Jan 21 2025 48 mins 1
In part 7, the author begins to look at the high priesthood of the Messiah, Jesus, and show how He is a better high priest than any that came before Him. (In fact, he will use the priesthood of Jesus over the coming chapters to show His superiority over the entire Old Covenant system of rituals and worship that the priests were in charge of.) The reason he’s drawing these comparisons is that the author is writing to a primarily Jewish audience who were enduring persecution for their faith in Jesus, both from their non-believing Jewish friends and family and from the Roman government, for whom Christianity was an illegal religion and would be for the next few centuries. So these Jewish believers were being tempted to drift back to the Old Covenant temple rituals and priesthood that they were so used to. Because that would ease the pressure, they were feeling because of their faith in Christ. The author’s continuous refrain is, "Hold fast to your faith! Hold fast to your confidence in Christ!"
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Chapters
00:00 Intro - The Three Offices of Christ
06:31 Recap and Hebrews 4:14-5:10
10:10 Jesus the Great High Priest (Heb. 4:14-16)
21:48 Jesus Compared to Aaron (Heb. 5:1-10)
