Judges chapter 17. As I mentioned in the last study,
the first 16 chapters of the book of Judges is the individual
accounts of the 12 judges beginning after the death of Joshua and
ending with the death of Samson. Now Judges chapter 17 is not
a continuation of what happened after Samson, but what we have
in chapter 17 through 21 are narratives and accounts of Israel's
idolatry during the time of the judges. And these remaining chapters
reveal to us as to why Israel was in such a mess. And they
give us great insight and why this religious world today is
in such a mess. Why they were so involved with
the worship of idols. And though I know most people
today don't worship a carved stump or something like that,
there are still plenty of idols that men and women worship today. And the bottom line as to why
is really quite simple. It's given to us clearly in verse
six here of chapter 17. In those days, there was no king
in Israel, but every man did that which was right in their
own eyes. I originally titled this message,
No King in Israel, but I changed it to No Prophet or priest or
king in Israel. And as you know, the Lord Jesus
Christ is all three of those glorious offices, prophet, priest,
and king. And that was their problem. They
didn't have Christ. That's the problem today. Men
and women don't know the Lord Jesus Christ. They're without
Christ. Last week we looked at how there's a way that seems
right unto a man, but as Solomon wrote in Proverbs, but the way,
the end thereof are the ways of death. For a few minutes tonight,
I want to show you why that is. Why does this way that leads
to death seem right unto men and women? No prophet, no priest. or king in Israel. No prophet,
no priest or king in the heart. Idolatry is the outcome when
there is no prophet, priest, and king. Men will always do
what's right in their own eyes. That's the problem. Men and women
imagine God to be altogether such as one as they themselves
are. So they do what they think is
right, thinking that's what the Lord would think is right, and
it's most of the time, all the time, wrong, just the opposite. If
left to ourselves, and the Lord has to reveal this to you, but
if left to ourselves, we are capable of doing the most ignorant
and blasphemous things. And that's why the true children
of God pray consistently and pretty much constantly that the
Lord doesn't let them have their own way, that the Lord doesn't
leave us to ourselves. Now, I don't want my way. The end of my way is the way
of death. I don't want that. I want His
way. I hadn't always been that way, but it's that way now, and
I'm thankful for that. We don't want to do what's right
in our own eyes, do we? We will do and choose what's
wrong for us every single time. And if we ever do make a right
choice, it'll be only because the Lord has divinely intervened
and influenced us. And that's why in every situation,
He gets all the glory and all the honor. In chapter 17, as
we saw last time, we have a man named Micah who's desperately
trying to atone for his own sins. There's a great problem with
that. He can't. And none of us can. It's a problem
for all of us. We cannot atone for our sin. You know, when God brought that
last plague upon Egypt, the death of the firstborn, Exodus chapter
11 tells us that there was going to be such a great cry throughout
all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall
be like it anymore. And can you imagine? People waking
up to the firstborn of their children, the firstborn of their
beast, all dead for no apparent reason other than that's what
God had said would happen and that's what God calls to happen.
And can you imagine the cries and the moans throughout the
land when that happened? But the scripture also says in
Exodus 11, but against any of the children of Israel shall
not a dog move his tongue against man or beast, that you may know
that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel."
That's so comforting to the child of God. There's a great life-giving
difference with those who have no sovereign and those that do. The only difference between us
having eternal life and receiving everlasting condemnation is the
difference of having and not having Christ. And it's just
that simple. It's just that cut and dry. Someone said one time, brother,
you're a bit dogmatic. Well, thank you. Because God's
dogmatic and so is the scriptures. We did not set ourselves apart. God will not accept a high priest
of our own making. When it comes to the permanent
removal of sin, there is only one high priest that God will
accept, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews 2.17 says,
it behooved the Lord Jesus to be made like unto his brethren,
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things
pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. You know, when Adam sinned and
we in Adam sinned with him as he being our federal head, we
died spiritually as God said we would. And we were alienated
from God. To be reconciled to God, we've
got to be as perfect and holy as God is. Now, how are we going
to do that? Well, there's only one way. And that's the Lord
Jesus being our high priest. And by the sacrifice of Himself,
He reconciled us to God. He reconciled us. He made reconciliation
for the sins. of the people. Now that word
behooved there, that's a pretty strong word. It means that the
Lord was bound and indebted to be His people's high priest.
Now where most people get that wrong is that He wasn't indebted
to us. Not us the sinner. He was indebted
to His Father to sacrifice Himself for all that the Father would
give Him. All that the Father gave Him,
He died for. And all of them will be reconciled
to God. He gave Christ to His people
before the foundation of the world. The Lord Jesus was the
only one who could reconcile His people to His Father. And
you know, this is something else I found very interesting. Preachers probably learn more
in studying to prepare a message than you might think. And I'm
so thankful to be able to study the scriptures to bring these
things out. The word Pharisee means to be
set apart. I didn't know that. The word
Pharisee means separatist. And also the word saint. means
to be set apart. That word saint means consecrated. The only difference between the
Pharisee and the saint is the one who does the setting apart. That's the only difference. No
difference in any of us by nature. Only the difference that God
makes. The saints are set apart from God and the Pharisees set
themselves apart. And they set themselves above
This is the difference that the Lord makes. Now, when there is
no prophet, no priest or king, men speak perverse things about
God. You know, Micah and his mother,
Israelites, who are supposed to be worshiping the living God. And what do we find them doing? They're mixing the worship of
God with idolatry. Micah's mother's praising the
Lord with her lips and her heart's far from him. You know, James
in chapter three, verses 11 and 12 wrote, doth a fountain send
forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig
tree, my brethren, bear olive berries and either a vine figs,
so can No fountain both yields salt, water, and fresh. And that's
what's going on here. She's honoring God with her lips
and cursing the Lord with her actions of idolatry. And that's
exactly what goes on in religion today. There's no doubt that
perilous times have come. Cursing and blessing out of the
same mouth. Many in religion today say that God has the power
to save. But they only have a form of
godliness and they deny the power of. Men say things like God is
love. But God, whom they claim loves
all men without exception, is going to wind up sending most
everyone that he supposedly loves to hell because they don't love
him back. That's speaking out of both sides
of the mouth. That's blessing and cursing coming
out of the same mouth. If that's so, then what does
the love of God have to do with anything? I mean, really. If
God loves those who wind up perishing, what does His love have to do
with anything? But you and I know that those whom He loves, He
calls, He justly, He ordained, He foreordained, He chose, He
calls, He justifies, and one day He's gonna glorify. Men and
women speak blessing and cursing out of the same mouth. James
added, out of the same mouth proceeded blessing and cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not to be so. I know men who will, to your
face, tell you that you're not under the law but under grace.
Well now brother, you're not under the law now, you're under
grace. But they'll put you under the law in a heartbeat if you
don't believe and act as the law says you should. That's speaking
out both sides of the mouth. When there's no prophet to tell
you of the sovereign, when there's no king reigning in your heart,
When there's no high priest to put your sin away, you'll do,
think, and speak what's right in your own eyes. It ought not
be that both blessing and cursing come out of our mouths. How can
a man say that salvation is of the Lord? I've been thinking
a lot about this lately. And then say that God made salvation
possible. That's just, that's contrary. That's saying two different things
out of the same mouth. It's to speak blessings and cursings
out of the same mouth. That word possible means able
to happen, although not certain to. It's possible. It's able
to happen, though not possible to. Now listen, if salvation
is of the Lord, then God has never made salvation possible.
He's made it certain. See, that's what we talked about
briefly. Sunday, that little word is, is what we call a definite
article. Did you notice what I said? The
word is, is? It's a definite article. The word is definitely means
that it is. Is means that it is definite. Not maybe. Not if you do or add
something. It is. Salvation is of the Lord. It's not made possible. It's
certain because of what God did in Christ. He kept the law of
God perfectly. Definitely so. He satisfied the
demands of holy justice. Definitely so. Christ was obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. Definitely so. Then did he only make salvation
possible? Or does the Sovereign King of
Kings make it certain? He made it certain. The Lord
Jesus Christ conquered death by dying. He conquered death
by satisfying God's justice. Christ conquered death by providing
everything that God required for the penalty and putting away
of sin. He didn't make it possible. He made it certain. A believer
will not tell you the salvations of the Lord if you let go and
let God have his way in your life. That's a blessing and cursing
out of the same mouth. And I'll add what James did,
it ought not be so. Not by a believer, not by one
who professes to know God. The believer serves a sovereign
king. All things are certain with a
sovereign. And that's why we love the sovereignty
of God. Paul wrote, according as it is
written, I believe and therefore I have spoken. We also believe
and therefore speak. You see, we speak what we believe. Out of the abundance of the heart,
the mouth speaks. And we know what men believe
by what they speak. I say this all the time, and
I'm guilty of it myself. Men tell on themselves. You just
listen to somebody talk for a while, they'll tell on themselves. They'll
tell what they really believe, they'll tell who they really
believe in. We speak what we believe. Micah and his mother
did. Why was this confusion and contradiction
in the heart? Same reason that it's in the
heart of men and women today. There's no prophet, no priest,
and no king in Israel, not in men and women's hearts. It is
he, the sovereign Lord, that doth put a difference between
you and those who don't. Now, it's just that simple. That's
the only reason. Now, as I said, Micah's mother,
as we looked at last time, her son, Micah, stole 1,100 shekels
of silver. And the scripture says she's
cursed. She was upset. She was cursing. I like getting
my hands on the blankety-blank that stole my silver. I could
just hear it, can't you? And Michael was under some kind
of a conviction, and he told his mom, he said, I took it.
I took it, and I'm going to give it all back to you. And she said,
well, if you do, I'm going to dedicate it to you being a good
boy. And what'd she do? She took 200 of the 1,100, and
she gave it to the silversmith to make a couple idols. And then
she gave those idols to Michael. And she thought, you know, we
can set up our own little synagogue here. There's no need for us
to go all the way to Shiloh and worship the Lord. There's no,
we'll make our own little synagogue. We can set up our own little
idols, our own little symbols to worship. And so she made these
and gave them to Micah and he added them to his collection
of idols. He had a big collection of idols. Scripture
says they filled his house. Look at verse five, and the man
Micah had a house of gods. And he made an ephod, ephod,
excuse me, and a teraphim and consecrated one of his sons who
became his priest. In addition to these idols that
filled his house, Micah made an ephod, and an ephod is like
that breastplate, it's a breastplate that the high priest wore, remember,
with those 12 stones that represented the 12 tribes of Israel? It was
that special garment that the high priest wore when he went
into the Holy of Holies to offer sacrifice unto God. And, Micah
made one himself. He said, we're going to set this
up real good, just like down in Shiloh, just like in the tabernacle. And then that word teraphim,
that's a plural word. This is talking about several
images, a family of idols, so to speak. And Micah had idols
everywhere in his house. You know, I knew a lady one time
that collected roosters. ceramic roosters, pictures of
roosters, and everywhere you looked in their house, there
were roosters. Not real ones, but, you know,
everywhere you looked. But Michael was that way with
Idahs. He had them everywhere. And to
top it all off, Michael consecrated one of his own sons to become
his priest. And now he's got it all covered.
He's thinking to himself, no need to worship in Shiloh. Like
mom said, we've got everything that we need right here. Everything
we need. You know, in our study of Joshua,
we saw who and what Shiloh typified and represented. Christ is our
Shiloh. Christ is our tabernacle. Christ is our Shiloh, the house
of God. Christ, our Shiloh, is where
God the Father resides. Christ is our Shiloh, which means
to Him it belongs. It all belongs to Him. He's our
Shiloh. Christ, our Shiloh, is the sent
one. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
one sent of God. That's what Shiloh means. It
means to prosper. Shiloh means peace. Shiloh means
rest. Micah didn't do anything but
set up his own Shiloh. And he made his own tabernacle.
His house was, he considered to be the house of God. Without
Christ, he believed God to reside with him. He believed that he
didn't need the sent one. He thought he could accomplish
and finish the work that God required himself. He could prosper
on his own. He could provide the peace and
the rest that he needed. He could provide his own high
priest. He could offer his own sacrifice. He could provide all
that God required, and he did what was right in his own eyes. And friends, that's exactly what
works religion does today. This is what happens when there's
no prophet to teach, when there's no priest to atone, and when
there's no king to rule. Every man and woman does what
is right in their own eyes. In churches today, there's statutes,
there's creeds, man-made ordinances and practices, confessing sins
to a man-made priest. It's nothing but idolatry. I
had a man that attended here a couple times and caught me
at the back of the church. It hadn't been that long ago.
And he said he wanted to read our church creed. I said, we
don't have one. And he was appalled. He said, what do you mean you
don't have a church creed? I said, well, we have one. It's
the Lord Jesus Christ. And our church creed is from
right here to right here in this book. That's the only church
creed we've got, the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'll add, He hasn't
been back. But Jesus Christ and Him crucified,
that's our creed. Look at verse seven. And there
was a young man out of Bethlehem, Judah, of the family of Judah,
who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. More than likely, this
man, how do you be of the family of Judah and also a Levite? Well,
more than likely, his father was a Levite and his mother was
of Judah. I don't know, we're not told.
But this man from Bethlehem, Judah, who was a Levite, he shows
up, in Micah's town or at Micah's house? I don't know, we're not
told. But now Micah, now listen, Micah has the opportunity to
upgrade. He got the opportunity to upgrade
his priest. In religion, folks upgrade churches
all the time. This church or that church has
a little more of what they want, so they start attending there.
In verse eight, and the man departed out of the city from Bethlehem,
Judah as a sojourn where he could find a place. Now a place there
you notice is italicized. That means it was added. What
that should say is that he sojourned where he could find a job. He's
looking for a job. He's looking for a position.
And he came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah as he journeyed. He's looking for work. He's a
Levite from Bethlehem, Judah, and the nation of Israel had
fallen so low and it was so bad in the idol worship and stuff
that nobody even gave thought to the true God of the Bible.
And young men and women today, And I say women on purpose because
they do come out of seminaries today and they send out resumes
all across the country. And they're looking for the best
job opportunity available. And some are going to get a position.
I call it a position. I'm not a church because they're
not churches. They get a position, they do
well at building the numbers, and then bigger opportunities
arise. And I remember growing up in
the church that I attended, well, we never had a pastor for more
than two or three years. Because most of the time they
were looking for a little bigger church and a little more money.
I mean, I'm just, let's just tell it like it is. You know what that is? That's
the way in the doctrine of Balaam. That's all it is. Their service
always goes to the highest bidder. I remember Brother Mahan said
one time that when he was young, someone asked him to come there
and pastor. And the first thing they asked
him was, well, how much would it take to get you to come here
and pastor? And he said, well, how much does
it take for you to live? He said, that's what it'll take.
He said, I'd like to have a nice house like you got, and I'd like
to drive a nice car like you do. So whatever you make, that'll
work. Yeah, I don't think they called
him. That's what this Levite was doing.
He's wandering around looking for someone taking me and he
was looking for an opportunity. He was looking for a job. In
verse nine, and Micah said unto him, once comest thou? And he
said unto him, I'm a Levite of Bethlehem, Judah, and I go to
sojourn where I may find a job. I'm looking for a job and I've
got credentials. I'm from Bethlehem, Judah. And
I'm a Levite, I'm qualified to be a priest. Look at verse 10. And Micah said unto him, dwell
with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I'll give you
10 shekels of silver by the year. Now I don't know how much that
is, but I don't think it's much for a whole year. And a suit
of apparel, and I'll feed you, I'll give you your vittles. Now
look at this. So the Levite went in. He accepted
the position. And the Levite, verse 11, was
content to dwell with the man, and the young man was unto him
as one of his sons, and Micah consecrated. He ordained and
confirmed the Levite. They had a little ceremony, I
guess, a little ordination ceremony. And friends, that is exactly
what's going on in religion. Men are putting their dirty hands
on men and women's dirty heads, and dirty is the results. God's not in it. And the young
man became his priest and was in the house of Micah. Now he was in Micah's house,
but I can assure you that the Lord wasn't in the house, but
Micah thought so. Verse 13. Then said Micah, now
know I that the Lord will do me good. Singing, I have a Levite. I've got the real thing, not
my makeshift son. I have the real thing, I've got
a Levite. Be my priest. I'm good to go.
The Lord's gonna do me good. Me and the Lord got a good thing
going. How many times have you heard folks say blasphemous things
like that? I've got the blessings of God.
I've got me a man to be my priest. I've got me a man to be my intercessor. I've got a man to be my mediator. And that's what he had. He had
a man. Not the God man. Only one problem
with it. There's only one mediator. And
he is the man, Christ Jesus. Not just any man's gonna do.
He has the man. You know, back when I was in
high school, in the 70s, we used to say all the time, you the
man, you the man, you remember that saying, you've heard that
saying. No, he might be a man, but he's not the man. The only
one who can mediate between God and us is THE man, Christ Jesus. There's only one. Only one. That's the one you've got to
have. You remember when the kings of the plain, back in our study
of Genesis, maybe not, it's been a while now, but the kings of
the plain invaded Sodom. And they took all the spoils
of Sodom and many residents and Lot, the nephew of Abraham, was
one of the men that they captured, one of those captured. And Abraham
heard about this and he got involved. And with 318 men, they defeated
those kings and rescued Lot. And a matter of fact, let's look
at that. Turn back with me to Genesis
chapter 14. You can hold your place in judges. I don't know
if we're going to come back to it or not, but look at Genesis
chapter 14 verse 17 with me. This is worth taking the time
to look at. Genesis 14 verse 17. This is after they've defeated
the kings and verse 17 says, and the king of Sodom went out
to meet him, that being Abraham, after his return from the slaughter
of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him at the valley
of Shaveh, which is the Kingsdale. So what we have here is that
the king of Sodom, he comes out and he thanks Abraham for his
help in this matter. And he offers to give him all
the spoils. And Abraham declines. He's not going to be indebted
to this evil king. He said, I wouldn't even take
a shoe latchet from you. I wouldn't take any shoestrings
from you. Because I don't want you to say that the King of Sodom
blessed me. The Lord's the one that blessed
me, not you. But look at verse 18. This is
the point I'm wanting to make. And I hope the Lord gives me
some clarity on this, because this is a real blessing. We're
talking about no prophet, no king, and no priest. And Melchizedek,
king of Salem. Now the correct interpretation
of the name Melchizedek is the king of righteousness. There's
no doubt in my mind that Melchizedek is a pre-incarnate appearance
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Melchizedek, king of Salem,
brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the
Most High. Jesus Christ is. And he blessed
him, he blessed Abraham. And he said, blessed be Abram
of the most high, possessor of heaven and earth. And blessed
be the most high, which hath delivered thine enemies into
thine hand. And he gave him tithes of all. Abraham gave Melchizedek tithes
of all, all that he had. Abraham gave to him tithes and
everything he had, and Melchizedek blessed Abraham. Now I want you
to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 6, and look at verse 20. Hebrews chapter 6, verse 20. It says, whither the forerunner
is for us entered, even Jesus. made a high priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. Now verse 1 of chapter 7, For
this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High, who
met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed
him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being
by interpretation king of righteousness. You see friends, our righteousness
is nothing but filthy rags. We have no standing at all before
God. Christ must be our standing before
God. He's got to be our righteousness.
He's our faithful high priest. Look, read on verse two. And
after that, also king of Salem, which is king of peace. Melchizedek
was not only a priest, but he was a king. He was without father,
verse three, without mother, and without descent, having neither
beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the
Son of God, abideth a priest continually. Now don't let that
word like throw you off. It just means in this case, the
Lord had many pre-incarnate appearances. This is just saying, this is
the one that was like in the person of Melchizedek. But he's
without father, without mother, without a sin that had beginning
of days nor end of life. This is the Lord Jesus Christ.
He can't be traced to any family on earth. He's without father,
without mother, without descent. He's a priest continually, it
says. Now verse four, now consider how great this man was. Now notice that was is in italics. That means it was there. You
can just leave it off. Now consider how great this man was. Our Melchizedek,
the king of righteousness, the king of peace, the one who reigns
in Israel, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth
of the spoils. In verse five, and verily, they
that are of the sons of Levi, who received the office of the
priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people
according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they
came out of the loins of Abraham. Now stay with me on this. Adam
was our federal head. When we were in the loins of
Adam, we were in the loins of Adam when he sinned. When Adam
sinned, we sinned. With Adam as our representative,
we were with him when he sinned and we sinned in him. The Lord
Jesus Christ is the federal head of his church. He is the seed
in which we were. And here is the point that I
am endeavoring to make. Did you notice there in verse
five that the Levites had the commandment to take or receive
the tithes from the people of Israel? But Melchizedek's not
a Levite, and yet he received tithes from Abraham. And what
did Melchizedek do? He blessed Abraham with the blessings
of God. Now, let's go back to what Micah
said there in verse 13, the end of chapter 17. He said, now I
know that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite
to be my priest. Now listen and rejoice in this.
Now we know as children of the prophet and the priest and the
king of kings, who is our great high priest, that we have the
blessings of God because we have Christ. He's of the tribe of Judah, not
Levi. Now look at verse six. But he
whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of
Abraham and blessed him that had the promises. And without
all contradiction, The less is blessed of the better. What the
Lord, the Holy Spirit is telling us here is that Melchizedek is
better than Abraham. To the Jews, you couldn't get
any better than Abraham. But the Lord's saying, oh yes,
you can. This is Jesus Christ, the Son
of God. Abraham was lesser and was blessed
by the greater. Melchizedek received tithes from
Abraham. In verse eight, and here, men
that die receive tithes. But there he received them of
whom it is witnessed that he liveth. This Melchizedek is alive. This is speaking of Christ. And
he received tithes from Abraham. And look at verse nine. And as
I may so say, Levi also who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
How did he do it? He wasn't even born yet. Levi
was in the loins of Abraham, just as we were in the loins
of Adam when he sinned. He wasn't to be born till almost
two generations later. But when Abraham paid tithes
to Melchizedek, so did Levi. And what the writer of Hebrews
is telling us is, is the Levitical priesthood, it's coming to an
end. It's done. And there's a new
priest that's not of the tribe of Levi. He is of the tribe of
Judah and he shall never die. Now that's good news if he's
your high priest. That's good news if he's your
prophet. That's good news if he's your
king. This is the new priest, he's
of the tribe of Judah. Verse 10, for he, Levi, was yet
in the loins of his father, Abraham, when Melchizedek met him. If
therefore perfection, and that's what we gotta be, we gotta be
perfect to be accepted. If therefore perfection were
by the Levitical priesthood, what further need was there that
another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek and
not be called after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood
being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of
the law. For he of whom these things are
spoken, pertaineth to another tribe of which no man can, which
no man gave attendance at the altar, for it's evident that
our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spake nothing
concerning priesthood. It was for the tribe of Levi.
And it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude
of Melchizedek, there ariseth another priest who is made not
after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless
life. For he testifies, thou art a
priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. And friends,
this is our hope. This is the only hope that we
have. There's no prophet who has told, there is a prophet,
I should say, that has told us the truth. And there is a priest
who has sacrificed himself for us. And there is a King who's
done everything for us. Verse 18, for there is barely
a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness
and unprofitableness thereof. Let me say it this way. The Levitical
priesthood never saved a soul. It was just a picture and a type
of the Lord Jesus Christ priesthood, which was to come. And it came. Look at verse 21, for those priests
who were made without an oath, but this with an oath by him
that said unto him, the Lord swear and will not repent. He's
not gonna change. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. By so much more was Jesus made
a surety of a better testament. And they truly were many priests
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.
They died, they were just men. But this man, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the God-man, because he continueth forever, hath an
unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able to save
them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing that
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. for such a high priest
became us. He became us, that we might become
Him, who's holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made
higher than the heavens. Who needeth not daily as those
high priests to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then
for the people's, for this He did once when He offered up Himself. For the law maketh men high priests,
which hath infirmity. But the word of the oath, which
was since the law, maketh the son who is consecrated forevermore. Now look at verse eight. We need
to remember these chapters and verses were added. Now of the
things, verse one, which we have spoken, this is the sum. So we're
gonna wrap it up right here. We have such a high priest who
is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the
heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which
the Lord pitched and not man. There's a big difference when
there's no prophet, priest, or king in Israel. Men don't mix
truth with error. They're gonna mix worship and
idolatry. They're gonna desperately attempt
to be on God's side and yet make a priest out of just any man,
most of the time themselves. But we have a great church. the Lord Jesus Christ in whom
we are accepted. And because of that, he's worthy
of all our worship. Every bit of God, may God enable
us to truly worship him. He deserves all our worship and
praise. He's my prophet, priest, and
king.