Five Chapters that can change your life! (If you let it) Hebrews 6-10

This next section is going to talk a lot about Melchizedek and once again, we as a Gentile church fail to understand the importance of this. Yet the writer of Hebrews wrote as if this was vital information, note these: Heb 5:9) And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

10) called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” 11) of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. The point of the first ten verses of Chapter 7 is to show the importance of Melchizedek.

This new deal is so important that the writer goes to great lengths to show us, how important. Why? Jer 31:31) “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah–

32) “not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. New priest, new covenant, new way to come to God.

One thing you don’t want to do, is try to come to God on your terms. That is called “strange fire” and God will not recognize it and you will die. (Leviticus 10:1,2) It is vital to enter through the New covenant, because if you hang on to the law, that system is done for, you are cursed.

because cursed is everyone who does not continue in everything written in the book of the law to do them. (Gal 3:10) Jesus though became a curse for us. When He became a curse, this redeemed us from the curse of never measuring up, or being perfect by doing enough!

It is entering His rest, as it is written; Heb 4:9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

We also see this here: Rom 4:4,5) Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as what is due. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

And here: Eph 2:8) For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9) not of works, lest anyone should boast. And here: Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of

works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. And here: John 6:27) “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you,

because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” 28) Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29) Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

Heb 4:11 Let us therefore labor to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. Get the picture? Look at it this way:

Jesus is our High Priest Under the Law only the Levites are the High Priests. Jesus is not a Levite. The Law cannot be separated from the Levitical system. The Levites are no longer Priests, we are. The Levites are no longer High Priests, Jesus is.

Where then is the Law? Heb 7:12) For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law. 18) For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness,

19) for the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. New deal, new high priest, new Spirit, new creation!

Heb 7:28) For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.