My Prophet, Priest, and King

Q: What does the Bible say about Christ being our Prophet?

The Bible reveals that Jesus Christ fulfills the role of Prophet, speaking the words of God and revealing the Father to us. In Deuteronomy 18:17-18, God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses, referring to Jesus Christ. Throughout Scripture, Christ is revealed as the ultimate Prophet who speaks God's definitive words to us. Hebrews 1:1-2 states, 'God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son.' Through Christ, the fullness of God’s revelation is given. He always was and always will be our Prophet, revealing God’s purpose, glory, and mercy to humanity.

Q: How do we know that Jesus is our high Priest?

Jesus is identified as our High Priest in the order of Melchizedek, offering one sacrifice for all sin. Scripture indicates that Jesus Christ is our High Priest, perfecting our redemption with His own blood. Hebrews 7:17 affirms this by stating, 'For He testifies: 'You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.' Jesus' priesthood is eternal and transcendent, unlike the temporary Levitical priesthood, which offered sacrifices that could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:11). Through His sacrifice on the cross, Jesus accomplished what the earlier priests could only symbolize, making a full and final atonement for all those He redeems.

Q: Why is it significant that Jesus is both Prophet, Priest, and King?

Jesus as Prophet, Priest, and King encapsulates His complete role in salvation, revealing God, redeeming humanity, and reigning in sovereignty. The threefold office of Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King is central to understanding His redemptive work. As Prophet, He reveals God's will and grace to us; as Priest, He sacrifices Himself for our sins, and as King, He sovereignly applies salvation to those He has chosen. This comprehensive role highlights the unity and purpose of God's plan for redemption from eternity to eternity. In Romans 8:28-30, we see that God’s purpose includes foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, and glorification—all fulfilled through Jesus' offices. His authority and fulfillment in these roles ensure that all who believe in Him are saved eternally.

that prophet, Deuteronomy 18. Our Lord, throughout the scriptures,
is revealed in a threefold office. First of all, way over here in
the Old Testament now, in the writings of Moses, in the days
of Moses, God said in verse 17 of Deuteronomy 18, And the Lord
said to me, this is Moses writing, They have well spoken that which
they have spoken. I will raise up a prophet from
among their brethren like unto you, Moses. I'll put my words
in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command
him. And it shall come to pass that
whosoever will not hearken unto my words which that prophet shall
speak in my name, I'll require of him." God Almighty is going
to reveal Himself and His purpose and His glory and His mercy. And He's going to reveal Himself
and His purpose and His glory and His message through that
prophet, our Lord Jesus Christ. Now that's what Paul says in
Hebrews, God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake to
our fathers by the prophets. But of whom did the prophets
speak? Of whom did Moses speak? They said, we have Moses. Christ
said, Moses wrote of me. Everything Moses had to say about
redemption and mercy and grace was in Christ. Again, they said,
we have Abraham. Christ said, Abraham rejoiced
to see my day. He saw it and was glad. And let
me show you something in John 12. Listen to this. Isaiah. Take any of the prophets. You
see, this is what The Apostle said in Acts 10, to him give
all the prophets witness to Christ. To Christ. If you would actually
enter into the mysteries of salvation and redemption, you've got to
study the threefold office of Christ. He is the prophet. God
spoke through other men, other prophets, but those other prophets
simply magnified Christ. They revealed Christ. They preached
Christ. Look at John 12, verse 41. These
things saith Isaiah, that's Isaiah, when he saw his glory, he spake
of him. Of whom did Isaiah speak? Of
Christ. When he saw the glory, he said,
I saw the Lord. High and lifted up, his train
filled the temple. And the seraphims cried, holy,
holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Isaiah saw his glory. From that
moment on, he spake of Christ. You see, my words, Christ said,
are the words of him that sent me. I speak the things I do know. He's called the Word of God.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my words, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life. So Christ is that prophet. He
didn't begin to be that prophet when he came to this earth, he
was that prophet all the time. He always has been that prophet.
The office which he occupies as the prophet of God is an office
he's occupied ever since salvation was purposed in the mind of God
Almighty and the counsels of eternity. Christ is that prophet.
And these other men that came along, whatever they had to say
was to point to Christ. Everything, you see that, was
to point to Christ. He is our prophet. He will always
be our prophet. He always has been our prophet.
God has only spoken through Christ, only revealed himself through
Christ. No man has ever seen the Father. No man knoweth the
Father, but the Son, he to whom the Son will reveal it. And that's
not only true of you, that's true of Moses. That's true of
Abel. Abel saw the Father in Christ,
the Lamb. That's right. And secondly, our
Lord, if you turn to Psalm 110, our Lord is the priest. He is
the priest. And all these other priests that
occupied that office from the days of Moses till the last Passover,
these men were just occupying an office that belongs to Christ
in order that they might magnify Christ. They never had any power
to forgive sin. Their sacrifices never had any
efficacy. That's what Tom kept reading,
and he spoke it not only in his reading, but in his prayer four
times in all, the word never. These sacrifices can never take
away sin. Their priesthood and their office
was simply typical. It was simply a pattern and a
picture. The real office belonged to Christ. He's the priest. He's
that great high priest, and he didn't begin to be that great
high priest when he did away with theirs. He was their high
priest, too. Look at Psalms 110, verse 3. that thy people shall be willing
in the day of thy power in the beauty of holiness from the womb
of the morning thou hast to do of thy youth. The Lord has sworn
and will not repent, thou art a priest forever." After the
order of Melchizedek. You see, when Abraham came back
from the slaughter of the kings, he was met by that great high
priest, God's high priest, king of Salem, king of peace, Melchizedek,
without pedigree, without ancestry, without beginning of days or
end of days, without father, without mother, that this great
high priest met him. This is before the days of Moses. This is before the days of Abraham.
And there stood a man, and he blessed Abraham. And he blessed
Abraham and gave him bread and wine. He didn't slay a lamb.
He is the Lamb. He didn't shed any blood. And
why in the world would a priest, how could he worship God and
bless a man without a sacrifice? He can't if he's the sacrifice.
It was Christ that met Abraham. I'm confident of it. It has to
be. It has to be Christ. And this
is a pre-incarnation appearance of that great high priest of
which Aaron is only a shadow. Everything Aaron did was nothing
in the world but a picture. Nothing but a picture had no
saving efficacy whatsoever. Christ was Aaron's high priest,
Christ was Abraham's high priest, and Christ is your high priest.
He always has been. He is now and always will be. Thou art a priest forever. And
Hebrews chapter 7 repeats that about five or six times. Thou
art a priest forever. Forever. Without beginning of
days or end of days. Our Lord was that. You see, our
Lord is that prophet. And he sent Moses down here in
his day to speak his words that he would someday personally deliver. Isn't that right, sisters? Moses
came down here. Isaiah and all the rest of them.
just representing and sent from and to declare what Jesus Christ,
our Lord, wanted him to say and what he would say when he came.
And Aaron, when he stood with the Lamb, even Abel and Aaron
and any of their other priests, when they stood with that Lamb,
they were nothing in the world but types and pictures of that
Lamb that's slain for the foundation of the world. Can you see? This
is important. And it's not being preached,
it's not being declared. Look at Hebrews 9, and what Tom
read a while ago and what Chuck Moore read in the study. Here in Hebrews 9, listen, verse
7, Hebrews 9, into the second, into the Holy of Holies, Hebrews
9, 7, went the high priest alone once every year, not without
blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins of the people.
The Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way into the holiest
of all was not yet made manifest. It doesn't say it wasn't open.
It didn't say the presence of God wasn't open. It wasn't manifest. Moses experienced the presence
of God. Abraham experienced the presence
of God. Abel experienced the presence
of God. But this is saying that the entrance into the Holy of
Holies was not yet manifest, while as yet that first tabernacle
was standing, wasn't clearly revealed in Christ, which was
a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts
and sacrifices that could never make him that did the service
perfect as pertained to the conscience. He could never put away sin.
You say, why do these men go through the motion? This high
priest went out there over the, there was a tabernacle in the
courtyard and he slew that lamb and caught its blood in a basin
and burned its body. Came across the courtyard and
washed his hands in the pure water and went into the holy
place where they show bread and the candlesticks and then he
took the incense and went under the veil there between the chair
beams over the mercy seat and sprinkled the blood. People were
outside waiting, and the presence of God and the very glory of
God was between the cherubims, and then he slipped out once
a year, the high priest alone. That blood in itself and that
act in itself never forgave one person one sin. Why did he do
it? He did it as a picture, as a
type, as a pattern. You see, the pattern of heavenly
things are purified with blood. I mean, with the earth, the things
are purified with blood. And the pattern of heavenly things
were the precious blood of Christ. And it was a picture. These people
were not trusting that animal blood. They were trusting what
it represents. These men were not looking to
that priest. They were looking to the high
priest whom he represented. And God's showing us the nature
of Christ's sacrifice. Let's read on. Verse 10, these
which stood only, Hebrews 9, 10, which stood only in meats
and drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances imposed
on them until the time of reformation, until the time of Christ. But
Christ being come, a 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. What is our tabernacle? It's
Christ's body. He tabernacled among us. The
Old Testament people met Christ at the tabernacle where his glory
was manifested. We meet Christ at a tabernacle
in Christ where his glory is manifested. That's where I meet
God in Christ. They came to the mercy seat.
God said, I'll meet you at the mercy seat and I'll commune with
you. I come to the mercy seat and that mercy seat's Christ.
And their mercy seat was Christ, too. They stood in pictures and
types. You know, you hear preachers
preach sometimes, and you get the idea that when God made man,
and that he made him, and he says it's good, and God's hoping
that man will hold out faithful to the end. But he didn't, and
God experienced failure. And so then he tried to keep
man under conscience. He appealed to man's conscience
that man would just walk in a way that would glorify God. Well,
that failed. That failed. Conscience failed.
So then God raised up judges and kings, and he didn't pay
attention to them, and that failed. So then God instituted a tabernacle
and sacrifices in the hope that that would work, and that failed.
Then God instituted the law, and that finally sent Jesus. and was saved by grace. That's
not right. That's not right. When Adam stood
in that garden, if Adam was a child of God, I don't know that Adam
fell. Christ was the surety of a better
covenant before Adam ever fell. That's right. And the reason
Adam's posterity and people didn't perish like the angels at sin
is there was a surety at the right hand of God. That's right. And when God Almighty
sent the judges, and when God Almighty sent the kings, and
when God Almighty sent Moses, and sent the law, and all these
other things, there were nothing in the world but pictures and
types of Him who was standing right there as our high priest.
And God Almighty honored His blood even before it was shed.
He looked at us in the blood of Christ even before He died.
That's right. Look at verse 24 and 25. Well,
let's look at verse 11, Hebrews 9. Christ being come, a 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,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. When was the efficacy of his
blood recognized? When he came and died on that
cross, no sir, it was recognized clear back before the foundation
of this world. Moses was saved by the blood
of Christ. Abraham was saved by the blood
of Christ. Isaiah was saved by the blood of Christ. He was wounded
for my transgression. And you and I have never been
loved except in Christ. We've never been chosen except
in Christ. We've never been in the mind
of God except in Christ. We've never been accepted except
in Christ. And that's true, and that's always been so. Look at
verse 24 and 25. Christ is not entered into the
holy place made with hands, which are the figures of the truth,
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God
for us. Not yet that he should offer
himself often, as the high priest entered into the holy of holies
every year with the blood of others, for if that were true,
then he must have often suffered since the foundation of the world.
How long has he been a priest? From the foundation of the world.
And when he came to this earth, he came and died on that cross
and offered his blood one time. By one sacrifice, he perfected
forever them that are sanctified, both Old and New Testament. Every
sheep of Christ, every elect of God, every jewel that makes
up his crown, Every person that makes up his kingdom, Christ
Jesus came and died one time, and presented his blood one time,
and sat down. And if he had to do that often,
as the high priest of old, he'd have to, how many times would
he have had to die since the foundation of the world? But
listen, but once, in the end of the world, in the fullness
of time, in God's own time, hath he appeared to put away sin with
the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, and after that the judgment, so Christ was offered
once to bear the sin of many, and unto them that look for him
shall he appear the second time without the sin unto salvation. Without the shedding of blood
there is no remission. We are not redeemed with corruptible
things such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of
Jesus Christ as a lamb without spot or blemish. That's what
I say. That's what Mia in the Reformation said, that's what
the Apostles said, and that's what Isaiah said, and that's
what Moses said, and that's what Abel said. All redeemed by the
same blood, by the same sacrifice, by the same Redeemer. He is our
priest. He will be, he is, he always
has been our great high priest. And everyone whom God saves,
Christ is their high priest, and he's been our high priest
since the covenant of grace was established in the mind and purpose
of God. That's so. Known unto God are
all his works from the beginning. All right. Well, now, the promise
of salvation, the promise of salvation is in Christ, and he
reveals it. Now, in vain is the promise if
he doesn't reveal it. He reveals it. All right, the
purchase of salvation is in the hands of Christ Jesus. He's our
great high priest. But in vain is that salvation
purposed unless it's purchased. Isn't that right? All right,
if there's no cross, there's no crown. You understand what
I'm saying? I'm saying that God purposed salvation in Christ
before the world began. Gave him a people. But in vain
is that promised and purposed unless it's actually purchased.
It's got to be bought. And in vain is it purchased if
it's not applied. So watch this. Christ is our
King and he applies salvation. Christ is our King and he applies
salvation. He must quicken the dead. God's not the God of the dead,
but the living. He must bring the sheep. lost
sheep, not in the fold. He must call many sons and daughters
to the marriage. His people must be willing. It's
not only true, I am my beloved's, but it's true, my beloved is
mine. He must keep the weak and present
them faultless. Noun to him that is able to keep
us from falling and to present us holy and without blame and
faultless. in his presence. And that's the
work of Christ the King, the King, Sovereign, the Son quickeneth
whom he will. The prophet Jesus Christ reveals
the Father, reveals salvation. It's revealed in him. Christ
the priest purchases it with his own blood, presents that
blood before the Father, washes his people, redeems his people,
sits down intercedes for his people. But then as the king
of salvation, he comes and applies that salvation. Turn to Galatians,
chapter 1, and listen to what Paul said about that. Galatians,
chapter 1. In Galatians, chapter 1, the
apostle Paul says this, verse 15, But when it pleased God,
when it pleased God, who separated thee from thy mother's womb,
and call me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I
might preach him among the heathen. Immediately I conferred not with
flesh and blood." You see, my friends, salvation is of the
Lord not only in its planning, and he planned it in Christ.
It's of the Lord not only in its execution. It pleased the
Lord to bruise What men did to Christ, they did, fulfilling
what God determined before to be done. Is that not correct?
And salvation is not only of the Lord in its execution and
in its sustaining power and in its ultimate glory, but salvation
is of the Lord in its application. You believe because God opens
your heart. You hear because God opens your
ear. You see because God opened your eyes, and that he does through
Christ. You see, what Christ is now,
he's always been. And what Christ always has been,
he always will be. He's the same yesterday, today,
and forever. If he's your surety now, he's
always been your surety. If he's your prophet now, he's
always been your prophet. If he's your priest and king,
he's always been your priest and king. He's the same in the
yesterday of eternity, he's the same today in world history from
its beginning to its end, and he's the same forever in eternity. You see what I'm saying? To make it real clear, let me
put it this way. One of these days, a multitude
which no man can number will stand in eternity, in glory. That's what scripture says, a
multitude which no man can... And they're going to sing. They're
going to see a lamb on the throne, in the midst of the throne, as
it had been slain, the lamb. And they're going to say, unto
him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
unto him be the glory, made us kings and priests to our God,
unto him be the glory, both now and forever. And everybody's
going to sing that there. Everybody, I mean everybody in
the Old Testament, the New Testament, everybody in the days of Moses,
in the days of Abraham, in the days of the Reformation. Every voice in heaven, they all
with one united voice are going to sing unto him who loved us
and watched us for our sin. There's not going to be folks
that praise in the law. They're not going to be folks
there clamoring for rewards. They're not going to be folks
there talking about their morality and good works. Every voice in
heaven is going to magnify and exalt the Lord Jesus Christ as
their prophet, priest, and king, as their lamb. Isn't that true?
Every voice. Every single voice. There won't
be one dissenting voice. There won't be one person there
that's not clothed in the righteousness of Christ. It doesn't matter
in what dispensation he lived. It doesn't matter at what time
in history he lived. It doesn't matter at all whether
he had a high priest that went into a holy of holies, or he
had an evangelical preacher in 1992. We'll sing one song. Well, let me tell you this. All
of them who stand there and worship Christ on the throne singing
unto him who loved us and washed us from his own blood, every
one of them, are those whom the Father gave to the Son before
the foundation of the world, entrusted to his care, to his
keeping, and to his deliverance, every single one of them. They
were named and numbered and known, every one of them. before God
ever set this world into motion, before God ever hung the sun
in space, or the stars in place, or put a man on this earth. Known
unto God are all his works. He declares the end from the
beginning. They were given to Christ. Is
that right? Now, I say, search the Scriptures,
see if these things are set. And he stood for them as he stands
now, as he will stand then as prophet, priest, and king. Everything
they know about the Father, he taught them. Every interest they
had to the Father, he gave them. And he did it by his power. It's
not by might or by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. And every one of those people
who stand in glory, singing unto him who loved us and washed us
from our sins in his own blood, were those given him back in
the council halls of eternity, whose name was written in the
Lamb's Book of Life before ever a man wore a name on this earth.
And secondly, those are the people for whom he suffered on the tree.
He said, I lay down my life for the sheep. He said, Husbands,
love your wives as Christ loved, what? The Church, and gave Himself
for it. Everyone who stands in glory,
when Christ hung on that cross and shed His blood, He shed His
blood for the remission of their sins. He told His disciples one
day, He said, All of you are clean, but not all of you. You're
all clean, but not all of you. There was one there that wasn't
clean, and that was Judas. He knew from the beginning who
would betray him. But every one of those people
in glory are people for whom Christ suffered and died on that
cross. And not only that, but every
one of them were called to faith by his Spirit and by his will. I'll have mercy on whom I will
have mercy. I'll be gracious to whom I will. The Son quickeneth
whom he will. You have to be quickened who
were dead in trespasses and sin. In other words, if you stand
in glory at one time in your experience in your life, and
let me tell you this, I do not see the necessity of people trying
to sit around and figure out when they were saved. When I was saved, if you want
to determine when I was saved, well, I was saved back down before
the foundation of the world, when God wrote my name in the
book of life and gave me to Christ Jesus 6,000 years before I ever
walked on this earth and said, you go down there and redeem
him and bring him home. And it was as sure then as it
is now and as it will be then. He said, all that my Father giveth
me will come to me. And him that cometh to me, he's
going to come to me. He said, I'm not coming, you
wear if you want of his. When the Lord goes out to find
the sheep, he finds him. He brings him home. He said,
All that the Father giveth me hath come to me, and him that
cometh I will nevertheless cast out. I came down from heaven,
not to do my will, but the will of him that sent me. And this
is the will of him that sent me, that of all which he hath
given me I lose nothing. Do you believe that? He can't
fail. When was I saved? Well, I'll tell you, when Christ
hung on that cross and bore my sins, and paid my debt, it was
paid, wasn't it? He didn't do a pay-now-and-go-later
deal, you know. He paid for them. He put them
away. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanseth us from all sin. If He died on that cross for
every son of Adam, every son of Adam's got to be in heaven.
If He paid the debt, then the debt's paid. God doesn't stamp
paid on it and then race it out if you don't make your decision.
If He paid your debt, you'll make a decision. You'll come
to Him. I'm certain of it. He redeemed
you. He's going to have you. Those
people who sang in glory, those I saved back then, I justified
at the cross, and I'll tell you this, there was a day I was raised
in religion, like most of you. That's tradition. Everybody's
got religion. I go down there to Mexico next
week, and everybody I preach to got religion. They wear crosses. They have beads. They have candles
burning in their homes. They got these huge cathedrals
in Everett, Pueblo. Walls that thick, built 400 years
ago. They've got their idols and their
statues. They know who Mary is. They know who Jesus is. They
know what a Bible is. They know something about penance
and sacraments and holy water and they have the bread and wine
and they have priests and they have services and they have holy
days. They're religious as all get out, just like we were, just
like solitarsis was. But Saul of Tristis didn't know
God. He knew a God. He knew his traditional
God. He knew his ceremonial God. He
knew his God of all these other traditions. But he didn't know
the living God, because the prophet had not revealed the living God
to him. He had a high priest, but he didn't know the great
high priest. He was worshiping a tyrant, and not the Son of
God. He believed in the sovereignty
of God, and we were brought up that way. But one day in time,
this prophet, priest, and king, this almighty sovereign Lord,
this successful Savior, this victorious King, this crucified
Lamb, this reigning intercessor, this Christ Jesus, who is God
in human flesh, who reconciled the world unto himself, who came
and suffered on the cross, he crossed my path. I don't know
the day or the hour, I just know he crossed my path. He crossed
the path of a rebel and broke his heart. He crossed the path
of a religious man and took away his religion and made it lost
and dumb and gave him not religion but a good hope through grace.
He crossed the path of man who didn't know God and revealed
God, the living God, the true God, the only God, the eternal
God, the sovereign God, the conquering God, the reigning God. And one
day I bowed to that God and bowed to that Christ, and that's when
I was saved. But I'm not saved yet. I don't
want to go through eternity in this mess, do you? I'm not saved yet. My salvation
is nearer than when I believe. I have been saved, I am being
saved, and I'm going to be saved someday. This old body is going
to breathe its last breath, and the lungs are going to stop pumping
air, and the heart is going to cease to work, and this old carcass
will be just like you're looking at it now, just be one thing
different. I'm gone. I've moved out. It's an empty
house. Put it in the ground. And I'm going to be with Christ.
And when I stand in his presence, conformed to his image, just
like him, I'll be S-A-B-E-D forever. Saved. Saved forever. And what happened then started
a long time ago. Now, that's right. And I have
people who have this problem. They say, well, you know, all
my life I've been serving God. Well, join the crowd. Everybody
out there serving some kind of God. Isn't that right? All my life I've read the Bible.
All these phony preachers read the Bible. Everybody reads the
Bible. The Bible's been translated in
more language than all the books put together. That's right. The Bible's a bestseller. My
friends, there's one thing to know the Scripture up here and
to know it down here. There's one thing to know the
words and another thing to know the message. There's one thing
to know the words and another thing to know the author. And
the only way you know the author and the message and the gospel
is for him in his sovereign pleasure to reveal him to you. Now that's
exactly right. And so it doesn't matter. What's
time to God? It doesn't matter whether I'm
saved when I'm 65 or whether I'm saved when I'm 45 or 25.
What time to God? What difference does it make? Just so I come to know Christ.
Don't defend an old profession. Don't try to look back and find
something in that day or hour or profession or tradition or
works or those things. It's Christ! And if your eyes
can be opened now to see Him, to embrace Him, to love Him,
to receive Him, glory to God! Whenever it does, does it matter?
I tell you, John Newton said, if I hadn't known Him before,
I want to know Him today. If I haven't loved Him before,
I want to love Him today. If I haven't worshiped Him before,
I want to worship Him today. And when God brings you, it's
God's business. But I tell you this, he'll cross
your path. If you stand in glory with those,
you stood in his hand back then. And you stood on his height.
And you stood in his death. And one day he'll cross your
path. That's just so. Turn to Romans 8. I've got to
write this down. Romans 8. Listen to this. Listen
to this. In other words, the purpose of
God toward you. and the covenant of God toward
you has never known but one cornerstone, one foundation, one charity,
one prophet, one priest, and one king, and that's Christ Jesus,
one sacrifice. Here in Romans 8, verse 28, and
we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are called according to his purpose, and
they will be. They will be. And what God calls
good, we may not call good. Let me just give you some frank
things here. It may be that a woman's married
to this man, and nothing but heartache and problem, sorrow
and trouble. And he walks off and leaves her.
And she's left alone. She marries another man. And
he brings her to hear the gospel, and God saves her. reveals the
gospel to her. Now let me tell you, all that
was in God's purpose and God's plan to bring her to know Christ.
And I'm saying here's a child and he's born in a family and
his mother and father killed in a plane crash. His mother
and father never knew God, had no interest in God, but they're
killed in a plane crash. What good can come out of that?
Or he moves into a foster parent's home and lives there They bring
him to hear the gospel, and God saves him. That's good. You understand
what I'm saying? That's good. Good? That's good. Because when he gets to glory,
it won't matter anyway. When all of us stand with that
multitude and that throng and that host in the presence of
God, conformed to the image of Christ, who cares what happened
down here? Well, I walked on two legs in
one. I'm going to have two then. Whether I was happy to marry
or wasn't happy to marry, what difference does it make? Whether
I had a mom or a daddy or didn't have a mom and daddy, God's my
mom and daddy. This is a short space here. This is just a little while.
This is not an inkling of, we're going to live eternally. This
life here is like the vestibule into the great hall of eternity.
Who wants to stand in the vestibule when so much is going on in there?
This is like a drop of water compared to a flood. So what
God does here and how he works it, how he brings me to my knees and breaks my heart
and brings me to count everything done except Christ, that whatever
he uses to do it, it's good. Isn't that right? It's good. That's what I'm saying. God has
set out to save his people. And whatever means and methods
and whatever he does to do that, now he'll do it. That's where
he's going. For? I'll tell you why. Everything's
working together for good to them who love God, who are called
according to his purpose. For whom he did for know? For
he knew us in Christ. He did predestinate to be conformed
to the image of his Son. When did he predestinate that?
Before the world began. That Christ might be the firstborn
among many brethren, every one of them just like him. Every
one of them conformed to his image. And whom he did predestinate,
them he called. Now, he'll call them, Cecil.
He'll call them. You may be 75 years old before
he called you, but he'll call you. He ain't forgot you. He'll
call you, maybe, I don't care how, it doesn't matter, does
it? I get so weary with folks trying
to put these two things together, works and grace, and they just
don't fit. It's like putting a square peg
in a round hole, it won't fit. You've got to be done with your
works and done with your traditions and done with all this, if you're
going to rest in Christ. It won't fit, it won't go together. It's two different Gospels. Gospel
of pure grace or pure works. There's no middle ground. He
called, and listen, and whom he called, he justified. Justified freely from all things. And whom he justified, that's
who he's going to glorify. Now, if God be for us, what shall
we say to these saints? Well, here's what I say. If God
be for us, how long has he been for us? He always has been for
us. God doesn't change. He said,
I'm the Lord, I change not. The gifts and calling of God
without change. If you cut into the purpose of
God at any place, if you're one of His sheep, you'll find your
name. That's right. If you cut into the purpose of
God anywhere, after your birth, before your birth, at any time,
you'll find the name of everyone of His sheep written on the hands
of Christ. and on the breastplate of our
great high priest. If God be for me, who can be against me? Or what does it matter who's
against me? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things? Summing it up, before time, God
chose us in Christ, every one of his in Old Testament times. He typified, pictured, patterned
our redemption in Christ through Israel. Israel wasn't a saved
nation. It was a natural people who represented
the spiritual people. And all those types and pictures
and shadows are nothing but God showing us how he saved sinners. In New Testament times, God fulfilled
every promise, every picture, every pattern when Christ Jesus
came down to this earth. And in his life and in his death,
and in his burial and in his resurrection, he fulfilled every
bit that God Almighty had promised and pictured and prophesied and
patterned, typified in the Old Testament. And all those patterns
were done, they're not needed anymore. They're not needed anymore. Here's a couple that are riding
one another. One lives in Germany and one lives in America. They're
riding. They've exchanged pictures they've never met. And they fall
in love just riding. And she catches a plane and comes
over here. And they get married. You know what he can do? Throw
his picture away. And that's the way it is in the
Old Testament. The Old Testament pictures. Throw the picture away. Don't go back and resurrect the
Sabbath day. Christ is our rest. Don't go
back and resurrect the tide and put people in bondage. God's people give through love,
the love of Christ constrains it. Don't go back and pick up
the pork and the cloven hoofs and all these things and the
patterns and put uniforms on your priest and start sprinkling
water and offering masses and these things. Throw the picture
away. You've got Christ. Isn't that right? And some of
these days, I'm going to stand in His presence and be like Him. He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely
give us all things? Who's going to lay anything to
the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. It's
Christ that does. So, if he chose you, he redeemed
you. If he redeemed you, he'll call
you. He'll call you through his word,
through his gospel. You'll love the gospel, you'll
receive it, you'll confess it, you'll love Christ, you'll say,
that's the only way it can be. Almighty God's not waiting around
to see what I'm going to do. That's the only way it can be.
That's a holy God, sovereign God. And you'll adore Him throughout
eternity. Now, search the scriptures to
see if these things are so. But I'll tell you this, that
message fits the character of God. And that message gives glory
to Christ Jesus, Prophet, Priest, and King. And that message will
sure give some comfort to a weak, sinful, frail, fleshly human
being like you. Now, let me tell you something. I know a lot of folks got a lot
of pride. But they better get rid of it
before they leave here. Because God hates a proud look. God resisted the proud. And we're just nobodies and nothings.
And if you're really a nothing, you don't mind being called one.
And God goes to looking with his sovereign eyes for anything
commendable, he won't look my way. And I guarantee he won't
look your way either. Everything I've ever done in
the name of religion that hadn't been prompted by a love for Christ
is worthless. Dumb. Now that's tough, but that's
so. Isn't that true? Christ is our...
Seek these things and not self. He'll give you rest. He'll give
you real rest. All right.

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What does the Bible say about Christ being our Prophet?

How do we know that Jesus is our high Priest?

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