Our Great High Priest! Heb 7:26-27 For such a High Priest

was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from

sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not

need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He

offered up Himself.

Jesus Christ Our Great High Priest!•As we get started this morning, we

want to first properly understand what a priest is and what they did for the people!•There were two keys roles that men

had during the Mosaic age when it came to God’s interacting with man! •Prophet = God would speak to them &

then they would speak to the people! •Priest = the people would speak to the

them & then they would speak to God!

Who was the first priest in the Bible?•If you thought Aaron, then you didn’t

go back far enough!•If you get out a concordance you will

find the 1st priest is not found in connecting with Moses, but with Abram!•Gen 14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem

brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

•This is the order of priesthood Jesus would be after!•See Heb. 7:1-10!

Who are the priests of God today?•Rev 1:6 and has made us kings and

priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.•Rev 5:10 And have made us kings and

priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.•1Pet 2:5 you also, as living stones, are

being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.•1Pet 2:9 But you are a chosen

generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people ...

We are indeed priest, but Christ is High Priest!

•What was the high priest able to do that the others weren’t?•Christ is “always” in the presence of the

Father & “always” there to intercede for us!•Rom 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is

Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.•Heb 7:25 Therefore 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.

•Heb 9:24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;•1 Jn 2:1 My little children, these things I

write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.•1 Tim 2:5 For there is one God and one

Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,•Heb 8:6 But now He has obtained a more

excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

I. His Position!•The entire book of Hebrews is an on

going argument for the superiority of Jesus!•In chapter 7:1-8:5 we read of His

priesthood being after the order of Melchizedek and superior to Aarons!•Melchizedek was both “priest & king of

the Most High God!” and indeed Jesus is today!

•There has never been & there will never be one greater than Jesus! (Heb. 1:1-4)•He was the only one able to live this life

and never sin!

The only perfect person! Heb 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest

who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted

as we are, yet without sin. •Remember in both Lamb & Lion, that Jesus is the only one worthy, He is the only one in the right position to help man!•Php 2:9-11 Therefore God also has highly

exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

II. His Power!•How many of you here consider yourself

someone of “power?” Do you believe you are an important person?

•When we use the word power, we have in mind one’s authority, the power to enforce!

•Mt 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. (All power/authority!)

•Mt 28:20 "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. (Observe all I command!)

Everyone is subject to His commands!Weather we know it or not, weather we

accept it or not! He is in charge!•Heb 8:1 Now this is the main point of the

things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,•Jesus is the Father’s “righ-hand man!”•He is the one given the place of authority &

command!•Joh 12:48 "He who rejects Me, and does

not receive My words, has that which judges him- -the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

III. His Pardon!Heb 7:25 Therefore 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.•The only way to heaven, it through Jesus!•John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way,

the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.•Act 4:12 "Nor is there salvation in any

other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

•None of us can save ourselves, we are all in need of the blood of Jesus! (1 Pet.1:19)

Sin brings death, but the Savior brings life!

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus

our Lord.•When we sin we become guilty of death, but Jesus has come to bring us life!•2 Cor 5:21 For He made Him who knew no

sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.•John 10:10 The thief does not come

except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly

Sin vs the Savior!•Sin breaks!

•Isa 59:1-2 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

•Savior builds!•Rev 1:5-6 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful

witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Jesus paid the price we couldn’t pay!And, now He is seated at the right-hand of

the Father interceding for us!•It is indeed good to be a Christian! To be

apart of the priesthood of God, with Jesus Christ Himself as our High Priest over us!•We must never give up on God, because

God has never & will never give up on us!•Heb 13:5-6 Let your conduct be without

covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we may boldly say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

Conclusion:•May each of us take the time to

properly understand who Jesus is to us!•I would encourage each of you to

take time this week and read through the book of Hebrews noting the “better promises, better plan and better covenant!”•If you are here and not yet a

Christian, today you can become one and allow Jesus to become your High Priest!•If you are a Christian, then I prayer

we will truly understand how blessed we are!