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Hebrews chapter 7 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Hebrews Chapter 7. Let us pray.
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  Lord God Almighty, we thank you. We thank you for another day to
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  come and worship you in spirit and truth.
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  We thank you, God, that we can come in boldly into the throne
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  room of grace. God, we cry out.
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  Maranatha, Lord, we cry out. Come Lord, come, we have filled
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  our lamps, we have trimmed our Wicks.
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  Lord, we look up and we see our redemption drawing near.
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  We see the leaves on the fig tree appearing.
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  God, we know this summer is near.
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  So, Lord, we pray in the mighty name of Jesus that we will wait.
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  Well, God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us,
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  help us to navigate through this time.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus against fear.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus against anxiety.
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  God, I pray that you'll give us a sound mind.
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  Holy Spirit, give us sound doctrine and sound theology.
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  Show up and show off and show out today.
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  God Almighty who reigns on high, thank you for ripping the veil
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  from top to bottom so that we can come in and dine and Sup
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  with you. Lord, I pray that you will help
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  us, Lord, cure us of the diseases that plague us.
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  God, I pray that you will help us to have a sound mind.
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  Father, I pray that you will help us to love you more, God.
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  I pray that you'll help us to love our neighbors as ourselves.
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  70 * 7 forgiving Lord, as we have been forgiven.
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  Thank you, Father, for your Holy scriptures.
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  Thank you, God, for the down payment and the indwellment of
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  the Holy Ghost. We love you, God.
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  We love everything about you. Lead us and guide us and direct
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  us. Give us purpose and dignity
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  today, God, for it is your will and it is your Kingdom that we
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  press towards Father, and we want.
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  We want more than life itself. Thank you for the daily bread,
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  Lord. Thank you for saving us, Lord.
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  Thank you for rescuing us from ourselves.
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  Thank you for taking off the spiritual blinders.
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  Thank you for unstopping our ears and losing our tongue.
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  God, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ that somebody
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  will get saved today, that somebody will finally see their
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  need for repentance today. We love you, King Jesus, this in
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  your holy and precious and powerful merciful righteous name
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  that I pray men. Well, let's start in verse one
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  for this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High
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  God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings
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  and blessed him. We've been talking about this
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  Melchizedek for just a moment here, and we see him show up in
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  Genesis 14, and then we see him show up again in Psalms chapter
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  110. And now here he is multiple
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  times throughout the book of Hebrews, and the writer of
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  Hebrews speaks of him as if we should already know who he is.
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  And we're going to start chomping down on this T-bone
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  steak here, friends. But you need to know that
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  Melchizedek there is a division of who he possibly could have
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  been or is. But the hinge point, friends, is
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  that he has no beginning or end, no mother or father, no end of
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  days. It could not be anyone but a
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  preincarnate Christ showing up on the scene.
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  And imagine God securing this Jerusalem, this literal
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  geographical piece of land on planet earth that he knows Jesus
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  is going to rule and reign from. He secures it all the way back
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  before he even calls Abraham. What a thought, friends.
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  This place of peace, this Shalom, Shalom, this Salem, this
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  Zion, they're all synonymous, friends.
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  And that is what you need to understand is God is not
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  limited. It is our intellect, it is our
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  understanding. It is us who struggle with these
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  concepts. But God is the alpha and the
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  Omega. He's the beginning and the end,
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  and he can do whatever He pleases.
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  We see Abraham meeting him and we see this breaking of bread
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  and this spilling of wine, friends, which is the Lord's
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  Supper. All the way back where Abraham
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  is meeting Melchizedek, we see the Lord's Supper instituted.
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  What an amazing thought back in Genesis 14.
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  You see bread and wine represented there in that
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  interaction. And this is the infinite wisdom
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  of God Almighty. And we see that this
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  Melchizedek, like Christ, is Christ, that he is a king and a
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  priest. And that was not allowed in the
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  order of Aaron. With the high priest of Aaron,
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  they had to offer their own sacrifices for their own sin,
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  and the high priest was guilty. But this order of Melchizedek,
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  this is unique in the sense that there was no need for the high
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  priest to offer any sacrifices for his own sins because he is
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  perfect and blameless and innocent, and there was only one
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  who fits that bill and it is Christ Jesus.
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  It is very similar to when you're in church and the pastor
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  says or ask a question and the answer is always Jesus verse 2,
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  to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being
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  by interpretation king of righteousness, and after that
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  also king of Salem, which is king of peace.
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  He is the king of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  He's the king of righteousness. He's the king of peace.
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  I wonder and do you know Him? You can see that Abraham felt
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  that it was necessary to give a 10th, which is what tithe means,
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  friends, that Abraham felt it necessary to give a tenth of all
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  the spoil right off the top. He didn't give them the
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  leftovers, friends. And that is a call for us to
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  give to the Lord God our best from the top, not wait until the
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  end of our check to give to the church.
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  We should be givers because God is the best giver.
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  And He gave 1st. And here Abraham understood
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  that. And here we can see that this
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  Melchizedek did not refuse the 10th, he accepted it.
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  So this is a clear picture of divinity and and eternal.
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  And you can see that Abraham he saw and recognized that this
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  Melchizedek was greater than himself. 3 Without father and
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  without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days
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  nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, abides a
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  priest continuously. He still abides today as a
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  priest continuously. He's the King of kings, friends,
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  and he is our High Priest to the utmost.
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  He's all the way at the end. He's the beginning and the end.
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  He's the Alpha and the Omega. There is no end to his High
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  priest Hood. Every other High priest in the
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  order of Aaron died, but this high priest is eternal.
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  Praise God, we love you Jesus. For now consider how great this
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  man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the 10th
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  of the spoils. So here we can see that Jesus
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  the man entered into heaven, the first born friends, and all of
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  it was foreshadowed all the way back whenever Abraham is leaving
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  the war and sees this high priest and gives him a tenth to
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  this man, Jesus five. And truly they that are of the
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  sons of Levi who received the office of the priesthood, have a
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  commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law,
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  that is of their brothers, though they come out of the
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  loins of Abraham. So imagine that even though
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  Abraham had already given the 10th to Christ Jesus
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  preincarnate, now even the seeds of Abraham are commanded to
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  receive a 10th from all of the tribes of Israel.
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  And the writer of Hebrews here is going to knit together one of
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  the most beautiful tapestries of how the tithe works and what is
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  accepted to God and what we are to do.
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  And you can see it here. 6 But he whose descent is not counted
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  from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that
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  had the promises. So Abraham was given the
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  promises that he would have more descendants than the stars in
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  the sky. And here we can see that
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  Melchizedek had blessed him, and we can see that Abraham was the
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  lesser of the two, and that the greater was the one that
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  received the blessing. 7 And without all contradiction, the
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  less is blessed of the better. So there it is.
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  You can see that Abraham was blessed by Melchizedek and it
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  was secure and it was sure that all the promises of God would
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  actually happen, just the way that he told Abraham that he
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  would when he called him out of the land of the Chaldeans and
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  told him that he was going to make him a great nation, even
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  though he was fatherless. And this Melchizedek actually
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  blessed him, and it is without all contradiction. 8 And here
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  men that die receive tithes, but there he received them, of whom
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  it is witness that he lives. Because he lives, we can face
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  tomorrow, Friends. Because he lives, we can know
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  that we know that. We know that when we die, we're
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  going to be with him forever more.
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  Because the same resurrection power that raised Jesus Christ
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  from the dead lives in us. Because he lives, friends.
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  All of the high priests in the order of Aaron all died.
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  But this high priest lives forever more.
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  Hey, there is no end of days for Christ Jesus.
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  He is the man God. He is the God man, and we are
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  forever blessed, and we praise his holy name. 9 And as I may
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  say so, Levi also who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
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  So this is a very interesting little nugget that Levi was not
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  commanded to pay the tithes, and the writer of Hebrews points out
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  it is because he had already paid the tithes.
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  So the very one that was receiving the tithes and wasn't
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  commanded to actually give tithes is the same one who gave
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  tithes to Melchizedek. What an interesting thought,
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  friends. 10 For he was yet in the loins of his father when
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  Melchizedek met him. So Abraham had already paid the
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  tithe for the tribe of Levi, and now the tribe of Levi was not
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  commanded to give of the tithe. What an amazing thought. 11 If
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  therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for under
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  it the people received the law, what further need was there that
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  another priest shouldn't rise after the order of Melchizedek
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  and not be called after the order of Iran?
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  So you can see that because the ironic priesthood made nothing
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  perfect friends, all of the law was given in order for us to
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  recognize and to realize our need for Christ Jesus.
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  And this order of Melchizedek is perfect friends.
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  Whereas you can see that the line of Aaron there was sins
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  that were still being committed, and we were desperately in need
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  of someone that could fulfill all the law, not abolish it, but
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  to fulfill it. 12 For the priesthood being changed there
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  is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of
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  whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of
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  which no man gave attendance at the altar, this line of Judah,
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  that Jesus Christ came through. And that is why the Jews would
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  have had such a hard time accepting Jesus Christ as the
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  Messiah, because he was not the high priest in the order of
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  Aaron. But they missed Psalms 110
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  written by David, and they missed Genesis 14 written by
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  Moses, which talked about the high priesthood of Melchizedek
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  and the line that Jesus Christ would represent because He is
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  the fulfillment of it all. And the Aaronic High Priesthood
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  was only there to show them their need for Christ Jesus and
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  that they could never ever fulfill all of the things that
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  were required of them because of the sin nature that you and I
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  have. And they tried to create all of
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  these bumper regulations to protect them from ever offending
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  and violating the inner commandments, and it never
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  worked. And if you had broke one law,
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  you were guilty of the entirety of it.
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  You know there was only one found worthy to open the scroll.
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  13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another
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  tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 14 For
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  it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which
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  tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
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  And you can see that the Jews of that time, not only were they
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  offended that Jesus came from Nazareth because they said
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  nothing good comes from Nazareth, and that he wasn't
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  part of the Sanhedrin, He wasn't part of the Pharisees or the
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  Sadducees, that he was a rogue St.
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  Preacher, the son of a Carpenter, and he was not from
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  the ironic line of the high priests.
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  So here you can see this tribe of Judah and you can see that
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  Jesus Christ is fulfilling the entire law, and he's coming by
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  way of the high priesthood of Melchizedek. 15 And it is yet
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  far more evident for that after the similitude of Melchizedek
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  there arises another priest, 16 who is made not after the law of
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  a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
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  Imagine that here is this Melchizedek, no beginning and no
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  end, and he is higher and better than all of the high priest
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  through the line of Aaron, and that is why they missed it.
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  But the writer of Hebrews told us we were about to munch down
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  on AT bone steak, that we could not just stay on the milk,
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  friends. And here we are trying to digest
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  so much truth. 17 For he testifies, you are a priest
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  forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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  That's God Almighty, that is Yahweh speaking to Jesus Christ
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  friends, and that is how the high priest was instituted.
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  God had to institute who was the high priest.
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  It was not something that man could decide who was going to be
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  18 for. There is truly a dis annulling
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  of the commandment going before for the weakness and the
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  unprofitableness of it. So we can see that the entire
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  law given by Moses was to point us towards Jesus Christ. 19 For
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  the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
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  hope did by the which we draw near unto God.
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  The only way that we can be at one with God is by the shedding
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  of Jesus's innocent blood, and by us being covered by his
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  blood. Friends, from the top of our
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  head to the soles of our feet, we enter in and we draw near
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  unto a holy God, and we are not consumed because of Jesus Christ
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  perfection and His Holiness. We can draw near unto God by
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  Jesus Christ and Jesus alone. There is no way to the Father
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  except through Jesus. He is the way, He is the truth,
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  and He is the life. 20 and in as much as not without an oath.
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  He was made priest. 21 For those priests were made without an
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  oath, but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord
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  swore, and will not repent. You are a priest forever after
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  the order of Melchizedek. 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety
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  of a better testament. So they were still stuck back
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  there in the New Testament, friends, and they were looking
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  for this king to come on the scene and to overthrow the Roman
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  government so that they could have their autonomy there in the
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  land. But they missed the fact that
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  Jesus Christ was coming and He was about to set up a different
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  dispensation other than the law. He was about to set up the
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  dispensation of grace. Friends, there is no other way
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  to read the Bible than to see that the dispensations are built
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  in. You cannot read the Bible
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  honestly without any bias and you cannot reach another thought
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  process or agreement then that God did away with the law and He
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  has brought in grace. And we are waiting for the
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  millennial friends. And that is how we read the
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  Bible is literally. And we can see that God is
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  dealing with the church and with Israel differently today.
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  And the church has not absorbed Israel and we are not the new
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  Israel as some are in the habit of propagating.
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  They've missed the mark. They've been fed the lie.
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  Friends, we must read the Bible for ourselves.
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  And don't take my word for it, but actually get your nose in
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  the book. Read it friends, Read it and you
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  come up with what the Holy Spirit tells you and you will
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  see that according to Romans Chapter 11, that God has an
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  ultimate plan to bring Israel in to the fold.
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  And they must come through the same way that you, in the same
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  way that I had to get in, which was through Christ Jesus.
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  And that's the purpose of the seven-year tribulation, this
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  better Testament. 23 And they truly were many priests because
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  they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.
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  They were just men. But this order of Melchizedek is
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  based upon an eternity. Is it based upon divinity?
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  It is based upon Jesus Christ living forever.
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  No beginning and no end. And the only bill that fits is
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  Christ Jesus 24 But this man, because he continues ever has an
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  unchangeable priesthood. Jesus Christ continues forever.
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  The God man in heaven, Christ Jesus, forever and ever, and
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  ever and ever, we will be singing his praises. 25
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  Wherefore he is able also to save them to the utter most that
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  come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession
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  for them. He can save to the utmost.
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  Friends, His arm is not too short to save, and He can save
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  anybody, no matter how lost, no matter how deplorable, no matter
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  how disgusting, no matter how many sins they have heaped up to
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  the heavens. Friends, he can save to the
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  utmost. No one is outside of his reach.
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  If there is breath in your lungs today, it's not too late.
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  Your fate is not sealed until you take your last breath.
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  He can save anyone if we will come through him to God Almighty
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  and he lives now to make intercession for us friends, and
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  when we stand before a holy and almighty God, he says this one
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  is mine. 26 For such a high priest became US, who is holy,
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  harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher
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  than the heavens. Jesus Christ, He is separate.
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  Jesus Christ is not a Sinner. Jesus Christ is perfect in all
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  of his ways, holy and blameless, friends, and that is the only
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  way that we can get there is by what He did, not by what we do.
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  It is not by works that any man is saved, and he is made higher
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  than the heavens. 27 Who needs not daily as those high priests
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  to OfferUp sacrifice first for his own sins, and then for the
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  peoples? For this he did once when he
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  offered up himself on the cross, friends, when he offered himself
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  up, and he died on a criminal's cross.
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  This perfect and innocent man who had done nothing wrong, died
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  on a criminal's cross for you and for me.
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  He died so that we could live forever and ever in the presence
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  of God Almighty. We'll end on 28 For the law
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  makes men high priests, which have infirmity, but the word of
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  the oath, which was since the law makes the Son who is
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  consecrated forever more, the line of Aaron can't touch the
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  line of Melchizedek. The line of Aaron was flawed and
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  full of sinful men who had to make sacrifices for their own
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  sins before they could ever even sacrifice for the people.
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  And if the high priest didn't do every single little thing right
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  when he went into the holiest of holy places, he would be struck
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  down and killed. But now we see that Jesus Christ
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  is the perfection of all the requirements, friends.
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  And it was not that there was something wrong with the law.
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  It was that there is something innately wrong with you and with
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  me. We could never fulfill the
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  requirements. So He did for us, and we are
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  forever grateful and thankful for what Jesus Christ did for
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  us. What an amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I hope you've been blessed by
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  it. I know I sure have.
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  I love you. Praying for you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.