1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,220 Some church members' house have been dinner and that was really good and also very sometimes interesting. 2 00:00:06,220 --> 00:00:08,620 And that's kind of how that went. 3 00:00:08,620 --> 00:00:12,060 And so we had a lot of experience and had a lot of fun. 4 00:00:12,060 --> 00:00:20,900 One of the things that Pastor Bales would do with the interns is he would have them always take on some kind of construction or physical project too. 5 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:25,460 So we weren't just doing office work. Ministry is not just office work. Ministry is hard work. 6 00:00:25,460 --> 00:00:27,260 And he wanted us to learn that. 7 00:00:27,260 --> 00:00:30,700 And so he would have us do different things around the church. 8 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:33,420 When my dad was, he didn't really change over the years. 9 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:39,740 When my dad was an intern, my dad tells stories about having to use a chisel and a hammer to knock off old stucco. 10 00:00:39,740 --> 00:00:41,620 Who knows what stucco is? 11 00:00:41,620 --> 00:00:44,900 It's definitely not only a Florida thing, but it's definitely a Florida thing. 12 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:51,300 He had to knock off a whole side of the church with the stucco and that was like, he makes it way worse than it sounds. 13 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:54,220 But that was part of it. 14 00:00:54,220 --> 00:00:59,540 This is kind of how Pastor Bales dealt with me once summer. I was a summer intern and he said, Ben, come outside tomorrow. 15 00:00:59,540 --> 00:01:04,820 Put on some, you know, clothes. You can get dirty and you're coming to work and that's what we're going to do. 16 00:01:04,820 --> 00:01:11,260 So I came in and he took me to the back of the of the church building and he said, you know, see that doorway down there? 17 00:01:11,260 --> 00:01:14,140 I said, yeah, and you see all the way to here. 18 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:17,860 I want to put a sidewalk in here. 19 00:01:17,860 --> 00:01:23,940 And I said, OK, cool. 20 00:01:23,940 --> 00:01:26,340 How do you make a sidewalk? 21 00:01:26,340 --> 00:01:29,980 And he said, well, can there be can there be grass where the sidewalk goes? 22 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:31,980 I said, I guess not. No grass. 23 00:01:31,980 --> 00:01:38,980 There he goes. OK, so you got to get rid of the grass. 24 00:01:38,980 --> 00:01:39,780 How do you get rid of the grass? 25 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:44,260 Pastor, he goes, you probably need to shovel. 26 00:01:44,260 --> 00:01:49,380 You know, they make shovels that aren't gas powered shovels like. 27 00:01:49,380 --> 00:01:51,900 They're me powered, right? 28 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:56,500 So what do I do? You guys, I guess you need to shovel. So and so from that, so that's what I did. 29 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:58,620 And I learned something really important. 30 00:01:58,620 --> 00:02:03,860 I learned how to recruit teenagers. 31 00:02:03,860 --> 00:02:06,980 Hey, Patrick, you want to come go to lunch with me? 32 00:02:06,980 --> 00:02:09,820 Yeah. Yeah. What time? 33 00:02:09,820 --> 00:02:12,660 8 30. 34 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:15,100 8 30 in the morning. Yeah, just come and we'll go to lunch. 35 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:16,420 I got some things to do around here. 36 00:02:16,420 --> 00:02:22,220 So that's what I did. I recruited a bunch and that's when I also found out teenagers aren't much help. 37 00:02:22,220 --> 00:02:23,740 When you're making a sidewalk. 38 00:02:23,740 --> 00:02:27,660 So that was kind of fun. 39 00:02:27,660 --> 00:02:30,060 They'll come though for the promise of pizza pizza buffet. 40 00:02:30,060 --> 00:02:31,820 I just ruined some things for miles though. 41 00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:36,780 Anyway, eventually the sidewalk got done. 42 00:02:36,780 --> 00:02:39,900 And it wasn't exactly straight. 43 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:45,660 If you stand looking down that sidewalk, it kind of does this a little bit. 44 00:02:45,660 --> 00:02:48,180 Kind of more like a snake than it ought to be. 45 00:02:48,180 --> 00:02:58,300 And it wouldn't take you long to figure out that the person who put in the sidewalk was not really qualified or experienced to do so. 46 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:01,660 But I learned a lot from the process along with many other things. 47 00:03:01,660 --> 00:03:03,460 That's not the only thing he ever had me do. 48 00:03:03,460 --> 00:03:05,420 But it gives you the illustration. 49 00:03:05,420 --> 00:03:07,100 Luckily, this will sound funny. 50 00:03:07,100 --> 00:03:13,700 Luckily at the end of that summer, a hurricane came and knocked down some buildings and stuff. 51 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:18,260 And so now that sidewalk no longer exists. 52 00:03:18,260 --> 00:03:20,940 So there's no evidence of my lack of qualification. 53 00:03:20,940 --> 00:03:22,500 There's a building there now. 54 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,140 And so that works out. 55 00:03:25,140 --> 00:03:26,060 I learned a lot though. 56 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:33,220 Pastor Bales wanted us to know that ministry can be hard work and that we should not be above hard work no matter what title we held. 57 00:03:33,220 --> 00:03:35,420 That's what he taught us. 58 00:03:35,420 --> 00:03:40,620 In today's text, we learned though about the theme of qualifications. 59 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:48,500 The author continues a topic, the author of Hebrews, which is the Holy Spirit and whatever human author wrote it. 60 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:54,700 He began this topic about the high priesthood of Jesus Christ. 61 00:03:54,700 --> 00:04:01,620 We learned last week and we're going to continue to learn today that our great high priest is Jesus Christ. 62 00:04:01,620 --> 00:04:02,860 And that he is better. 63 00:04:02,860 --> 00:04:08,660 Jesus is greater than any of those Old Testament high priests. 64 00:04:08,660 --> 00:04:18,020 And that similarly like to last week, my aim in this message is to spur you on and encourage you to experience an incredible relationship to God. 65 00:04:18,020 --> 00:04:22,780 Through this incredible access that God gives us by his son in prayer. 66 00:04:22,780 --> 00:04:24,580 Did you go to God in prayer this week? 67 00:04:24,580 --> 00:04:26,060 A little different than you did last week. 68 00:04:26,060 --> 00:04:27,220 I hope you did. 69 00:04:27,220 --> 00:04:33,500 I hope you did go to God in prayer because Christ came because Christ came. 70 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:39,780 There were men who are priests that before Christ came, there are priests that mediated between men and God. 71 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:44,180 Jesus Christ though is greater than they are because he has a greater priesthood. 72 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:48,700 We can have an incredible relationship to God through Jesus Christ. 73 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:49,540 Why? 74 00:04:49,540 --> 00:04:50,500 Well, here's the big idea. 75 00:04:50,500 --> 00:05:01,300 Jesus Christ gives us incredible access to God because he has a greater for qualifications for the job than anyone that's ever existed. 76 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:10,340 Let's examine this text to see the earthly high priest compared to the and contrasted to our heavenly high priest, Jesus Christ. 77 00:05:10,340 --> 00:05:13,900 I'm trying to make the point of the passage the point of the message. 78 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:16,740 Would you pray for me and I'll pray for us as we look into this. 79 00:05:16,740 --> 00:05:18,260 God, I love you. 80 00:05:18,260 --> 00:05:20,620 I thank you so much for your word. 81 00:05:20,620 --> 00:05:29,700 I pray that in the way I communicate this, it would not just be dry, stuffy theology without practical implications, 82 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:46,860 but God that people would be stirred up in their hearts and in their lives to obedience that they would feel and experience the awesome opportunity that they have to have a relationship with you through Jesus Christ. 83 00:05:46,860 --> 00:05:53,180 I pray that you would not let this settle on us lightly, but that it would lay on us in a heavy way. 84 00:05:53,180 --> 00:06:00,340 God, we've heard a lot about revival in the last few weeks and we would always believe and always know that you want revival for us. 85 00:06:00,340 --> 00:06:05,100 You want repentance for us and it's going to come when we have our relationship with you, right? 86 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:07,300 And so I pray that you help us to do that today. 87 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:09,060 God, I love you and thank you for all you do. 88 00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:13,780 Would you meet with us today in Jesus' name, amen? 89 00:06:13,780 --> 00:06:17,620 I want you first to see the earthly high priest. 90 00:06:17,620 --> 00:06:21,340 He talks about this in chapter five verse one through four. 91 00:06:21,340 --> 00:06:22,780 I'm going to read the verses for you. 92 00:06:22,780 --> 00:06:25,060 We've already read them, but I just want you to think through them. 93 00:06:25,060 --> 00:06:44,420 Here's what it says, for every high priest taken from among men is in things pertaining to God that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way, 94 00:06:44,420 --> 00:06:50,740 for that he himself, talking about this earthly priest, these men also is compassed with infirmity. 95 00:06:50,740 --> 00:06:55,860 And by reason hereof he ought as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins. 96 00:06:55,860 --> 00:07:01,900 And no man take this honor for himself, but he that is called of God as was Aaron. 97 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:07,020 Now, in this text, we continue to talk about Christ as our high priest. 98 00:07:07,020 --> 00:07:09,020 I've already said that. 99 00:07:09,020 --> 00:07:10,700 These people had an understanding. 100 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:17,380 He's writing to Jewish believers and some Jewish, maybe unbelievers writing, but he's definitely writing to Jews. 101 00:07:17,380 --> 00:07:21,900 Okay, and Jews that understood who Christ was. 102 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:32,860 And, but they definitely understood also this Old Testament priesthood versus one through four focus on the Old Testament priesthood to compare their ministry with the ministry of Christ. 103 00:07:32,860 --> 00:07:33,820 And they see it. 104 00:07:33,820 --> 00:07:37,020 We see them compared and contrasted in three ways. 105 00:07:37,020 --> 00:07:40,500 First way we see is in their appointment, in their appointment. 106 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:42,500 Okay, you'll stick with me. 107 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:47,020 This will make a whole bunch of sense as we move towards the end. 108 00:07:47,020 --> 00:07:47,860 In their appointment. 109 00:07:47,860 --> 00:07:49,460 First, he talks about their appointment. 110 00:07:49,460 --> 00:07:50,620 How do they become priests? 111 00:07:50,620 --> 00:07:54,020 You can see that clearly in verses one and four. 112 00:07:54,020 --> 00:08:01,940 In verse one, it says that the high priest was taken among men and that he was ordained for men. 113 00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:10,700 The word ordain means to designate, to constitute or to convoy, to appoint or to make or to ordain or to set. 114 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:17,580 The idea is that the Old Testament high priest didn't make himself the high priest, he was called of God. 115 00:08:17,580 --> 00:08:28,620 Okay, so think of this position of the high priest, not as something that like, hey college person looking at colleges, what do you want to be? 116 00:08:28,620 --> 00:08:30,580 Here's one career track path. 117 00:08:30,580 --> 00:08:32,460 You could be a high priest. 118 00:08:32,460 --> 00:08:33,100 Well, what do you do? 119 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:34,460 I have to do all these other things. 120 00:08:34,460 --> 00:08:36,660 That's not how it happened. 121 00:08:36,660 --> 00:08:39,780 The high priest was ordained or called of God. 122 00:08:39,780 --> 00:08:41,940 It was a calling, not a career. 123 00:08:41,940 --> 00:08:43,900 Do you get it? 124 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:54,740 This is exactly what he says in verse four and no man, it says in verse four, no man taken this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God as was, then it says what? 125 00:08:54,740 --> 00:08:55,940 Aaron. 126 00:08:55,940 --> 00:09:00,460 Now in Exodus 28, we're told of how Aaron became the priest. 127 00:09:00,460 --> 00:09:03,660 Was Aaron a perfect person? 128 00:09:03,660 --> 00:09:09,740 So if you're new to church, if you're new to Bible study, in the Old Testament, there was a, 129 00:09:09,740 --> 00:09:19,260 man named Moses who was called to be an apostle and a prophet, someone who was sent and someone who was also a priest in some ways. 130 00:09:19,260 --> 00:09:24,540 Anyway, he was called to go and get his people out of Egypt and that's exactly what he did. 131 00:09:24,540 --> 00:09:29,220 And his brother was Aaron and Aaron was called to be the high priest. 132 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:30,900 Look at it up on the screen. 133 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:33,500 You can maybe write this down for later study. 134 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:36,180 Exodus 28, one through three says this. 135 00:09:36,180 --> 00:09:37,180 This is God talking. 136 00:09:37,180 --> 00:09:40,500 He says, and take thou unto the Aaron thy brother. 137 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:51,140 He's talk, God's talking to Moses and his sons with him for among the children, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 138 00:09:51,140 --> 00:09:53,420 Do you see that? 139 00:09:53,420 --> 00:10:00,580 Even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ishmael, Aaron's sons and now shot make holy garments for Aaron, 140 00:10:00,580 --> 00:10:02,700 thy brother for glory and for beauty. 141 00:10:02,700 --> 00:10:15,620 And that shall speak unto all that are wise hearted whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 142 00:10:15,620 --> 00:10:20,100 Aaron's work was a calling of God, not a career choice made by man. 143 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:21,220 He was appointed. 144 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:23,500 He was called of God. 145 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:26,180 His line after him then were priests as well. 146 00:10:26,180 --> 00:10:33,780 This is why we say that these were priests after the Aaronic order or all of the Aaronic line. 147 00:10:33,780 --> 00:10:35,100 Do you understand? 148 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:40,140 So God called Aaron and he said, Aaron, you and your sons are going to be part of that priesthood. 149 00:10:40,140 --> 00:10:42,420 You're going to do that priesthood. 150 00:10:42,420 --> 00:10:44,380 So they had that appointment. 151 00:10:44,380 --> 00:10:46,540 Then what was their assignment? 152 00:10:46,540 --> 00:10:47,140 Their assignment. 153 00:10:47,140 --> 00:10:49,220 What did the priest do? 154 00:10:49,220 --> 00:10:51,540 Back to verses one through three. 155 00:10:51,540 --> 00:10:55,060 It says, looking again at the at the text. 156 00:10:55,060 --> 00:10:59,140 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained four men. 157 00:10:59,140 --> 00:11:00,500 So what's their job? 158 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:12,140 It's four men and things pertaining to God that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 159 00:11:12,140 --> 00:11:14,260 Okay, that tells you what they did. 160 00:11:14,260 --> 00:11:18,140 The priests were centered in things pertaining to God. 161 00:11:18,140 --> 00:11:20,620 He went to God on behalf of the people. 162 00:11:20,620 --> 00:11:22,140 That was what he did. 163 00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:25,540 He represented men to God. 164 00:11:25,540 --> 00:11:27,740 Do you get it? 165 00:11:27,740 --> 00:11:28,620 How did he do that? 166 00:11:28,620 --> 00:11:34,660 Well, it's spelled out right there in the verse that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 167 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:45,140 In Leviticus one, one through seven, 38, the laws pertaining to sacrifices are laid out in the Old Testament. 168 00:11:45,140 --> 00:11:48,940 There were many kinds of offerings, many kinds of sacrifices. 169 00:11:48,940 --> 00:11:59,820 In our text where it talks about gifts, some have said that this seems to refer to grain offerings and sacrifices to the animal offerings or the burn offerings. 170 00:11:59,820 --> 00:12:07,300 For instance, here's part of the law around offering an animal as a sin offering, which is made as an offering for inadvertent sin. 171 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:12,340 So sin that we commit, this would have been for the Old Testament times, there were sacrifices. 172 00:12:12,340 --> 00:12:18,340 And what I'm going to read to you is about the kind of sacrifice that the priests would make on behalf of people. 173 00:12:18,340 --> 00:12:24,420 When they sinned and realized they sinned but didn't do it willfully or on purpose, it just happened in the course of things. 174 00:12:24,420 --> 00:12:27,740 So Leviticus four, verse 32, it says this. 175 00:12:27,740 --> 00:12:32,300 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish. 176 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:38,700 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. 177 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:41,220 And the priest, do you see it? 178 00:12:41,220 --> 00:12:52,500 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar. 179 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:58,620 And he shall take away all the fat thereof as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings. 180 00:12:58,620 --> 00:13:04,940 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar according to the offerings made by fire. 181 00:13:04,940 --> 00:13:07,300 What's the next three words? 182 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:13,500 On to the Lord and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he has committed. 183 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:22,820 And when they do that by faith, not because the priest, but because of God, it shall be what? 184 00:13:22,820 --> 00:13:24,500 Forgiving him. 185 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:25,860 What's the point? 186 00:13:25,860 --> 00:13:35,420 The point is that the priest's assignment was to go to God on behalf of the people, especially through offering sacrifices for sin to God. 187 00:13:35,420 --> 00:13:37,220 That happened up until Jesus' day. 188 00:13:37,220 --> 00:13:41,540 You know, the Bible says without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sins. 189 00:13:41,540 --> 00:13:47,220 And the priest, in a lot of what it looked like he did, he looked a lot like a butcher. 190 00:13:47,220 --> 00:13:55,340 Because every day he was sacrificing, all the time sacrificing animals as an offering for sin. 191 00:13:55,340 --> 00:13:56,340 We saw their appointment. 192 00:13:56,340 --> 00:13:57,740 We saw their assignment. 193 00:13:57,740 --> 00:13:59,460 What was their attitude? 194 00:13:59,460 --> 00:14:01,540 What was their attitude to be? 195 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:03,700 Look at verse two. 196 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:09,740 What motivated them when they were doing right, verse two of Hebrews chapter five. 197 00:14:09,740 --> 00:14:20,820 Who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 198 00:14:20,820 --> 00:14:23,900 Now they're still talking about the earthly priest. 199 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:31,340 Their attitude could and should be one of compassion for those who sinned and were coming to offer their sacrifice to God. 200 00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:32,540 Why? 201 00:14:32,540 --> 00:14:37,180 Well, their attitude was not to be haughty or prideful because of their calling. 202 00:14:37,180 --> 00:14:40,940 They were to be like, well, I'm the high priest. 203 00:14:40,940 --> 00:14:43,380 I'm better than all of you common folk. 204 00:14:43,380 --> 00:14:45,180 That was not it at all. 205 00:14:45,180 --> 00:14:47,700 What was their attitude supposed to be? 206 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:48,980 To have compassion. 207 00:14:48,980 --> 00:14:50,460 Why? 208 00:14:50,460 --> 00:14:54,140 Because each priest also is compassed, as it says, with infirmity. 209 00:14:54,140 --> 00:14:56,220 You know what that means? 210 00:14:56,220 --> 00:14:59,540 The priests were sinners too. 211 00:14:59,540 --> 00:15:01,700 The priests messed up. 212 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:08,100 The priests in Jesus' day were instrumental in killing Jesus. 213 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:14,460 It's killing the Messiah, sin. 214 00:15:14,460 --> 00:15:19,780 Peter and John looked at him and said, bad news guys, you're in the Bible. 215 00:15:19,780 --> 00:15:30,580 There's a prophecy that when the chief cornerstone comes, when this Messiah comes, that the builders are going to reject that stone. 216 00:15:30,580 --> 00:15:34,700 And the stone that the builder rejected will become the head of the corner. 217 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:40,460 Priests can mess up in huge, gigantic ways. 218 00:15:40,460 --> 00:15:44,500 They were sinful too, and because of their sin, they had to offer sacrifices for themselves 219 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:45,500 as well. 220 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:47,740 So you see in verse three, what does it say? 221 00:15:47,740 --> 00:15:52,060 And by a reason hereof, because he's compassed with infirmity, because he can sin, because 222 00:15:52,060 --> 00:16:00,260 a typical priest can mess up and sin, he ought as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins. 223 00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:08,740 In fact, if you go back into Leviticus four that I just referenced, where it talks about that sin offering, 224 00:16:08,740 --> 00:16:22,340 Leviticus four lays out, if you read the whole chapter, that there were different kinds of sacrifices that needed to be made, 225 00:16:22,340 --> 00:16:24,580 depending on the person. 226 00:16:24,580 --> 00:16:30,540 The high priest had to sacrifice a bull without blemish. 227 00:16:30,540 --> 00:16:36,100 And if you go down in Leviticus four and look at what each person had to do, they had to give the greatest sacrifice. 228 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:40,860 The most costly sacrifice had to be done by the priests. 229 00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:47,180 I think God was teaching them, hey, with great responsibility, with great stewardship comes great responsibility. 230 00:16:47,180 --> 00:16:49,180 I'm not trying to go Spiderman on you. 231 00:16:49,180 --> 00:16:50,780 Great power comes great. 232 00:16:50,780 --> 00:16:51,780 You don't get it. 233 00:16:51,780 --> 00:16:52,300 Miles got it. 234 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:58,260 Okay, the point is he's saying, listen, I hold you as a leader to a higher account. 235 00:16:58,260 --> 00:16:59,060 That's the point. 236 00:16:59,060 --> 00:17:00,780 You get it. 237 00:17:00,780 --> 00:17:06,900 So the high priest had to offer a bull without blemish for that same kind of sacrifice. 238 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:14,660 The congregation, a bull without blemish, the ruler, a goat without blemish, the commoner, a female lamb without blemish. 239 00:17:14,660 --> 00:17:19,900 In cases of poverty, two turtledoves or two young pigeons could be substituted. 240 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:24,420 In the case of extreme poverty, fine flour could be substituted. 241 00:17:24,420 --> 00:17:29,580 In this case, the sacrifice for priests was greater than the sacrifice for the regular person. 242 00:17:29,580 --> 00:17:33,100 They were held to a higher standard because of their ministry. 243 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:44,420 The attitude of these priests, therefore, was supposed to be compassion, repentance, as they represented the people to God. 244 00:17:44,420 --> 00:17:45,820 Now here's some good news. 245 00:17:45,820 --> 00:17:48,420 Are you guys ready? 246 00:17:48,420 --> 00:17:52,580 We can go to God ourselves. 247 00:17:52,580 --> 00:17:56,500 We call this the priesthood of the believer. 248 00:17:56,500 --> 00:18:03,740 You don't have to come to any kind of vocational religious person to get to God. 249 00:18:03,740 --> 00:18:07,100 If you know Christ as your savior, God's in you. 250 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:10,340 And you can go to God yourself. 251 00:18:10,340 --> 00:18:15,140 And the one who represents you in heaven is our great high priest. 252 00:18:15,140 --> 00:18:17,460 We don't have to go to any man to get to God. 253 00:18:17,460 --> 00:18:20,020 We can go right to God through Jesus. 254 00:18:20,020 --> 00:18:23,220 We should, however, go to God on behalf of men. 255 00:18:23,220 --> 00:18:29,300 We should talk to God about people and then talk to people about God. 256 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:30,780 We should. 257 00:18:30,780 --> 00:18:33,820 Who do you know that doesn't know Jesus? 258 00:18:33,820 --> 00:18:35,980 Are you praying for him? 259 00:18:35,980 --> 00:18:38,740 Are you interceding for them? 260 00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:39,860 I hope you are. 261 00:18:39,860 --> 00:18:42,620 If you don't have one, you get one. 262 00:18:42,620 --> 00:18:45,140 People need Christ. 263 00:18:45,140 --> 00:18:46,380 We're to share the gospel. 264 00:18:46,380 --> 00:18:50,420 It's important that our attitude never be that we do it as people who are better than 265 00:18:50,420 --> 00:18:52,900 our mission field. 266 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:53,900 We're not better. 267 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:56,340 We're just forgiven. 268 00:18:56,340 --> 00:19:00,620 We have been given much and so we will be required of much. 269 00:19:00,620 --> 00:19:04,180 This was the nature of the earthly, erotic priesthood. 270 00:19:04,180 --> 00:19:05,980 They were appointed by God. 271 00:19:05,980 --> 00:19:11,340 Their assignment was to go to God through sacrifices and gifts. 272 00:19:11,340 --> 00:19:13,900 Their attitude was, I'm not better than these people. 273 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:16,260 I just have a higher calling. 274 00:19:16,260 --> 00:19:22,660 I have to, with that high calling, represent God and do the right thing and even have sacrifice 275 00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:23,660 for myself. 276 00:19:23,660 --> 00:19:25,740 Now let's look at the heavenly high priest. 277 00:19:25,740 --> 00:19:28,620 I'm doing that because that's exactly what happens in the passage. 278 00:19:28,620 --> 00:19:33,660 We go from the earthly high priest to the heavenly high priest. 279 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:34,660 Look at verse five. 280 00:19:34,660 --> 00:19:35,660 Why am I saying that? 281 00:19:35,660 --> 00:19:42,460 So also Christ glorified, not himself, to be made high priest. 282 00:19:42,460 --> 00:19:45,460 What's the writer saying? 283 00:19:45,460 --> 00:19:48,180 That's similar to the Old Testament high priest. 284 00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:52,660 Our high priest didn't select himself for the office. 285 00:19:52,660 --> 00:19:54,420 Christ did not make himself a high priest. 286 00:19:54,420 --> 00:19:59,220 Jesus did not choose to appoint himself to be made a high priest. 287 00:19:59,220 --> 00:20:02,600 God the Father selected him for that task. 288 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,940 The words so also show that this is in comparison to what was just said about the Old Testament 289 00:20:06,940 --> 00:20:07,940 priest. 290 00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:11,060 He said so also Christ glorified, not himself to be made a high priest. 291 00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:17,140 But he that saith unto him, Thou art my son, today I have I begotten thee. 292 00:20:17,140 --> 00:20:21,340 When it says, but he said unto him, the text is referring to God the Father saying to God 293 00:20:21,340 --> 00:20:24,260 the Son, Thou art my son, today I begotten thee. 294 00:20:24,260 --> 00:20:25,260 That's found. 295 00:20:25,260 --> 00:20:27,860 It's a quotation from Psalm chapter two verse seven. 296 00:20:27,860 --> 00:20:31,580 It's been quoted already a couple of times in Hebrews. 297 00:20:31,580 --> 00:20:32,580 Psalm two seven. 298 00:20:32,580 --> 00:20:33,580 I will declare the decree. 299 00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:39,740 The Lord has said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. 300 00:20:39,740 --> 00:20:42,140 Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. 301 00:20:42,140 --> 00:20:46,180 The author's saying that there was a point in an eternity past where Christ was chosen 302 00:20:46,180 --> 00:20:48,460 by God for this ministry. 303 00:20:48,460 --> 00:20:53,180 He then refers to another very interesting quotation in Psalm to refer to this election. 304 00:20:53,180 --> 00:20:59,420 And Hebrews five six it says this, and he said also in another place, Thou art a priest, 305 00:20:59,420 --> 00:21:00,420 how long? 306 00:21:00,420 --> 00:21:03,940 Thou art a priest, how long? 307 00:21:03,940 --> 00:21:12,700 However, after the order of Melchizedek, who was Melchizedek? 308 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:17,340 What is the order of Melchizedek? 309 00:21:17,340 --> 00:21:21,540 And what does this have to do with Jesus being chosen by the Father to be our high priest? 310 00:21:21,540 --> 00:21:25,580 The Old Testament earthly high priest, what order were they from? 311 00:21:25,580 --> 00:21:27,860 Who was the person that they were following? 312 00:21:27,860 --> 00:21:28,860 Aaron. 313 00:21:28,860 --> 00:21:33,140 He's saying there's a different kind of priest that Jesus is a different kind of priest. 314 00:21:33,140 --> 00:21:37,180 He's a priest after the order of Melchizedek. 315 00:21:37,180 --> 00:21:40,180 Okay. 316 00:21:40,180 --> 00:21:41,820 What does this have to do with Jesus? 317 00:21:41,820 --> 00:21:47,300 Well the name would have been very familiar to Jews to which this book was written. 318 00:21:47,300 --> 00:21:56,580 Verses six here in Hebrews five quote Psalm 110 for Psalm 110 for keep up with me. 319 00:21:56,580 --> 00:21:57,580 This is good. 320 00:21:57,580 --> 00:22:00,780 I'm going to read you Psalm 110 one through four. 321 00:22:00,780 --> 00:22:01,820 It's a psalm of David. 322 00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:02,820 Here's what it says. 323 00:22:02,820 --> 00:22:04,820 It's up on the screen, I believe. 324 00:22:04,820 --> 00:22:06,740 The Lord said unto my Lord. 325 00:22:06,740 --> 00:22:09,700 Now that's interesting. 326 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:16,900 The Lord, God the Father said unto my Lord, Jesus, he's in the whole Bible. 327 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:17,900 He's in the whole Bible. 328 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:18,900 It's awesome. 329 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:19,900 Okay. 330 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:20,900 That was free. 331 00:22:20,900 --> 00:22:26,420 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 332 00:22:26,420 --> 00:22:31,700 Thou shalt send the rod of thy strength out of Zion rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 333 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:36,820 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power and the beauty of holiness from the 334 00:22:36,820 --> 00:22:39,900 womb of the morning thou hast to do of thy youth. 335 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:42,740 The Lord hath sworn and will not repent. 336 00:22:42,740 --> 00:22:49,100 Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 337 00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:53,420 This psalm is speaking about Jesus the Messiah. 338 00:22:53,420 --> 00:22:58,260 It's claiming that when Jesus comes, he will be a high priest, but he's not going to be 339 00:22:58,260 --> 00:23:01,420 a priest like an ironic priest. 340 00:23:01,420 --> 00:23:05,900 No the kind of priesthood that the Messiah would have been, the kind of one he would 341 00:23:05,900 --> 00:23:10,020 have would be forever. 342 00:23:10,020 --> 00:23:14,020 The ironic priesthood is coming to an end. 343 00:23:14,020 --> 00:23:16,660 It has come to an end. 344 00:23:16,660 --> 00:23:20,420 There will be priests in the tribulation. 345 00:23:20,420 --> 00:23:22,740 That's a whole nother conversation. 346 00:23:22,740 --> 00:23:25,260 But now there's a new order. 347 00:23:25,260 --> 00:23:29,220 Jesus would be a priest that would be the Messiah and he would have a priesthood that 348 00:23:29,220 --> 00:23:30,220 would be forever. 349 00:23:30,220 --> 00:23:32,180 Now that's an interesting statement. 350 00:23:32,180 --> 00:23:37,540 The priesthood would be after the order of Melchizedek who was introduced in the first 351 00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:39,100 book of the Bible. 352 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:43,140 Now there's a principle and interpretation that says when you see the first mention of 353 00:23:43,140 --> 00:23:48,060 something in Scripture, you tend to get a key into understanding that topic. 354 00:23:48,060 --> 00:23:52,180 This is part of the reason why Genesis is such an important book. 355 00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:57,060 It's a book of firsts and if you get the interpretation in Genesis wrong, it'll mess up a whole bunch 356 00:23:57,060 --> 00:24:01,300 of interpretation later so you got to get it right. 357 00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:08,340 Melchizedek is only referred to in Genesis, in Psalm where I've already read and then 358 00:24:08,340 --> 00:24:10,140 in Hebrews. 359 00:24:10,140 --> 00:24:14,140 He is dealt with more later in Hebrews so I won't tell you everything about him because 360 00:24:14,140 --> 00:24:17,740 there's going to be a whole sermon on him later. 361 00:24:17,740 --> 00:24:21,140 That being said, let's look at where he's first mentioned. 362 00:24:21,140 --> 00:24:29,420 In Genesis 14, we have an account of Abraham, Father Abraham, the beginning of the Jewish 363 00:24:29,420 --> 00:24:37,540 nation going to war with the kings of Sodom to rescue Baxilid and Lot, his nephew. 364 00:24:37,540 --> 00:24:42,580 On his way back in chapter 14, we get to verse 18 where he meets somebody. 365 00:24:42,580 --> 00:24:44,100 So look at Genesis 14, 18. 366 00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:45,100 You got it? 367 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:47,180 It's right there on the screen. 368 00:24:47,180 --> 00:24:52,500 And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine and he was the priest of the 369 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:53,500 Most High God. 370 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:57,540 Now that's interesting. 371 00:24:57,540 --> 00:24:58,780 Priest of the Most High God. 372 00:24:58,780 --> 00:25:05,260 And he blessed him and said, bless be Abraham of the Most High God, possessor of heaven 373 00:25:05,260 --> 00:25:10,980 and earth and bless be the Most High God which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. 374 00:25:10,980 --> 00:25:19,580 And he, talking about Abraham, gave tithes of all and it's to Melchizedek. 375 00:25:19,580 --> 00:25:22,860 Now what we learn about this man is really interesting. 376 00:25:22,860 --> 00:25:26,940 He holds Melchizedek two offices. 377 00:25:26,940 --> 00:25:31,140 In the Old Testament, there were three appointed offices. 378 00:25:31,140 --> 00:25:35,900 You have prophet, you have priest, and you have king. 379 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:38,100 You get it? 380 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:40,940 Prophet, priest, and king. 381 00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:47,900 Here is Melchizedek, someone that held two of those offices. 382 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:50,180 What was he called? 383 00:25:50,180 --> 00:26:02,260 In verse 18, and Melchizedek, king of Salem, and he was the priest of the Most High God. 384 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:08,140 He was a king and he was a priest. 385 00:26:08,140 --> 00:26:10,300 This never happened among the nation of Israel. 386 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:12,940 Those two offices were separated. 387 00:26:12,940 --> 00:26:18,180 Some have pointed to this being a problem when King Saul led. 388 00:26:18,180 --> 00:26:22,060 He made a sacrifice of the animals and God rejected him as the king. 389 00:26:22,060 --> 00:26:24,260 He was trying to usurp the role of the priest. 390 00:26:24,260 --> 00:26:26,420 God hadn't called him to that role. 391 00:26:26,420 --> 00:26:29,980 He wasn't a priest, he was king. 392 00:26:29,980 --> 00:26:35,260 Now when Christ comes, he is a priest after the order of Melchizedek, more than he is 393 00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:42,620 like Aaron in that he puts those offices together. 394 00:26:42,620 --> 00:26:49,140 Jesus is king and he's a great high priest. 395 00:26:49,140 --> 00:26:52,180 He has a royal priesthood. 396 00:26:52,180 --> 00:26:55,340 Do you get it? 397 00:26:55,340 --> 00:26:59,980 Jesus is king and he's priest. 398 00:26:59,980 --> 00:27:03,460 It's amazing. 399 00:27:03,460 --> 00:27:04,940 He is our kingly priest. 400 00:27:04,940 --> 00:27:08,140 He is our royal priest and his priest won't end. 401 00:27:08,140 --> 00:27:12,980 His priesthood will last forever. 402 00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:17,340 Every other priest being human dealt with aging and eventually death. 403 00:27:17,340 --> 00:27:20,500 They got old, they died, they left that office. 404 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:24,860 Jesus Christ is a priest forever and eternally. 405 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:25,860 He will never die. 406 00:27:25,860 --> 00:27:27,100 He will live forever. 407 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:31,260 He ever lives to make intercession for us. 408 00:27:31,260 --> 00:27:34,300 He is our heavenly high priest in his selection. 409 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:36,500 Isn't that good? 410 00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:39,020 Look at also his suffering. 411 00:27:39,020 --> 00:27:45,300 Verse 7, who in the days of his, speaking of Jesus, of his flesh, when he had offered 412 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:50,300 up prayers and supplication with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save 413 00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:54,660 him from death and was heard and that he feared. 414 00:27:54,660 --> 00:28:01,820 Here the writer takes us to dark ephsemini. 415 00:28:01,820 --> 00:28:05,600 This verse takes us to witness what Jesus suffered. 416 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,980 Look at Jesus the night they came to arrest him so they could kill him. 417 00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:14,180 He was in the garden in dark ephsemini. 418 00:28:14,180 --> 00:28:15,180 Look at him there. 419 00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:20,660 He's on his knees and on his face and his face is covered in blood. 420 00:28:20,660 --> 00:28:26,900 That Luke says, began to pour out of his pores as he sweats drops of blood. 421 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:28,500 His face is covered. 422 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:29,500 Look at him. 423 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:30,500 Listen to him. 424 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:31,500 Do you hear him? 425 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:38,100 He offered up prayers and supplication with strong crying and tears. 426 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:40,100 What was Jesus praying? 427 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:42,620 We know in the Gossels what he was praying. 428 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:48,420 He was saying, Lord, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. 429 00:28:48,420 --> 00:28:56,060 Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. 430 00:28:56,060 --> 00:28:57,340 What was he praying for in the garden? 431 00:28:57,340 --> 00:29:00,060 He was praying for us. 432 00:29:00,060 --> 00:29:04,060 We know that from John 17, John 15. 433 00:29:04,060 --> 00:29:06,900 What was he praying? 434 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:08,220 Verse 7 says what he was praying. 435 00:29:08,220 --> 00:29:13,260 Under him that was able to save him from death and was heard and that he feared. 436 00:29:13,260 --> 00:29:17,380 This does not mean Jesus was praying and trying to get out of death. 437 00:29:17,380 --> 00:29:19,840 The preposition from could be translated. 438 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:24,940 He was praying under him who was able to save him out of death. 439 00:29:24,940 --> 00:29:28,700 It says here, it says that he was heard. 440 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:33,900 He was saved and was heard and that he feared. 441 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:37,740 If he was praying to get out of dying on the cross, that prayer would not have been heard. 442 00:29:37,740 --> 00:29:40,900 But it says in verse 7 that his prayer was heard. 443 00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:42,780 How was his prayer heard? 444 00:29:42,780 --> 00:29:44,940 He was praying that he would be saved out of death. 445 00:29:44,940 --> 00:29:50,020 God, how was Jesus saved out of the death on the cross? 446 00:29:50,020 --> 00:29:53,020 God heard that prayer on resurrection morning three days later. 447 00:29:53,020 --> 00:29:56,140 Jesus Christ rose from the dead. 448 00:29:56,140 --> 00:30:00,220 And in verse 8 he takes us from Gethsemane to Calvary. 449 00:30:00,220 --> 00:30:01,220 Look at 8. 450 00:30:01,220 --> 00:30:07,620 Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. 451 00:30:07,620 --> 00:30:08,740 And being made perfect. 452 00:30:08,740 --> 00:30:10,060 That doesn't mean he wasn't perfect before. 453 00:30:10,060 --> 00:30:12,180 It's that he had a perfected obedience. 454 00:30:12,180 --> 00:30:18,140 He obeyed all the way to death, even death on a cross. 455 00:30:18,140 --> 00:30:24,100 And when he did that, when he died on the cross, listen, Jesus died for your sins on 456 00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:26,660 the cross. 457 00:30:26,660 --> 00:30:29,060 How was he a priest to God for us? 458 00:30:29,060 --> 00:30:32,740 He shed his own blood on our behalf. 459 00:30:32,740 --> 00:30:40,100 He became sin who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 460 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:42,780 He obeyed the word here. 461 00:30:42,780 --> 00:30:47,620 He says, look at verse 9, and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation 462 00:30:47,620 --> 00:30:48,980 on all of them that obey him. 463 00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:54,740 The word perfect here means, and here's the way tied into the introduction, he became 464 00:30:54,740 --> 00:30:58,140 fully qualified. 465 00:30:58,140 --> 00:30:59,900 Completely qualified why? 466 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:01,740 He didn't lack any moral perfection. 467 00:31:01,740 --> 00:31:06,340 It means that he gave himself on the cross of Calvary, and when he did, he was fully 468 00:31:06,340 --> 00:31:11,260 qualified to be our Savior and to be our high priest. 469 00:31:11,260 --> 00:31:14,580 What do they put above him? 470 00:31:14,580 --> 00:31:21,500 He's Christ's King of the, they did it ironically, but he was exactly that. 471 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:26,100 He was our Kingly priest. 472 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:34,460 That's why the Bible says in verse 9, he became the author of eternal salvation to them that 473 00:31:34,460 --> 00:31:37,820 obey him, to them that obey the gospel. 474 00:31:37,820 --> 00:31:42,740 Believe, trust, remain. 475 00:31:42,740 --> 00:31:51,380 The salvation God offers you is eternal, not temporary, not probationary. 476 00:31:51,380 --> 00:31:56,460 You don't get salvation and then if you get to hear salvation, if you can keep it, that's 477 00:31:56,460 --> 00:31:59,220 not how God gives salvation. 478 00:31:59,220 --> 00:32:00,860 It's eternal. 479 00:32:00,860 --> 00:32:05,100 When you get saved, eternal life starts now and lasts forever. 480 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:09,700 He doesn't represent you until you mess up and then stops representing you. 481 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:14,780 He doesn't go to God on your behalf unless you're not doing that great. 482 00:32:14,780 --> 00:32:18,140 He's your priest forever. 483 00:32:18,140 --> 00:32:19,260 He mediates for you. 484 00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:24,860 He ever lives to make intercession for us. 485 00:32:24,860 --> 00:32:28,220 God doesn't say to you to say, I'm going to see if you can hold out and live right. 486 00:32:28,220 --> 00:32:32,140 If you can, I'm going to let you be saved, but if you can, I'm going to make you lost 487 00:32:32,140 --> 00:32:33,140 again. 488 00:32:33,140 --> 00:32:34,140 No, no, no, no. 489 00:32:34,140 --> 00:32:36,100 We don't get a temporary or partial salvation. 490 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:43,660 We get an eternal salvation that lasts forever. 491 00:32:43,660 --> 00:32:47,820 Jesus is greater. 492 00:32:47,820 --> 00:32:51,860 So let's summarize what we've learned. 493 00:32:51,860 --> 00:32:54,900 Many preachers probably won't end the sermon like this, but I just thought this was so 494 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:55,900 cool. 495 00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:58,220 I put it up on the screen. 496 00:32:58,220 --> 00:33:01,980 Maybe this isn't the best way to end the sermon, but I want you to think through this. 497 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:06,740 Plus, I put in your bulletin, so you got a lot of writing to do. 498 00:33:06,740 --> 00:33:10,700 The Old Testament priesthood was earthly. 499 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:14,780 Our priests were men. 500 00:33:14,780 --> 00:33:18,100 Jesus Christ priesthood is heavenly. 501 00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:19,940 Where is he at? 502 00:33:19,940 --> 00:33:23,460 He's at the right hand of the Father. 503 00:33:23,460 --> 00:33:25,420 Look up in chapter four. 504 00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:26,700 We'll go through this real quick. 505 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:28,200 Hebrews four. 506 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:37,620 Look at verse 14, just a little bit ahead of you. 507 00:33:37,620 --> 00:33:42,380 Seeing then that we have a great high priest that has passed into the, where? 508 00:33:42,380 --> 00:33:43,380 Heavens. 509 00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:45,300 He's in the heavens. 510 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:47,100 That's where he's at. 511 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:49,460 The Old Testament priesthood was appointed. 512 00:33:49,460 --> 00:33:52,620 We saw that in verse one or verse four. 513 00:33:52,620 --> 00:33:53,620 God chose Aaron. 514 00:33:53,620 --> 00:33:57,340 God chose Aaron's line, and so those priests were appointed. 515 00:33:57,340 --> 00:33:59,420 Jesus Christ priesthood is also appointed. 516 00:33:59,420 --> 00:34:02,740 God chose Jesus to be our high priest. 517 00:34:02,740 --> 00:34:09,300 The Old Testament priesthood interceded on behalf of many, did it through sacrifice. 518 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:14,940 Jesus interceded on our behalf based on his own sacrifice. 519 00:34:14,940 --> 00:34:19,260 You guys are writing and you're not getting excited. 520 00:34:19,260 --> 00:34:22,300 He's the priest and he's the sacrifice. 521 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:24,900 That's pretty cool. 522 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:30,700 The Old Testament priesthood was an ironic priesthood. 523 00:34:30,700 --> 00:34:31,700 It ended. 524 00:34:31,700 --> 00:34:36,220 It ended for every priest because they died. 525 00:34:36,220 --> 00:34:41,460 Jesus Christ priesthood and there was no, there was no kings that were priests. 526 00:34:41,460 --> 00:34:45,180 In fact, the kings that tried to be priests got messed up in that. 527 00:34:45,180 --> 00:34:48,460 Jesus Christ is our kingly high priest. 528 00:34:48,460 --> 00:34:50,860 He's a priest forever. 529 00:34:50,860 --> 00:34:53,500 And the Old Testament priesthood is said that they should be gentle. 530 00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:54,660 That's what verse two talked about. 531 00:34:54,660 --> 00:34:55,860 They should be gentle. 532 00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:57,980 They should have compassion. 533 00:34:57,980 --> 00:35:00,180 Were the priests always gentle? 534 00:35:00,180 --> 00:35:01,180 No. 535 00:35:01,180 --> 00:35:06,700 Priests were instrumental in being part of who put Jesus to death. 536 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:08,940 Mankind can mess up. 537 00:35:08,940 --> 00:35:12,420 Anybody know any leaders that are messed up? 538 00:35:12,420 --> 00:35:16,380 If you know me, you know a leader that's messed up. 539 00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:17,620 Men can mess up. 540 00:35:17,620 --> 00:35:19,780 Jesus doesn't. 541 00:35:19,780 --> 00:35:21,580 He is their gentle high priest. 542 00:35:21,580 --> 00:35:24,940 He is not, what did it say back in verse 15 and 16? 543 00:35:24,940 --> 00:35:27,100 We already read it last week. 544 00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:31,140 We have not a higher priest which cannot be touched without, with the feelings of infernities, 545 00:35:31,140 --> 00:35:35,780 but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin. 546 00:35:35,780 --> 00:35:36,980 He knows what we've gone through. 547 00:35:36,980 --> 00:35:38,580 He's gentle. 548 00:35:38,580 --> 00:35:40,540 Those Old Testament priests, they were sinful. 549 00:35:40,540 --> 00:35:45,660 They had to sacrifice for themselves because they messed up all the time. 550 00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,260 Jesus Christ never sinned. 551 00:35:48,260 --> 00:35:54,300 He never had to ask for forgiveness because He never sinned. 552 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:56,500 He never sinned. 553 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:59,060 Jesus won't let you down. 554 00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:02,140 When Jesus makes a promise, He keeps it. 555 00:36:02,140 --> 00:36:05,980 When Jesus says, I'll give you eternal life, you have eternal life. 556 00:36:05,980 --> 00:36:07,900 He'll all mess up. 557 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:09,660 He's sinless. 558 00:36:09,660 --> 00:36:13,940 All the Old Testament priests could do is point to salvation. 559 00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:15,780 That's all they could do. 560 00:36:15,780 --> 00:36:18,900 And it was a good office. 561 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,860 They served their time. 562 00:36:21,860 --> 00:36:28,420 Forgiveness was mediated through that office because those people did what God told them 563 00:36:28,420 --> 00:36:30,740 to do and God gave atonement for sins. 564 00:36:30,740 --> 00:36:34,220 But you know what? 565 00:36:34,220 --> 00:36:37,620 They sacrificed one day and then they had to sacrifice another. 566 00:36:37,620 --> 00:36:39,220 And then the next day. 567 00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:40,780 And then the next day. 568 00:36:40,780 --> 00:36:41,780 And then the next day. 569 00:36:41,780 --> 00:36:46,620 Before they sacrificed for anybody else, they had to sacrifice for them. 570 00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:49,460 Always always always sacrificing, sacrificing. 571 00:36:49,460 --> 00:36:50,460 Why? 572 00:36:50,460 --> 00:36:51,460 Because sin never ends. 573 00:36:51,460 --> 00:36:52,460 You sinned yesterday? 574 00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:53,460 Did you sin today? 575 00:36:53,460 --> 00:36:54,460 You're going to sin tomorrow? 576 00:36:54,460 --> 00:36:55,460 Same in the Old Testament. 577 00:36:55,460 --> 00:36:56,460 That's what the law told us. 578 00:36:56,460 --> 00:36:57,460 The law says you can't keep the law. 579 00:36:57,460 --> 00:36:58,460 You can't keep the law. 580 00:36:58,460 --> 00:36:59,460 You mess up. 581 00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:05,180 All they could do is point to salvation. 582 00:37:05,180 --> 00:37:11,580 Those sacrifices, that perfect land that was slain was a pointing to exactly what John 583 00:37:11,580 --> 00:37:20,140 said about Jesus, behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. 584 00:37:20,140 --> 00:37:22,980 They could point to salvation. 585 00:37:22,980 --> 00:37:25,540 Jesus could provide it. 586 00:37:25,540 --> 00:37:33,420 He is the author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him. 587 00:37:33,420 --> 00:37:35,060 What does it mean to obey Him? 588 00:37:35,060 --> 00:37:37,300 You believe. 589 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:39,220 You believe. 590 00:37:39,220 --> 00:37:42,900 You believe. 591 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:45,620 Is Jesus a better high priest? 592 00:37:45,620 --> 00:37:46,620 He is. 593 00:37:46,620 --> 00:37:49,900 You know what that means? 594 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:54,980 That means you can be forgiven. 595 00:37:54,980 --> 00:37:58,780 You can be forgiven. 596 00:37:58,780 --> 00:38:05,700 Fundamentally in salvation, when you realize I'm a sinner and my sin separates me from 597 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:08,780 a holy God. 598 00:38:08,780 --> 00:38:17,500 If I get justice for my sin, I'm going to spend eternity separated from God in hell. 599 00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:21,140 When you realize that, you also need to realize that's the bad news, but the good news is 600 00:38:21,140 --> 00:38:25,460 that Jesus Christ came and lived a perfect life. 601 00:38:25,460 --> 00:38:27,460 He never sinned. 602 00:38:27,460 --> 00:38:31,660 So we never had to have sacrifice for his own sin because he didn't have any. 603 00:38:31,660 --> 00:38:36,780 Instead, on the cross, he became sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made right 604 00:38:36,780 --> 00:38:37,780 with God. 605 00:38:37,780 --> 00:38:40,020 We might be made the righteousness of God and him. 606 00:38:40,020 --> 00:38:44,500 So when we believe in Jesus and we call on Jesus to save us, the Bible says when we put 607 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:48,820 our faith and trust in him, he makes us his kids. 608 00:38:48,820 --> 00:38:50,220 He takes away our sin. 609 00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:53,340 He gives us Jesus' righteousness. 610 00:38:53,340 --> 00:38:57,060 And then Jesus in heaven, I'm not making this up. 611 00:38:57,060 --> 00:38:58,060 He really died. 612 00:38:58,060 --> 00:39:01,140 He really rose again. 613 00:39:01,140 --> 00:39:04,820 He now ever lives there to make intercession for you. 614 00:39:04,820 --> 00:39:08,620 And now once you get saved, you can go to God. 615 00:39:08,620 --> 00:39:10,580 God didn't just save you from your sin. 616 00:39:10,580 --> 00:39:12,820 God saved you for relationship. 617 00:39:12,820 --> 00:39:16,060 You can talk to God. 618 00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:18,060 He can speak to you through his word. 619 00:39:18,060 --> 00:39:20,060 He knows everything about you. 620 00:39:20,060 --> 00:39:23,700 He knows everything about you and he still loves you. 621 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:28,780 And he wants you to have a relationship with him. 622 00:39:28,780 --> 00:39:31,500 He is our great high priest. 623 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:32,500 He was appointed. 624 00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:34,500 He was selected. 625 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,260 He suffered. 626 00:39:37,260 --> 00:39:39,780 And now he ever lives to make intercession for us. 627 00:39:39,780 --> 00:40:08,780 Could you back hands and close your eyes with me?