There is something about immortality that awakens something in the human heart.Is it that we were created for something more than 70/80 years?
We’ve searched for a fountain of youth and we spend billions of dollars each year to stave off the approach of death. There is something about an indestructible life that we yearn for.
Yesterday(Hebrews 7:1–10), we began to speak about a mysterious figure, the King of Salem called Melchizedek. And what we learn from Genesis 14 is that this King was also a Priest!
And now Jesus comes as both King and Priest forever. And Jesus is not a priest because of His physical or ancestral descent but, as the author of Hebrews puts it, “by the power of an indestructible life” (7:16).
The point here is that Jesus is not dependent in the same ways we are, but He is who He is because of who He is. There is no higher reason or order of things where Jesus received His power and personhood. He has existed for all eternity and will continue to do so.
The shocking reality is that Jesus uses this indestructible life for us and not against us.
So whatever it is you are facing today—loss, grief, illness, pain—know that He has gifted you in the gospel this indestructible life so that you too can share in the riches of everything that belongs to the Son.
Know this truth and may it be the ballast that holds you firm in the grip of grace.
”So if the priesthood of Levi, on which the law was based, could have achieved the perfection God intended, why did God need to establish a different priesthood, with a priest in the order of Melchizedek instead of the order of Levi and Aaron? And if the priesthood is changed, the law must also be changed to permit it. For the priest we are talking about belongs to a different tribe, whose members have never served at the altar as priests. What I mean is, our Lord came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses never mentioned priests coming from that tribe. This change has been made very clear since a different priest, who is like Melchizedek, has appeared. Jesus became a priest, not by meeting the physical requirement of belonging to the tribe of Levi, but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed. And the psalmist pointed this out when he prophesied, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” Yes, the old requirement about the priesthood was set aside because it was weak and useless. For the law never made anything perfect. But now we have confidence in a better hope, through which we draw near to God. This new system was established with a solemn oath. Aaron’s descendants became priests without such an oath, but there was an oath regarding Jesus. For God said to him, “The Lord has taken an oath and will not break his vow: ‘You are a priest forever.’” Because of this oath, Jesus is the one who guarantees this better covenant with God. There were many priests under the old system, for death prevented them from remaining in office. But because Jesus lives forever, his priesthood lasts forever. Therefore he is able, once and forever, to save those who come to God through him. He lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf. He is the kind of high priest we need because he is holy and blameless, unstained by sin. He has been set apart from sinners and has been given the highest place of honor in heaven. Unlike those other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices every day. They did this for their own sins first and then for the sins of the people. But Jesus did this once for all when he offered himself as the sacrifice for the people’s sins. The law appointed high priests who were limited by human weakness. But after the law was given, God appointed his Son with an oath, and his Son has been made the perfect High Priest forever.“
Hebrews 7:11-28 NLT
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