March 17, 2019

Hebrews 7

In a court of law, you always want to be represented by the best lawyer you can find. You want somebody who knows the law and who can help you find justice. Hebrews 7 spells out what it means to every believer to have Jesus Christ as an advocate and our ultimate high priest before God. Join Pastor Jim as he unfolds the timeless truths and practical implications of this passage for all believers.

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Levitical Priesthood vs Jesus as High Priest

Levitical Priesthood

  • Access: 1 man, 1x/yr
  • Sinful themselves
  • Appointed by ancestry
  • Ineffectual, unable to perfect
  • Based on the law
  • Required many priests
  • Required many sacrifices
  • Temporary service
  • Offered animal sacrifices
  • External and ceremonial
  • Prototype & foreshadowing

 

Jesus as High Priest:

  • Full access for all believers
  • Sinless, sacrificed for others
  • Appointed by God’s oath
  • Saves completely
  • Based on grace
  • One great high priest
  • Once for all
  • Serves FOREVER
  • Offered Himself
  • Internal and personal
  • Fulfillment and reality

 

In the Bible priests had at least two primary roles: 

  1. Mediator, Intercessor, Advocate
  2. Offer sacrifices in atonement for sin

 

When Jesus is our great high priest we receive a…

  1. New identity
  2. New status before God
  3. New confidence in Christ
  4. New freedom
  5. New joy (Amazing! Huh?)

 

Christ’s indestructible life is the basis for the unquenchable hope we have in His uninterrupted high priestly intercession on our behalf.

Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
Hebrews 7:25

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
Galatians 5:1

“Before the throne of God above.
I have a strong, a perfect plea;
A great High Priest, whose Name is Love,
Who ever lives and pleads for me.
My name is graven on His hands,
My name is written on His heart.
I know that while with God He stands,
No tongue can bid me thence depart.
-Charitie Lees Bancroft (1841-1892)

“So often our deepest discouragements and disappointments are due to the fact that we are trying to become or make something else what only Jesus Christ can be for us.”
Tim Keller