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May 15 - Hebrews 5 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Thursday.
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  It is the 15th of May and you have tapped on play.
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  And for that I say thank you friend.
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  Good to have your company as well.
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  You're going to continue reading this book of Hebrews and today
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  we are going to come across this fascinating weird little saying.
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  They're going to talk about a high priest in the order of
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  Melchizedek. And some of you might have heard
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  that name or you think I've I've heard that before.
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  What is the go with that priest in the order of Melchizedek?
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  There is this strange moment in Genesis 14, way back at the
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  start of the Bible, where Abraham finds himself in this
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  strange land and he meets this bloke named Melchizedek, who is
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  this Prince and this priest to the High God Out of nowhere,
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  here is this random guy. This is before Levi was born.
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  Before Israel was born, before there's even a nation of
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  Israelites, before God's church had arrived.
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  Here is this guy who is this priest worshipping the real God.
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  So when the author of Hebrews talks about this order of
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  Melchizedek, he's saying that there has always been a way of
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  worshipping God outside of the structure of the Israelite
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  people. That worship of God is way
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  bigger than any system that the Israelites might have.
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  So you're going to hear a couple of mentions of Melchizedek
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  today, and then next week there will be a whole chapter all
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  about Melchizedek and that way of worshipping.
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  So we'll get more details later on, but that is a sneak peek of
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  what we'll come across. You ready?
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  You're ready to read more about how awesome Jesus is?
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  Yeah, me too. Let us read together Hebrews
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  chapter 5. Every high priest is a man
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  chosen to represent other people in their dealings with God.
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  He presents their gifts to God and offers sacrifices for their
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  sins. And he is able to deal gently
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  with ignorant and wayward people because he himself is subject to
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  the same weakness. That is why he must offer
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  sacrifices for his own sins as well as theirs.
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  And no one can become a high priest simply because he wants
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  such an honour. He must be called by God for
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  this work, just as Aaron was. That is why Christ did not
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  honour himself by assuming he could become high priest.
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  No, he was chosen by God, who said to him, You are my son to
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  day I have become your father. And in another passage, God said
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  to him, You are a priest forever, in the order of
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  Melchizedek. While Jesus was here on earth,
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  he offered prayers and pleadings with a loud cry and tears to the
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  one who could rescue him from death.
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  And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence
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  for God. Even though Jesus was God's Son,
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  he learned obedience from the things he suffered.
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  In this way, God qualified him as a perfect high priest, and he
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  became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey
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  him. And God designated him to be a
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  high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
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  There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is
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  difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull
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  and don't seem to listen. You have been believers so long
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  now that you ought to be teaching others.
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  Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things
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  about God's Word. You are like babies who need
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  milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk,
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  is still an infant, and doesn't know how to do what is right.
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  Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training
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  have the skills to recognise the difference between right and
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  wrong. Thank you Jesus for everything
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  you have done for us. Thank you Father, for giving us
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  Jesus so that he could live this perfect life and through his
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  life, just like one of us. He has the right.
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  In fact, you have designated him as our High Priest so that he
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  can make a way between US and you, Lord, and He can break open
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  the barriers that lie between our God and ourselves and have
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  perfect unity with you, Lord, here in this life, in this
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  broken world. It can feel hard to be close to
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  you as we want to be, but we know that in the blink of an eye
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  this life will come and go, and there we will be, basking in
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  your love and your presence, made possible by all that Jesus
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  did for us. Thank you for giving us Jesus.
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  Thank you for saving us. We are so grateful and we pray
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  all of this through Him who saves us.
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  Amen.