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Hebrews 5:1–6 (NIV)
Every high priest is selected from among the people and is appointed to represent the people in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness.
This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.
And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was.
In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest.
But God said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.”
And he says in another place, “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”
This is the Text We Studied Last Week
The Author is Focused On the High Priesthood of Jesus
In the First 4 Verses, He Explains the Qualifications of a High Priest
He Must Be Human
He Must Be Clothed in Weakness
He Must Offer Gifts and Sacrifices for Sins
He Must Be Called By God
Then the Rest of the Text Explains How Jesus Meets These Qualifications
Jesus Being Human and Experiencing Temptation Has Already Been Mentioned Several Times
And the Author Quotes Psalms 2:7 and 110:4 to Prove How Jesus was Called By God to the Position of High Priest
That Leads Us Up to Verse 7, Where We Left Off Last Week
Here, the Author is Going to Address Jesus Being Clothed in Weakness Again…
Further Confirming Him as Qualified to Be Our High Priest
Hebrews 5:7–10 (NIV)
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5:7 (NASB95)
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.
I Like How the NIV Interprets it: During His Life on Earth
Hebrews 5:7 (NASB95)
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.
He Suffered Like Humans Suffer
He Knows What it’s Like to Cry Out Desperately to God with Great Sobbing
This Could Be Referring to His Praying in the Garden
But it Doesn’t Necessarily Have to Refer to That Moment…
Or Any Specific Moment in His Life
During His Life On Earth, He Felt the Weakness We Feel
Hebrews 5:7 (NASB95)
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.
Jesus Cried Out “to the One Able to Save Him From Death”
A Better Translation Might Be “to the One Able to Save Him Out of Death”
He Wasn’t Saved “From” Death in the Sense that He Didn’t Experience it
But He was Saved “Out of” Death Through Resurrection
Jesus’ Prayer was Heard Because of His Piety/Reverential Awe of God
“Heard” is Related to the Word “Obey”
“Heard” = To Obey on the Basis of Having Listened Carefully; to Listen, with Implication of Heeding and Responding
Jesus’ Prayer to Be Saved Out of Death Was Heard/Obeyed
Jesus was Saved Because of His Piety/Reverential Awe of God
As We See in the Garden…
Jesus Didn’t Just Pray for His Own Desires
He Prayed for God to Fulfill His Ultimate Will
Jesus, in His Suffering, Cried Out to God in Weakness
But He Also Continued to Revere God and Seek His Will
This is Why His Prayer to Be Saved Out of Death was Heard/Obeyed
Verse 8 Continues Along This Same Line of Thought
Hebrews 5:8 (NASB95)
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
Though Jesus is the Son of God, He Still Had to Learn Obedience
He Experienced Everything We Humans Must Experience
That Includes Growing, Learning, and Maturing
The Word for “Learned” Can Refer to Learning From Experience
He Learned Obedience Through His Experience with Suffering
When We Suffer, the Temptation is to Take the Path of Least Resistance
That Path is Often the Path of Disobedience
Obedience During Suffering is True/Genuine Obedience
And it Can Often Lead to More Suffering
True/Genuine Obedience Takes Learning From Experience to Master
It’s Extremely Difficult to Obey While Suffering for Obedience
That’s Why it Must Be Learned Through Experience
Jesus Went Through the Sufferings and Experienced Obedience in the Midst of Suffering
But Unlike Us, He Never Failed
He Did this to Be Able to Empathize With Us and to Save Us
And That’s What Verse 9 Tells Us
Hebrews 5:9 (NASB95)
And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation,
“Having Been Made Perfect” Doesn’t Mean He Wasn’t Previously Perfect
It Means He Completed the Task that He was Given
The Task was to Suffer as We Suffer…
To Experience Every Form of Human Weakness…
And to Obey Perfectly Through All of that Suffering
Jesus Being Made Perfect Means He Perfectly Qualifies to Be Our High Priest
He was Called By God to Be High Priest
He is Human and Clothed with Weakness and Sufferings Like Us
And He is Righteous Before God Because of His Perfect Obedience in His Sufferings
Because of that, He Has Become the Source of Eternal Salvation to All Who Obey Him
Source = He is the “Cause/Reason for” of Our Salvation
We Would Have No Salvation Outside of His Perfected High Priesthood
Eternal = Our Salvation is Everlasting
It Stretches Infinitely into the Future
It Can Never Be Taken From Us
That is a Comforting Thought
Obey = Eternal Salvation is Only Available to Those Who Obey Jesus
There is No Salvation Outside of Obedience to the Source of Salvation
How Do We Sum Up Obedience to Jesus?
Love God, Love Others
Hebrews 5:10 (NASB95)
being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Our Eternal Salvation is Made Possible Because of Our High Priest
Our Divinely-Ordained, Suffering, Perfectly Obedient High Priest
He is Designated/Named High Priest By God, Not After the Order of Aaron…
But After the Order of Melchizedek
The Author Has a Lot to Say About Melchizedek…
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