We have a high priest in heaven 1
He has something to offer 3
His ministry is better 4
A superior covenant 7
Previous covenant is obsolete 13
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¶ Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have
such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. |
1 - We have such an high priest Marvelous to realize. We need to find out how to cooperate with His ministry. |
| 3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. | Ordained
to offer Their main work was to offer morning and evening for
the nation and the rest of the day for individuals.
Have somewhat to offer We must not miss this point. Christ now, after the cross, has a ministry. A work to do for us. What does He offer? His own blood. |
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For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are
priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. 6 ¶ But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 5 - Tabernacle See ex2630. |
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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have
been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. |
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Faultless
The fault implied was not directly with the covenant but with the people
who didn't relate to it correctly ez1660,
ep0215.
At Sinai they agreed to be faithful ex1908
but neglected to realize that in their own strength this was impossible.
There was a better way ro0930ff.
8 - The days come Quoting from je3131 following the Septuagint (translation into Greek). Those verses and their comments help clarify the picture here. 9 - They continued not This was their problem 2ch3616. |
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In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that
which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
9:1 ¶ Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. |
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