This Is the Sum — David Cooper

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May the Lord Jesus bless each one of you and grant each one of you ears to hear and open hearts this morning. That's my prayer. Can we just stand on our feet and ask God's blessing on this next hour. Lord Jesus, I bring my request and I bring this congregation to you this morning.

Not us, Lord, but thy word.

Let thy word speak to every heart here this morning. I pray this morning that you would clear away every hindrance out of every heart, that you would unstop deaf ears, Lord. We're living in the new covenant.

Let thy spirit unstop men's ears. Let it not be said here that we are dull of hearing. Help us, Lord. Put away the distractions of business and life, other difficulties, and I pray that your word might speak.

Have thine own way, Spirit of God, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Thank you. You can be seated. Well, I am, uh, I wanted to welcome the guests that we have here this morning. See, we have a few special ones that I know.

Welcome, Lee, Tracy. God bless you. Good to see you all here.

Uh, I'm on my way to Canada. Tonight I'll be leaving and heading up there for a week of meetings, and they had asked me if I would speak for seven sessions on comparisons with the old and new covenant.

Very interesting subject for me, and at first I thought, well, I don't know if I'm really interested in that subject, but in preparation for it, I've been praying and asking God to open up inspiration to me, and I read through the book of Hebrews and was blessed by the, uh, the openness of the book to me.

And, uh, I would like here this morning, if I can, to comment on various portions of Hebrews throughout the book, and hopefully get a, a, a feel for the message, the general message of the book of Hebrews, because while we look at Hebrews and say, wow, 13 chapters, the author actually says, uh, for I have written a letter unto you in few words, and I would say he says true.

If you sit down and just read the book of Hebrews through, you'll see that what he has to say is not a long message. It's a very short message, actually. He just has a lot to say about it, and it might take you a couple hours, but, uh, in light of the subject, it's very little that is said here about the whole subject.

The Word of God and the Life of Faith

So, I'd like to begin at the beginning of Hebrews, if you'll turn in your Bible there. My prayer this morning is that the truth of the Word of God might touch the area of your life that, uh, that it pertains to this morning.

I'm, uh, I was blessed, Brother Jonah, by your, your opening there and how it pertains. Also, I was thinking about, in my own life, I wanted to make one comment about your message. You know, when Jesus says you are dead, you know, you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.

When I read those verses, there are areas of life that if you're dead in and you've been alive there before, you know it. Something about the Word of the Lord Jesus to say, I know you're, you have a reputation to be alive, but you're dead.

And, something about that just makes you want to examine your heart and, you know, I wonder if I am dead in this area, this area. I used to be more alive in that area. And that's what it did to me. I want God to touch every area of my heart.

I want to be alive through and through. Jesus said, I've come to give him life. And I want to be a tuning fork, too, Brother David, a real clear E. Actually, let me begin in the book of Deuteronomy. Let's turn there, Deuteronomy 4, 32.

Now, if you remember, Deuteronomy is the rehearsal of Moses. Am I right there? I think Deuteronomy is the book. Yes. Yeah, Deuteronomy is the rehearsal of Moses to the young ones that did not die in the wilderness.

And he's rehearsing to them everything that God has done. And he says in 4, 32, he says this, listen to these words. For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the days that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one side of heaven unto the other, whether there have been any such thing as this great thing is, or have been heard like it.

He says, go across the world, ask everyone you meet, have you ever heard? Have you ever heard? He says, go to heaven, one end of heaven all the way to the other if you're able to, and ask everywhere, angels, planets, whatever you might find out in heaven.

Ask them, has there ever been anything like it? Ask, did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard it, and live? God says, ask, ask everybody since the beginning of the world.

It's never happened, it's new, it's special. Or hath God assayed to go and take a nation from the midst of another nation? By temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by wars, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes.

Unto thee it was showed that thou mightest know that the Lord, he is God, there is none else beside him. So God himself says, it's never been done. What I did at Mount Sinai has never been done in all the universe.

You can go anywhere and ask, it's never been done. What he did there was unique when he made a covenant with a people to be his people. I think it's marvelous, maybe beyond our understanding, to think that the God of heaven would make a covenant with dust of earth.

When you think of that, the Bible says that God humbleth himself to look at the heavens. The things, you know, that we have the Hubble up there trying to scope out the extents of, God has to look down to see them because he's so high.

And yet he made a covenant with a group of people at Sinai. And God says, ask anywhere, no one will tell you, oh yeah, that's old. Somebody else did that. Nobody ever did that. No God ever did that. Alright, in the book of Hebrews, let's begin the second chapter.

It says there, in the first verse, it says, Therefore we ought to give more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. And I assume that what we're doing here this morning is just that.

We're going to rehearse some things and give heed to these things lest they slip. And the Bible says they can slip, therefore they must be able to slip. They can slip. These things that are precious to us can slip and we lose them somewhere.

Along life's road. So let's give more earnest heed lest they slip. Turn now to Hebrews 2 .10. Hebrews begins talking about Jesus as the center. I'm assuming that most of you have a general feel for the message of Hebrews.

But it's talking of Jesus and it says, For it became Him, pardon me, He's been talking about Jesus. This is speaking actually of the Father. For it became Him for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, that's the work of God, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

I like that. Look at the term that the Scripture gives to the Lord Jesus here. It says, It was becoming of God, He's the one for whom all things are made, and by whom all things are made. It was fitting for Him to make the captain of our salvation.

That's how Scripture refers to the Lord Jesus. He's like the captain of our salvation.

The chief of our salvation. Look at verse 218.

For in that He Himself hath suffered, He is able to succor them that are tempted. Does anybody know what the word succor means? What does succor mean? Comfort or relief? To come to someone's aid, to support?

It's like when someone is in need, you know, they're weak, they've come to the end of their ability, succor is to come under and lift them up, and aid them, and encourage them, and build them up, and help them along the way.

This says that Jesus knows what it feels like to suffer. He knows what it's like to be tempted by evil. And He's able to come to us when we're tempted, and we're suffering, and hold us up, because He's been there as a high priest.

Jesus the Great High Priest

Okay, chapter 4. Turn to chapter 4. Now, I'm moving pretty quickly. You'll notice I'm skipping large things. There could be a lot said, but these are just points of interest and things that stood out as I was going through this chapter.

This book, I mean. I have the wrong passage written here. Come boldly before the throne of grace. 4 .16, thank you. Yeah, in verse 4, starting in 14, that's what I meant. Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed through into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Therefore, let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

The thing I'd like to point out of this is, too, Jesus is put forward here as a great high priest, and we're going to talk about great high priests a little bit, but notice what His service is in the office of high priest.

What two things does it say His service are? When you come to the throne of the great high priest, He serves you two things, it says here. What's the first thing He serves you? Mercy. You know, priesthood is made for mercy.

If there was no mercy, there'd be no priesthood. Priesthood, by definition, is mercy. Why would you need a priest? Priesthood is mediation between two opposing parties. There has to be a merciful heart on one side or the other in order for there to be any mediation.

Priesthood is mediation, and the first part of priesthood is mercy. The second part of priesthood is grace. Grace is that kindness that reaches out and gives the help that's needed in the moment. And the Bible tells us here, let us come boldly unto the throne of grace.

Is that how you come to the throne of grace? Is that how you come to the throne of grace? Or do you feel like things in your life are hindering your welcome at the throne of grace? You think that the failures of your life are hindering you at the throne of grace.

You can't see mercy there. You can't see grace there. Well, hear the word of the Lord this morning. It will stand like a mountain towering far above the works of men. Its pages glow this morning with this message.

It says the throne of grace is a place where God is ready to give mercy and grace. There's a high priest sitting on that throne that is ready with mercy and grace. God help us to just hear the word of God and come that way.

The Scripture says boldly. But I find in my own life, in order to come boldly, then I have to let go everybody else. How can a soul hold on to bitterness towards someone else and then expect mercy and grace at a throne of mercy and grace?

It requires a yielding and a giving of mercy and grace, but a receiving of mercy and grace. It's the throne of the Lord Jesus. The high priest of our faith. In chapter 5, notice that it says every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men.

Every priest is ordained for men. That's what priesthood is all about. If men had no need, there'd be no ordination. But the priesthood is for men. Men need priests, and so men are ordained. In fact, the book of 1 Peter says that we are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, every one of us, serves to stand between God and man.

And we are ordained as a priest for men to God. A priest stands here, and man comes to him, and God comes to him, and the man stands between the two. Speaks God to the man, and speaks the man to God. That's priesthood.

And in the priesthood, there's mercy and grace. What if there were no mediation in the world? Think about it for a moment. What if there were no mediation? Two opposing parties could have no mediation.

What would it be like? What if there was no mediation between man and God, but God left His back turned to us, and we are backs to Him? What would the result be? There'd be no blessing in our hearts. There'd be no joy.

None of the things that you've experienced since childhood would be yours. It'd be dark. It'd be empty. Bitter. Angry. If there was no mediation. Mediation is important in our world. Notice here also it says, priests, this man who is ordained for man to God, 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.

That's a beautiful verse for us priests to lay hold of. Here's a description of human priesthood. Just like a priest can have compassion, Christians should also be able to have compassion. Why do we have compassion?

Because we also are compassed with infirmity. I know my weakness. When I look at a man who's in need in his life, I see my need. And the scripture says the result should be compassion. Just like I want mercy at the throne of grace, I want to give him mercy at the throne of grace.

Faith, Weakness, and the Need for a Mediator

If you've read the book of Hebrews, you'll find that this is all based upon faith. In our lives, we cannot live the life of faith. Have you tried? Have you ever tried just living the life of faith? You know, in your own power, in your own strength, okay, I'm going to be a Christian, and you go forward to be a Christian, and be faithful, and believe God, and you get into the world, and you get into the daily things of life, and you find yourself falling, and falling, and weakness, and doubt, and fear, and failure in your life.

Laboring to rest, which it talks about in Hebrews 4 there, means keeping faith alive, and avoiding those things that hinder faith. And welcoming those things that strengthen faith. The work of faith is to put myself in places where my faith will be built.

Like this morning, you're sitting here, and I hope you're sitting here, because you know that you have a need for your faith to be built this morning. And we don't go places where our faith is torn down.

We welcome those things that build our faith, and we stay away from those things that are going to break down our faith. But if you look at the whole spectrum of it, if you've been in Christ any length of time, you can't do it.

You can't do it. You need a high priest. You need a place you can go and get mercy for your failures. And get grace to help to walk the Christian life of faith. Don't you? Turn to Hebrews chapter 6. Jesus said, Without Me ye can do nothing.

And sometimes we write those words off as the words of Jesus there in Nazareth, or in the synagogue of Capernaum there. But I wonder if we could hear those words this morning, where He sits enthroned at the right hand of God the Father that He should make intercession for us.

And He says, Without Me you can do nothing. You can't even believe. You cannot hold on to faith without Me. If you're not looking to Me and coming to Me, we need the high priest. In Hebrews chapter 6, it is speaking of the high priesthood of Jesus Christ.

And look what it says. Starting in verse 14, it says, For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained a promise. For men verily swear by the greater. And that's the way oaths used to be. We don't know a lot about oaths, but in Jewish times, when a man really wanted to persuade another man that he meant what he was saying, he would give an oath.

You know? As the Lord liveth. We hear that in the Old Testament. As the Lord liveth. And that oath, when that came out of his mouth, that persuaded everyone. Well, there's nothing surer than that the Lord liveth, and so he must really mean what he's saying.

And the Scripture says, Men swear by the greater. Nobody swears by, you know, I wouldn't swear by my child, or, you know, my dog. You know, as sure as, you know, my dog lives. Or, you know, something like that.

I mean, men don't reach down to persuade men that they're serious. They put somebody up higher than them. They reach for someone higher. That's the purpose of the oath, is to verify my words based upon one greater than I.

Men swear by the greater. And an oath for confirmation is the end of all strife. When the man swears, that should be the end of it. You know, God is my witness is an oath that calls God's accountability on what I'm saying.

And it's the end of the strife. Now, listen to these verses. Verse 17, it says, Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, that's us, right? The heirs of promise. God was willing to more abundantly show unto the heirs of promise.

The immutability.

Of His counsel. That means unmuting. It does not mutate. It never changes. His counsel will never change. The counsel that I have for you will never change. And He says, I want you to know that. It says, Therefore God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, so He confirmed it by an oath.

So here's this conversation God is having with you, saying, I really want to give you a priesthood. I want to mediate between you and me. I really want you to approach me. I want to make things open between you and I.

And our hearts, right, are the ones that are saying, I don't think God loves me. How could God love one like me? Look at what I've done. Look at where I'm at. How could God love me? Has anybody ever been there?

And this conversation is going on between God and man. And God, in His heart, it says, is willing more abundantly to show to man, I do. I have a good intention for you. My heart is open towards you. I want mediation between you and me.

And so, in His desire to persuade us and settle the strife between our conscience and God, He confirms it by an oath. Turn to Psalm 110. And you will read that oath. Psalm 110 says, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. In the beauty of holiness from the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth.

The Lord hath sworn and will not repent. And who did He swear to? He turned to His Son, the Lord Jesus, and He said, Thou art a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. The Lord is at thy right hand.

So God, willing to more abundantly show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, He confirmed it by an oath. And He swore by Himself that by two immutable things... Now, I'm a little fuzzy here because I know the one immutable thing.

Now, immutable means it cannot change. It cannot mutate. There are things about God that cannot mutate. And one of those things is He cannot lie. T 'was true from eternity and will be true into eternity that God will never lie.

It is immutable. It is an immutable truth that God cannot lie. And He has now sworn and said, Thou art a priest forever. It will never change. That is an immutable word. There is a priesthood by the order of Melchizedek that will never change.

By two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Well, what is the strong consolation built upon the oath of God?

What is our strong consolation that God was so concerned that we have it that He would swear to it? What is that strong consolation? It's the priesthood of Jesus Christ. No matter where I am, no matter what I am in, no matter what I'm facing, no matter what circumstance, there is a throne open to me.

Every man, woman, and child has a priest sitting at the right hand of the Father that He might go to Him and receive mercy and grace to help in time of need. Does that comfort you in your sorrow? And it means everything.

It means anything. Because God has laid it out in front of us in the Scriptures that we might have strong consolation. Knowing our frame, knowing our conscience, knowing our fears and our doubts, knowing our inabilities to walk in faith, God has given us a throne and He that sits upon that throne to which He has sworn, Thou art a priest forever.

Sit here at my right hand and be a priest. And that priesthood will never, never end. Never. He's never going to die. He's never going to be changed for another one. You'll never have to get used to a new priest who has different values.

It will always be the same, Lord Jesus. God's swear by Himself which hope we have as the anchor of the soul. And if it's not the anchor of our soul this morning, let's make it the anchor of our soul. Because the Word of God says, I don't know what your anchor is.

There are a lot of anchors in the Christian life. Men hang their souls on different things. They hang their souls on being a preacher. They hang their souls on being able to cast out demons. They hang their souls on being able to do mighty works.

As Jesus said in Matthew chapter 7. But here the Scripture says, Hang your soul on one thing, and that is you have a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek forever. This high priest, the Lord Jesus, notice in chapter 7, well, let's look at verse 12.

It says, For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of law. Now here is a principle we need to understand about the old covenant and the new covenant. Has there been a change of priesthood since Aaron?

Yes. The Scripture says the change of priesthood was to Judah. Of which the law spoke nothing of priests. There were no priests out of Judah. The priesthood was by Aaron, and if any would go into the Holy of Holies, that was not of the lineage of Aaron, he should be put to death.

But it is very plain that Christ is out of the line of Judah. According to the order of Melchizedek. Because the Aaronic prophet, the Aaronic priesthood was according to the order of the Mosaic law. But this priest is made a priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Having no beginning, having no end, having no father and mother, having no genealogy, he appears out of nowhere, he goes into nowhere, he is never born, he never dies. The order of Melchizedek. And notice how great a man this Melchizedek is.

To whom the patriarch gave tithes. Now, and he blessed him. Melchizedek lifted up his voice upon Abraham and said, The Lord of Heaven bless thee. Now without a shadow of a doubt, the greater blesses the lesser.

Notice the greatness of this man, Melchizedek. And God says, according to this order, you are a priest. Not according to Aaron's order. And the Aaronic order is a high order. The highest one Earth has ever known.

Have you ever heard in all of Heaven and all of Earth that God would do such a thing to bring a nation out of another nation by great and mighty signs and make a man a priest before God? It has never been heard.

So much that King David said in the Psalms, he says when he wanted to eulogize the beauty of brotherhood, he says it is like the oil that was poured on Aaron's head when the first time in all of eternity there was a human man made priest for mankind.

That oil was of momentous importance in Heaven as it flowed down Aaron's beard and angels watched and for the first time in eternity a man was mediator between God and man. But that Aaronic order was not high enough to meet the need of mankind.

There was another order started according to the order of Melchizedek. And the reasoning here is that where there is a change of priesthood, there is by necessity a change of law. Now what is the law of the Aaronic priesthood?

It's the law of Sinai. The law of Mount Sinai. Mosaic law is the law of the Aaronic priesthood. What is the law of Melchizedek? The Melchizedek priesthood. It says here in chapter 7 verse 16, read this, it says, who is made not after the law, let's see, let's read 15, and it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment.

That means Mosaic law. He was not made priest by that carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. Do you know why Jesus Christ is priest today? Because he has the power of an endless. Think of that.

Think of endless. You know, Jesus, when he wanted to speak his authority in the book of Revelations, what did he say? He says, I was dead, and I am alive forevermore. And I have the keys of death and hell.

He is a priest because he has an endless life. It cannot end. Just like God cannot lie, Jesus cannot die. And by the power of the endless life, he has been seated at the right hand of God to be priest endlessly.

It's a change of priesthood. And the Scripture says, where there is a change of priesthood, there is by necessity a change of law. Therefore, under the priesthood of Jesus Christ, the law of Moses has no power.

Under the law of Jesus Christ, the law of Moses has no power. It is a different priesthood. To say this law comes over here under this administration is to mix priesthoods. It's not right. This one was weak.

It was a shadow. It was a foreshadowance of this priesthood. There are likenesses in this one to this one because this one was preparing and foreshadowing it. But the priesthood of Jesus Christ and his order has a new law.

It's the law of the new covenant in his blood. Notice in 719, For the law made nothing perfect. Read it. For the law made nothing. Hear the Word of God. The law made nothing perfect. We have a high priest.

And the work of our adversary is to separate us from our high priest. You know where perfection comes from? The right hand of God. Perfection sits there. He is enthroned in perfection. His whole life, watch his life.

Watch the way he works. Watch his decisions. Everything about him is perfect. Did ever a man speak like this man speaks? Everything he says is perfect. The multitudes marveled at his answers because every answer was perfect.

The way he responds to every situation is perfect. Oh, to be like him. We have a high priest. But it is the work of the devil, I am persuaded, to separate us from the high priest. That is his only hope because at his throne there is mercy and there is grace.

And I am persuaded that our adversary will separate your soul from that throne. That is his target. That is what he wants to. He wants to separate you from that throne by any means he can. By sin. By discouragement.

By bitterness. By unbelief. By pride. By covetousness. By care. By sorrow. By lust. By defilement. By deception. Any means he can, he will separate you from the throne of grace. But, brothers and sisters, the Word of God says that God hath sworn by Himself that you should make it an anchor for your soul that you have a high priest in Heaven at His right hand.

And that thereby in any situation you are facing, failure, weakness, need, any moment that you have in your life, there is a throne of grace and we should go there boldly, not based upon us, not based upon our worthiness, but based upon the Word of God, the oath of God, that He should make it a priest for us.

That we should go there and get mercy and grace in our time of need. Does that speak to your needs this morning? I mean, are you facing things and you feel like you have no place else to go? No place on Earth you can take it.

No place in Heaven you can take it because your failures seem to block you out of Heaven. Well, I'm telling you the Word of God says go boldly to the throne of grace, not proudly, but humbly and boldly.

Because God said, I have sworn and I will not repent. I will not repent. I have made a priest for you. Forever. I'd like to just stop right here if we could. Can we kneel for prayer? I know there are souls in this room that are struggling with things.

I know my adversary and your adversary separates us from the throne of grace. I invite you to go to the throne of grace this morning. Can we just take a moment of prayer and pray? If you have things where you feel like you're separated from God, you feel like you can't approach unto Him, hear the Word of God this morning.

Would you go with faith in your heart to the throne of grace and thank God for it and pour your petition out before Him? Father in heaven, we approach Thy throne by Thy Word this morning under the blood of the new covenant.

We are thankful for the privilege that we have to approach unto You this way. God, would You minister to every heart hearing me this morning, hearing Your Word, every open heart, would You minister to them in every need they have, in every difficulty that they're facing.

I pray that You'd grant us mercy, Lord. Mercy. Mercy from You and mercy in our hearts towards others. And that You'd grant us the grace we need in every one of our circumstances, God. Thank You, Lord Jesus, for sitting there.

Thank You for Your perfection stamped on an image deep in our hearts. Thank You, Lord. Okay, you may be seated. Verse 25, chapter 7 says,. Wherefore, He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing that He ever liveth to make intercession for them.

He is a priest by an endless life. I passed up a verse I wanted to note. In verse 22, look at this, it says,. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. You know what a surety is, Mose?

What's a surety? Yeah, but who's the down payment made by in a surety situation? Okay. God made our down payment. A surety is a banking term, right? Surety is when I can't pay. And so I bring someone bigger along who can pay.

And he says, I'll stand good for this debt. Now, the Bible warns us in the book of Proverbs that safe is the man that hates to go surety for a stranger. And if you went surety for your friend, you made a big mistake and should get out of it as soon as you can.

But in God's situation, He went surety for us. He looked at our situation and says, You have nothing to pay with. You poor man. You have no place to live. You don't have nothing to eat. You have nothing to live with.

You poor man. I've got all this wealth. I'll pay it. And He stood surety for us. And it says, Jesus is the surety of a new covenant. He stood surety. His blood paid the ransom that was owed by us. He has an unchangeable priesthood.

I wonder if we value the unchangeableness enough. Think about it. Someday, most Stolzfus will die. And someday, your fathers will die. And your mothers will die. You know, people that we really look to and really need and really cling to and depend on, those people are going to be taken out of our lives one day.

Rarely will we outgrow our parents unless by catastrophe. And we'll all see them pass out of our life. And the strength that's there, I won't be able to call my dad anymore and say, Dad, I'm dealing with a physics problem here.

Can you help me with a PISI on a tank? How does that work? Aren't the forces here the same as that? And we can talk through that thing. But someday, that phone will be quiet. And he'll be beyond my calling.