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The Apostle And High Priest

Hebrews 3
Joe Galuszek • May, 10 2026 • Video & Audio
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Joe Galuszek
Joe Galuszek • May, 10 2026
503 sermons

The sermon titled “The Apostle And High Priest” by Joe Galuszek focuses on the dual role of Christ as both the Apostle and High Priest, as presented in Hebrews 3. Galuszek emphasizes the superiority of Christ over figures like Moses and angels, underscoring that all believers are set apart and consecrated through Christ's righteousness rather than their own efforts. He cites Hebrews 3:1-4 to assert that Christ provides ultimate authority in matters of faith, confirming His eternal priesthood after the order of Melchizedek. The practical significance of this doctrine is profound, illustrating that believers are justified before God solely through Christ, who intercedes for them. Ultimately, the sermon celebrates the believer's identity in Christ, reinforcing the Reformed doctrines of election, grace, and the assurance of salvation through faith.

Key Quotes

“God's love for us does not depend on our loveliness. That's a good thing. That's a good thing, upon his own character.”

“Understand, this is not boasting. This is just a statement of fact by this writer here.”

“How can a man be just with God? One way. There's the way. In Christ Jesus. The apostle and the high priest of our profession.”

“God's justice is satisfied in Christ Jesus. God's holiness is perfect in Christ Jesus. And God's love is manifested in Christ Jesus.”

What does the Bible say about Jesus as our High Priest?

The Bible declares Jesus as our great High Priest who intercedes for us and fulfills the sacrificial system.

The New Testament presents Jesus as the great High Priest, a figure unlike any other in the Old Testament. He is said to have passed into the heavens and now resides at the right hand of God, continually making intercession for His people (Hebrews 4:14, 7:25). This role is significant as it assures believers that their sins are covered by His sacrifice once for all, as stated in Hebrews 9:26, where it emphasizes that He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Thus, His role as High Priest underscores the complete and sufficient work of Christ in securing our salvation.

Hebrews 4:14, Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 9:26

How do we know Christ being our Apostle is true?

We know Christ is our Apostle because Scripture designates Him as the ultimate authority in our faith.

The title 'Apostle' applied to Jesus in Hebrews emphasizes His unique role in God's revelation and authority over the church. Unlike the lesser apostles who were sent by Christ, Jesus Himself is described as 'the Apostle' (Hebrews 3:1), which signifies that He is both the messenger and the message, sent from God with divine authority. The author of Hebrews argues that Jesus is superior to all other mediators, including Moses and the angels, establishing that true authority and revelation come through Him alone. Thus, this understanding is firmly rooted in the affirmation of His divine nature and mission.

Hebrews 3:1

Why is being a partaker of a heavenly calling important for Christians?

Being a partaker of the heavenly calling is fundamental as it signifies our salvation and transformation in Christ.

The concept of being partakers of a heavenly calling encompasses the belief that God, in His sovereign grace, has chosen and set apart believers for a special purpose. This calling is not by our merit but is a gift from God, indicating that believers are participants in His holiness and righteousness (Hebrews 3:1). It validates the transformative work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, manifesting changes in how we view Christ and live our lives. Therefore, it is crucial for Christians to recognize their identity as called and set apart by God, reinforcing their assurance and hope in salvation.

Hebrews 3:1

How can a man be just with God?

A man can be just with God only through faith in Jesus Christ, our apostle and high priest.

The question of how a man can be just with God is addressed throughout Scripture, culminating in the understanding that justification is found solely in Jesus Christ, who acts as our apostle and high priest. As Romans 8:33-34 highlights, it is Christ who justifies us; therefore, nothing can stand against those God has chosen. His atoning work secures our righteousness before God, satisfying divine justice and making us acceptable in His sight. This is the essence of the sovereign grace theology that underscores that our justification is by faith, apart from any works of our own.

Romans 8:33-34, Hebrews 3:1

Sermon Transcript

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Sovereign Grace Chapel, located at 135 Annabel Lane in Beaver, West Virginia, invites you to listen to a gospel message concerning Jesus Christ our Lord. If you'd like to follow along, I'm going to be in Hebrews chapter three. Hebrews chapter three. I'm gonna read the first four verses.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honor than the house. For every house is built by some man, but he that built all things is God. I like that. I like that a lot. Understand, John Owen said this. God's love for us does not depend on our loveliness. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. upon his own character.

And I say, thank God. Thank God. My title today is The Apostle and the High Priest. The Apostle and High Priest. But we're starting in verse one where the writer starts off with this statement, wherefore, holy brethren, He just spent the first two chapters telling us why Christ is better than everybody. That's the wherefore. Christ is better than Moses, Christ is better than the angels, Christ is better than, Christ is God. Jesus Christ is God. You understand? The angels are just ministering spirits, but Jesus Christ is God.

He's the Son the Father sent forth to speak to us. And we have his words. We have his whole book right here. Now this is not the whole story of Christ. This is not the whole story of Jesus Christ. It's the whole story we know. There's multitudes more of stuff that we don't know. And we're not supposed to know. Yet or maybe ever.

But this is what he's given to us. But wherefore, and then he says this, Holy brethren, holy brethren. You know what that means? Consecrated brethren. Now, not consecrated by themselves. Not consecrated by themselves. See, it means set apart brothers, brethren. And this may or may not be physical. Most of it is not. Most of it's not. But this is a title to those of like precious faith. This is a title for believers, holy brethren, consecrated brethren, set apart brethren.

Who is it? It is we, the body of Christ. Those who know the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom Christ has been revealed. This is the church, the assembly, are wholly set apart, how? By Jesus Christ, by Christ. We don't set ourselves apart. No, we are set apart by God. Oh my, that's good. You understand, this is not boasting. This is just a statement of fact by this writer here.

And here's the thing, we know, believers know, the holy brethren know, they didn't make themselves holy. They didn't consecrate themselves, they did not set themselves apart. Because what believers know is this, holiness is unto the Lord. Not to us, not to us. And we are holy only in our Lord Jesus Christ. He's gonna get into that a little bit, but you know. But the main thing I wanna tell you here, it's not of yourselves. It's not of myself, it's not of ourselves.

But in him we are holy, brethren. In him we are, oh my. But then it says this, and this part I do like, partakers of the heavenly calling. You know what that means? Participants, participants, partakers of the holy calling. Now, we are a participant, we are not the source. There is a holy calling. but it's not because of us. It's because of him who calls.

Believers by grace partake actually in his holiness, his righteousness. We are given his righteousness in Christ Jesus. What does it say? It says by grace you are saved. By grace you are saved. We are holy brethren, we are believers, and we are partakers. because we are given. We are given life, we are given faith, we are given his holiness.

And we do partake in it, why? Because he gives it and you do receive it. It's not a, how do you put it? Basically, the best way is just the simple way. It's a gift. We are given to Christ by God. All those that the Father giveth me, what? Shall come to me. And we are partakers. Oh, I like that, I do. Understand, we know the source of holiness. We know the source of the holy calling. And participants of the summons from heaven. What did Christ say? He said, there are those who are dead. but they're gonna hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear, what? Shall live, shall live.

I'm gonna tell you folks, that's a holy calling. It's not only because of you, it's holy because of he who calls. It's a heavenly calling, because what? We are born from above. And John 1 says, born of God. born of God, that's a holy calling. That's a holy calling. Participants of the summons from heaven, those who are called, those who are given to Christ from out of the world, they're born from above, born of God.

There's a song we sing sometimes, it says, free election, known by calling, is a privilege divine. Saints are kept from final falling, but here's the thing. All the glory, Lord, is thine. It's his. Oh, my. It's his election, it's his calling. It's his life, and it's his glory. Oh, but we are partakers. We are participants. You understand, folks, When God saves people, when God calls people, things change. For you. For you. I can testify. I became concerned with the things of Christ where I'd never had before. I like to hear about Christ where I never did before. I like to know about Christ like I never did before. And you know what? 40 years down the road, guess what? I still do. I still do. Now my family still hasn't figured out what's wrong with me, but that's okay.

I hope God chose them one day. But thank God I know the one thing that's right with me and I know it's the one thing that's right with you. And that is that by Christ, you are a partaker of the heavenly calling. By Christ, you are holy brethren. And that's not boasted. Although it makes me smile. You know, it's all right.

I can't help it. because here's the way it works, just the same way it worked for Apostle Paul. He wrote it in Galatians 1 and 15. But when it pleased God, what? Who separated me from my mother's womb, that's one thing, but here's this, and called me by his grace, by his grace.

Oh my, I like that. Now, he'd just say this. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, That's all of you. That's me. All believers, here, do this. Consider. That's the word he says, consider. What? The apostle. You understand? The apostle.

Now you understand, there's only two places in the scripture where it uses this definite article, the, in front of the word apostle. One of them was where Paul said, I am the apostle to the Gentiles, which is true. What he's saying, he says it's a singular apostle to the Gentiles. The authoritative apostle of the Gentiles.

But you understand, this is the other place right here where he says the apostle. And consider him fully. Behold the apostle. Perceive, look. The writer's gonna say something important here, and what he says is important for the holy brethren, for the partakers of the heavenly calling. What did he tell us? I think I looked it up seven times. Paul wrote a version of this statement. I would not have you to be ignorant. Consider this. Consider this. Oh my. Because I'm gonna tell you something. Our natural state is ignorance. And Paul says, I don't want you to be ignorant.

Consider, consider the apostle, the apostle. Now, understand, an apostle, where it said, Paul wrote it several times, I am an apostle to Jesus Christ. An apostle had authority from Christ to preach the gospel and to establish assemblies, but the apostle, where it says it here, the apostle is the authority. We're gonna find out, it's gonna tell us, the apostle is the authority because he is the delegate, the ambassador, and consider the apostle, and it tells us, Christ Jesus. You understand? There is no authority above Christ Jesus. I'm gonna say this for anybody that happens to see this on YouTube or on TV or anything. As far as Catholics go, I was born and raised one for 23 years.

The apostle doesn't need a vicar. That's what they call the pope, the vicar of Christ. No, no, no, Paul tells us here, the writer of Hebrews tells us here, he's the apostle. He's the apostle. I'm gonna tell you something, folks. There is no church established outside, or excuse me, without the apostle Jesus Christ. There is no authority without Jesus Christ. Oh my.

He is Lord over all. By him, through him, for him were all things made and by him all things consist. He's the apostle, the apostle. And I'm gonna tell you, that includes churches, that includes assemblies, that includes his body. the church. He is the apostle, and there is no authority apart from the apostle, Jesus Christ. But then it gives us this, the apostle and high priest of our profession. Oh my. We have, now this is in Hebrews, and it's gonna go into it in a lot more detail. We have the high priest. in a place he'll tell us a little later on, our great high priest. Oh my. Let's see.

John Owen wrote this, that Christ, abiding, living, a priest forever, hath no more a vicar or successor or substitute in his office, nor any deriving a real priesthood from him than had Melchizedek. You understand, Melchizedek stood alone in the Old Testament. He's a priest forever. A high priest forever, according, what is that, according to Melchizedek. What? Melchizedek had no mother, no father, no beginning, no end.

That's our Lord Jesus Christ. And he is our great high priest forever. He has not stopped being our high priest. He is our high priest. This book sets it forth clearly. We have a great high priest. We have the great high priest. Oh my, well here I just quoted what I was doing. 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. What, he is the high priest of our profession. Oh my, I like that.

Now it doesn't say hold fast to your profession, it says hold fast your profession. Why, what's that mean? Keep believing. Keep believing. What? Continue. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. Hold fast your profession. He's your profession. My only profession is that Jesus Christ is Lord. He's my profession.

Christ is still the great high priest, and his sacrifice and offering was made 2,000 years ago, but he's still our high priest. We have an high priest, the high priest. Hebrews 9, that was 9 and 12. 9 and 26 says this, for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world, but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. He's not only our high priest, he's the sacrifice. And it was offered, like I said, 2,000 years ago. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

And he is, what does it say here? Consider the high apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. That's in the present tense. He is the apostle and the high priest. You understand, a lot of people wanna deal with and wanna talk about Jesus was. No, Jesus is. What'd he say in the Old Testament? What is my name? Say I am. Not I was, not I will be, I am.

And Jesus Christ is, is. The apostle and the high priest, and what's, he ever lives to make intercession For us, for us, oh my. Who's us? Holy brethren and partakers of the heavenly calling. Oh my. Our profession is of Jesus Christ. And our profession is Jesus Christ. Oh my. Our profession is this. He's the apostle and he's the high priest. Oh, my. And what's it say? Christ Jesus, the anointed Messiah, the chosen Savior. I said it a few weeks ago, he's the shepherd and the sovereign of our souls. Well, he's also the apostle and the high priest, all at the same time. all at the same time.

We don't have a word that can encompass all of what Jesus Christ is. We don't have 10,000 words that can encompass all of what Jesus Christ is because we don't know. And anybody that says they know is lying. We don't know. We are incapable. There's a reason it says his thoughts are not your thoughts. Because they're not. That's why.

What's it say? Our profession is Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. The what? The apostle and the high priest. Oh my. What are we saying? We're saying Christ is all. And right here, you understand, the most serious question that a person has to deal with is this.

How can a man be just with God? Here's your answer, folks. If he's the apostle and the high priest, and if he's your apostle and your high priest, oh, you have a sacrifice already been made and satisfied the Father. You understand, because where it says, how can a man be just with God, or how is man justified with God? A lot of people don't understand exactly what that question actually is. This means, how can man be righteous before God?

One way. There's the way. In Christ Jesus. The apostle and the high priest of our profession. Oh my. You understand, it tells us. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemneth? It's Christ that died. It's Christ that died.

Yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Why? He's the apostle and the high priest of our profession. He ever liveth to make intercession for us. And he makes intercession for us. Oh, you understand why, right? We need intercession. We need him interceding.

You understand it says, blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Why won't God impute sin to a man? That man's committed sin. Because of the apostle and the high priest of our profession. Because of the bishop and the sovereign of your soul. Understand, it's not because of you. It's not because of me. It's not even because of us all together.

It's because of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ Jesus, oh my. God's justice is satisfied in Christ Jesus. God's holiness is perfect in Christ Jesus. And God's love is manifested in Christ Jesus. And God's glory is seen in Christ Jesus. in Christ Jesus. Oh my. And it is God that justifies us in Christ Jesus. Because Christ Jesus is God manifest in the flesh.

I had a visitation in the weeks I've been away by the Jehovah Witnesses. And I answered the door. I didn't know who they were. I found out though. Well, see this is the thing. Jesus Christ is God. They don't teach that. They don't teach that. They say Jehovah's God and I agree, Jehovah is God. And I said, yeah. But Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. And he's still in the flesh. Oh my. Great is the mystery of godliness. You wanna know why that's true? Because man naturally got no inkling of who God is. Man, as he is born, does not understand the things of the spirit of God. And I'm gonna tell you something, Christ Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our profession, is a spiritual thing. It's a spiritual truth.

Even though he's a physical man, still. There's a man seated at the right hand of the majesty on high. Oh my. but Christ Jesus is the apostle and high priest, and I'll say it this way, of your soul, of your soul. It is his work of salvation from beginning to end, well, no, not end, from beginning to completion, from beginning to completion.

Why? Because we are and shall be complete in him, in him. I am, says Christ, your glorious head. May we attention give the resurrection of the dead, the life of all that live. By faith in me, the soul receives new life, though dead before, and he that in my name believes shall live to die no more. John Newton wrote that. And I believe I can say amen to that. He is the apostle and the high priest of our profession, and his name is Christ Jesus. And I'm gonna tell you something, folks. Holy brethren and partakers of the heavenly calling know him. And they're happy about it.
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