Hebrews 1:13-14

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So we were. We love what they're doing appreciate what they're doing and we're thankful that they support us as well. Tonight we're going to go back into Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 1 verses 13 and 14 and continue to look at the most quoted verse from the Old Testament in the New Testament and.

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The New Testament uses it to show different point many different points. To make many different points. A Lot of times we use. It's pointing back to Psalm 110 and and we read that last week. We can look at it again tonight but it points back to Psalm 110 and.

A.

Lot of times because Dan and I have talked so much about eschatology We pull out from that the the part of Psalm 110 where Jesus enemies are being made his footstool are being put underneath his feet and that last enemy is going to be death and and we even talked about last week how.

That is that is the theme that is happening now. The victory that Christ had on the cross is is being played out in in our time from the time of his ascension and seating at the right hand of the Father from then until now and on into the future that that's what is taking place the the outworking the results of Christ's victory on the cross and that is God Putting his enemies under the the feet of Christ.

And we. The last verse that we looked at Dan was was Revelation 19 Where where Jesus the Word of God?

Is.

Using the Word of God as a sword To rule and reign to to save and protect and preserve his people and also to bring justice Here on this earth and and working out using his word to work out Psalm 110 Bringing his enemies under his feet and also making enemies his friends as you pointed out last time.

Mm-hmm.

Yep, and and we only heard that a few minutes ago. Everyone else had to wait.

That's right, that's right it is kind of strange to it is kind of strange to record like this because we just talked about it but You will have have to hear it a week.

More than just a set of clothes. We just don't just didn't change. That's right.

So we're looking at Psalm 1. Psalm chapter. Uh, excuse me Hebrews. We're in Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 1 verses 13 and 14.

And.

At this point it will be a conversation that you and I had a week earlier Before the podcast, but I appreciate what you said Before the conversation that we had off-air where we were talking about why we wanted to look at Hebrews while we wanted to go to the book of Hebrews itself and.

And you made the comment that well studying all the scripture Going to Hebrews studying Hebrews will help give us a robust.

A.

Deeper understanding. More biblical type. Theology of Certain doctrines that we want to hold to from Scripture like eschatology. We if we go to other places besides just Revelation or The prophecies that we find in the Old Testament if we if we look through it, go ahead.

What was the newspaper?

Don't go there.

Don't go to the newspaper. Don't get your theology from the newspaper or your hermeneutics. Don't learn your human hermeneutics 101 from the newspaper. But yeah, I mean what you were saying was exactly right.

We go to go throughout all Scripture to get a deeper understanding of eschatology.

Go ahead right each one of the the Things That's brought up in Hebrews is pointing to Christ. So the priesthood the Old Testament sacrificial system. The sacrifices the Melchizedek which we're going to talk about quite a bit today.

The angels Mankind all of it if you if you look at all of it Individually as you're coming through the Old Testament you may Not pick up on what it's saying. I mean you should if you read it enough. You should be able to pick up on it but Let's face it.

Not. Everybody is read the scripture that much. So it's nice to have Something that can kind of point that out and spell that out for you in Hebrews does just that. The each and every one of the the aspects of the Old Testament that's being revealed is pointing to an aspect of Christ.

It's forgiveness of sins or his deity. It's all pointing to him. So if you if you learn to see those things in the Old Testament as you're reading it. Then when you come into the New Testament, you have a much better understanding of what's actually going on.

You remember the Old Testament types and shadows and that they're pointing to Christ. You remember the Old Testament language and the judgment and all those things and how they're pointing to Christ then when you hear Christ speak you can see how he's making the shift from the old covenant system to the new covenant system and As he's making that shift of how they're doing things.

You you can see the outworking of it moving on towards your eschatology. So your view of the end times know what's gonna happen in the future or what's gonna happen. From here until Christ returns or here until the end.

No.

What what happens. And so, you know that if you look all the way through the Old Testament scriptures and you you understand the trajectory of scripture going throughout. If you come to the end and you have something that doesn't fit that trajectory.

You're probably off base.

I.

Won't name any names. But y 'all know who I'm talking about.

Let me ask you this question before we jump in any further to looking at these verses. I'm thinking about the different Eschatological views.

You're.

Pre-meal pre-trib dispensation list. Your your a meal your post meal your your mid-trib. I mean just all of them and I look at this verse the verse that's quoted the most in the New Testament from the old and If you are a pre-tribulation rapture dispensation list and you come across this verse in Psalm 110 in Hebrews in Matthew all these other places that quote or allude to Psalm 110 where The Lord says to my Lord sit in my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.

How does a pre-tribulation rapture dispensation list? Understand this verse.

They believe that the that. They believe that that when Christ. It's changed some. There's been a lot of pushback on Dispensationalists because they used to say that Christ is in no way seated on the throne of David.

His kingdom is in no way come yet, and it will only come at the time of the Millennium. They've shifted on that some and I think it's a good step. I think they need to go a lot farther. It's a good step because they're recognizing that that there is a sense in which Christ Kingdom has begun.

There is a sense in which Christ is seated upon the throne of David now. They believe that they're waiting for the consummate reality of Christ actually coming down and physically seat sitting himself upon the throne in the temple in Jerusalem.

You know real sticks and stones earthy point to it on a map type stuff. Yeah whereas we understand that Sitting at the right hand of the father is sitting at the right hand of the father in heaven. That is the seat of David right.

He's really in reigning now that his kingdom will grow forever and ever.

Let me use their favorite word. He is literally sitting at the right hand of the father I.

Believe he's literally sitting up there, too. Yeah, what was the passage? We read just a little bit ago is Hebrews 10 wasn't it. Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10? I believe it kind of puts it it puts it. It kind of puts the dispensational argument to rest because there's not a sense in which and then it's fully coming later.

It says it quoting the same the same verse from. From Psalm 110. Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. But he having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time.

Which is quoted also in Hebrews 1. I says he sat down at the right hand of God. Sit at my right hand. No. From Psalm 110. Waiting from that time onward from the time that he sat down onward waiting present tense waiting.

Until his enemies be made a footstool for his feet. He's talking about it as a present reality. Yeah, so that's something it's not just a a Happening a little bit now, but much more later. It was at the time of his ascension that he sat down at the right hand of the father.

He said where am I going. I'm going to the father. Like what's he gonna Do. Just stand around like he was going up there to sit at his right hand. That's where he was going. He was going to share with the glory of God the glory that God doesn't share with anyone.

Which also speaks to Christ's deity. That's right. That's right. And and that's why I think this this verse that we're looking at tonight points points us to. More to the post-millennial view. Sure. I mean from a preacher dispensational view.

What has to happen because it is this verse speaks as if it's a continual thing. It's a continual process that that God is working out. But if if you hold to the dispensational view, then you the millennial kingdom hasn't started yet.

And it's gonna be a literal thousand years, but there's gonna be this thousand years where this is this golden age where there's. There's not gonna be death. The Jesus is gonna reign here on earth and it's.

Well, there's there's some.

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Iffiness to that, okay, some people believe that there will be death but not death for everyone because Remember that the time of the The beginning of the new heavens in the new earth Dispensationalist will also take that to be the millennial kingdom.

Mm-hmm. That's wrong. Um, and so what they'll say is that there's still some death that happens upon the earth, but it will be greatly Reduced. That if you died a hundred you'll be called young right stuff like that.

So the we'll say that there'll be some death. But they'll also say that those Saints who come back with Christ to rule around on the earth. They can't die again. So there'll be some immortal humans and some mortal humans, right?

I don't know how that works.

But.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, so maybe oh maybe I'm a little off and I don't want to misrepresent sure. I mean, there's so many different positions out there and I.

Had a class on it and I don't want to brag but I got a 98 and it was at a dispensational school. And so I don't know I could be off on some stuff. I really didn't understand everything but I really wanted to make sure that I Could at least represent the position well, right or say that I don't know right right which.

That could happen. Yeah. Well, I still think that this this passage. Points us more to the post-millennial view. Yeah.

Yeah.

So, um. Let's continue looking at some other other verses that point to or allude to some 110 sure.

Um, well, let's look at. So the psalm 110 verse 4, okay says the Lord has sworn and Will not change his mind You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Now.

Melchizedek is an interesting guy. Melchizedek is I Heard I heard one person say that that they thought that. Even in in the Lord of the Rings the books. There's a character called Tom Bombadil. He like comes in just randomly sings some little happy song and just like bleeds.

He just he comes on the scene. He does his thing. He's out and you just you just like reading through the page. Like what was that? Where did this come from? Who is this guy? He had no beginning no end.

You don't know where he came from don't know where he went and that's kind of the idea of Melchizedek. If you look look the quotation is coming from Hebrews 7 or.

That.

Part of psalm 110 is quoted in Hebrews 721. So we will go. Is it 721? Yes. We'll back up a little bit into.

Verse.

We'll have to go all the way back to verse 11 to catch the context. Gotcha. Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood who's talking about the contrast of priesthoods. Levitical priesthood being Aaron and his sons and you know, the whole Levite system that whole thing.

For on the basis of it the people received the law what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek and Not to be designated according according to the order of Aaron.

For when the priesthood is changed of necessity there takes place a change of law also. For the one concerning for the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no one has Officiated at the altar.

In other words The the Levites were supposed to be the ones who were taking care of the altar. This guy's coming from somewhere else. He's not a part of the Levites. So how in the world is he supposed to be there?

There has to be a change in law because if you go by the political priesthood law Melchizedek can't serve at the altar. So there has to be a change. There has to be something that's different or something different here.

Where are we at verse? 13 for the one concerning a note verse 14 for it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah a Tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. So Jesus physical Human lineage came from Judah.

They are not Levites. So they're not priests. And this is clearer still if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek Who has become such has become such not on the basis of law of physical requirement but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Indestructible life now think about that trauma Immortality here now that is incredible. It says this. For it is attested of him. The one who is who they're speaking of with that indestructible life you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek, which is the second half of Verse 4 now, let's look for the first half of verse 4 is also quoted a little bit a little bit down below.

For on the one hand there is a setting us out of the former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness for the law Made nothing perfect. On the other hand there is the bringing in of a better hope through which we draw near to God and in as much as it was not without I Was not without an oath.

For they indeed became priests without an oath, but the one with an oath through the one who said to him the Lord has sworn and Will not change his mind. You are a priest forever and we know the next line from psalm 110 says after the order of Melchizedek now, what is he talking about an indestructible life?

Genesis 14 and I'm sorry Robert. I'll let you talk here in a second. Keep going. Keep going. 14 or 17 says. Then after his return from the defeat of to Darlimer and The kings who were with him the king of Sodom went out to meet with him at the valley of Sheba that is the Kings Valley and Melchizedek king of Salem.

Salem meaning peace Brought out bread and wine now. He was a priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said blessed be Abram the God of God Most High Possessor of heaven and earth and blessed be God Most High who has delivered your enemies into your hand.

He gave him a tenth of all the king said to Abram give the Give the people to me and take the goods for yourself. And Abram said to the king of Sodom. I have sworn to the Lord the God Most High possessor of heaven and earth.

I will not take a thread of the sandal or a sandal thong or anything that is yours. So you see Melchizedek show up with bread and wine. Abraham gives him stuff the king. Because that blesses him and then he's gone like you don't hear about him anymore.

Where did he go? Where did he come from? It's like a Cotton Eye Joe song over here. You don't know you don't get that reference. Like you don't know where he came from you don't know where he went. He just kind of popped on the scene with bread and wine said Bless be God and blessed be you for who gave you that your enemies into your hand and boom.

He's gone. So he's one that that had no beginning has no end is Full of good things bread and wine pointing to Christ. I mean that's communion right there he gave him the Lord's Supper before the Lord's Supper was the Lord's Supper and then he blessed him and It's pointing to Christ as a picture of Melchizedek as a picture of Christ the one who has no beginning who has no end who has the bread and the wine who he gives freely to his people who he blesses and We give our we give our stuff to him, right?

Why. Because really it was it was Christ anyway. But it's amazing that he swore an oath. Was an oath by God. That established Christ as priests forever. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.

This is this was something that that God had decreed From eternity past and he's not gonna change his mind about it. It's the same thing in Psalm 2 where he says The nation's rage and God laughs at them he holds them in derision because they want to take over the world and he says I already have my king that I'm gonna set up and You guys have nothing to do with it and I'm going to set him up.

This guy is forever a king now here. He's forever a priest. He's also the prophet for Moses so you got prophet priest and king right there from Deuteronomy. So it's really interesting how he draws Melchizedek into this.

Right, I.

Was I was curious also about this this changing of the law. Which is which is a huge conversation, you know for us as Christians. How do we view the law? How do we understand it? How do we interpret it?

How do we apply it to our lives and here Hebrews is saying That there had to be a change in the law because Jesus was not of this this line that the law says he must come from. So I'm I'm thinking about this this law and What what changes it speaking of what was it talking about?

And I was just thinking and you can let me know if you think this connection is is going in the right direction but One of the things that that was mentioned in the podcast that we shall not name at this time Is a couple of them now, there's two now there's two now.

It's it's the. It's the newest one the newest podcast. He was speaking of how Jesus said that we will Worship in spirit and in truth or in the reality of the spirit. So so what has changed is.

We.

Understand the Old Testament. We apply the New Testament. We we live as New Testament Christians. According to the spirit and the reality of the spirit we under understand things spiritually. And so do you think that that may be.

The change that has occurred here in Hebrews is that it's no longer By the letter but by the spirit and that's how Jesus can now be considered a priest because it's it's the laws Changed into being understood spiritually.

Kind of okay. I think depending on how you're defining your terms. I think you're on the right track. Okay? Because what what he's the. The whole context what he's saying is there was a law that determined Who the priests were going to be and those priests were always Levites because that's the way that God handed it down.

This is the way the nation of Israel is going to work. Now he's saying that there's someone else who's coming in and he has a legitimate claim to a priesthood that God has established. But it's not based on The Levitical law it's based on a different law.

What law is that? I believe it's the law the eternal law of God. It's his decree. So he set up this is the way the nation of Israel will work and here's the Levitical priesthood. This is the way that that God is set up for his priest this is what the Levitical priesthood was pointing to it was the type and shadow the Melchizedekian priesthood is the fulfillment of it.

A Fellow one of my fellow RP's Denny Pruto wrote a book Public worship 101. It talks about know why you should sing the Psalms and not use instruments in worship and no. He's really good at that kind of stuff.

So read it. But it's not what he's getting out here in the first the first bit and talking about that verse. He says this now I just happen to have this. I was just reading through it and it just was relevant.

Said second Christ therefore also speaks of worship in spirit and truth in Verse 24. He says such worship is necessary. We must worship in spirit and truth. Spirit and truth is a. And this is a big word.

He'll define it here in a second. Handy-oddies. What is that? It's a figure of speech for referring to one thing using two nouns that are connected with the word and. So it's two nouns the word and in the middle and it means Something it's it's a one thing but you use two nouns to draw it together.

We interpret this figure of speech as truly spiritual worship. Such worship then is from the heart truly spiritual worship is of the Father. Through the Son by the power of the Spirit so it's a worship that that Recognizes the reality of the Godhead as God has revealed himself to be and it.

It doesn't necessarily rely upon physical ritual but on the reality of the Spirit. God who is spirit no father and Son and spirit, you know, God is spirit and does not have a body like men like the Children's Catechism says.

Mm-hmm. So I I'd forget why that was relevant, but if it was just run with it.

You were helping me define my terms so that the direction that I was going would be relevant. I think it was.

And if not, somebody will just get confused of what we just talked about and have fun with it. Anyway.

What in the world are they talking about?

We don't know. Alright no cuz Nick has also mentioned in chapter 5 Of Hebrews this same Section. I know I kind of jumped on but oh, yeah, we lost train of thought. So we're just gonna jump in somewhere else.

We'll lose that train of thought to it. It'd be great. Starting first bit of chapter 5 for every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men and things pertaining to God. In order that both gifts and sacrifices for sins he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided since he himself also is beset with weakness and Because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins as for the people so also for himself.

So he has to make sacrifices for the people and himself. He has to he can be sympathetic to their needs because hey He needs to have those sacrifices as well, which is also one of the reasons why we preachers and pastors Need the gospel.

We need to hear it frequently because we're sinners too and our people are not the only ones who need to hear the gospel. That's something that we need to remember a lot. Especially those of us who speak along a lot.

It says this in verse 4 and no one who takes the honor to him and no one takes the honor to himself. But receives it when he is called by God. Even as Aaron was so you can't just be a priest because you want to be you've got to be called by God.

So also Christ did not glorify himself so as to become a high priest but he Who said to him? You are my son today. I have begotten you remember that was also quoted back in Hebrews 1. Just as he also says in another passage you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

So what's being said here is that Jesus was not just some other guy. He wasn't just someone who was out there. Trying to become a leader in taking this upon himself. God himself appointed him to the priesthood and I think that's where your change in law comes in because The Levitical priesthood would not allow somebody from Judah to be a priest.

Christ was from Judah and yet God very clearly said you are my son today. I've begotten. You claimed him as his son and then he said you were a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. So you were a priest forever and not like those Levitical priests you were going to be different you're gonna show up Eternal you're going to have bread and wine in your hand and blessings for your people which is Absolutely, beautiful.

Every time we take the Lord's Supper. He has bread and wine and blessings for his people or bread and grape juice. But we're working on that.

I'll take either one. Either one's fine with me for now. I'll take it. I'll take it while I get it. Let me we we have approached the end of our time. I just wanted to ask you one more question. There's quite a few other verses that we could look at but we'll end chapter 1 I with this question.

Chapter 1 verse 13 and 14 is is where we would have been at looking at Psalm 110 which is quoted here sit in my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool over your feet and then. Looking at 14 a little bit.

Yeah, are they not all ministering spirits? Speaking of the angels which Jesus is better than sent out to render service. For the sake of those who will inherit salvation. Do you think that What they are doing this this rendering of service is a part of pointing back to verse 13 which is pointing back to Psalm 110 part of their rendering of service is part of that process of Making your enemies a footstool putting them under your feet.

We see which we're going to get to next time chapter 2 that it was for. For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, so they they were. Indeed messengers is what is what their namesake is angels means messengers.

So they were messengers of the the Word of God and And so and then we learn in these videos. Last week will be last week. Now. We looked at Revelation chapter 19 then the tool or the weapon that God uses is His word to to render justice or or to save to make enemies his friends so he's while he's raining and while he's What the tool that he's using to put the enemies under his feet is the Word of God here on this work earth.

So do you think that The rendering of service that the that these angels these ministering spirits are doing is part of this putting enemies under the feet of Christ.

Yes, okay, but it. It's not as if they're like going rogue and just doing their own thing. Oh, yeah, they're doing it it says here. Set out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation.

So they're doing it at the command of the one who's giving them their command now the way that Hebrews puts it. It's kind of saying, you know it goes through proving the deity of Christ through passage after passage after passage and says.

But to which of the angels did he say? Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your seat. For your feet say are they not all ministering spirits set out to render service?

For.

Those who will inherit salvation. So they're they're doing work. But the real work was done by Christ on the cross. Now with that said. The angels were there to tell. To tell people hey, he's not here.

He's risen. The angels if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, and acts one were there. What are you staring at? He's not here. He went up there and he's coming back the same way that he he went. They're clearly angels and Hebrews itself says that We entertain angels the King James says unawares like we don't know that were that.

So angels are absolutely in Somehow some form and fashion doing work of seeing people save. It doesn't mean that you're doing the saving. But they're definitely behind the scenes doing what God asks of them toward that end.

Yeah.

And once again, and it's not without the Word of God clearly in verse 2 For if the Word of God spoken through angels, so it's not absent of the Word of God.

It's with the Word of God always right and that's why it's so dangerous. Because You do have those those good ministering spirits seeking Salvation for those who are going to be saved. You also have those fallen angels.

Who.

Don't they seek your destruction? They want to give you worldly pleasures and and things of the world and all the while they'll take them away from you at the drop of a hat and Watch you struggle and suffer and laugh all the while while you're on your way to hell.

They they want to see you deceived.

So.

It's a it can be it can be a scary thing to know that you you have hordes of demons Satan himself all coming for your soul but it's it's it's also very comforting knowing that not only that but you have Christ with his White horse who's riding with his his Robe dipped in the blood of his enemies who is coming with his saints who are the armies of heaven and angels in great hosts and armies of angels all serving to see the salvation of men and doing so because Christ came and died on the cross and laid in the grave and took sins away and Provided a means of salvation for folks.

So that way if if anyone is to turn from their sin and repent and believe in Christ They they find him to be that perfect perfect Savior. The the one who is coming out with with blood on his robe and a sword in his hand with armies behind him is Running not at you to kill you but running past you to defeat your enemies because that is what he's done upon the cross.

So that's that's why we preach the gospel because we want people to know that God who saves his people from their sin. Not just from the consequences of it or from the sin itself that you don't have to sin anymore.

That one day if you can't break free of us of a sin if you repent and you turn from it. You keep on turning from it. You plead the God to take it away from you that if no other Time God will take it away from you at death and you won't have to deal with it anymore.

You will truly be saved from your sin and it will be gone forever.

Good stuff. Yeah, and and and this Word of God this gospel of God Says of a so that that is the power of God unto salvation. Yep. And so when when we are tempted to be fearful of man and and not speak speak the gospel or Afraid to speak the gospel afraid to offend or or don't know what to say We can speak with the authority of Christ or in other words speak with the authority of the Word of God.

Because it is the power of God unto salvation The the power of God to be defeating his enemies. And and we can we trust in it we can rely on it and and use it without fear because We have seen all throughout scripture that it's his word that he uses and He's going to continue to use and that that word is also Jesus Christ himself.

The last thing that I'll throw in here is when you're talking about the demons and How they laugh and they want to see people.

Go down.

It reminded me of when I was a young Christian and I first learned that I needed to look at words and understand. Understand them look them up see what they mean. So I could help so it would help me understand the passage more and This has to be one of the one of the first Words that I looked up.

And I can't even remember Where the passage is now the reference to it? But it describes Satan in the in the same way that you were talking about it described Satan as the pernicious one. And I was like what in the world does that mean and I looked it up so I'm gonna Understand how God was describing Satan and and what I learned then I still remember to this day which is which is odd because I have a horrible memory, but God graciously helped me remember as a young Christian Learning wanting to learn words to help understand the Word of God pernicious meaning that he Satan knows that he's going down and he's wanting to take others with him.