BETTER QUALIFIED

Hebrews 7:23–28 CSB

Now many have become Levitical priests, since they are prevented by death from remaining in office. But because he remains forever, he holds his priesthood permanently. Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to intercede for them. For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do—first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all time when he offered himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, who has been perfected forever.

Maid Idea: Jesus is better qualified to provide salvation.

Key Question: Do you trust Jesus for your salvation?

1. Jesus is better qualified permanently. (v. 23-24)

Hebrews 7:23–24 CSB

Now many have become Levitical priests, since they are prevented by death from remaining in office. But because he remains forever, he holds his priesthood permanently.

Hebrews 7:16 CSB

who did not become a priest based on a legal regulation about physical descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.

Romans 6:9 CSB

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him.

Revelation 1:18 CSB

and the Living One. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.

2. Jesus is better qualified to save. (v. 25)

Hebrews 7:25 CSB

Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to intercede for them.

totally & forever

John 6:37–40 CSB

Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise them up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

John 10:29 CSB

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

2 Timothy 1:12 CSB

and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

Jude 24 CSB

Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,

Romans 8:34 CSB

Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised; he also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.

3. Jesus is better qualified by perfect character. (v. 26)

Hebrews 7:26 CSB

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Revelation 15:4 CSB

Lord, who will not fear and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship before you because your righteous acts have been revealed.

Revelation 16:5 CSB

I heard the angel of the waters say, You are just, the Holy One, who is and who was, because you have passed judgment on these things.

Ephesians 4:8–10 CSB

For it says: When he ascended on high, he took the captives captive; he gave gifts to people. But what does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower parts of the earth? The one who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, to fill all things.

4. Jesus is better qualified by innocence. (v. 27-28)

Hebrews 7:27–28 CSB

He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do—first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all time when he offered himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, who has been perfected forever.

2 Corinthians 5:21 CSB

He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Hebrews 9:12 CSB

he entered the most holy place once for all time, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

Hebrews 10:10 CSB

By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.