Why should you care that Jesus was a priest according to the order of Melchizedek? Because you need a priest that does not die.
Why do you need a priest at all? Well, have you ever sinned? Have you ever done something wrong?
God says that the wages of sin is death. So if we have sinned, then the only way to pay for our own sins is to die!
And if you are dead – then you are... well, dead.
In other words, you need someone to offer a sacrifice on your behalf – because without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
There is something rooted in the human psyche that recognizes that we have sinned – and we need some way of making it right.
And so God established the Levitical priesthood as a means of showing Israel how all this works.
Of course, the problem (as we'll see in the rest of Hebrews 7-10) is that the Levitical priesthood can't actually deal finally and fully with sin.
And at the heart of the problem is that the Levitical priests kept dying off. Every generation there was a new high priest. You need a priest who lives forever.
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