Hebrews Study - Christ the High Priest
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14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. 16 For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham. 17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
What kind of person makes a good helper?
Incarnation
Incarnation
“He Himself likewise also partook of the same.”
Explanation: Jesus was a man like us! It was necessary to accomplish his mission
Death to Death
Death to Death
“that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil...”
What does that mean?
How does the devil hold the power of death?
The devil tempts to sin and sin is what ultimately kills.
Did the devil have the power to kill in the garden?
He was the tempter.
Did the devil have the power to kill when Jesus was in the wilderness? No.
The devil’s goal is to tempt unto sin, the sin that ultimately kills.
God is the one who justly delivers punishment for sin: death.
Knowing what we know of how the devil works and wages war. What is our real enemy? What do we fight against?
How is it then that Jesus has rendered powerless the power of death in the hand of Satan?
“through death”. He took upon Himself the death we deserved, the death of the body and the wrath of God. He did so without sin, and He rose from the dead!
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
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Our salvation is not from the power of the devil ultimately. Our salvation is from the wrath of God. The devil must work within the order of God’s creation, and in that order he knows that the greatest death man can suffer is before God, an eternal death under God’s wrath.
When we talk about spiritual warfare it’s important we come
Freedom to the captives
When Christ comes to cripple the devils power, He does so by providing a way of escape for the sinner through the justification that comes through faith. This the freedom the writer of Hebrews speaks of.
15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
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How does the fear of death enslave the ungodly?
How then does the good news of the gospel free us from fear even while we face a bodily death?
A Helper and Priest to the brethren (the sons of faith)
A Helper and Priest to the brethren (the sons of faith)
16 For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham.
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Who are the descendants of Abraham?
7 Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham.
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God’s help comes to those who are of faith!
17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
A Priest who make propitiation for the sins of the people.
A Priest who make propitiation for the sins of the people.
What does propitiation mean?
The appeasement of wrath or satisfaction of a just penalty.
How did the priests of the Old Testament serve to provide propitiation for the sins of the people?
How is Christ’s propitiation similar or different?
Similar
He became like us. He was man with us.
He offered an ‘unblemished’ sacrifice.
A Priest tempted.
A Priest tempted.
18 For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
A Priest able to help.
A Priest able to help.
Resisting sin is possible because Christ has defeated death!
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
We are equipped in Christ to resist sin!
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
The work of Christ has the great high priest protects us from those two ditches we’ve talked about.
Christ has freed us from death but not sin. Licentiousness. “Your eternal life is secure, overcoming sin isn’t possible.”
Christ has freed us from sin and temptation but not death. Legalism. “You need to secure your eternal life with how you overcome sin.”
1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; 2 He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. 3 For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. 5 Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; 6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years. 10 “Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways’; 11 As I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
Compare and contrast Moses and Jesus
Enduring the trial of the wilderness on our way to the promised land requires holding fast to our faith. That is not a work we do alone. The whole emphasis here is Christ our Great High Priest is here to keep us and help us.
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
