The Person of Christ: His Offices : 2.His High Priesthood.

Questions for Research and Revision.

1. What is the definition of a PRIEST?
2. How does Hebrews 8:3 explain the ministry of a priest?
3. What does Christ’s Humanity and death have to do with His Priestly Ministry? Look at Hebrews 2 :14 - 16?
4. Compare Israel’s High Priest, the atonement day and the Blood carried into the Holy of Holies with the Work of Christ? See Lev. 16 and Hebrews 8-10.
5. Christ’s Sacrifice was efficacious, finale, and everlasting. Compare this with what Jesus does today as our Great High Priest.
   

Memorize

Our High Priest Offered Himself.

Isa 53:5  But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed.

1Jn 2:1  Dear children, I write thus to you in order that you may not sin. If any one sins, we have an Advocate with the Father--Jesus Christ the righteous;

1Jn 2:2  and He is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Christ Our High priest presented His own Blood before God

Christ declared by God to be a Priest forever after the Order of Melchizedek

Melchizedek was the King/Priest : King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God.

Heb 5:1  For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things pertaining to God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

Heb 5:2  who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness.

Heb 5:5  So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest, but He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have begotten You."

Heb 5:6  As He says also in another place, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

Christ’s Intercession now for us

Rom 8:34  Who is there to condemn them? Christ Jesus died, or rather has risen to life again. He is also at the right hand of God, and is interceding for us.

Heb 7:25  Hence too He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them.

Heb 7:26  Moreover we needed just such a High Priest as this--holy, guileless, undefiled, far removed from sinful men and exalted above the heavens;

When we pray in the Name of Jesus we are pleading the Sacrificial Work of Christ wa the Basis of our acceptance with God, for only thus are we assured that we are accepted in the beloved.

Eph 1:5  having predestined us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Eph 1:6  to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the One having been loved.

Come to Christ, our Great High priest in glory, right now and know that Christ is Interceding for us as our representative before the Throne of Grace.