Hebrews 5 and Jesus the High Priest (Part 2)

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We are in the book of Hebrews on Sunday mornings, and I am just taking my time because I am determined to talk about Jesus every time
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I get up and speak. And so is the author of Hebrews. It is a perfect match.
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We have the same philosophy of ministry, or at least I�m attempting to have such a great philosophy of ministry.
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That�s my desire. That�s my goal. The writer of Hebrews, unsurprisingly, has a bunch of Bible quotes from his
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Bible, that is, the Hebrew Scriptures, the Tanakh, the Law and the Prophets, the
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Law, the Writings, the Prophets, from Genesis to 2
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Chronicles, if you�re Jewish, or from Genesis to Malachi, if you�re speaking
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English, and of course, the old joke, if you�re Italian, from Genesis to Malachi. It still sounds funny.
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See, we have some listeners that have never heard that, you know? They�ve never heard the Hittites, the Canaanites, the
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Cellulites, the Electrolytes, and the, I don�t know, what�s another �ite?
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Uh, Gergashites. That might be, they might be real, though. I just went to Vasquez Rocks in Agua Dulce, California, and that�s where they film the
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Gorn, James Kirk, Battle Royale, the
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Gorn, and you can pull that up on YouTube if you like. Cool Rocks.
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It�s pretty hot. I went there for Luke�s graduation. Luke, my son, graduated from the
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Master�s University early in May, and my daughter, Haley, graduated from Quinsigamond College.
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So, it�s exciting. Cost me a lot of money. Not the college, but the graduation.
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Have to pay for their own college. I gave them a little bit of money each, not very much, and then they had to figure out how to go to college on their own.
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But I did cosign the loans. The loans are theirs, but I did cosign. What�s you going to do?
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I spent all my money on them when they were a private Christian King James Only fundamentalist morality brethren school for junior high and elementary school for indoctrination.
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Education. Boy, that�s a hard one, isn�t it, when it comes to the education of your kids?
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As a pastor, I just want to make sure that we don�t have any fissures with homeschool, public school, private school.
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And oftentimes, it doesn�t always happen, but oftentimes the public school kids think the homeschool kids are weird and maybe ostracize them.
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The homeschool kids and their families don�t want to be tainted by public school kids because of the crazy stuff they�re taught.
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And churches can struggle. Private schooling, they usually are above the fray because they have more money.
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Personally, we�ve done all three. And looking back, there�s something to be said for keeping children out of this massive indoctrination of feminism, liberalism, moralism,
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LBGTQ stuff, abortion, reproductive rights.
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Can you imagine they call it reproductive rights? I have a right, after I�ve already been reproductive, to kill my offspring, to kill my baby.
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That�s crazy. When you see a little baby, everything in you, from gang members to Colombian warlords, they want to just hold that little baby and protect it.
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And yet, for the sake of self, for the sake of sexual freedom, people, both men and women, kill that little baby.
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Unbelievable. And whenever I think of that, I think of those who have had abortions and have been forgiven for that.
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That just tells you how great the atonement is, how great Jesus�s death is, that even infanticide can be forgiven.
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Even offering babies up to Molech can be forgiven. And we want to be kind to people and minister to them, but also warn people, this is serious.
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Well, back to the school issue. It�s hard, because lots of times
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I think, well, what if I�m not the best teacher with some of these subjects?
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So how do I do the homeschooling, and what about that, and what about you have five other little kids, and so how much can a mom really teach the oldest kid when the five little ones need to have their diapers changed, et cetera?
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But public schools are bad, and they�re only getting worse. It�s awful out there. And when
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I say indoctrination, that�s exactly what it is. And you can see, this latest group of Christians that have grown up in the middle of all that, they have a hard time saying things about homosexuality or saying things about women�s proper roles in the
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Bible. It�s very difficult for them, because they just live in this culture where what we are completely antithetical to what this world system would say.
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Wild days, but God is in control. We�ve been talking about Hebrews, and Hebrews, if you want to think of two words that describe
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Hebrews, high priest, that would probably be the best way to describe Hebrews. Yes, Jesus is better.
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Jesus is superior. Jesus is better than prophets, angels,
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Aaron, Moses, old covenant system, old covenant priests.
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He, Jesus, the great high priest, was both a sacrifice for sins and makes intercession for sinners and secures eternal salvation.
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High priest is what we�re going for. And it�s an odd book in the sense that it talks about high priestly work of Jesus more by far than other books.
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You don�t run into that. I mean, you�ll see it in John 17. He�s functioning as high priest here in this, what we call, the high priestly prayer.
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Yeah, that�s actually right. But over and over and over, priest, priest, priest.
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And what we�re talking about today, picking up from last time, he�s a high priest forever, forever, forever, forever.
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And therefore, your salvation is secure no matter what�s going on in your life, with trials, temptations, from the inside, from the outside.
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And Jesus is forever the high priest for his people. And Psalm 2 has just been quoted, and Psalm 110.
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Both psalms welded together for the point here that God�s high priest has to be designated by him,
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God the Father. Typically when I say God, I mean God the Father. Not all the time, but most of the time.
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And the other welded verse is from Psalm 110, both starting, at least with English, and they have the �you� in there in the original.
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You are, you are, designated by God, and they have to be, he, the high priest rather, has to be human.
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As also he says in another place, Hebrews 5 .6, you are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek, directly called by God to be the perfect high priest, because he has been the perfect son.
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That�s what�s been going on earlier, chapter 1 to about 4 .16, he�s the eternal son.
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And remember, what�s going on here, there are a variety of different priests in the Bible, and these
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Jews that this writer is writing to have probably forgotten that there�s a different kind of priesthood that�s not found in Mosaic law.
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That�s Melchizedekian. Jesus is not from Levi, he�s not Aaronic, and that�s what
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God said in Moses� Pentateuch, the five books of the law, he has to be.
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But there is one who�s different, and Jesus is of that order of priesthood, the
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Melchizedekian order, and we will talk more about that in chapter 7 of Hebrews.
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One writer said, �It is enough to point out here that Melchizedek was recognized as a priest of the
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Most High God centuries before the Levitical priesthood came into existence. The Levitical priesthood and the legal covenant with which it was connected had their place until the
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Son, who was to fulfill the Melchizedekian type, should come.� There is a universal priesthood, even if you want to say a non -Jewish priesthood, although Jesus, of course, was
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Jewish. �The immediate purpose of these two quotations given here from the
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Psalms is to corroborate the doctrine that Christ� high priestly office was not from himself but from God ,� one commentator said.
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Well, how does that fit into the book? Here�s how it fits in. Yeah, Jesus comes sauntering along and then he just makes himself the big shot.
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Hey, these Aaronic priests, try being a priest without having the right lineage, and you�re going to get leprosy is what you�re going to get.
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You�re going to die is what you�re going to get. You see how important all this is. Well, it�s old news by now, but you cannot read the book of Hebrews without seeing the links to the
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Old Testament. And so here�s what happens. What if you don�t like some of the stringent laws of the
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Old Testament? What if that Old Testament God, har har, makes you uncomfortable?
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What if some of the stories of the Old Testament make you uncomfortable, whether it�s Phinehas, whether it is
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Miriam, whether it is laws of sodomy or laws of, you know, what happened to Korah, what happened to children?
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What if you just, you know, you think that turns people off? Of course, we know there�s only one
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God, and He�s the same in the Old Testament and New Testament, one unchanging eternal
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God. But if you want to try to play to people who don�t like the Old Testament and you�re trying to evangelize them, then you might do what
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Andy Stanley does. At the end of a sermon he said not long ago, the gospel of Jesus, quote, �is completely detached from everything that came before.�
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What�s the gospel, Andy? Quote, �God has done something through the Jews for the world, but the �through the
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Jews� part of the story is over, and now something new and better and inclusive has come.�
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Want some more quotes? �Church leaders unhitch the church from the worldview, value system, and regulations of the
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Jewish Scriptures.� Peter James Paul elected to unhitch the
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Christian faith from their Jewish Scriptures, and my friends, we must as well. Yeah, you know, the
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Old Testament�s got so much stuff, people are turning away from the faith because of that Old Testament, therefore we better ditch it or unhitch it.
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Here�s a quote from Stanley. �Jesus� new covenant, His covenant with the nations,
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His covenant with you, His covenant with us, can stand on its own two nail -scarred resurrection feet.
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It does not need propping up by the Jewish Scriptures.� I mean, just think about the book of Hebrews for a second.
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This is crazy. This is the GORN, is what this is. This is the GORN principle. It�s liberating for people who need and understand grace, who need and understand forgiveness, and it�s liberating for people who find it virtually impossible to embrace a dynamic, the worldview, and the value system depicted in the story of ancient
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Israel. There was a typo here. I don�t know if he said it wrongly, or it was just written wrongly. But that�s the wrong concept.
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Let�s at least acknowledge that. Quote, �If you were raised on a version of Christianity that relied on the
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Bible as the foundation of faith, a version that was eventually dismantled by academia or the realities of life.�
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Ooh, like modern stuff. �Maybe it�s time for you to change your mind about Jesus.�
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And I guess I give one last quote. Somebody said, �This is my new piñata ,�
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Andy Stanley�s sermon. Piñata. Nope, we�re off to the next thing. �Maybe it�s time for you to consider the version of Christianity that relies on the event of the resurrection of Jesus as its foundation.
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If you gave up your faith because of something about or in the Bible, maybe you gave up unnecessarily.�
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Well, what do I have to say to that besides rubbish? What did
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Paul do? 1 Corinthians chapter 1. He knew people wanted signs, the Jews did. He knew people, the
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Greeks, wanted wisdom. And he said, �Well, I�m going to give you the opposite. I really don�t care what you want because I�m an ambassador, and I�m a steward, and I�m a herald, and I have news for you.�
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Actually, it�s good news. In spite of your rationale with the Old Testament, or you don�t like this, that, or the other about God, or all
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Christians are hypocrites, whatever you�ve made up in your mind to somehow buffet you against the claims of God in Scripture, I�ve got good news for you.
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I�m going to give you the truth because God saves people through the offense of the cross. And if you�re going to gut the
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Old Testament from the cross, you�re pretty much trying to gut the Old Testament even if you raise people up, cursed if you�re nailed to a tree.
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In Deuteronomy 21, I believe, maybe 23. Is it Deuteronomy 21, 23? That�s good to find out.
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Matter of fact, since it�s my show, we are going to actually look it up here on the radio live.
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This is live radio. Well, it can�t be 21, 23. Yeah. If a man has committed a crime punishable by death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God.
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You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God has given you for an inheritance. Deuteronomy 21, 22, and 23.
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That is chapter 21, verses 22 and 23. That�s an easy way to remember it, by the way. In year 2525, if man is still alive.
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Now, how do we do this? 21, 22, 23. Deuteronomy 21, verses 22 and 23.
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There you have it. If you actually go to Andy Stanley�s �church ,� you�ve got problems, in my opinion.
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Psalm 110 is quoted in Hebrews chapter 5, and it�s about Jesus the high priest, not of Levi, but of Melchizedek.
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Most people don�t know Psalm 118 very well, and therefore when it�s Passover time, you teach that.
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When it�s, you know, the triumphal entry, you teach that. I just go to Psalm 118 and teach it, because I�m trying to figure out every possible way
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I can to get to the Old Testament. And in the book of Hebrews, what do you have? Psalm 2,
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Psalm 110, Psalm 102, Psalm 8, Psalm 45.
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I�m just going off the top of my head, let alone other scriptures. They�re just there, because there�s this link for the
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Jews. Psalm 110, it was their go -to. You know, maybe like Psalm 23, ours was, you know, �The
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Lord is my shepherd ,� which is fine, I love the psalm. For the Jews, Psalm 110, it�s like a national anthem.
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It�s the psalm. Some people have called it like their pledge of allegiance, like our pledge of allegiance.
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And when you got a new king, you sang this song. Matter of fact, I just found a great song from Psalm 110, you know, psalmody, and it�s sung to the tune of �My faith has found a resting place.�
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If you go to Twitter, you can find that. This is the passage,
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Psalm 110, that�s very often quoted in the
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New Testament. And if you don�t understand this, then you�re going to have a hard time understanding those places it�s quoted.
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Oh, if we could have a great king like the king of Psalm 110, the celebration of this great king.
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And as S .O. Johnson says, the entire book of Hebrews revolves around an explication, an exposition, a teaching around the book of, around the chapter
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Psalm 110. This is his theme text. This is the text of the whole epistle.
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Another commentator said, �It is the text of the epistle of the Hebrews.� That�s why we want to sing it, and that�s why we want to get to know it.
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If this is fundamental to Hebrews, this is fundamental to our understanding of Jesus as prophet, king, and here, priest.
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I would go so far to say that if you understand Psalm 110, you can understand the entire Bible. And even thinking through the idea of priesthood, you don�t need a priest if you�re sinless, but you need a go -between, since God is so holy and you are so sinful along with me.
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I�m sure I�m more sinful than you are, but we have Adam�s sin imputed to us, and we have our own sin. Consequently, from Adam�s sin, we have a sin nature, and we sin because we�re sinners.
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There was an immediate imputation of Adam�s sin to our account, and consequently, we are sinful people.
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How can you stand in God�s holy presence as a sinful man or woman or child? This is the issue of all time.
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Salvation is needed, and you need a priest. You don�t need to have your marriage fixed or your low self -esteem boosted or your menial life given direction.
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You need to be saved from God Himself and His wrath, and here is a celebration psalm about the king, priest, who could do that very thing.
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The celebration of God and His promises for such a king. Once you read
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Psalm 110, you�re going to realize it can�t just be of David. This is looking forward to the
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Messiah and how great the Messiah is in this royal messianic psalm.
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Answering the question, how can Jesus be a priest? He�s from Judah. He�s from that tribe.
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There is a priest who�s not Levitical, and when you think about the father choosing the son, that�s the main thing about the priest.
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You need the priest that�s God�s chosen one. Of course, we�re chosen in Christ, but Jesus is the chosen one, and remember, that�s what was said of Jesus at the transfiguration.
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�My chosen one ,� going back to Isaiah and the suffering servant passages there.
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I�m going to give you a little outline so you can understand Psalm 110, but that�s going to be for next week, when we understand
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Psalm 110. I�m just getting ramped up. I haven�t even got to Psalm 110 yet, but I want to whet your whistle because this is the psalm that will get you through the night.
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This is the psalm that will make you think, �Oh, I don�t have to work for my salvation.
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I�m just going to trust in Jesus.� There could be nobody as great as Jesus in this psalm.
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Nobody is perfect. Nobody is wonderful. Nobody could do this, be the offering and the intercessor.
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He didn�t have to intercede for his own sins because he�s sinless. We are sinful.
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He is sinless. We are weak. He is powerful. We are selfish. He loves self -sacrificially, and it�s all the plan of a triune
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God, Yahweh the Father, Yahweh the Son, and Yahweh the Spirit, with this great plan of salvation designed to rescue sinners like us through the mediatorial work of Jesus, the
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High Priest, who�s better. He�s better than everything. He�s better than life. And in heaven, he will be the centerpiece, as people will be saying, �Worthy is the
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Lamb who was slain.� So my name is Mike Abendroth. This is No Compromise Radio Ministry. You can write me, info at nocompromiseradio .com.
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