A Word in Season: The Intercessor (Hebrews 7:25)

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Our Lord Jesus Christ is a priest forever. He's a priest according to the order of Melchizedek, says the writer to the

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Hebrews. Unlike other priests who came and served and died, our

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Lord Jesus Christ abides forever. His is an unchangeable priesthood.

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He is in the presence of God and he will never cease to be in the presence of God. He does not come and go into God's presence occasionally.

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He is perpetually standing before him. And therefore, in Hebrews chapter 7 and verse 25, we are told that he is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

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Because of his unchangeable priesthood, our Lord Jesus is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him.

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Save to the furthest degree and over the most entire span of time.

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There is no circumstance, no situation, no temptation, no assault, no stumbling, no challenge that a child of God will ever meet where the

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Lord Jesus Christ is unable to save them. His perpetual priesthood means that he has this ongoing, this enduring, this comprehensive, this complete, this entirely sufficient ministry toward us.

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If we are coming to God through him, not by any other imagined or pretended mediator, not by any other means, not relying on any other person or any other work, then we have a saviour who is well able to deliver us under all circumstances, through all life, to the very end and to bring us at last into the presence of God Most High.

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This is so because he always lives to make intercession for us.

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There is no moment in which we do not have a high priest standing in the presence of God and pleading on our behalf.

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And consider, not only is he an unchanging high priest, but that means he is therefore unchanging in his perfections.

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There is perfect and infinite love and wisdom and grace and compassion and sympathy and mercy always characterising his heart and his working out of his love toward us.

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That means that Christ is perpetually looking upon us, looking upon us with that loving kindness and turning to God on our behalf, the

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God who has loved us in Christ Jesus, the God who has accepted us for his son's sake, the

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God who has provided such a high priest for us. And it is then through Christ as our high priest, through Christ as both the priest and the sacrifice, that all the mercies of the

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Lord God continue to flow out toward us. I think it was Robert Murray McChain who said that if he could hear

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Christ praying for him in the room next door that he would not fear any enemy. Well, Christ is not praying in the room next door.

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He's praying in the throne room on high. He's praying before the mercy seat.

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And though we cannot hear him, it does not for one moment mean that he is not praying.

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We do not need to hear his particular petitions because we know how he prays.

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We know that he is making intercession for everyone who has come to God through him.

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And that, brothers and sisters, is some of the sweetest confidence that we will ever know in this world.

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When we ourselves are feeling feeble, when we feel ourselves overwhelmed, when we feel ourselves distressed, when we know ourselves to be assaulted, when it seems like the church is being hammered down and trampled upon, when we are not sure which way to turn, when we wonder whether or not we shall make it to the end, we know that we have this unchangeable high priest, able to save to the uttermost all those who come to God through him because he always lives to make intercession for us.

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Christ prays for you, Christian. Christ pleads for you.

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Christ pleads all the merits of his finished work before a loving Father in order that you may not just not stumble and fall, but that you will be sustained, you will be carried, and you will be brought safely to the very end and into his glorious presence.