God comforts us by the oath He made to Christ, appointing Him our high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
By that oath, He was made the surety of a better covenant of salvation, the New Covenant.
God's oath to Christ assured us that Christ will stand good for the terms of this better, New Covenant, by which we are saved from all our sins.
Christ is also our permanent intercessor before God. His intercession never ceases; it's no mere "one-off" intercession, but continues forever, because Christ was sworn by God to be our priest forever.
Christ is very suitable to us as our high priest, because He is immaculate, completely without fault, without sin, without spot, without blemish. He is completely innocent of any harm to anybody, as Isaiah 53 also stresses.
Christ was separated from sinners in Adam, for Christ was never in Adam, and was not represented by Adam in the great fall into sin.
Another superiority of Christ is that He is exalted higher than the heavens! He sits in the very presence of His Father in glory, interceding for His people.
Because of all that, Hebrews next points out that Jesus never has to make a sacrifice for His Own sin, for He has none!
But priests of Aaron were sinners, and had to make a sacrifice for their own sins, before they could offer up a sacrifice for the people!
But it is in the last half of Hebrews 7:27 that the penny finally drops, and the ultimate purpose of Christ's being our great high priest is disclosed.
Hebrews slams the truth down on the table in one short phrase: Christ offered a one-time, all sufficient sacrifice for our sins, when He offered up Himself!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
