Tell City Nazarene Church's Biblical Journey
With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is Hebrews 5-8
The writer of Hebrews is looking at Jesus as being greater than the Levitical priesthood and is beginning to lay that foundation here is chapter five. The writer makes it clear that a person doesn't take on priestly duties themselves but God gives it to them. Jesus now is a priest by God's call and after the order of Melchisedec.
The interesting fact is the author points out that a priest is taken from among his people. This confirms that Jesus was, in fact, human which the author will look at more later but also the Son of God and thus divine. One of the reasons for the incarnation is laid out in verse two so that he can have compassion on the ignorant. Jesus walked as we did though without sin. Though God knows what we go through in a way we will never understand, Jesus gives us the assurance he does.
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