neither beginning of days nor end of life, 689 00:32:16,580 --> 00:32:19,540 but made like unto the Son of God, 690 00:32:19,540 --> 00:32:21,380 abideth a priest continually. 691 00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:23,260 The phrase I wanted you to get there is, 692 00:32:23,260 --> 00:32:26,700 but made like unto the Son of God. 693 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:30,820 That word translated made like unto 694 00:32:30,820 --> 00:32:35,820 is a word that is only used one time in the New Testament. 695 00:32:37,060 --> 00:32:37,980 It's the word, 696 00:32:37,980 --> 00:32:40,820 of a mo'o, 697 00:32:40,820 --> 00:32:43,420 it's only used there and no other time. 698 00:32:44,460 --> 00:32:45,660 Phaer defines it this way, 699 00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:49,060 to cause a model to pass off into the image or shape like it, 700 00:32:49,060 --> 00:32:52,180 to express itself in it, to copy, 701 00:32:52,180 --> 00:32:57,180 to produce a facsimile, to be made like or to render similar. 702 00:32:57,220 --> 00:32:58,860 It's an incredible word. 703 00:32:58,860 --> 00:33:01,820 What he's saying is that Melchizedek was placed by God 704 00:33:01,820 --> 00:33:05,420 in the world and is described the way he is in scripture 705 00:33:05,420 --> 00:33:08,460 to point us to the priesthood of Jesus. 706 00:33:08,460 --> 00:33:13,020 Notice that Jesus is not a facsimile of Melchizedek, 707 00:33:13,020 --> 00:33:17,940 but that Melchizedek is made like unto the Son of God. 708 00:33:17,940 --> 00:33:18,860 You get it. 709 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:21,820 Melchizedek is like Jesus. 710 00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:24,220 Jesus is like Melchizedek. 711 00:33:24,220 --> 00:33:26,260 Cause Jesus came first. 712 00:33:28,540 --> 00:33:30,900 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth 713 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:33,580 and he said, let us make man in our own image. 714 00:33:33,580 --> 00:33:36,300 Us, yeah. 715 00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:38,820 Christ was part of creation. 716 00:33:38,820 --> 00:33:40,980 He created it by him as all things 717 00:33:40,980 --> 00:33:43,220 and then him all things consist. 718 00:33:43,220 --> 00:33:46,180 Am I making you uneasy talking about Jesus? 719 00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:47,900 He created everything. 720 00:33:52,420 --> 00:33:55,740 So also notice that this priesthood is revealed as ongoing. 721 00:33:55,740 --> 00:33:58,900 It says here, he abideth a priest continually. 722 00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:01,020 So what have we learned about Melchizedek? 723 00:34:01,020 --> 00:34:03,300 About this priestly order of Melchizedek. 724 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:05,020 Number one, it's royal. 725 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:07,460 It's a royal priesthood. 726 00:34:09,820 --> 00:34:10,980 He is king. 727 00:34:10,980 --> 00:34:12,460 It's a peaceful priesthood. 728 00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:13,700 He's from Salem. 729 00:34:13,700 --> 00:34:16,180 It's a righteous priesthood. 730 00:34:16,180 --> 00:34:18,140 That's the meaning of Melchizedek. 731 00:34:18,140 --> 00:34:21,260 It's universal meaning it's not an Aaron line, 732 00:34:21,260 --> 00:34:23,980 an Aaron's line, so it's not just for the Jews. 733 00:34:23,980 --> 00:34:27,220 Jesus is a priest for not just Jews, but for, 734 00:34:27,220 --> 00:34:31,060 for everybody, all that believe on him. 735 00:34:31,060 --> 00:34:33,860 And here's what's so cool, it's unending. 736 00:34:33,860 --> 00:34:37,100 How long is he a priest? 737 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:38,020 Forever. 738 00:34:40,660 --> 00:34:43,380 We tend to experience things chronologically 739 00:34:43,380 --> 00:34:45,620 and therefore see that as the order of importance 740 00:34:45,620 --> 00:34:47,300 sometimes by default. 741 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:50,980 Marriage came first, then Christ and the church 742 00:34:50,980 --> 00:34:53,340 were revealed in terms of revelation. 743 00:34:53,340 --> 00:34:55,380 And so therefore God must have designed Christ 744 00:34:55,380 --> 00:34:58,060 and the church after marriage we would think. 745 00:34:58,060 --> 00:35:00,980 Yet we're told that God designed marriage 746 00:35:00,980 --> 00:35:03,660 which came first chronologically in the history 747 00:35:03,660 --> 00:35:07,180 of the world to point that what he was going to do 748 00:35:07,180 --> 00:35:11,620 in redemption in this previously unknown about church age. 749 00:35:11,620 --> 00:35:13,140 It's similar here. 750 00:35:13,140 --> 00:35:16,020 God has been working out his plan for redemption 751 00:35:16,020 --> 00:35:18,580 from eternity past. 752 00:35:18,580 --> 00:35:21,500 He introduced us through the scriptures. 753 00:35:22,660 --> 00:35:23,500 Let me say this again. 754 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:25,580 He introduced to us through the scriptures 755 00:35:25,580 --> 00:35:28,540 what happened in a valley and Abraham's time 756 00:35:28,540 --> 00:35:30,700 with a king that we don't know much about. 757 00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:32,980 So that thousands of years later he could point 758 00:35:32,980 --> 00:35:34,900 to this narrative in the New Testament 759 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:38,220 to help us understand the ministry of Jesus Christ himself 760 00:35:38,220 --> 00:35:40,740 which is royal and peaceful and righteous 761 00:35:40,740 --> 00:35:43,700 and universal and unending. 762 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:44,620 That's what he did. 763 00:35:44,620 --> 00:35:46,380 How big is God? 764 00:35:46,380 --> 00:35:47,340 God is big. 765 00:35:49,340 --> 00:35:51,420 This means that sometimes think about this. 766 00:35:51,420 --> 00:35:53,660 Think about what this means for your life. 767 00:35:53,660 --> 00:35:55,260 Think about this. 768 00:35:55,260 --> 00:35:58,220 Sometimes God uses us in ways 769 00:35:58,220 --> 00:36:00,380 that we'll never understand in this life. 770 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,820 Sometimes have you ever had something happen 771 00:36:03,820 --> 00:36:06,580 and you're like why did that just happen? 772 00:36:06,580 --> 00:36:07,420 Why did that happen? 773 00:36:07,420 --> 00:36:08,260 I have no idea. 774 00:36:08,260 --> 00:36:09,340 Okay. 775 00:36:09,340 --> 00:36:11,220 You know what? God's big enough to use us 776 00:36:11,220 --> 00:36:12,620 even when we don't know it. 777 00:36:14,060 --> 00:36:15,580 We may wonder what God, why does this happen? 778 00:36:15,580 --> 00:36:16,420 What's that all about? 779 00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:18,820 Let me tell you that God is under no obligation 780 00:36:18,820 --> 00:36:21,540 to explain every circumstance in our lives. 781 00:36:21,540 --> 00:36:24,300 Sometimes we think we understand why certain things happen 782 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:26,740 but then in the end we must trust God 783 00:36:26,740 --> 00:36:28,620 even when we don't understand. 784 00:36:28,620 --> 00:36:30,620 And so who is Melchizedek? 785 00:36:30,620 --> 00:36:33,340 Who was, what about his titles? 786 00:36:33,340 --> 00:36:36,620 Number three, what is the significance of Melchizedek's 787 00:36:36,620 --> 00:36:37,460 tithes? 788 00:36:37,460 --> 00:36:41,140 Tithes, they're really Abraham's tithes given to Melchizedek. 789 00:36:41,140 --> 00:36:42,300 Well, look at verse four. 790 00:36:43,740 --> 00:36:45,060 I got a hustle, here we go. 791 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:48,500 Now consider how great this man was, 792 00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:51,100 talking about Melchizedek, unto whom even the patriarch, 793 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:53,980 Abraham, gave the tenth of the spoils. 794 00:36:53,980 --> 00:36:57,020 Now you understand that to a Jewish person, 795 00:36:57,020 --> 00:36:59,380 Abraham is a big deal. 796 00:37:00,660 --> 00:37:02,940 There is no Jewish nation without Abraham. 797 00:37:04,260 --> 00:37:05,100 You get it? 798 00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:05,940 You get it? 799 00:37:07,380 --> 00:37:09,060 He is the father. 800 00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:13,020 He is the one who started the whole thing. 801 00:37:13,020 --> 00:37:14,220 I mean, obviously God did. 802 00:37:15,660 --> 00:37:20,660 So here the writer of Hebrews begins to compare Abraham 803 00:37:22,260 --> 00:37:24,980 and Melchizedek because they showed up in a valley one time 804 00:37:24,980 --> 00:37:25,980 talking to each other. 805 00:37:27,660 --> 00:37:32,260 Abraham here he says tithed, meaning he gave a tenth 806 00:37:32,260 --> 00:37:37,260 of the spoils of battle, this was before the law 807 00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:38,180 was ever given. 808 00:37:38,180 --> 00:37:40,340 There was no law written yet. 809 00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:42,900 Moses is the one that received the law from God. 810 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:45,740 And in that law it talks about tithing. 811 00:37:45,740 --> 00:37:48,300 But here this is before any of that happened. 812 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:50,580 And here Abraham gives a tenth of all the things 813 00:37:50,580 --> 00:37:53,100 that he got and gives it to Melchizedek. 814 00:37:54,380 --> 00:37:55,220 Why did that happen? 815 00:37:55,220 --> 00:37:56,340 God has a plan. 816 00:37:56,340 --> 00:37:59,940 Look, this gives us an idea as to the mindset of Abraham 817 00:37:59,940 --> 00:38:02,980 in regard to his perspective on Melchizedek. 818 00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:07,020 Abraham showed some submission in this act of giving 819 00:38:07,020 --> 00:38:10,540 to Melchizedek for the Jewish person hearing about, 820 00:38:10,540 --> 00:38:11,980 this about Abraham submitting, 821 00:38:11,980 --> 00:38:14,140 it would have been quite a shocking thing. 822 00:38:14,140 --> 00:38:16,780 Father Abraham was the person of promise. 823 00:38:16,780 --> 00:38:19,140 He's the person from which the whole nation comes. 824 00:38:19,140 --> 00:38:21,180 And here is this figure that's talked about 825 00:38:21,180 --> 00:38:23,620 in a few verses in Genesis, a little bit in Psalms. 826 00:38:23,620 --> 00:38:28,020 And then now in Hebrews, which is just not being talked about, 827 00:38:28,020 --> 00:38:31,140 Abraham was submitting to this guy, Melchizedek, 828 00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:32,260 and paying him tithes. 829 00:38:32,260 --> 00:38:33,980 And so when you see verse five, it says this, 830 00:38:33,980 --> 00:38:36,540 and verily they that are of the sons of Levi 831 00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:39,020 who received the office of the priesthood 832 00:38:39,020 --> 00:38:41,540 have a commandment to take tithes of the people 833 00:38:41,540 --> 00:38:44,180 according to the law that is of their brethren, 834 00:38:44,180 --> 00:38:45,940 though they come out of the loins of Abraham. 835 00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:49,660 What he's saying is, you guys are very familiar, 836 00:38:49,660 --> 00:38:52,740 Jewish people that I'm writing to, Hebrews, I'm writing to you, 837 00:38:52,740 --> 00:38:55,700 you guys understand because you've done it. 838 00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:59,900 You've paid tithes to priests who received tithes 839 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:02,260 because that's what the Old Testament law 840 00:39:02,260 --> 00:39:04,300 told them that they should do. 841 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:05,620 You've seen that happen. 842 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:09,300 And what he's saying is, those were people that, 843 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:11,820 those people that did that, you experienced that 844 00:39:11,820 --> 00:39:14,660 as a Jewish person, they were of Aaron's line. 845 00:39:14,660 --> 00:39:19,100 Aaron's line comes from Abraham's line, do you get it? 846 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:22,740 So there's a whole generation that comes from Abraham 847 00:39:22,740 --> 00:39:27,180 that received tithes, stay with me. 848 00:39:28,060 --> 00:39:29,900 Out of Abraham's descent comes a Levitical 849 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:31,980 Aaronic priesthood. 850 00:39:31,980 --> 00:39:33,860 They honored God by giving tithes 851 00:39:33,860 --> 00:39:35,300 through that Aaronic priesthood, 852 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,620 but now see the contrast in verse six, look at it. 853 00:39:38,620 --> 00:39:43,220 But he whose descent is not counted from them, 854 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:45,300 who's he talking about? 855 00:39:46,460 --> 00:39:48,180 He's talking about Melchizedek. 856 00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:51,860 You have Aaron's line starting with Abraham, 857 00:39:51,860 --> 00:39:54,580 going to Aaron, going through the Levitical line, 858 00:39:54,580 --> 00:39:56,140 receiving tithes. 859 00:39:56,140 --> 00:39:58,660 Then you have Melchizedek's line, 860 00:39:58,660 --> 00:40:00,980 and it's just Melchizedek, and later Melchizedek 861 00:40:00,980 --> 00:40:02,500 points to who? 862 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,420 Who's the other priest of the order of Melchizedek? 863 00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:06,820 Jesus. 864 00:40:06,820 --> 00:40:09,820 So he says, verse six, 865 00:40:09,820 --> 00:40:13,020 he whose descent is not counted from them, 866 00:40:13,020 --> 00:40:15,820 received tithes from Abraham. 867 00:40:15,820 --> 00:40:20,820 And he blessed him that had the promises. 868 00:40:23,140 --> 00:40:26,660 So who's greater, Melchizedek or Abraham? 869 00:40:29,220 --> 00:40:33,220 Melchizedek, that's what he's saying, do you get it? 870 00:40:33,220 --> 00:40:36,100 Here's how we know Melchizedek's better. 871 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:41,100 Melchizedek blessed him, and Abraham paid him. 872 00:40:42,420 --> 00:40:43,260 Do you get it? 873 00:40:43,260 --> 00:40:47,500 Melchizedek's priesthood does not come from Abraham, 874 00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:50,220 it comes from Aaron, he's not a descendant of Abraham. 875 00:40:50,220 --> 00:40:52,540 In essence, the Aaronic order 876 00:40:52,540 --> 00:40:55,580 tied to the order of Melchizedek. 877 00:40:55,580 --> 00:40:57,580 Then Melchizedek was the one who blessed Abraham. 878 00:40:57,580 --> 00:40:59,180 Abraham did not bless Melchizedek, 879 00:40:59,180 --> 00:41:01,740 Melchizedek blessed Abraham, 880 00:41:01,740 --> 00:41:04,580 described in verse six as him that had the promises. 881 00:41:04,580 --> 00:41:09,100 And again, this being blessed is a sign of submission. 882 00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:12,500 The case that the Holy Ghost is making here 883 00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:15,660 is that the Abrahamic, Aaronic priesthood 884 00:41:15,660 --> 00:41:18,900 is bowing in submission 885 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:23,900 to the kingly, royal, righteous priesthood of Jesus Christ. 886 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:28,500 Who's a better priest? 887 00:41:29,660 --> 00:41:31,860 Jesus or Aaron? 888 00:41:32,820 --> 00:41:33,660 Jesus. 889 00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:39,500 I'm worn out. 890 00:41:44,980 --> 00:41:48,260 Verse seven, and without all contradiction, 891 00:41:48,260 --> 00:41:52,060 the less is blessed of the better. 892 00:41:52,940 --> 00:41:54,700 Although many may have not recognized it, 893 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:56,460 the Holy Spirit is showing us 894 00:41:56,460 --> 00:41:59,860 that Abraham submit himself to Melchizedek, 895 00:41:59,860 --> 00:42:01,900 and in so doing show that he was greater 896 00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:04,340 than Abraham himself. 897 00:42:04,340 --> 00:42:06,060 This is both clear in the scripture 898 00:42:06,060 --> 00:42:08,660 and yet unacknowledged by most of Judaism 899 00:42:08,660 --> 00:42:11,540 as being something that pointed to Jesus Christ. 900 00:42:11,540 --> 00:42:13,700 When Abraham tied to Melchizedek, 901 00:42:13,700 --> 00:42:16,260 it was not just commending this practice of tithing. 902 00:42:17,220 --> 00:42:20,820 It was commending the priestly order of Melchizedek, 903 00:42:20,820 --> 00:42:25,100 which is the priestly order of Jesus Christ himself. 904 00:42:26,020 --> 00:42:27,860 And although it has been scoffed by detractors, 905 00:42:27,860 --> 00:42:29,660 there's something to the practice of submission 906 00:42:29,660 --> 00:42:31,260 and proportional giving. 907 00:42:31,260 --> 00:42:33,140 Even in this pre-law moment. 908 00:42:35,460 --> 00:42:37,940 In this moment, this was an act of submission. 909 00:42:37,940 --> 00:42:40,140 It was given to another person 910 00:42:40,140 --> 00:42:42,740 and didn't seem to be done out of sheer obligation. 911 00:42:42,740 --> 00:42:44,220 It was proportional to this giving. 912 00:42:44,220 --> 00:42:47,380 It was given and connected with blessing 913 00:42:47,380 --> 00:42:51,140 and his acknowledgement from one authority to another. 914 00:42:51,140 --> 00:42:52,860 He goes on real quick. 915 00:42:52,860 --> 00:42:57,580 Verse eight, and here men that die receive tithes. 916 00:42:57,580 --> 00:42:59,860 So what the writer of Hebrews is saying, 917 00:42:59,860 --> 00:43:01,940 there's still, as of the writing of Hebrews, 918 00:43:01,940 --> 00:43:04,220 the temple is still around. 919 00:43:04,220 --> 00:43:06,060 And there were still people called priests 920 00:43:06,060 --> 00:43:07,780 that were receiving tithes. 921 00:43:07,780 --> 00:43:10,940 So what he's saying is here in our time, 922 00:43:10,940 --> 00:43:14,580 men that die, do priests die? 923 00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:17,660 They receive tithes. 924 00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:20,300 But there, talking about Melchizedek, 925 00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:24,260 he received them of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. 926 00:43:24,260 --> 00:43:29,260 What he's saying is, back in that place, 927 00:43:30,020 --> 00:43:32,220 he's speaking of Melchizedek who received the tithes 928 00:43:32,220 --> 00:43:35,260 and he's pointing out something quite interesting. 929 00:43:35,260 --> 00:43:37,420 The Aaronic priests are dying 930 00:43:37,420 --> 00:43:40,580 while the order of Melchizedek never dies. 931 00:43:40,580 --> 00:43:42,900 He's pointing the fact that there is no birth or death 932 00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:44,140 recorded in Melchizedek. 933 00:43:44,140 --> 00:43:46,060 And this was a picture of the fact 934 00:43:46,060 --> 00:43:48,540 that this priesthood is a forever priesthood. 935 00:43:48,540 --> 00:43:51,940 And that's why, and the only verse I haven't read today 936 00:43:51,940 --> 00:43:55,580 that speaks of Melchizedek, in Psalm chapter 110, 937 00:43:55,580 --> 00:43:57,260 verse four, it says this, 938 00:43:57,260 --> 00:44:00,660 the Lord hath sworn and will not repent, 939 00:44:00,660 --> 00:44:04,940 thou art a priest forever, talking about Jesus, 940 00:44:04,940 --> 00:44:07,500 after the order of Melchizedek. 941 00:44:09,740 --> 00:44:10,580 Here we go. 942 00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:13,380 What is the point, Pastor Ben? 943 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:16,860 Jesus is greater. 944 00:44:17,660 --> 00:44:19,180 He's our great high priest. 945 00:44:19,180 --> 00:44:20,100 He says in verse nine, 946 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:22,900 and I say to, and as I may say so, 947 00:44:22,900 --> 00:44:25,460 Levi also received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham, 948 00:44:25,460 --> 00:44:27,020 for he was yet in the loins of his father 949 00:44:27,020 --> 00:44:29,180 and Melchizedek met him. 950 00:44:29,180 --> 00:44:30,540 What he's saying is, 951 00:44:32,420 --> 00:44:34,740 Abraham was the head of all those 952 00:44:34,740 --> 00:44:36,500 in the Aaronic priests of the order. 953 00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:39,700 He was the representative by being Father Abraham 954 00:44:39,700 --> 00:44:42,420 of all the priests when he paid tithes to Melchizedek. 955 00:44:42,420 --> 00:44:44,180 Again, why does this matter? 956 00:44:44,180 --> 00:44:47,020 The guy who shows up in just a few verses is the greater 957 00:44:47,020 --> 00:44:49,420 and Abraham and the Aaronic priests are the lesser. 958 00:44:49,420 --> 00:44:50,260 Why? 959 00:44:50,260 --> 00:44:51,260 Because in verse three it says, 960 00:44:51,260 --> 00:44:53,300 without father, without mother, without a sin, 961 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:55,500 having neither beginning, days, or end of life, 962 00:44:55,500 --> 00:45:00,500 but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. 963 00:45:02,740 --> 00:45:04,620 This particular verse does not necessarily mean 964 00:45:04,620 --> 00:45:07,420 that Melchizedek had no literal father or mother, 965 00:45:07,420 --> 00:45:10,380 but that it was definitively kept from our knowledge, 966 00:45:10,380 --> 00:45:12,220 not expressed at all in the passage, 967 00:45:12,220 --> 00:45:16,260 and in so doing to make one point. 968 00:45:16,260 --> 00:45:17,740 What is that point? 969 00:45:17,740 --> 00:45:22,740 Jesus is the full and final and greatest high priest 970 00:45:22,740 --> 00:45:25,660 and the only one you'll ever need. 971 00:45:25,660 --> 00:45:27,820 We don't need any other priests. 972 00:45:29,140 --> 00:45:31,460 We don't need any other priests. 973 00:45:31,460 --> 00:45:34,740 We don't need anybody else to go to God on our behalf 974 00:45:36,380 --> 00:45:38,220 for us to be able to get to God. 975 00:45:39,220 --> 00:45:40,460 Here's what's amazing, 976 00:45:40,460 --> 00:45:43,020 and I'm kind of stealing the thunder for later sermons, 977 00:45:43,020 --> 00:45:47,860 but Jesus was both the priest and the sacrifice. 978 00:45:51,860 --> 00:45:53,380 How cool is that? 979 00:45:55,820 --> 00:45:57,900 God orchestrated the life of a guy 980 00:45:57,900 --> 00:45:59,740 that we know three verses about 981 00:45:59,740 --> 00:46:01,220 so that we would understand, 982 00:46:01,220 --> 00:46:03,220 you don't need another high priest. 983 00:46:04,500 --> 00:46:06,500 Jesus isn't like those other high priests 984 00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:09,580 who died and sinned and needed sacrifice for them. 985 00:46:09,580 --> 00:46:11,820 We don't need those kind anymore 986 00:46:13,020 --> 00:46:15,300 because he kept the law I could not keep 987 00:46:15,300 --> 00:46:17,780 and he died to death, I deserve to die. 988 00:46:17,780 --> 00:46:20,660 And then he lives again and why he lives 989 00:46:20,660 --> 00:46:25,660 is not so that just because he lives now in heaven 990 00:46:25,660 --> 00:46:28,220 with God to make intercession for me 991 00:46:28,220 --> 00:46:31,820 so I could come to him now that I'm saved 992 00:46:31,820 --> 00:46:34,820 as one of his kids and I can go to God and say, 993 00:46:34,820 --> 00:46:37,340 God, this is what I'm doing. 994 00:46:37,340 --> 00:46:40,460 God, this is what I need. 995 00:46:41,780 --> 00:46:44,420 God, I need salvation. 996 00:46:46,220 --> 00:46:49,300 I sinned and you sent your son, 997 00:46:49,300 --> 00:46:51,500 you've orchestrated all of human history 998 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:53,380 so that I would know that you sent your son 999 00:46:53,380 --> 00:46:54,940 to die on the cross for me 1000 00:46:56,460 --> 00:46:59,500 to be buried in the rise again for my sins 1001 00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:00,580 and not just to end it there, 1002 00:47:00,580 --> 00:47:04,780 but then to now minister as a high priest on my behalf, 1003 00:47:04,780 --> 00:47:07,540 going to God for me. 1004 00:47:08,780 --> 00:47:12,100 And you know what, God's big enough to care about your kids. 1005 00:47:12,100 --> 00:47:14,140 He's big enough to care about your family. 1006 00:47:14,140 --> 00:47:16,260 He's big enough to care about your job. 1007 00:47:16,260 --> 00:47:20,060 He's big enough to care about your toe when you stub it. 1008 00:47:21,780 --> 00:47:24,980 He's big enough to forgive you of the cuss word you said 1009 00:47:24,980 --> 00:47:27,380 when you stubbed your toe that I just talked about. 1010 00:47:27,380 --> 00:47:29,860 Are you with me? 1011 00:47:29,860 --> 00:47:35,220 We don't need anything else, we got Jesus. 1012 00:47:35,220 --> 00:47:37,220 But here's my question, do you have Jesus? 1013 00:47:38,580 --> 00:47:40,340 Do you have Him? 1014 00:47:40,340 --> 00:47:43,340 Have you put your faith and trust in Him? 1015 00:47:44,380 --> 00:47:47,460 Because if you haven't, you don't have a great high priest. 1016 00:47:48,820 --> 00:47:52,660 You don't have someone going to God on your behalf. 1017 00:47:52,660 --> 00:47:53,740 He wants to. 1018 00:47:55,380 --> 00:47:56,700 The Bible says, he who comes to me, 1019 00:47:56,700 --> 00:47:58,420 I will know why he's cast out. 1020 00:47:58,420 --> 00:48:00,660 If you confess with your mouth to Lord Jesus 1021 00:48:00,660 --> 00:48:02,460 and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, 1022 00:48:02,460 --> 00:48:04,500 you will be saved for with the heart. 1023 00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:06,340 Man believes under righteousness 1024 00:48:06,340 --> 00:48:09,420 and with the mouth confessions made unto salvation. 1025 00:48:09,420 --> 00:48:13,980 Whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 1026 00:48:13,980 --> 00:48:17,220 And once you're saved, you're his kid. 1027 00:48:19,020 --> 00:48:20,780 You're rich. 1028 00:48:20,780 --> 00:48:22,820 You have everything you need in Christ. 1029 00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:26,780 Starting with this idea that Christ is now 1030 00:48:26,780 --> 00:48:28,780 your great high priest. 1031 00:48:29,460 --> 00:48:31,660 He died for your sins, he buried Rose again, 1032 00:48:31,660 --> 00:48:33,420 now he represents you to God. 1033 00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:38,900 He will be our priest forever unending 1034 00:48:38,900 --> 00:48:43,660 after the order of a righteous and royal 1035 00:48:43,660 --> 00:48:46,660 and unending and universal priesthood. 1036 00:48:48,860 --> 00:48:50,140 And all God's people said. 1037 00:48:50,140 --> 00:48:57,140 Would you bow your heads and close your eyes with me?