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Hebrews 7:11-22 - The New Priesthood of Jesus and the Obsolete Law · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey, and good morning, faithful listeners. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: My name is Jen, and I am excited that you're
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  Speaker 1: we discuss Hebrews seven today. Hey, I want to apologize
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  Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get into our text for today,
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter seven versus eleven through twenty two. Grab your
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  Speaker 1: with me. I actually have been drinking black coffee again recently. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm back to coffee. I have been drinking coffee every
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  Speaker 1: single day actually, and it has not been bothering me
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  Speaker 1: this time. And I know I say that every single time,
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  Speaker 1: coffee again. In fact, I've been going through quite a
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  Speaker 1: process with my health these past few months, and I
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  Speaker 1: So that is a huge, huge praise. I am beyond
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  Speaker 1: let's read Hebrew seven eleven through twenty two together. Grab
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  Speaker 1: your cup of coffee and let's give reverence to God's
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  Speaker 1: word together. Now, if perfection was through the levitical priesthood,
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  Speaker 1: for under it the people have received the law, what
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  Speaker 1: further need was there for another priest to arise after
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  Speaker 1: the order of Melchisedec and not be called after the
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  Speaker 1: order of Erin. For the priesthood being changed, there is
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  Speaker 1: of necessity a change made also in the law. For
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  Speaker 1: he of whom these things are said, belongs to another
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  Speaker 1: tribe from which no one has officiated at the altar.
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  Speaker 1: For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out
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  Speaker 1: of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood.
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  Speaker 1: This is yet more abundantly evident if after the likeness
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  Speaker 1: of Malchisedec there arises another priest who has been made
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  Speaker 1: not after the law of fleshly commandment, but after the
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  Speaker 1: power of an endless life. For it is testified you
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  Speaker 1: are a priest forever according to the order of Melchisedec.
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  Speaker 1: For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because
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  Speaker 1: of its weakness and uselessness. For the law made nothing perfect,
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  Speaker 1: and a bringing in of a better hope through which
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  Speaker 1: we draw near to God. Inasmuch as he was not
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  Speaker 1: made priest without the taking of an oath, For they
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  Speaker 1: indeed have been made priests without an oath, but he
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  Speaker 1: with an oath. By him that says of him, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord swore and will not change his mind. You are
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  Speaker 1: a priest forever according to the Order of Melchisedek. By
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  Speaker 1: so much, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
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  Speaker 1: If you guys recall on Tuesday we talked about who
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  Speaker 1: Malchisedek was and why he is so important, and why
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is a priest in the Order of Malchisedek, And
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  Speaker 1: just to do a quick recap, Malchisedec was only mentioned
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  Speaker 1: twice in the Old Testament, once in the Book of
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  Speaker 1: Genesis when he encountered Abraham and then again in Psalm.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the only two times Malchisedec is mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament. All the other times he's mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Hebrews, and he's mentioned quite a bit actually,
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  Speaker 1: so we know very little about the priesthood of Malchisedek
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  Speaker 1: other than the fact that it's a picture of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about all of that on Tuesday. So
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  Speaker 1: now it says in verse eleven. If perfection was made
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  Speaker 1: through the levitical priesthood, for under it the people have
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  Speaker 1: received the law, what further need was there for another
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  Speaker 1: priest to arise after the order of Malchisedek. So, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, the author is making this point. If the
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  Speaker 1: levitical priesthood could save, like say, it was perfect, then
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  Speaker 1: why did Jesus have to come and why is he
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  Speaker 1: a priest after the order of Malchisedec instead of the
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  Speaker 1: order of the Levites. Because don't forget what a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people were believing at this time period. They believed
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was not sufficient to save. Yes, you had
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  Speaker 1: to believe in Jesus, but you also had to follow
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament laws. You also had to do the
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  Speaker 1: sacrifices with the priest, and you had to follow all
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  Speaker 1: the civil and ceremonial laws laid out in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: But the author is saying, no, we don't have to
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  Speaker 1: do this because Jesus is enough to save us. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need the levitical priests to save anymore. Because that
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  Speaker 1: order is incomplete, it is not perfect. He says, if
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  Speaker 1: perfection was through the levitical priesthood, what further need was
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  Speaker 1: there for another priest to arise after the order of
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  Speaker 1: Malchisedec and not be called after the order of Erin.
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  Speaker 1: So the levitical priests cannot save. They cannot save, And
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  Speaker 1: that might make you question, well, then why did God
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  Speaker 1: put that in place from the beginning. Why didn't God
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  Speaker 1: just send to Jesus from the very beginning. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: easy answer to that is the levitical law teaches us
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  Speaker 1: what God's perfect standards are. And this is necessary for
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  Speaker 1: us to know because when we look at the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament laws, we know we can't keep them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you break just one of them, you no longer
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  Speaker 1: are perfect, like you have been stained with imperfection forever.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can keep the Old Testament laws. They are the
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  Speaker 1: standard for perfection, and we had to understand that in
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  Speaker 1: order to understand our need for a savior and why
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  Speaker 1: we have to believe in Jesus. So that's the easy
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  Speaker 1: and short answer as to why God did not send
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  Speaker 1: Jesus immediately. But that's such a nuanced question. We could
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  Speaker 1: actually talk about that for hours and hours and hours,
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  Speaker 1: and I even scratch the surface of it. If you're
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  Speaker 1: curious about why Jesus came in the time period that
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  Speaker 1: he came. There's actually a really good book on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Person of Interest. It was written by Jay
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  Speaker 1: Warner Wallace, and I really liked the book. It was
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  Speaker 1: something that I read in my personal time, and it
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  Speaker 1: went through just the necessity of Jesus coming at the
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  Speaker 1: time that he came, both culturally, historically spiritually, like all
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  Speaker 1: the different ways why Jesus came in the first century eighty.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a good resource for you if you are
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  Speaker 1: interested in that topic. But regardless, the author of Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: is making this point. The laws don't make anybody perfect.
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  Speaker 1: The levitical priests don't make anybody perfect. In fact, the
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  Speaker 1: priests themselves are not perfect. So somebody had to come
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  Speaker 1: in order to bring this perfection forward, to bring the
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  Speaker 1: salvation forward. So that is why Jesus is under the
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  Speaker 1: order of Malchisedek. Instead of this imperfect priesthood. For the
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  Speaker 1: priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made
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  Speaker 1: also in the law. So I mean that is as
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  Speaker 1: straightforward as you can get. If the priesthood is going
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  Speaker 1: to change, then the law must also change in order
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  Speaker 1: to compensate for that. For he of whom these things
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  Speaker 1: are said belongs to another tribe from which no one
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  Speaker 1: has officiated at the altar. For it is evident that
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  Speaker 1: our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe
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  Speaker 1: Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood. So that's why the
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  Speaker 1: laws had to change. Because Jesus was not from the
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  Speaker 1: tribe of Levi. He was from the tribe of Judah,
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  Speaker 1: as we know. In fact, we have Jesus's genealogy laid
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  Speaker 1: out for us in scripture all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: first man ever created, Adam. We know Jesus's genealogy. He
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  Speaker 1: is from the tribe of Judah. And because the priests
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament weren't from the tribe of Judah,
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  Speaker 1: but from the tribe of Levi, obviously, according to the
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  Speaker 1: priesthood of the Levites, Jesus was not eligible to become
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  Speaker 1: a priest. So this is one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 1: the law had to change. It says in verse fourteen
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  Speaker 1: and fifteen, It's evident that our Lord's sprung out of Judah,
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  Speaker 1: about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood. This
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  Speaker 1: is yet more abundantly evident if after the likeness of Malchisedec.
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  Speaker 1: There arises another priest who has been made not after
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  Speaker 1: the law of fleshy commandment, but after the power of
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  Speaker 1: an endless life. For it is testified you are a
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  Speaker 1: priest forever according to the order of Malchisa Dek. And
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  Speaker 1: so that brings us to Psalm one ten, verse one,
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  Speaker 1: and also verse four. And this is a psalm by David.
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  Speaker 1: This is David outrightly prophesying about Jesus. Here's what it says.
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  Speaker 1: In Psalm one ten, starting in verse one, Yahweh says
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  Speaker 1: to my lord, sit at my right hand until I
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  Speaker 1: make your enemies your footstool of your feet. So, David,
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  Speaker 1: here is prophesying. Here's what Yahweh said to my lord.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, Jesus the Messiah, sit at my right
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  Speaker 1: hand until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.
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  Speaker 1: So that is prophecy of what is happening right now
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  Speaker 1: at this moment in time, until Jesus comes back again.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is sitting at the Father's right hand, waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the Father to complete everything and make Jesus's enemies underneath him.
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  Speaker 1: Here's verse two of this prophecy. Yahweh will send out
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  Speaker 1: the rod of your strength, out of Zion rule. Among
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  Speaker 1: your enemies, your people offer themselves willingly in the day
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  Speaker 1: of your power, in a holy array. Out of the
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  Speaker 1: womb of the morning. You have the doo of your youth.
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh has sworn and will not change his mind. Verse four.
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  Speaker 1: You are a priest forever in the order of Malchisedek.
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  Speaker 1: And then the prophecy goes on for another few verses.
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  Speaker 1: But David himself, who was a prophet, was prophesying that
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah would not be a priest under the order
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  Speaker 1: of Aaron or the Levites, but that he would be
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  Speaker 1: a priest in the order of Malchisedek. Which is really
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  Speaker 1: interesting that David understood this and knew this. David knew
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  Speaker 1: that the priesthood was flawed and that there had to
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  Speaker 1: be another priesthood to come forward because of the fallen
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  Speaker 1: nature of man. You know, once again, the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: laws were given to us to show us our sin,
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  Speaker 1: to show us what perfection could look like, and how
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  Speaker 1: we just cannot achieve it. We can't achieve it. The
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament laws, they're not possible to achieve, even if
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  Speaker 1: you think you achieved them. Jesus told us in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament, you don't, because if you've ever hated somebody
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  Speaker 1: in your heart, then you've broken a law. You have
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  Speaker 1: committed murder. If you've ever looked at something or someone lustfully,
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  Speaker 1: then you've committed the sin of adultery. Even if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't physically gone out and done the adultere even sins
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  Speaker 1: of the heart or sins of the mind, these things
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  Speaker 1: actually cause us to break the Old Testament laws. And
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  Speaker 1: so nobody, a single person, can keep the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: laws perfectly, except for somebody who is perfect, which is
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself. So Jesus came to Earth to perfect what
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  Speaker 1: was flawed. Now, don't get me wrong, the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: laws themselves weren't flawed, because obviously they were the standard
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  Speaker 1: for righteousness. But people are flawed. Anytime a person is
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  Speaker 1: put into a position, it's going to be flawed because
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  Speaker 1: that individual is flawed. So Jesus came and changed this.
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  Speaker 1: And he is a priest in the order of Melchisedic,
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  Speaker 1: not under the order of Erin. Now, going back to
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews seven, for there is an annulling of a foregoing
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  Speaker 1: commandment because of its weakness and uselessness, for the law
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  Speaker 1: made nothing perfect, and of bringing in of better hope
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  Speaker 1: through which we draw near to God. Inasmuch as he
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  Speaker 1: was not made priest without taking the oath, for they
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  Speaker 1: indeed have been made priest without an oath, but he
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  Speaker 1: with an oath by him that says of him the
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  Speaker 1: Lord swore and will not change his mind. You are
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  Speaker 1: a priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedic. So
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  Speaker 1: in other words, God himself made this oath he swore,
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  Speaker 1: is what it says in a Psalm one ten. And
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  Speaker 1: he swore it and will not change his mind. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is a priest forever, a cording to the order of Malchisedek.
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  Speaker 1: And because of this oath that God himself swore. It says,
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  Speaker 1: there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of
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  Speaker 1: its weakness and uselessness, for the law made nothing perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And earlier in verse twelve it says the priesthood is
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  Speaker 1: being changed. There is necessity of a change made also
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  Speaker 1: in the law. So this might make you question at
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  Speaker 1: this point, well, God is not changing, so why would
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  Speaker 1: he change the law. This is something that I thought.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, James, Chapter one, verse seventeen says this about
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  Speaker 1: God from the NIV version. Every good and perfect gift
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  Speaker 1: is from above, coming down from the Father of the
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  Speaker 1: heavenly lights, who does not change like a shifting shadow.
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  Speaker 1: So God doesn't change. That is true. So then how
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  Speaker 1: and why are the laws being changed, you might ask.
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  Speaker 1: It's important to know that there are three different types
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  Speaker 1: of Old Testament law. The first is moral, the second
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  Speaker 1: is civil, and the third is ceremonial. And I think
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  Speaker 1: actually there might have been one more. I can't remember
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  Speaker 1: what the fourth one is, if there is a fourth one.
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  Speaker 1: But yet, just know that there are different types of
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament laws, and you can tell which law is
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  Speaker 1: which because the moral laws such as thou shalt not
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  Speaker 1: murder are repeated as something that you should not do
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  Speaker 1: in the New Testament. Every single moral law is repeated
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  Speaker 1: in the New Testament. So you know that if the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament law says thou shalt not murder, and Jesus
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  Speaker 1: talks about how evil murder is in his Sermon on
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  Speaker 1: the Mount, then you can deduce that that is a
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  Speaker 1: moral law, basically something that affects your heart and your
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  Speaker 1: direct relationship with Jesus. But then there are other types
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  Speaker 1: of laws in the Old Testament, such as the civil laws,
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  Speaker 1: which is how Israel was supposed to be governed, what
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  Speaker 1: the kingship looked like, what the judges looked like, anything
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  Speaker 1: related to civil authorities essentially. And then there was the
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  Speaker 1: ceremonial laws, such as eating certain foods or not touching
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  Speaker 1: dead bodies or I don't know, being ceremonially clean. Those
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  Speaker 1: were the ceremonial laws. The moral laws of the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament are never going to change because God does not change.
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  Speaker 1: He does not cast a shifting shadow, is what it says.
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  Speaker 1: But the other laws not related to morality, such as
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  Speaker 1: the priesthood, those laws are being changed because even though
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't change, human beings and situations do in fact change.
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  Speaker 1: The old order of the levitical law served the people
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  Speaker 1: very well at that time period, but that has been fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: It actually says in Hebrew seven that it's becoming obsolete.
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  Speaker 1: It says there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment
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  Speaker 1: because of its weakness and uselessness. For the law made
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  Speaker 1: nothing perfect, and a bringing on of a better hope
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  Speaker 1: through which we draw near to God. Inasmuch as He
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  Speaker 1: was not made priest without the taking of an oath,
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  Speaker 1: But he with an oath by him that says of him,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's sworn will not change his mind. You are
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  Speaker 1: a priest forever according to the Order of Melchisedek. So
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  Speaker 1: that's another way how God didn't change. Jesus has always
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  Speaker 1: been a priest in the Order of Melchisedek. From the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning, it says, Jesus forever is a priest according
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  Speaker 1: to the Order of Malchisedek. So Jesus certainly has not
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  Speaker 1: changed in his priesthood. But until Jesus came down to
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  Speaker 1: Earth at the necessary and proper time, the priests, by
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  Speaker 1: the order of Aaron and Moses were the best way
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  Speaker 1: for the people to get close to God the Father
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  Speaker 1: and to have the forgiveness of sins through the shed blood.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope that makes sense to you, guys. And
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  Speaker 1: then to finish out here in verse twenty two. By
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  Speaker 1: so much, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly what Jesus said to his disciples at
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  Speaker 1: the Last Supper. He said to them, this is a
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  Speaker 1: new covenant I give you. And he held out the wine,
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  Speaker 1: and he held out the bread, and he said, this
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  Speaker 1: is my body and my blood which is broken, for
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  Speaker 1: you do this in remembrance of me. So Jesus guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: a better covenant to all of his people, and that
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  Speaker 1: is what we live under right now. We don't live
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  Speaker 1: under the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament any longer.
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  Speaker 1: We live under Jesus being our high priest in the
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  Speaker 1: Order of Malchisa dec We don't need to go to
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  Speaker 1: a human priest and offer a sacrifice any longer because
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has done all of that for us. We can
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  Speaker 1: go to Jesus, our high Priest, with no sacrifice, and say, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the sacrifice that you gave me. It
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  Speaker 1: is sufficient and I have forgiveness through your sacrifice. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much everybody for making it to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the podcast with me. But it's not over
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  Speaker 1: and then after that I will talk to you about
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, we start season eleven with the Book of Ezra,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to talking about the Book of
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  Speaker 1: Ezra because it's going to be so different than anything
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  Speaker 1: I've covered on the podcast so far on the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament side of stuff, because this is talking about the
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  Speaker 1: history of the Israelites after they get back from the
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  Speaker 1: Babylonian exile. And the Book of Ezra is a really
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  Speaker 1: bizarre book in a lot of ways. In fact, it
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  Speaker 1: kind of ends on a very depressing note. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into the Book of Ezra starting on Monday, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to talking about that book with all
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  Speaker 1: of you guys. Now, don't forget my seasons go with
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament, not with the New Testament. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to remain in Hebrews on Tuesday and finish out
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  Speaker 1: chapter seven talking about the priests and Jesus's blood being sufficient.
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  Speaker 1: So we will get into that discussion on Tuesday, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you join in for that as well. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I have a really exciting announcement actually for season eleven,
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  Speaker 1: So then it just hit me. I'm like, why aren't
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  Speaker 1: that says Kofi. So I encourage all of you to
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  Speaker 1: go do that right now, Faithful listeners, have a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: and wonderful weekend. I'll see you guys on Monday for
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  Speaker 1: the start of season eleven, happy listening, and God bless.
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