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Hebrews chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Hebrews chapter 5. Let us pray.
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  Our Lord, King, and our everything.
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  We thank you, Father. We thank you for another day to
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  come and to learn more about you.
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  We thank you God for your holy scriptures.
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  We thank you for life and life abundant.
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  We thank you for Jesus Christ and the finished work of the
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  cross. We thank you God that is paid in
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  full and it is finished. We thank you God that we can be
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  made right with you because of what He did.
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  We thank you God for clean drinking water and food to eat.
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  We thank you for our abilities Lord.
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  We thank you for your church, your bride, God, we thank you
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  that we can know you and be known by you.
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  We thank you, Father, that we are more than conquerors in
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  Christ Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for all those
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  that you are saving to the utmost.
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  We thank you, God, that your arm is not too short to save.
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  We thank you for all of the things that you've done for us
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  for our entire lives. And God, what you're planning to
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  do, Lord, help us to be your hands and feet.
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  Help us to fall more madly in love with you, King Jesus.
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  Holy Spirit, guide us today. I decrease as you increase.
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  It's all about King Jesus, Phyllis overflowing.
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  Help us to love our neighbors as ourself.
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  Lord, I pray that you will come and get your glory.
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  Father, help us to be laid down. Lovers crying out Maranatha
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  every day. Come, Lord, come we look up, we
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  see our redemption drawing near. So Father, we wait expectantly.
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  Lord, I pray that you will just continue to wreck us and ravage
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  us with your Shekinah glory coming and filling the temple.
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  Father, we cry out, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,
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  worthy is the Lamb that was slain and there was only one
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  found worthy to open the scroll. King Jesus, Holy Spirit, give us
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  discernment. Holy Spirit, guide us as we go
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  through this. Hide me and hide my words and
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  hide my thoughts. And it's all about you, King
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  Jesus, and we love you, and this in your holy and lovely and
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  worthy and mighty name that I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. For every high priest taken from
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  among men is ordained for men and things pertaining to God,
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  that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
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  So here we're going to get a little introduction to
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  Melchizedek. We're going to get to see the
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  line of Aaron and the high priest there and how Jesus
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  Christ sidestepped that entire line from Aaron.
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  And that is why so many of the Jews had a problem with Jesus
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  claiming that he was who he said he was, because he did not come
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  from the line of Aaron. And you can see that Melchizedek
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  was a priest and a king at the same time, which is why that is
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  the line that Jesus Christ comes through.
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  There's no beginning or there is no end.
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  He has no mother or father. And we're going to get to learn
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  more and more about this Melchizedek character.
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  But Paul, or I should say the writer of Hebrews, has to press
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  the pause button because he realizes that the readers are
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  not able to digest the spiritual meat that he's going to give
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  them, that they're still stuck on the milk as babes, and they
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  have become babes and they refused to mature.
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  But here you need to know a couple things about the high
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  priest. It is that God is the one who
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  puts him in that office. Man doesn't get to choose to be
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  the high priest. Only God can put him there.
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  And it is because he is compassionate with people and
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  that is Jesus Christ as a whole. He is compassionate to those and
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  He's not only just offering the sacrifices for atonement, but
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  He's also giving gifts unto God, which is and are pleasing aroma
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  unto him. Friends too, who can have
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  compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way
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  for that He himself also is compassed with infirmity.
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  That is one of the reasons that Jesus did not come through the
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  line of Aaron. Whenever we're talking about the
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  high priest, this Aaronic ministry of high priest that God
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  had put Aaron into, The reason Jesus did not come through that
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  because he did not need to offer any kind of sacrifice for his
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  own sin. He was sinless, which is why he
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  came through the line of Melchizedek.
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  And you can see that the high priest had his own infirmities.
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  Three and by reason hereof, he ought As for the people, so also
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  for himself to offer for sins. So that is what the writer of
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  Hebrews wants us to know, is that Aaron had to not only offer
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  sacrifices for the people, but also for himself.
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  And Jesus Christ never did. Jesus Christ was perfect and
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  blameless, and Jesus Christ is from eternal, and that is why
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  God Almighty wanted him to be the greatest high priest.
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  And he is not only the high priest, but he's also king of
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  kings. And there were other men, Saul
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  and Isaiah, there were other men who tried to be both king and
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  priest, and God removed them from their positions and struck
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  them with leprosy. So you need to understand here,
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  friends, is that only God can initiate this high priest
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  office. And he was well pleased to give
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  it to Jesus Christ. For no man takes this honor unto
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  himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
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  So Jesus was well qualified and we're going to see that as Aaron
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  was a sinful man, Jesus was perfect and holy and blameless
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  and innocent, and that is why he came through Melchizedek and not
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  through the line of Aaron. 5 So also Christ glorified not
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  himself to be made a high priest, but he that said unto
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  him, You are my Son. Today I have begotten thee.
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  So God speaking to Christ, and he implements him as the High
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  priest. And that is the way that God
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  would identify who is to be the High Priest.
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  And you can see it, friends, and it is beautiful that Jesus
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  Christ is both King and High priest. 6 As he said.
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  Also in another place, you are a priest forever after the order
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  of Melchizedek. So this interesting character
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  comes on the scene, and as the book of Hebrews unfolds, we're
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  going to go deeper into this character of Melchizedek and who
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  he is, the king of Salem, who is also a priest, who has no mother
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  or father, no beginning or end. And perhaps it's a Christophany.
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  And that is how we are going to approach it as we go through
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  this wonderful book of Hebrews. But before we can go deeper into
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  who Melchizedek is, we must first hit the pause button to be
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  strengthened and for iron to sharpen iron and for us to get
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  off of the spiritual milk and to actually start growing some
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  teeth so we can munch on the T-bone steak of the Old
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  Testament. And that is what you need to
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  understand is that we can't just stay in the Gospels and we can't
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  just stay in the Pauline epistles and we can't just stay
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  in the New Testament. We must after we get done
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  reading Revelation, start in Genesis and start growing some
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  teeth and being able to munch on the spiritual meat that God has
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  for us. Seven.
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  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers
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  and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that
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  was able to save him from death and was heard in that He feared.
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  So this is Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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  And here Jesus is asking God if there's any other way to take
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  this cup from him, let it pass from him.
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  But then God heard his prayers and He strengthened him for what
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  was to come, for an all night court scene where he was going
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  to be deprived of sleep and food and water.
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  And he thirsted and they beat him to where he didn't even
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  resemble a man. And they plucked his beard out
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  and spat on his face. They arrested him.
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  He was kissed and betrayed. And then he was flogged and his
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  back ripped open friends. And then he was brutally put
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  onto a cross, a criminal's cross, where the Roman citizens
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  did not even speak of it. It was so heinous an act for a
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  person to be put on the cross. And Jesus Christ, the Son of
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  God, suffered miserably. But God strengthened him for it
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  all. And Satan had bruised his heel,
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  but Jesus Christ is going to crush his head.
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  Though he were a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things
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  which he suffered. Imagine that God Almighty, who
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  spoke everything into existence, everything, bows and obeys to
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  the Word of God, becoming Incarnate as a little baby,
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  fully man and learning obedience.
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  Imagine that fully man and fully God, and He is here on this
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  earth, and the one that everything boughs down to is
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  learning obedience. What an amazing thought. 9 And
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  being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation
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  unto all them that obey Him. So if you obey Him, it is a sure
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  marker that you belong to Him and that you have received
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  salvation. Those that are abusing grace are
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  those who don't truly know Him. Our obedience proves the love
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  that we have for Jesus Christ. And here He is the author of our
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  eternal salvation. And He was being made perfect,
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  even though He is perfection. And because He is being made
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  perfect, He makes us perfect in God's sight, Called of God a
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  high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
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  There again, we have seen this character pop up many times, and
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  we're going to clarify who he is as time goes on as we study
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  through this book. But Paul here realizes that he's
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  talking to a group of very immature believers who need to
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  be strengthened and sharpened before they can take on greater
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  understanding. Eleven of whom we have many
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  things to say and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of
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  hearing. And this is a dulling, that is a
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  wilful dulling where they do not desire to go deeper.
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  They just want to stay on the surface level and they want to
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  farm out their responsibilities to those who have gone to
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  school. And they forget that God through
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  Jesus Christ turned the entire world right side up with 12
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  unlearned men. And that is why it is such a
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  grave danger to think that it is not our responsibility to teach
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  the Word of God because we didn't go to school for it,
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  because perhaps we are a lawyer or a doctor or a mechanic or
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  whatever office we hold. And we try to just give it away
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  to those that spend their time studying the Word of God and
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  teaching the Word of God. And we need to be more like the
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  Bereans friends and searching the scriptures daily.
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  Let it be the first thing that you do when you wake up.
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  Let it be what you do on your break.
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  Let it be the last thing that you do before you go to bed.
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  And you will be able to rightly divide the Word of God.
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  And it'll be a supernatural indwelling of the Holy Spirit
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  that lets you understand every syllable and every single jot
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  and title that you hold in your hand.
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  And this book is alive and active and sharper than any 2
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  edged sword. It is discerning you, friends.
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  It is a living, breathing Organism.
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  And every single time that you open it up, it's going to show
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  you something new. There are so many gems and
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  jewels inside of this book. And every single time that you
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  study it, God is well pleased to show you layers and more layers
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  of tapestry that's inside of this book.
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  And it's like reading it for the first time.
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  It's fresh and it's new every time that we go through it.
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  And it's like a fine bottle of wine, friends.
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  It only gets better with time. It never gets old and never gets
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  boring. And these recipients of the
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  letter of Hebrews, these were converts from Judaism into
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  Christianity, and they had become dull with all of the
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  spiritual principles. So the writer of Hebrews has to
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  press pause and sharpen them and strengthen them and get them off
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  of the milk and onto the spiritual meat before he can
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  dive deeper in this Melchizedek character. 12 For when for the
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  time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you
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  again, which be the first principles of the oracles of
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  God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong
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  meat. The New Testament from Matthew
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  to Revelation is milk. The Old Testament from Genesis
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  to Malachi is meat, and you have to cut your teeth before you can
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  start chewing on meat, friends. But when you get done with
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  Revelation, don't stop there. Turn the page, go back to the
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  beginning and start reading in Genesis.
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  And here the writer of Hebrews gives a strong admonition unto
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  the recipients of this letter and saying, listen, don't become
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  dull. Don't just keep going back to
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  the basics, Actually want to go deeper with God.
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  It's wonderful that you're in the fold.
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  It's wonderful that you're indwelled with the Spirit, but
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  God desires to go deeper so that you feel as if you are able to
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  teach others, which is this beautiful work of God, this
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  discipleship that God desires and He wants us to not only
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  learn it, but to teach it to others. 13 For everyone that
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  uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness, for he is
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  a babe. So he continues to be a babe
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  even though God is calling him into maturation friends.
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  And we need to know that it is not good for us just to stay
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  babes and just to stay in the New Testament.
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  We've got to graduate into the Old Testament and read it and
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  earn, learn it and own it, friends, and memorize it and
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  know it like the back of our hands and be students of the
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  Word of God. Take your Bible everywhere with
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  you. Take it to the doctor's office.
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  Take it to the dentist's office, friends, take it on vacation
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  with you. Take it everywhere that you go.
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  Not in a religious sense, but just so if you have idle time,
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  you'll get off of your devices and you'll actually get into the
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  Word of God and actually study the Word of God.
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  If you have extra time on your hands, don't waste it.
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  Actually get into the Word and memorize it and learn it so that
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  you can teach it. And if you want to learn
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  something, get ready to teach it.
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  That is how it will stick. We'll end on 14.
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  But strong meat belongs to them that are full age, even those
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  who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both
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  good and evil. That is the plan of God.
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  He desires for you to know the Word and to be able to teach it
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  and to rightly divide it. Friends and the word of God has
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  been used for much evil in this world, to start cults and all
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  kinds of other garbage and people twist it, manipulate it
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  for their own advantage. And that is the way of Satan.
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  He's been doing it since the Garden of Eden.
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  And the best way to safeguard ourselves from those who want to
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  use God's words to deceive us is by knowing it for ourselves so
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  that we are not deceived. And then helping others to grow.
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  Helping others to learn how to read the Word of God and study
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  the Word of God and rightly divide the Word of God, and to
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  discern both good and evil, which is if you go back to the
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  garden. So what he was talking about the
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  tree of both good, of the knowledge of both good and evil.
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  Friends, it's not just the knowledge of evil, it is also
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  the knowledge of good that leads many people astray because they
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  are too trusting in the ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing.
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  We need to be on guard, friends, from the apostasy, the false
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  teachers, the false prophets who only want to sell us prosperity.
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  And they want to manipulate the masses so that they can take
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  advantage of them. And here this is a wonderful
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  reason why Paul, or I should say the writer of Hebrews, had to
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  press pause to strengthen his readers before he took them
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  deeper into the things of God. And that is the call for us as
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  well, to not become dull and to not just take the Bible for
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  granted and to not just sit and be Pew warmers Sunday to Sunday.
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  And not to just be so incredibly trusting of the people who look
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  the part, but are teaching doctrines that are completely
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  contrary to the context of the fullness of God's Word from
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  Genesis to Revelation. Nothing added and nothing
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  subtracted. There are many people who say
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  the Bible plus another publication, the Bible Plus one
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  of the books that didn't make it in, the Bible minus some of the
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  things that aren't relevant for today, the Bible minus some of
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  the culturally unacceptable things that we're dealing with.
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  And they leave it out on purpose, and they try to
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  intermingle the world in the profane with the pure.
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  And it doesn't work that way. And we would do well to
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  safeguard ourselves against all of the false teachings.
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  And we also need to know that it is not enough for us just to
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  learn it for ourselves, but we must be those who desire to help
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  others, to learn how to study the Word of God and to not look
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  at it as too overwhelming. But if you have extra time, you
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  get into the Word of God. You don't just use it for idle
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  chatter and idle time. That is not profitable for all
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  of eternity. That is the call that's been
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  placed on our lives. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. Praying for you.
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  I love you. So does God.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.