God's Ordained Priest

GOD'S ORDAINED PRIEST

     Heb 7:25 &28   "Wherefore, hee is able also perfectly to saue them that come vnto God by him, seeing he euer liueth, to make intercession for them.   :28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is conse-crated for evermore."

       Who is this Person Who is able to save?  He is Jesus our holy, harmless, and undefiled Priest.  Verse 26 tells us we have such a priest, "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens"  He did not need another sacrice, nor a daily sacrifice for He has already made one sacrifice forever :27.  That sacrifice does not need to be repeated.

       This Person is our Intercessor :24, 25.  He ever lives to make intercession for us.  In 1 Tim. 2:5 the apostle tells us that there is one mediator between God and man.  That eliminates all dead and living who has or will claim to go between God and man.  It matters not whether he be a "saint", "priest, or pope or even "holy mother."  He saves all that come to God through Him :25; John 6:37, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."  That is every one whom God chose before the world began and gave them to Jesus will come to Jesus, and He will save them.  That salvation is eternal because Jesus ever liveth to make intercession for them.

       As Priest and thereby Intercessor He prays for us.  He prays for the final salvation of His Chosen Ones, John 17:2, 15-17 ":2  As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.  :15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.  :16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  :17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."  He prays for our perfect sanctification   :17, 23; 1 John 3:2.   John 17:17  "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.  John 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."  He prays for for our eternal keeping :15, 24; Phil. 1:6.  John 17:15 "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. John 17:24  Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.   What God has begun, He will continue to the end  Php 1:6  "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:"

O What a Priest!