Jesus Our Great High Priest - Hebrews study
Jesus our great high priest sermon
As a Christian Jesus is our great hope! Jesus is my great high priest and ever lives to intercede for us! We need no one else nor could there be anyone else that could fulfil the priestly role for us in heaven. No priest on this earth could come close to Jesus. As the earthly tabernacle was a mere shadow of what the heavenly temple was, so is the old priest to Jesus!
The Old Covenant vs the New Covenant
Every message we want to tackle another part of this new covenant God has given us.

The tension
8- It's an introduction to this new covenant starting with Christ himself.
The tension Comes in with the Question: Why something new?
What is the old testament about? who is this Christ
Introduction to Christ.
Hebrews 1:1-12
Heb 1:3 KJV Who being the brightness of his glory --reflected brightness
of Christ in that he perfectly reflects the majesty of God

and the express image of his person,--the exact expression (the image) of any person or thing, marked likeness, precise reproduction in every respect,and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

"The radiance of God.'s glory" "the exact imprint of God's nature"

He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the [3] out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God's] nature

representation of his essence

He is the mediator who is given for us.

Heb 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Heb 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Ref.
1. Eph 1:20 The Mighty Power_ Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

2. Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

3. Heb 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

4. Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

5. Heb 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.

6. Heb 9:11 But Christ being come to an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

7. Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God
“The High Priest we have been describing, who is without fault, sinless, set apart, and raised above the heavens; this is our High Priest – Jesus Christ!” Who sits at the right. His greatness is shown by the fact that he sits at the right side of God in heaven.

Heb 1:3-4
He could not serve as a priest on earth, not because of being inferior but because of his calling to a more excellent ministry. A work that was a calling far Superior to the earthly priests who ministered and served in the earthly temple among the Jews.

These priests only served a shadow of what was to come.

Jesus is not the mediator of the old covenant. He is the fulfilment of what was to come. The earthy priest showed only a shadow of Jesus role as the Great High Priest. The work that they did in the temple was a shadow of What was to come. That Old covenant God made with man was established on promises. The New Covenant is established on better promises.

Since our great high priest, Christ Jesus, intercedes for us we as Christians should take the opportunity to go to our Father for everything¡

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